This is my first entry in a blog this year, so HAPPY NEW YEAR, dear readers! Today*s subject will be ... hmmm ... What could I do? Ah, I know. TV SHOWS!! :D
Somehow I felt like checking out whether a certain series I loved in my childhood days was released on DVD already (They*d certainly have me buying this, if they just did it!!), and as the text within the brackets suggests already, I wasn*t successful. *takes a deep breath*
I am speaking of a series I loved in my childhood/youth days and which I forgot to mention in this entry. Unfortunately, that is. It is great, though; I am speaking of "Neues Vom Süderhof". It was a series broadcasted on TV stations such as Das Erste/ARD, WDR, and so on, and actually, I am mainly refering to the first season of the series (The first 13 episodes, that is).
The setting was a farm on which two sisters lived, their names being Beatrice / Bimbo and Manuela / Molle. The farm was located in Northern Germany without an exact town given as place to happen, even though in some episode(s) their mother (in the series) mentioned they*d go to Husum for some reason (To the theater, if I remember correctly? Or maybe to a concert?), which is located in Schleswig-Holstein ...
ANYWAYS, the family soon grows bigger when they hear about what happened to Bimbo*s and Molle*s aunt and uncle (They died in a plane accident), and so, their cousins Dany (SP?), Peggy and Ben move in with them. Dany and Peggy are about the same age as their cousins, and so they end up in the same classes, and throughout the series they - and now this sounds so cliche, but it is true - have several adventures happening in their lives.
When I was a child, I loved this series. (Ah, I said this already ... Say something NEW, Rina!!!) I assume many children wanted to live in such a beautiful rural area like where the farm was located, and also it encouraged me especially to always seek for the adventure behind new things I saw and experienced. ;) And, yes, I admit it, I wanted to have a pony like Klärchen (== Bimbo*s pony in the series).
Whilst many people I have met acted like the series didn*t touch them, I have to say something else : It still is one of my favourites. I had every single tape (As in, cassette ... Not VHS.) of the first season, we recorded the episodes from WDR and so on like an addicted bunch of ... whatever :D, and the first "fanfiction" I wrote without knowing what I was doing was for the series. Mainly because no new episodes were released, and I missed the old series, so I wanted to invent my own adventures :D.
Several months back my sister* gave me the first book(s) of the series (It is a book which is like three books in one), and I was so happy about this :). It meant the world to me. ^ ^ Somehow many VHS and the tapes went lost in countless moves and such, which means I don*t know where they are right now. However, this is some kind of reminder to keep checking whether there will be any DVDs released for the series. Maybe all the Süderhof fans and me will be rewarded :D.
Today*s question : What series did you like watching as a child? Would you buy DVDs for them if you knew they existed? ^^
Have a wonderful rest of the day.
