Article: `Twin Peaks' Pique; A Rival German Station Reveals Laura's Killer

German commercial television is largely a dubbed journey back to the golden age of '70s Americana - "The Streets of San Francisco," "Starsky & Hutch," and Bruce Lee flicks - mixed in with Russ Meyer's "Supervixens" breast-fests and "Tutti Frutti," Germany's own nude game show.

So when the RTL Plus channel announced it had bought the rights to America's "Twin Peaks" - and only a year or so after the show had aired in the United States - it was something of a sensation. RTL Plus bought 20 episodes, dubbed them into German, pumped up the hype and scheduled "Das Geheimnis von Twin Peaks" ("The Secret of Twin Peaks") as the Friday prime-time lead-in to the "Tutti Frutti" strip-o-rama.

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