I received an e-Mail from Bulwer-Lytton where he asked me which episode it is that has the German title "Die Tanten winken um halb acht". Additionally, he said he would be pleased to have a complete list with the German titles. In my last post, I have already mentioned a few, but I will post a complete list now.

(The English titles come first.)

First season:

1. So long, Patrick Henry → So long, Patrick Henry
2. A Cup of Kindness → Feuerwerk in Hong Kong
3. Carry Me Back to Old Tsing Tao → Der schlaue Herr Huan
4. Chysanthemum → Monsieur Beaujolais greift ein
5. Dragon's Teeth → Der Boss war eine Lady
6. The Loser → Die Traumverkäufer (The Dream Sellers)
7. Danny Was a Million Laughs → Wie Danny Preston das Lachen verlernte
8. A Time of the Knife → Einer muss verlieren
9. No Exchange on Damaged Merchandise → Ein Schiff kam nach Hong Kong
10. Tatia → Tatia Loring
11. Weight of the World → Eine gefährliche Waffe
12. Three Hours on a Sunday Night → Die 50.000-Dollar-Nacht
13. Tigers of Heaven → Die gelben Tiger
14. Affair in T'sien Cha → Die Glocke von T'sien Cha
15. The Tiger → Der Tiger im Dschungel
16. The Barter → Das Tauschobjekt
17. Always Say Goodbye → Sag zum Abschied leise Servus (means something like "Quietly Say 'Goodbye' When You Go")
18. Court of the Lion → Falsche Austern
19. Turkish Delight → Die Gäste des Karafatma
20. Bet Me a Dollar → Einmal Mexiko... und nicht zurück
21. Return to Glory → Nur fünf Dollar Spesen
22. The Conquest of Maude Murdock → Entführung auf Mexikanisch
23. A Day Called 4 Jaguar → Der blauäugige Riese (The Blue-eyed Giant)
24. Crusade to Limbo → Senor Munoz
25. My Mother the Spy → Zwei Männer und ein Baby
26. There Was a Little Girl → Kathy schafft alle
27. It's All Done with Mirrors → episode has never been translated into Germany for unknown reasons
28. One Thousand Fine → Kühles Gold und heiße Liebe (Cold Gold and Hot Love)

Second Season:

29. So Coldly Sweet → Blond, kalt und süß
30. Lori → Lori
31. Sophia → Der Daddy aus Amerika
32. Vendetta → Romulus und Remus
33. A Gift from Alexander → Das Plotkin-Manuskript
34. Trial by Treehouse → Ein Köder wird gelegt
35. Sparrowhawk → Falsches Spiel in Las Vegas
36. Will the Real Good Guys Please Stand Up? → Zwei Agenten zu viel
37. Bridge of Spies → Venedig der Spione
38. One of Our Bombs is Missing → Kelly und die Spaghetti-Affäre
39. To Florence with Love, Part I → Ein Leonardo kommt selten allein, Teil I
40. To Florence with Love, Part II → Ein Leonardo kommt selten allein, Teil II
41. Lisa → Die Briefbraut
42. Little Boy Lost → Gesucht: Allan - 14 Jahre alt...
43. Father Abraham → Für Vater und Vaterland
44. Rome... Take Away Three → Schachmatt, Signor Collisi!
45. Tonia → Das Mädchen Tonia
46. Child Out of Time → This is the 2nd episode never translated into German because of the Nazi background of the story.
47. The Trouble with Temple → Blond und gar nicht so dumm
48. The Warlord → Der General
49. A Room with a Rack → Nervenkrise
50. Mainly on the Plains → Ein Ritter ohne Furcht und Tadel
51. Get Thee to a Nunnery → Das Geheimnis des Gärtners
52. Blackout → Die Primaballerina
53. Magic Mirror → Gegen alle Regeln der Kunst (Against all the Rules of Art)
54. Night Train to Madrid → Nachtzug nach Madrid
55. Casanova from Canarsie → Casanova wider Willen
56. Cops and Robbers → Eine Falle für Scotty

Third Season:

57. Let's Kill Karlovassi → Auf Delos verschwunden
58. The Beautiful Children → Der König der Schmuggler
59. Laya → Laya
60. The Medarra Block → Auftrag in Marrakesch
61. Philotimo → Der kleine Geiger
62. The Honorable Assassins → Der Wüstentrip
63. Now You See Her, Now You Don't → Eine Dame verschwindet
64. Red Sash of Courage → Griechischer Wein
65. The Seventh Captain → Der versunkene Tempel
66. Apollo → Apollo
67. Oedipus at Colonus → Das Schwert Gottes
68. The Lotus Eater → Reif für die Insel
69. An American Empress → Die Prinzessin
70. Home to Judgment → Gefährliche Gäste
71. Anyplace I Hand Myself is Home → Das Komplott
72. Tag, You're It → Peng, du bist tot!
73. A Few Miles West of Nowhere → Im Westen nichts zu lachen
74. This Guy Smith → Dieser Mr. Smith
75. Turnabout for Traitors → Das Karussell der Verräter
76. Happy Birthday Everybody → Der Mann mit der Spinne
77. Shana → Falsches Spiel
78. The Name of the Game → Nach Acapulco zum Sterben
79. Suitable for Framing → Der Doppelgänger
80. The Spy Business → Freund oder Feind?
81. Carmelita is One of Us → Spion in Windeln
82. Pinwheel → Die Tanten winken um halb acht

PS: Can anyone here explain the word "Pinwheel" to me? I have absolutely no idea what it means and can find it in no dictionary.

Thanks a lot

Paully the Kid

There might be some other meanings, but this is what it usually refers to:



Becca

I took German in high school and college but it is mostly gone and I’m at a loss on most of these titles. I can understand the occasional one. “Zwei Agenten Zu Viel” – “Two Agents Too Many” – right? What does “Die Tanten Winken Um Halb Acht” translate to? (“The Aunts ??? At Half Eight” – I don’t see the connection to the episode “Pinwheel” – which also has an obscure title in English.)

I was trying to understand why “It’s All Done With Mirrors” didn’t make it into German. Have you seen it in English Paully? It’s one of my favorites with a great Culp performance and some memorable interaction between Kelly and Scotty. A fellow named Dr. Karolyi (Carroll O’Connor) brainwashes Kelly to induce him to kill Scotty. I don’t remember. Maybe Karolyi had a Nazi past. That’s the only reason I can think of for exclusion of this episode.

Jimmy

Dear Jimmy,

thanks a lot for your E-Mail. It's always a good feeling to communicate with somebody else about one of your favorite topics.

So let me answer your question about the meaning of the German title of "Pinwheel". "Die Tanten winken um halb acht" means - directly translated - "The Aunts Wave at Half Past Seven" (or "Half Eight", if you like better). The title, as Russ Conway explains in the German version of the episode, means the sentence that is used by a new agent to introduce himself as a new "member of the team", as Melanie does to Kelly and Scotty. In the English version, as Bulwer-Lytton was so nice to tell me, the code is "calendar, whiskey, and rhyme".

As to "It's All Done with Mirrors": yes, I have seen the episode in English (it is included in the German first season DVD box set with German subtitles). I, too, like the episode very much because the viewer is guessing until the very ending what is stronger - the banter between Kelly and Scotty or Karolyi's brainwashing.



Unfortunately, I have no idea what reasons there were not to translate the episode into German language. To my mind, there is nothing in it that has to do with Nazis or a Nazi background.

I hope I could help you a little bit.

Paully the Kid