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- People who disappear without a trace challenge the team of the Berlin Missing-Person Office of the LKA, headed by chief mediator Radek.
- During Napoleon's German campaign, the city of Kolberg is isolated from Prussian forces. Residents organize resistance against the French army besieging and bombarding the city, refusing to surrender.
- A soap-operatic mini-series about the history of Hotel Sacher in Vienna. It starts with the takeover by Anna Sacher after her husband Eduard dies at age 59. Most of the time, someone high or low in society seems to be kissing (or more) in one of the chambres séparées.
- Two solicitors open shop--literally!--in a low-income quarter of Hamburg. Assisted by a secretary with migration background and a cleaning-woman-turned-private-investigator, they take care of people who need help in court but can't afford it. Quite often, their cases can be resolved out of court thanks to the wit and common sense of this team.
- A Berlin entrepreneur and his family regularly come to Tyrol for holidays. Although the locals dislike the haughty attitude of the Germans, they persuade him that building a snow-cannon factory in their village would be beneficial to all sides. The series reflects in a satirical way on Tyrol's growing dependency on tourism, and on Tyrolean's loss of their identity resulting from this.
- In this regionally popular series of comedy sketches, the mayor of a small town in Southwestern Germany and his townhall messenger meet in the mayor's old-fashioned office and discuss events of global, local or office importance in Swabian dialect. When the going gets rough, they share a schnaps or two. Occasionally, they sing a ditty. In intervals, the Oompah band covers international hits in Swabian interpretation.
- The history of four generations of a family in Alsace between 1870 and 1953. Over this time, the family and the villagers live through three wars between France and Germany and their province changes its affiliation between these countries four times. The governors from both sides do not always respect the culture and the feelings of Alsatians.
- Towards the chaotic end of WW II, young German soldier Hans flees from the Russians across the river Elbe in the company of French POWs. This is possible since he has learned to speak fluent French. His cover of an Alsatian recruited by force is hard to keep up, though. And so, it takes him many more months and adventures until he reaches his home.
- An elderly lady is visited each month by her good-for-nothing nephew who relieves her of her regular pension. When he appears again one winter day accompanied by two hideous but eager pals who start roasting a freshly captured piglet on her back lawn before maltreating her cat and retreating to sleep in the sauna, she can no longer stand it. So at dawn she packs up to flee into town, where she moves in with an old friend who gives her consolation and advice.
- A rapist and murderer is released from prison after having served his term of 15 years. The day after, he is found murdered in a trash bin. The two commissars in Stuttgart know where to look for suspects: im the parents of Mareike, whom the murder victim abducted, abused and killed so many years ago.
- To go by the book and the locations, it is about two murders in the fishing business in the extreme west of Brittany around the bay of Douarnenez. A fisherwoman is found with her throat slit next to the fish auctioning hall in Douarnenez. Just as Commissaire Dupin and his team start questioning locals, a second murder is reported from the small island of Sein. The first victim hails from there, was known for her sustainable opinions and opposition to the local fishing magnate. The second victim is a biologist who just recently moved there. She was occupied with studying the dolphins in Iroise Maritime Nature Park.
- Dr. Jessen is a Hamburg psychiatrist who also works for the police. In the first scene, he tries to convince a woman standing on a bridge not to jump. To no avail: first she drops the mobile to which she had listened continuously, then she lets herself fall. Was this a usual suicide - or was the woman under somebody's influence? Dr. Jessen tries to get the police to investigate.
- DI Schwarz gets a tip from a journalist: the Keller family uses Mafia money to bribe their way to a building permit and to build a hotel in rhe middle of a nature reserve. On the way to a reported crime, she and her husband are shot at and suffer an accident in which he is seriously wounded. Meanwhile, a mountain biker finds a dead companion by a downhill piste. How is all this related?
- A man is thrown from a bridge and run over by a lorry. Investigations show that he was dead before falling. Cologne DIs Ballauf and Schenk proceed to investigate the neighbourhood where the man had lived. The neighbours have all kinds of relationships: quarrel over a boundary, fathership of another's daughter... but where is a motive for murder?
- Lotta, a young physician, has taken on a job in a clinic in the Kreuzberg district of Berlin. Her little daughter Lilo is not very pleased about having to move. While Lotta makes friends with a Moroccan restaurant owner, it turns out that both their children share the common fate of being outsiders in school.
- Pathologist Virchow tries to uphold his liberal values in a time of upcoming nationalism. Doctor Koch continues his work on battling the rampant tuberculosis. Von Behring tries, in vain at first, to join his lab while Jewish Doctor Ehrlich is welcomed for his work on colorizing cells. Ms. Lenze recovers after an appendicitis but has to work off the fees for her treatment by working as a nurse.
- The liberally minded German crown prince, then Emperor Friedrich III. is diagnosed for laryngeal cancer. But both the diagnosis and treatment by the surgeons of the Charité cannot save him and he dies after a mere 99 days of reign. His son, presumptuous and militaristic Wilhelm II. visits the Charité together with his wife. While the Empress embarasses the scientists with her wisdom gleaned from illustrated magazines, the Kaiser proceeds to inspect famous doctor Koch's bacteriology lab. Koch is speechless, so Bergmann saves the day by annoncing that German science will gain "victory" over the French at the upcoming international conference on medicine.
- The world's best physicians and scientists meet in Berlin for the congress on medicine. While all the doctors are there, Dr. Paul Ehrlich's wife has serious trouble giving birth. Young von Trautmannsdorf is off to his fraternity for dueling. Dr. Behring is the only surgeon available and saves Mrs. Ehrlich's life - but not her son's.
- While at a bar, Marc gets a call from his wife. Someone's in their home. He calls the police and heads home. She's been stabbed to death. Kripo and T investigate.
- A top end escort girl is murdered in her home - staged as suicide. Her clients, including T, are suspects.
- The millionaire heir Hillinger is found stabbed with a Japanese dagger on the floor of his villa by his assistant. Immediately after the constable, the presumptuous mayor of a neighbouring village arrives at the site. He indicates to DCI Achtziger that he became frieds with the millionaire while curling in Kitzbühel. Only days before, the victim was involved in a row at a local discotheque. Is the reason for his murder to be found there?
- A student of medicine announces on the Net that he has abducted his parents and threatens to kill them. The Austrian investigation team takes a while to find out that his girlfriend committed suicide because she failed in an exam, and could not bear this failure as her immigrant father did not believe in women in professions anyway. So he goes on a virtual crusade against "the system".
- Stewardess Sabrina is found in the courtyard of a hotel. She either fell or was pushed from a roof terrace. The evening before in the bar, a new waiter was observed staring at the stewardess. Prosecutor Reuter remembers that he saw the two in court ten years ago. Then, she had accused him of molesting her in school. Did he take late revenge?
- A farmer dies in his field when enjoying his daily bottle of beer. The coroner finds he has been poisoned with aconitum, a potent herbal poison. The police inquire with the village population. It appears the victim was with the one faction in the town council opposed to building wind generators in the vicinity.
- Lene and Tom have a date at 9:15 at the town hall: they want to get married. But Nele does not show up, has disappeared, the bridegroom turns to the police for help. It turns out that Tom's father, a pastor in an evangelical church, disapproved of the alliance.