Graf Yoster

Graf Yoster gibt sich die Ehre Le Comte Yoster a bien l'honneur
Genre	Crime drama
Starring	Lukas Ammann Wolfgang Völz Béatrice Romand
Composer(s)	Eugen Thomass Peter Fischer
Country of origin	Germany
Original language(s)	German
No. of seasons	5
No. of episodes	62
Production
Executive producer(s)	Ulrich Berns
Camera setup	Hermann Gruber Gernot Roll Charly Steinberger Kurt Hasse Manfred Ensinger Reginald Naumann Joseph Vilsmaier
Running time	25 (season 4: 50)
Production company(s)	Bavaria Film
Release
Original network	ARD ORTF
Original release	September 15, 1967 – February 7, 1977

Graf Yoster gibt sich die Ehre [French title: Le comte Yoster a bien l'honneur] – which translates to English as Count Yoster has the Honour – was a television series produced between 1967 and 1976. Starring Lukas Ammann and Wolfgang Völz, the series followed the adventures of the title's aristrocratic gentleman detective and his working-class butler. It was a success in particular in Germany and in France. Originally the show was a German production in black-and-white but it evolved into a European co-production in colour.

Lukas Ammann plays Graf (Count) Yoster, who is presented as an impeccable gentleman. He used to wear a traditional suit, a bowler hat and an umbrella just like John Steed in the TV series The Avengers and the fictional English solicitor Reginal Prewster who had to accompany Percy Stuart during his missions on TV. Although he lived in a castle in Bavaria (where especially in the beginning a great deal of the show was shot) he wouldn't have the slightest Bavarian accent and his appearance was as British as his Rolls Royce.

Wolfgang Völz played Ioan (or in German: Johann), the count's butler. The idea a butler could make a hero was for German audiences already established by Butler Parker. Ioan would sometimes engage in investigations and then bring the count up to speed as well literally while he drove the count's Rolls Royce. Moreover, he would instantly transform into the count's bodyguard whenever somebody indulged himself to endanger the count's well-being by trying to approach him in any kind of inappropriate manner. He used to apply his highly efficient close-combat techniques in a very businesslike way which was completely different from any Hollywood boxing or Hong Kong manners and would rather resemble the way British soldiers are taught to dissolve comparable issues. He was portrayed as a man of modest origin and it was repeatedly implied that he had even been entangled in criminal activities before he had entered the count's services.

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