
Everyone gathered knows what this is about, though. On the screen, President Lewis of the United States is holding the first broadcast that NHK has covered since the world fell to pieces. The seaweed on Jacob's riceball is getting less crispy by the second, but for once he doesn't care.Įveryone is clustered around the holo-screen in the corner, a sea of upturned faces staring at the news. Half of the kids gathered in the mess hall are holding their trays, and half have forgotten about lining up to get theirs, but no one is actually sitting down to eat. The production of the first audio play episode Die drei ? und. Other rights are held by the heirs to Robert Arthur (who died in 1969) and the German book publisher Kosmos. publisher and still holds some of the rights to the books. Robert Arthur first published the book series as "Alfred Hitchcock and the Three Investigators", believing that using a famous figure like movie director Hitchcock would attract attention. The stories are narrated by Peter Pasetti (originally as "Alfred Hitchcock", from 1979 till 1995), Matthias Fuchs (from 1995 till 2002), and most recently Thomas Fritsch (since 2002).

The characters are voiced by Oliver Rohrbeck (as "Justus Jonas"), Jens Wawrczeck (as "Peter Shaw"), and Andreas Fröhlich (as "Bob Andrews"). Live performances with the voice actors are visited by up to 15,000 people at the same time.

The series is the most popular audio play production in the world, with over 40 million copies sold.

Over 150 episodes have been released since then. Today the franchise has gained cult status amongst German fans, especially the recorded audio plays ("Hörspiele") that were first published in 1979. In Germany, the series became very popular and was continued by German writers, even when the original American book series ended in 1987. Die drei Fragezeichen ("The Three Investigators", literally "The Three Question Marks") is a series of young-adult detective books, created by American writer Robert Arthur in 1964.
