Da kommt Kalle

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Da kommt Kalle
003 Kalles Polizei.jpg
Flensburg police HQ
Starring Katharina Schubert
Country of origin Germany
No. of seasons5
No. of episodes70
Production
Running time45 minutes
Release
Original network ZDF
Original release14 October 2006 (2006-10-14)

Da kommt Kalle (Here comes Kalle) was a German family entertainment television program depicting a Parson Russell Terrier who helps solve criminal cases and family dramas.

Contents

70 episodes were made in 5 series and broadcast on ZDF from 2006 to 2011 in a Saturday early evening slot. Each episode was 45 minutes long.

The series aired in United Kingdom for many years on Channel 4 titled as "Kalle The Hero Dog". Episodes were shown in the original German version, but with English subtitles.

Plot

The terrier Kalle was adopted as a puppy by Pia Andresen (played by Katharina Schubert), chief of police in the north German seaside town of Flensburg. He helps solve police and family problems, often assisted by the Andresen children Hanno and Merle and sometimes by the woman next door and her dog Bruno.

Locations

The program was mainly filmed on location in Flensburg and in Hamburg. Outdoor shots of the fictional police headquarters are of a picturesque building on Schiffbrückplatz in Flensburg in which the Danish language newspaper Flensborg Avis has its offices.

Background

Da kommt Kalle is a Network Movie production on behalf of to the German ZDF channel. The show was filmed primarily in Flensburg and Hamburg. Only a few scenes have been filmed in areas outside of these two cities. Throughout the show, the way some buildings have been portrayed did not correspond to their actual function in real life. A small, picturesque building on the Schiffbrückplatz street was chosen to represent the police station, while the cities real central police headquarters are significantly bigger. So were the cities police dogs. In 2015 sixteen police dogs were at the disposal of Flensburg police department, mostly Belgian and German Shepherds. [1]

  1. wal. "Tierische Ermittlerin: Polizeihündin Tara: Die Kommissarin Rex von Flensburg | shz.de". shz. Retrieved 2020-07-24.


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