

Season 1 • Episode 6
LatestJack Holborn was a 1982 ZDF Adventure TV mini-series. The story is based on the book by Leon Garfield. It was shown in the United Kingdom by ITV.
Acting
Matthias Habich playing twins with wildly different energies? Iconic.
Production
West German TV budget somehow looked more expensive than it was.
Costume
Pirate coats so extra they'd make Jack Sparrow jealous.
Creator
Leon Garfield
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Patrick Bach became a massive teen heartthrob in Germany after this, basically the 1982 equivalent of becoming a pirate-themed Timothée Chalamet.
This was peak Euro-TV co-production magic—West German money, British source material, and that distinctly 80s international kids' entertainment energy that simply doesn't exist anymore.