officers and inspectors in proper procedure of tracing and solving criminal cases. Derrick reached cult status in Australia, where it screened on SBS Television with English subtitles. "Harry, hol schon mal den Wagen" The famous phrase "Harry, hol schon mal den Wagen" ("Harry, bring the car 'round"; implying "we're done here") was attributed to Derrick and became part of popular culture in Germany and China as catch phrases. Actually, this phrase was never spoken in any of the 281 episodes; however, in the second episode of the series, "Johanna" (which premiered on 3 November 1974), Derrick orders Klein "Harry! Wir brauchen den Wagen sofort!" ("Harry! We need the car immediately!"). The exact same phrase was used by Erik Ode in the earlier TV series Der Kommissar, where Fritz Wepper already played the character named Harry Klein, then the assistant to a different police inspector (played by Ode). How exactly this phrase became attributed to Derrick is unknown, but one theory is that since Der Kommissar and Derrick were both created and written by screenwriter Herbert Reinecker, a TV critic may have attributed this phrase to the wrong one of Reinecker's series, after which it entered German popular culture as a catch phrase for Derrick. Horst Tappert did, however, speak this phrase in character as Stephan Derrick was as voice actor of his animated self in the 2004 animated feature film Derrick — die Pflicht ruft (Derrick — Duty calls). (See "Beam me up, Scotty" for a catch phrase with a similar background.) This animated film shed some satirical light on the ever-serious and sombre world of the original series, making fun of numerous clichés attributed to the series, including Harry's rumoured envy for Derrick always standing in the spotlight, while he, assistant for 25 years, always had to stand back behind his boss. International popularity The series, with English subtitles, was shown on SBS in Australia for many years. The Chinese dubbed version was broadcast widely in many provincial TV stations in China in 1980s-1990s and the series became a smash hit. In Norway Derrick has been shown throughout the show's history by state-owned broadcaster NRK. Reruns are still running. In France the series has been shown on France 3 television weekday afternoons and was running until May 2013. In South Africa, it was dubbed into Afrikaans, with the original German soundtrack simulcast over the radio. In Iran, a Persian