Henk van Ulsen

Henk Molenberg

Tabe Bas

&quot;De vloek van Woestewolf&quot; (&quot;The Curse of Wolf Castle&quot;), tracks the extraordinary adventures of Dr Kroch, healer of all ailments, wounds, bites and fractures, and his assistant Valet. When a coffer full of gold, with a letter plead...

De vloek van Woestewolf

From everything I&apos;ve seen on TV as a child, this series has made the most profound impression. I was probably too young to fully understand everything that happened which added to the excitement and mystery. 

Some weeks ago I discovered to my delight that the series still existed unlike so many other programs of that era that have been deleted to re-use the then expensive Ampex tapes they were recorded on. What&apos;s more, there was a DVD version available. I got it right away. 

One thing that i had completely forgotten was that the whole series is acted in a drawn background, with the actors using the then new blue screen technique to be added to the drawings. The wonderfully imaginative drawings by Carl Hollander are amazing - they&apos;re halfway between humorous and a little creepy; just the right mix for this story. 

As the story unfolded my memory came rushing back. One of the things that I realised is that one of the recurring themes that I come across in my dreams must have been inspired by this series. I bet Carl Jung would have loved it: the story has highly symbolic / archetypal, even alchemical connotations. It&apos;s also smart: it tosses concepts at the (young) viewer that are almost never seen in children&apos;s series: too gnarly, too obscure, too confusing maybe? I loved it, anyhow. 

The acting is good, which can be expected from this cast: Henk van Ulsen, Henk Molenberg, Sylvia de Leur, a delightfully over-acting Ton van Duinhoven and even a young Jeroen Krabbé warming up for his later Evil Dude roles :)

The only thing that feels a bit over-the-top is the continuous bickering between Valet (Henk Molenberg) and any other character that he happens to be with: Doctor Kroch or Sylvia. There&apos;s, for instance, a lot of argumentative &quot;I want it My Way!&quot;-type foot-stamping which I wouldn&apos;t have missed. 

I also found the names for the two crooks Oenk and Boenk a bit too childish for the story as a whole. 

But all in all, it&apos;s a rare gem. It might give children something to dream about, but nothing too bad.

From everything I've seen on TV as a child, this series has made the most profound impression. I was probably too young to fully understand everything that happened which added to the excitement and mystery. 

Some weeks ago I discovered to my delight that the series still existed unlike so many other programs of that era that have been deleted to re-use the then expensive Ampex tapes they were recorded on. What's more, there was a DVD version available. I got it right away. 

One thing that i had completely forgotten was that the whole series is acted in a drawn background, with the actors using the then new blue screen technique to be added to the drawings. The wonderfully imaginative drawings by Carl Hollander are amazing - they're halfway between humorous and a little creepy; just the right mix for this story. 

As the story unfolded my memory came rushing back. One of the things that I realised is that one of the recurring themes that I come across in my dreams must have been inspired by this series. I bet Carl Jung would have loved it: the story has highly symbolic / archetypal, even alchemical connotations. It's also smart: it tosses concepts at the (young) viewer that are almost never seen in children's series: too gnarly, too obscure, too confusing maybe? I loved it, anyhow. 

The acting is good, which can be expected from this cast: Henk van Ulsen, Henk Molenberg, Sylvia de Leur, a delightfully over-acting Ton van Duinhoven and even a young Jeroen Krabbé warming up for his later Evil Dude roles :)

The only thing that feels a bit over-the-top is the continuous bickering between Valet (Henk Molenberg) and any other character that he happens to be with: Doctor Kroch or Sylvia. There's, for instance, a lot of argumentative "I want it My Way!"-type foot-stamping which I wouldn't have missed. 

I also found the names for the two crooks Oenk and Boenk a bit too childish for the story as a whole. 

But all in all, it's a rare gem. It might give children something to dream about, but nothing too bad.

"De vloek van Woestewolf" ("The Curse of Wolf Castle"), tracks the extraordinary adventures of Dr Kroch, healer of all ailments, wounds, bites and fractures, and his assistant Valet. When a coffer full of gold, with a letter pleading for help, is delivered to the doctor, he throws the half-indecipherable missive away as its sender claims to be suffering from... gold fever. The next day, when he is called away from his surgery, robbers Oenk and Boenk steal the coffer. There must be something special about this gold, and the doctor decides to respond to the letter and search for its sender: the Duke of Wolf Castle. Does this duke really exist, or is he just a legendary character? Does he live in a castle, or in the old ruins on top of a ghostly rock? Valet is scared, but in spite of a gypsy fortune-teller's warnings, the doctor perseveres: "Ghosts do not exist. Science has an explanation for everything".

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