Takeshi's Castle (DSF)

Takeshi's Castle (DSF) was a popular television programme aired on DSF, it is Germany's version of the classic Japanese show from 1986-1990. Armin Berger was the commentator of this version and contained most of the footage, only the interviews of the moderators with the eliminated candidates were cut out.
120 episodes were made for the German version, most (if not, all) of the normal episodes were shown apart from the feature length specials (even though there was a tiny piece of footage of the monster special in a best of episode)
The German version is one of the few international versions that is almost the same as the original show (along with the Arabic and Thai versions), however all footage of the battlefield reporters is cut. Episodes lasted for 33-34 mins, without commercial breaks.
Some of the characters were given the wrong names, like Makoto was named "Matoko", Kibaji was "Oniji", and Hayato Tani was "Hayati Tani". The last new episode shown was Japanese episode 101 (best of episode) on 17th February 2001, after this repeats ran until August 2001 in the morning.
On August 1999, the first Takeshi's Castle episode ran on DSF which was watched by more than a million people especially students and young adults - the favourite audience of private television. The DSF advertisers were thrilled, in 2001 the broadcaster targeted black for the first time.
In 2002, Stefan Ziffzer became the new head of DSF and says "'Takeshi's Castle' was more of an industrial accident than a clairvoyant program decision." Like most sports journalists in the station, he could not do anything with the show - and dropped her shortly after taking office.
Wild, at this time no longer with the DSF, does not understand the decision against Takeshi until sometime in 2015: "My successors have laughed at things that were even more terrible than what I have done there." So the DSF began broadcasting "Sexy Sport Clips" in 2002 in favour of Takeshi's Castle.
This version was released on a DVD box set with 12 selected episodes. Two more volumes were planned but were presumably cancelled.
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