With a dearth of anything else to watch late night on ITV in the early 1980's UK, I would watch this show occasionally. It does draw you in but not exactly a feel-good show. The direction is flat as a pancake, with depressing urban postwar Germany concrete landscapes, it's sometimes hard to determine whether this was East or West German. Horst Tappert and his sidekick fill the rolls acceptably, the perfunctory sound dubbing and low use of incidental music adds to the complete disconnect. Somewhat depressing.
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