Silas (TV series)

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Silas
Genre	Adventure
Based on	Silas og den sorte hoppe by Cecil Bødker
Written by	Justus Pfaue
Directed by	Sigi Rothemund
Starring	Patrick Bach Diether Krebs Lucki Molocher Nina Rothemund Ingeborg Lapsien Armin Schawe Shmuel Rodensky André Lacombe Jacques van Dooren
Composer	Christian Bruhn [de]
Country of origin	West Germany
Original language	German
No. of episodes	6
Production
Executive producer	Dieter Graber
Producer	Bernd Burgemeister
Editor	Heidrun Berktold
Running time	45
Original release
Network	ZDF
Release	25 December (1981-12-25) – 30 December 1981 (1981-12-30)
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Silas was a 1981 ZDF adventure TV mini-series based on the Danish children's book Silas og den sorte hoppe (Silas and the Black Mare) by Cecil Bødker who kept on writing installments until 2001.

The series was Patrick Bach's debut and because the series did so well he also starred the very next year in another adventure series about a young orphan: Jack Holborn.

Silas was a German production, and despite being recorded in France — Normandy and in Brittany (Bay of Douarnenez, Locronan, Bay of Audierne, near Plovan - on the long sandy beach where the German version of the opening credits were shot) — it was filmed solely in German. Still it received attention beyond German-speaking countries and consequently the successor Jack Holborn involved international producers and was dub filmed in English.