''Das Rätsel der Sandbank'' is a West German television series based on the 1903 novel ''

The Riddle of the Sands ''The Riddle of the Sands: A Record of Secret Service'' is a 1903 novel by Erskine Childers. The book, which enjoyed immense popularity in the years before World War I, is an early example of the espionage novel and was extremely influentia ...

'' by Erskine Childers. It was produced by the public television and radio station

Radio Bremen Radio Bremen (), shortened to RB () is Germany's smallest Public broadcasting, public radio and television broadcaster and the legally mandated broadcaster for the city-state Bremen (state), Free Hanseatic City of Bremen (which includes Bremerha ...

, and starring

Burghart Klaußner Burghart Klaußner (born 13 September 1949) is a German film actor. He received acting training at the in Berlin. Klaußner had engagements at Maxim Gorki Theater in Berlin, Hamburger Kammerspiele and at the theaters in Cologne, Hamburg, Zür ...

as Davies and

Peter Sattmann Peter Sattmann (born 26 December 1947 in Zwickau) is a German actor and musician. Biography In 1957, Sattmann moved with his parents, Gerda and Ferdinand Sattmann, from Zwickau to Friedrichshafen, where he played in a band when he was twelve ye ...

as Carruthers – the novel's two British yachtsmen and amateur spies. (1987 version) The original novel, a sensational success at the time of publication, was one of the first signs heralding half a century of enmity and war between Britain and Germany, with the novel's British protagonists unearthing a German plot for the invasion of England and courageously striving to foil it.

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* 1985 German television series debuts 1985 German television series endings Television series set in the 1900s Television shows based on British novels Nautical television series Espionage television series German-language television shows Das Erste original programming German spy television series {{Germany-tv-prog-stub

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