Treasure Hunt (UK game show)

Puzzles flight was the German version of the French television show La Chasse aux trésors of the former station Antenne 2, in which it came to solve three encrypted puzzles, which led to a "treasure", which was to be found from an outside reporter by helicopter within a certain time. Inventor of the mission was the French television and radio journalist Jacques Antoine.

Content

A candidate pair, each a man and a woman (usually a couple) had to decipher three riddles within 45 minutes. To this end, they directed an away team consisting of reporter, cameraman (mostly Jean-Yves ), camera assistants (mostly: Bruno; uncommon: Francis or Serge ) and pilot, which was traveling with a helicopter for which they have no visual connection but only ( more or less good ) radio contact had.

The puzzles were texts from the expert Elsa Manet - passed in the broadcasting studio of antenna 2 in a sealed envelope to the moderator Rudolf Rohlinger - who participated in the French version La chasse aux trésors. As soon as he opened the envelope, ran out of time. The candidates were to solve the tasks only specially prepared maps, books, guides and brochures are available. As a reward they received DM 1,000 for the first 2,000 DM for the second and DM 3,000 for the third puzzle, ie a maximum of 6,000 German marks in total.

Production

The program was in charge of the South German Radio (SDR ) and Bayerischer Rundfunk (BR ) produced. Swiss Television (SF DRS ) acted as co-producer, while the Télé Union Paris ( TUP ) had the licensing rights to the series and has. The plan was to first 13 episodes, the tasks, locations, camera people and pilots were largely taken from the French original by antenna 2.

For technical reasons the consignment was indeed produced under " live " conditions, but nevertheless completely recorded because the realization was anything but straightforward. For this reason, the format was inexpensive adopted by the Parisian colleagues of "Antenna 2" and all 13 episodes produced in parallel in German and in French. These included the opening credits, the credits and the studio establishment of the French original. The studio recordings and pictures of the away teams were then subsequently mounted to finished program.

The cameraman of foreign teams or its assistant camera led to a portable video recorder with him on which the images were recorded that were never broadcast live to the studio. In addition, in each region in each case a telephone connection was established, in which case usually via a portable duplex VHF radio system, the signal from the studio in Paris to the reporter on the spot and forward has been reversed. It is precisely to the non-European destinations broke voice communications over again completely, so that the records were broken and partly resumed until the next day.

The respective outer reporter and his team laid the large distances generally back by helicopter. But since you could not always directly landing at the destination, often had to be made ​​on foot several hundred meters. Therefore, from the outdoor team sports fitness was required and the reporter always dressed in a red jumpsuit. In most cases, a cameraman and his assistant also rose with and put the required distances on foot. However, depending on the difficulty of the terrain remained this with their heavy equipment occasionally in the helicopter and filmed the scenes with the actions of foreign reporter from the air.

The "treasures" themselves were specially before the game recording placed by the editorial articles or contract work on site. The consequences were much influenced by the fact that at that time there were no satellite technology, by means of which all players could be simplified, the shipment would have on the other hand also taken the stimulus. Therefore, a large part of each consignment consisted of asking the reporter outside Günther Jauch and Bernhard Russi, who came alternately used where they are and what they see or do.

Criticism

In Germany, the format was so badly received that it is the subject of open derision - was reinstated and after the 13 planned and produced shows - "Puzzles fear of flying ." Thus, the proponents of the format enthusiastic for a time his action-packed entertainment show, the opponents, however, demanded that the helicopter pilots to withdraw the license to fly, because they had partially breached the applicable aviation security provisions.

Similarly, some candidates have expressed criticism of the show because they kept some tasks for finding the three wanted "treasures" within the allotted 45 minutes in some very large dimensions search area for almost impossible. In fact, were some "treasure sites " so far away from a possible heliport that the outside reporters and cameramen had very long distances on foot or, for example, even by horse to travel in order to achieve this at all in a reasonable time.

Follow

The description of the contents of individual broadcasts contain the names of the candidates and their origin at the production time. Similarly, the mystery texts and where the treasures were to be found and what it was doing. The stopwatch times are mentioned and accordingly whether the candidate pair was able to solve all the puzzles. The order of the episodes is based on that of the German - Original, with some shipments are not necessarily considered because they are lost in the German archives. ( The spelling of the puzzles texts based on the way that, as it was at the time used in each program! )

Episode 01: Füssen

The search area was located around Füssen in Bavaria. Pilot of the helicopter type Agusta - Bell AB- 206B JetRanger III was Günther Braun († 1993), reporter on board was Günther Jauch. The candidates were Monika and Franz Meier from Dornach near Basel. Within the predetermined time of 45 minutes, all three Brain were dissolved.

Episode 03: Loreley

The search area was located around the Loreley in Rhineland- Palatinate. Pilot of the helicopter type Agusta - Bell AB- 206B JetRanger III was again Günther Braun († 1993), reporter on board was Günther Jauch. The candidates were Liliana palaces and Willi Schmidt from Zurich. Within the predetermined time of 45 minutes, all three Brain were dissolved.

Episode 05: North Sea

The search area was located on the Frigg gas field oil company Elf Aquitaine in the North Sea between the Shetland Islands and Norway. Reporters on board the helicopter of the type Bell 214B Big Lifter was Bernhard Russi. The candidates were Inge wind fields and Egon Griesser from Munich. Within the predetermined time of 45 minutes, all three Brain were dissolved.

Episode 06: India

The search area was located around Jaipur in the Indian state of Rajasthan. Reporters on board the helicopter was Günther Jauch. The candidates were tufts and Elke Guenther Braun ( † 1993), who worked as a helicopter pilot for the puzzles Flight consequences feet and Lorelei before. ( In the archives of the ARD stations these puzzles flight episode is no longer available as a video. )

Episode 07: Petra

The search area was located in the area around the abandoned city of Petra in Jordan. Pilot of the helicopter type SA.316B Aérospatiale Alouette III was Captain Sani of the Jordanian army, reporters on board was Bernhard Russi. The candidates were Andrea Klein and Klaus -Dieter Rebscher from Darmstadt. Within the predetermined time of 45 minutes, two of the three puzzle were dissolved.

Episode 08: Sri Lanka

The search area was located in the Central Province of Sri Lanka Dambulla and Sigiriya between around the lake of Kandalama. Pilot of the helicopter of type Bell 206 was the officer Roger of the Sri Lankan army, reporters on board was Günther Jauch. The candidates were Sigrun Mantay and Eberhard Gunsölt from Munich. Within the predetermined time of 45 minutes, all three Brain were dissolved.

Episode 09: St. Moritz

The search area was located around St. Moritz in the Engadin in Graubünden. Pilot of the helicopter type Aérospatiale SA.315B Lama was Uli Werfuß, reporters on board was Bernhard Russi. The candidates were Martina Schroer and Bernd Horne from Munich. A special feature of the sequence the puzzle- film or image contribution was settled on videotape each. Within the predetermined time of 45 minutes, two out of three were dissolved puzzles.

Episode 11: Appenzell

The search area was located around Appenzell in Switzerland, there both in the canton of Appenzell Ausserrhoden and in the canton of Appenzell Innerrhoden. Pilot of the helicopter of type Bell 206B Jet Ranger of Rüdisühli Helitransport was Urs, reporters on board was Günther Jauch. The candidates were Eva -Maria and Tarras Mašić from Munich. Within the predetermined time of 45 minutes, two of the three puzzle were dissolved.

Episode 13: Thatta

The search area was located around Thatta in Sindh province in Pakistan. Pilots of the helicopter of type Bell UH -1 were three officers of the Pakistani army, reporters on board was Günther Jauch. The candidates were Elsbeth Pfenninger and Hans -Ruedi Rierger from Stafa. Within the predetermined time of 45 minutes, all three Brain were dissolved.

Transmit data

* When EinsFestival repeat the episode " Appenzell " was broadcast in black and white, which was due to the age of the archive material, which no longer allowed a reproduction in color of adequate quality, and which also clear signs towards the end of the tape to see were.

Other countries

Similar squadrons were sent in the following countries:

• Belgium ( RTBF ), Canada ( SRC ), France ( A2), Luxembourg (RTL), Monaco (TMC ) and Switzerland (TSR / SSR) moderated by Philippe de Dieuleveult under the name La chasse au trésor or La Chasse aux trésors.
• Denmark, Sweden and Norway, moderated by Johan Torén.
• United Kingdom ( Channel Four ), moderated by Anneka Rice or Annabel Croft under the name Treasure Hunt.
• Israel.
• Italy ( RAI 1 ), moderated by Jocelyn Hattab Caccia al tesoro under the name.
• Japan, moderated by Shinji Yamashita.
• Yugoslavia used the French version with Serbo- Croatian subtitles.
• Netherlands, moderated by Ian de Vries under the name Op naar de schat yacht.
• Portugal (SIC and SIC - gold), moderated by Catarina Furtado under the name Caça ao tesouro.
• Spain ( NTVE ), moderated by Miguel de la Quadra Salcedo under the name A la caza del tesoro.
• South Africa.