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Derrick - Mitternachtsbus
episode 4
West Germany 1975
produced by Hans Peter Renfranz, Helmut Ringelmann (executive) for Telenova/ZDF
directed by Theodor Grädler
starring Horst Tappert, Fritz Wepper, Werner Kreindl, Hartmut Becker, Christiane Schröder, Bruni Löbel, Rudolf Platte, Lambert Hamel, Hans Quest, Fritz Schmiedel, Horst Sachtleben
written by Herbert Reinecker, title theme by Les Humphries
TV-series Derrick, Harry Klein
review by Mike Haberfelner
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Helga (Christiane Schröder) returns home from the big city to the
lakeside country inn she's working at - to confess to her boyfriend Erich
(Hartmut Becker) that she's pregnant. Erich wants to convince her to have
an abortion, even offers to pay for it, but she insists on having the
baby, and during the fight that ensues, he drowns her in the lake. When
inspector Derrick (Horst Tappert) and his assistant Harry (Fritz Wepper)
investigate the murder, the innkeeper Holler (Werner Kreindl), who also
happens to be Erich's father, tries to direct all suspicion at Bruno
(Lambert Hamel), a mentally challenged young man who's known for his soft
spot for Helga. Holler goes so far as to persuade some of his regulars to
state they've seen Bruno near the scene of the crime, and he gradually
tries to convince Bruno's father, Wollweber (Rudolf Platte), the town
drunk, that Bruno might have had something to do with it, by giving him
plenty of liquor. Holler is so good at this deception that Bruno's arrest
eventually becomes the logical thing to do, and thus Derrick let's Harry
take Bruno into custody, while he himself ... takes a room at Holler's
inn. He's soon tipped off by Holler's barmaid (Bruni Löbel) that Holler
might have manipulated some evidence, so he tells her to blackmail Holler
- and when Holler is willing to pay up, Derrick drags Erich to the scene
of the crime and forces a confession out of him. A very
mediocre episode since there really is little mystery involved, and the
story's premise of the father trying to frame somebody else for his son's
crime is a little too tried and true to really invoke much interest,
especially since it becomes more and more repetitive the longer the
episode goes, and the series' trademark stilted dialogue doesn't help much
to keep things fresh. Sure, it's still nostalgic fun, but there are much
better episodes of the series out there.
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