TV Show Details
Air Date:October 19th, 1966
Last Air Date:November 24th, 1968
Network:ZDF
Status:Ended
Genres:Crime
Original Language:German
Production Companies:Hamburgische Film- und Fernsehproduktion, ZDF
TV Show Tags:
private detective
Cliff Dexter (1966-1968)
ZDF
Scripted
TV Series
Cliff Dexter was a detective series in the ZDF 1966 until 1968. It produced two seasons each with 13 episodes each 25 minutes, lead actor was Hans von Borsody. Other performers have included Hans Schellbach as Commissioner Meinert, Sabine Bethmann as Jacqueline and Andrea Dahmen as Carrol. In two episodes occurred Günter Strack.
Cliff Dexter is a former FBI agent who - working as a private investigator - in a German city. Parts of the series were filmed in Hamburg, including the startup sequence, runs in his Mercedes Benz Dexter Cliff SEb convertible through the Wallringtunnel to his office.
The series was, although popular with audiences, not continued after 26 episodes, probably partly because the critics little good at the 'pocket-Bond' was. Yet in this series broadcast period 1966-1968 reached regularly 36-38 million viewers.
