Scene of the Crime

Nov 29, 1970

Dec 13, 1970

Jan 10, 1971

Customs investigator Kressin returns from a Mediterranean cruise. Shortly before Hamburg, tour guide Ben Canitz behaves suspiciously. The next morning, Kressin reads in the newspaper that Canitz has been found dead in a canal in Hamburg. He gets involved in the police investigation and comes across a gang that is smuggling large quantities of drugs into Germany.

Feb 7, 1971

Mar 7, 1971

Apr 4, 1971

May 2, 1971

Two serious criminals have been caught abroad. The German police pick them up and transport them to Cologne in a special compartment of the Nordexpress. The gang, led by their boss Sievers, plans to kidnap the two. Members of this gang replace the locomotive driver and train staff with their own people so that they can safely stop the Nordexpress at a location of their choosing. Customs investigator Kressin, on his way back from Denmark, where he was dealing with porn smuggling, is on the train. He manages to prevent the kidnapping of the serious criminals.

Jun 13, 1971

Jul 11, 1971

Sep 12, 1971

Oct 10, 1971

Nov 7, 1971

Dec 19, 1971

Jan 9, 1972

Feb 13, 1972

Mar 12, 1972

Apr 3, 1972

May 28, 1972

Jun 26, 1972

Jul 9, 1972

Sep 24, 1972

Oct 8, 1972

Nov 12, 1972

Dec 10, 1972

Jan 7, 1973

A man collapses in Beethovenstrasse. His murderer flees. The dead man, a private detective from New York, was on the trail of an international blackmail ring. Supported by customs investigator Kressin, Sandy, the dead man's partner, takes over the case. He manages to sneak into the blackmail ring. But the turbulence of the Cologne carnival makes the case more and more confusing, inscrutable and ultimately ends in a dark, bloody nightmare.

Feb 4, 1973

Mar 4, 1973

Apr 1, 1973

May 13, 1973

Jun 24, 1973

Jul 8, 1973

Having just arrived by plane from Istanbul, Kressin is waiting at the baggage carousel, keeping an eye on the charming Asian woman Lyn, who was sitting next to him on the plane. Instead of his suitcase, a corpse is wheeled up, and Lyn has suddenly disappeared. Since 350,000 marks were found on the dead man, Kressin searches for the murderer in the smuggling world and stumbles upon two chess pieces that cause a stir.

Aug 19, 1973

Sep 30, 1973

Nov 11, 1973

Dec 9, 1973

Jan 20, 1974

Feb 17, 1974

Mar 17, 1974

Apr 28, 1974

May 26, 1974

Jun 23, 1974

Jul 21, 1974

Sep 29, 1974

Oct 13, 1974

Nov 10, 1974

Dec 8, 1974

Jan 19, 1975

Feb 16, 1975

Mar 16, 1975

Apr 13, 1975

One lonely evening, factory owner Martin Koenen takes a girl home with him. Irene Lersch was coming home from a nightclub and had missed the bus. She wasn't entirely unhappy about being picked up by an older man-Koenen, on the other hand, is insecure and uptight. He offers Irene a drink. Then he goes to the bathroom to take a shower. When he returns, the girl is dead. Koenen loses his nerve. Instead of calling the police, he takes the body away, simply dumping it in a park.

May 11, 1975

Jun 8, 1975

Jul 6, 1975

Aug 31, 1975

Sep 28, 1975

Oct 12, 1975

Nov 9, 1975

Dec 7, 1975

Jan 18, 1976

Feb 15, 1976

Mar 14, 1976

Apr 11, 1976

May 9, 1976

Jun 7, 1976

Aug 15, 1976

Sep 12, 1976

Oct 10, 1976

Nov 9, 1976

Dec 5, 1976

Jan 2, 1977

Jan 30, 1977

Feb 27, 1977

Mar 27, 1977

Seventeen-year-old schoolgirl Sina Wolf has an affair with her married schoolteacher. When one of her friends attempts to blackmail her, she lures him to the forest and kills him. Kommissar Finke does not believe her story she fabricates and continues to investigate.

Apr 24, 1977

May 22, 1977

After her husband's death, Claudia Bernhold discovers that he was a blackmailer. Suddenly she has an explanation for how, despite modest income, she could afford a small villa and a relatively lavish lifestyle. During his research, Haferkamp comes across the wealthy Eckart Waarst. Could he be the blackmailed man? But how can he be blackmailed? In the files of unsolved cases, Haferkamp finds a lead, but no proof. He has to resort to a ruse.

Jun 19, 1977

Jul 17, 1977

Aug 28, 1977

Sep 11, 1977

Oct 9, 1977

Nov 6, 1977

Dec 4, 1977

Jan 1, 1978

Jan 29, 1978

Feb 12, 1978

Mar 27, 1978

Apr 23, 1978

May 21, 1978

Jul 2, 1978

Aug 13, 1978

Sep 10, 1978

16-year-old Andreas is friends with Biggi, a saleswoman in his father's delicatessen. Who killed the customer Frau Böhmer?

Oct 8, 1978

Nov 5, 1978

Dec 3, 1978

Jan 14, 1979

Feb 11, 1979

Mar 11, 1979

Apr 8, 1979

May 6, 1979

Jun 4, 1979

Two prisoners on remand take a prison officer hostage and escape from the prison. In front of the main gate, Sergeant Jakobs shoots one of the escapees, the Turk Suk. Inspector Haferkamp is faced with a difficult situation, because Sergeant Wörlemann accuses his colleague Jakobs of having shot prematurely and unnecessarily. Since Jakobs denies the truth of this statement, the fugitive Tomi Selzer would be an important witness, but Tomi does not turn himself in because he does not want to go back to prison. He was innocently imprisoned, but the hostage-taking means he can expect a several-year sentence. Haferkamp uses all means to get hold of his suspicious witness. These complications almost inevitably lead to catastrophe.

Jul 1, 1979

Jul 29, 1979

Aug 26, 1979

Sep 23, 1979

Oct 21, 1979

Nov 18, 1979

Dec 16, 1979

Jan 13, 1980

Feb 10, 1980

Mar 9, 1980

Apr 7, 1980

May 4, 1980

Jun 1, 1980

The 47-year-old business manager Kurt Wiedemann became unemployed due to the decline of his company. Because of his age, he cannot find a comparable position. Wiedemann fears that, as his financial difficulties grow, he will not be able to maintain his standard of living and therefore his younger, attractive wife. Karin Wiedemann is actually having an affair with the up-and-comer Christian Zehle. Wiedemann lies in wait for his rival, murders him and arranges the circumstances so that it appears as if he had surprised Zehle and an "accomplice" during a break-in and shot Zehle while the second man escaped with the loot. To the murderer's great surprise, however, Inspector Haferkamp tracks down a certain Roll, who could well be the "accomplice" that Wiedemann had only invented.

Jul 27, 1980

Aug 24, 1980

Sep 21, 1980

Oct 19, 1980

Nov 16, 1980

Dec 14, 1980

Jan 11, 1981

Feb 8, 1981

Mar 8, 1981

Apr 20, 1981

May 3, 1981

May 31, 1981

Jun 28, 1981

The body of barge captain Heinz Petschek is found in the Duisburg inland port. He had been beaten and fatally stabbed. Chief Inspector Schimanski and his colleague Christian Thanner must solve this case.

Aug 23, 1981

Sep 13, 1981

Oct 18, 1981

Nov 15, 1981

Dec 13, 1981

Jan 10, 1982

Feb 7, 1982

Mar 7, 1982

Apr 12, 1982

May 2, 1982

May 31, 1982

Jun 27, 1982

When Schimanski comes home from work in the evening, a girl is sitting on the stairs with him. It is 17-year-old Katja. Her mother, manager of the specialty restaurant "Hawaii", has been murdered, murdered in a way that suggests the perpetrator's very personal motives. Schimanski and Thanner inevitably have to look after Katja: someone is after her, looking for something that was not found in her murdered mother's apartment. It's about drugs. The major dealer and suspected murderer of Katja's mother is Straub, owner of the restaurant "Hawaii". They'll catch him - it's only a matter of time. But then it turns out that things are much more complicated. The police now urgently need Katja's help.

Jul 25, 1982

Aug 22, 1982

Sep 19, 1982

Oct 17, 1982

Dec 12, 1982

When the dead body of an asian child is discovered in a lateral river channel in Duisburg, chief inspectors Schimanski and Thanner have to investigate the case. The autopsy shows that the victim had typhus, since this could lead to a dangerous epidemic, Schimanski and Thanner had to find out more information as quickly as possible, while under pressure from the press and the public.

Jan 9, 1983

Feb 6, 1983

Apr 3, 1983

May 1, 1983

May 23, 1983

Jun 26, 1983

Sep 18, 1983

Oct 16, 1983

Nov 6, 1983

Jan 8, 1984

Feb 5, 1984

Walther and Stettner investigate the murder of a homeless woman in Berlin's Tiergarten. It seems that this was not an one-off case...

Feb 26, 1984

Mar 25, 1984

Dr. Waldorf, a physician is found murdered in his office. Suspect is Baumgarten, the director of the waste recycling company on whose behalf several of the doctor's patients, had regularly shipped cargoes of toxic waste, is also killed. The motive seems clear: a cover-up of criminal environmental pollution on a large scale. But who were the perpetrators?

Apr 23, 1984

May 27, 1984

Jul 22, 1984

Schimanski seeks relaxation on the soccer field. And there, a man is beaten to death, apparently the victim of the increasingly brutal brawls between soccer fans. Is the dead man really the victim of the fans, or did he have something to do with the illegal recruitment of foreign workers, or did he perhaps want to monetize his knowledge and was therefore eliminated?

Aug 19, 1984

Sep 9, 1984

Nov 4, 1984

Nov 25, 1984

Dec 9, 1984

Schimanski helps restaurant owner Guido against blackmailers, as a friend and as a professional, 'cause he is supposed to solve the murder of a boxer who must have something to do with this protection racket. But what is Guido his roll?

Jan 6, 1985

Feb 10, 1985

Mar 31, 1985

Jutta Stark appears to have committed suicide; she lies dead in front of her apartment block. She and her husband were members of the "Church of the Community". Schimanski and Thanner investigate

Apr 14, 1985

May 26, 1985

Jun 23, 1985

Aug 18, 1985

Schimanski lands in a dangerous situation while assisting a young woman in search of her partner.

Sep 15, 1985

Oct 13, 1985

Nov 10, 1985

Dec 1, 1985

Dec 29, 1985

Jan 26, 1986

Feb 23, 1986

Mar 31, 1986

Apr 13, 1986

Schimanski fears for the life of a child and ends up playing a dangerous game.

May 19, 1986

Jun 15, 1986

Jul 13, 1986

Aug 10, 1986

Schimanski and Thanner are on the case after the head of a family furniture business is killed.

Sep 7, 1986

Sep 21, 1986

Nov 30, 1986

Dec 28, 1986

Schimanski investigates the suspected leader of a cunning criminal gang.

Jan 25, 1987

Feb 22, 1987

Mar 29, 1987

Apr 20, 1987

May 17, 1987

Jun 8, 1987

Jul 12, 1987

Aug 30, 1987

Sep 13, 1987

Nov 8, 1987

Nov 29, 1987

Dec 27, 1987

Uproar in a factory housing project in Duisburg: it is scheduled for sale and demolition. Industrialist Grassmann regrets the fate of the residents, but he, too, is forced by economic necessity. One of those affected, Alf Krüger, first kills his family, then himself. What are the motives for the family tragedy? Despair over the forced eviction? But why did the meticulous accountant overlook his youngest child? And what was the humble man doing in Marseille shortly before his death?

Jan 24, 1988

Feb 28, 1988

Apr 4, 1988

Apr 17, 1988

May 1, 1988

A dead man lies in a Duisburg bus - apparently the accidental victim of a stabbing. The murdered man was the owner of a dance studio that he ran together with his wife, Manuela Prinz. The investigation reveals that the perpetrator is a Thai. But when the detectives track him down, they find another body. Everything indicates that the Thai committed suicide. Schimanski suspects that the aloof Manuela is not telling him everything she knows. But suddenly it is she who asks him for help: her husband's "business friends" have contacted her and threatened her life if she is not willing to secure further "deliveries".

May 23, 1988

Jul 10, 1988

Aug 7, 1988

Aug 21, 1988

Thanner is annoyed: While he has to do the dirty work for the police - he has to identify the body of a prostitute - Schimanski is reopening a case that he, Thanner, closed long ago. And Thanner knows why: Ilona Vogtländer, daughter of Rolf Vogtländer, who is accused of murdering his wife Eva, is far too beautiful for Schimanski to resist.

Sep 4, 1988

Oct 2, 1988

Nov 13, 1988

Dec 11, 1988

Dec 28, 1988

Schimanski and Thanner are confronted with a case that happened a long time ago and that they were unable to solve: in 1978, one of the perpetrators was seriously injured during a bank robbery and was then executed in the bank by the leader of the gang. The perpetrators managed to escape - except for the Pole Zbiginiew Pawlak, who waited next to his dead brother until the police arrived. During the subsequent investigation, Pawlak was unable to say a word. The press then nicknamed him "Moltke", which he kept even during his prison sentence because he remained stubbornly silent.

Jan 22, 1989

Feb 19, 1989

Apr 9, 1989

A pot of half a million marks - donations for workers who want to prevent the closure of their factory by occupying the factory - disappears after a brutal robbery; and shortly afterwards one of them, the union official Broegger, is murdered. The atmosphere in Duisburg is heated, speculation is spreading. Schimanski knows that the case must be solved as quickly as possible. But now, of all times, his friend and colleague Thanner has left him; he has gone to Bonn, to a branch of the BKA.

May 14, 1989

May 28, 1989

Jul 9, 1989

Jul 30, 1989

Aug 20, 1989

Two Polish truck drivers are brutally murdered by an Arab hit squad at a scrap yard in Duisburg. At the same time, the exiled Pole Leczek, scrapyard owner and pimp, is apparently to be executed. But the attack fails. Schimanski and Thanner, who both witness the attack, can't believe their eyes.

Oct 1, 1989

Oct 29, 1989

A brutal serial rapist has plunged Ludwigshafen into a state of terror. Young Detective Lena Odenthal of the Vice Squad faces her first major case, focusing her investigation on three men with prior convictions. When one of the attacks ends fatally - and Lena unexpectedly takes charge of the Homicide Division - she decides to set a trap for the perpetrator, unaware that in doing so, she is putting her own life at risk…

Dec 3, 1989

When a policeman is killed, Schimanski's investigation gets personal.

Dec 27, 1989

Jan 21, 1990

Feb 18, 1990

Apr 16, 1990

May 13, 1990

Jochen Bähr, department head in a pharmaceutical company, is found shot dead in his boat early on a Sunday morning. At the crime scene is his young son Thomas, who is in shock and unable to speak. Schimanski, who needs the boy's statement, tries to break his encapsulation. He has initial success - then Thomas is kidnapped under the eyes of the inspector.

Jun 4, 1990

Jul 28, 1990

Schimanski is investigating the drug mafia. The trail leads to a luxurious club where political celebrities, the wealthy and the demimonde meet. But suddenly he is standing in front of Zabou. He knows her from before, when she was still a child, his girlfriend's daughter. Back then he was like a father to her. But what is she doing here now?

Aug 4, 1990

Sep 2, 1990

This time the crime scene is an Italian restaurant in Duisburg. Schimanski happens to witness an armed robbery of the landlord Giovanni Salvatore. He intervenes and experiences a fiasco: his girlfriend Renate is pushed into the line of fire by one of the gangsters and dies. Knowing that he has killed an innocent person, he puts down his weapon. Thanner joins the manhunt for the two perpetrators and pays dearly for it: Schimanski finds him unconscious, with serious injuries, after a car accident.

Oct 28, 1990

A murder in connection with illegal art trading leads - shortly after the fall of the Wall - to the first East-West contacts in the field of crime. Schimanski and Thanner investigate together with their popular colleagues Fuchs and Grawe from East Berlin: paintings owned by the GDR, which were extorted from museums and private individuals in the course of obtaining foreign currency, were put aside by former Stasi employees after the fall of the Wall and are now to be sold to the West via the old channels. The police suspect the Düsseldorf-based art dealer Schrader to be the key figure.

Nov 11, 1990

Dec 9, 1990

Jan 1, 1991

Jan 20, 1991

Mar 3, 1991

Mar 17, 1991

Apr 1, 1991

May 20, 1991

Jun 9, 1991

Schimanski is on a fishing holiday in an idyllic spot not far from Duisburg. There he witnesses a strange event: the veterinarian Karl-Heinz Ascher is found dead on his wedding day - hanged from a tree. Silke Faber, the bride, daughter of the richest farmer in town, is at a loss and asks Schimanski for help in solving the death.

Jul 7, 1991

Aug 4, 1991

Sep 15, 1991

Sep 22, 1991

Oct 13, 1991

Following an anonymous tip, Commissioner Lena Odenthal travels to the fictional Palatine village of Zarten. There, Höreth—an ethnic German repatriate from Romania—has been missing for two years; his clothing is discovered in the woods by a group of teenagers.

Oct 27, 1991

A bright Sunday morning - Schimanski and Thanner are having fun ice skating. During a daring maneuver, Schimanski breaks through and comes across the body of a little girl. The forensic pathologist determines that the child was raped and died of internal injuries. Since there is no missing person report, the police only manage to find the girl's mother after a few detours.

Nov 10, 1991

Dec 29, 1991

Schimanski's vacation turns into a fight for his life.

Jan 19, 1992

Feb 16, 1992

Mar 15, 1992

Apr 20, 1992

May 3, 1992

May 17, 1992

Chief Detective Bernd Flemming, Inspector Mariam Koch and Chief Inspector Max Ballauf have their hands full while the carnival is in full swing in Düsseldorf.

Jun 8, 1992

Jul 5, 1992

Aug 16, 1992

Sep 20, 1992

Oct 4, 1992

Joest is kidnapped after a rendezvous with his lover Ute Vonhoff; his driver is killed in the attack. A kidnapper likes to humiliate Joest. A renewed attempt to blackmail the family convinces the inspector that Joest is keeping a secret.

Oct 11, 1992

Oct 25, 1992

Two men break into the Düsseldorf building authority with the help of an employee. When they are surprised by the security guard while taking photos of site plans, they kill him and fake a robbery and murder.

Dec 6, 1992

Dec 20, 1992

A baffling discovery shakes Ludwigshafen: on the misty banks of the Rhine, a mother and daughter discover the body of a young man - yet when the police arrive, the deceased has vanished. Inspector Lena Odenthal faces a mysterious case, for the man presumed dead had only recently crossed her path as a witness in a drug investigation. As she picks up the trail of a mysterious figure known as "Mother," she has no idea that she is thereby putting her own life at risk…

Jan 3, 1993

Jan 10, 1993

Jan 31, 1993

Feb 28, 1993

Mar 7, 1993

Chief engineer of Saarländ's Rosdorf nuclear plant Georg Bekker appears dead, supposedly of a drug overdose, and detective Max Palu takes charge of the investigation, meanwhile, Georg's sister starts recieveing mysterious floppy disks and becomes the target of threats along her daughter.

Mar 28, 1993

Apr 18, 1993

Apr 25, 1993

Jun 6, 1993

Jul 11, 1993

Rich, 60-year-old Erika was the victim of a robbery and murder. Since the neighbor saw her grandson leaving the house with a video recorder under his arm, he was the first suspect.

Jul 25, 1993

Aug 29, 1993

Sep 26, 1993

Oct 24, 1993

Oct 31, 1993

A psychopathic former actor escapes from a psychiatric clinic to take revenge on the woman who put him behind bars: Detective Lena Odenthal. While Hans-Martin Carsdorff perfidiously stalks and psychologically terrorizes the detective, Odenthal must simultaneously solve the murder of an elderly woman.

Nov 21, 1993

Nov 28, 1993

Dec 19, 1993

The son of an old crook is murdered. This crime brings the Düsseldorf homicide squad, as well as Hans Gebhard (the father) and Kalle Maisch (his old criminal buddy), into action.

Jan 23, 1994

Feb 6, 1994

Mar 6, 1994

Mar 27, 1994

Apr 24, 1994

May 1, 1994

May 23, 1994

Jun 5, 1994

Jul 31, 1994

Aug 14, 1994

Flemming and his team are dealing with the murder of a woman believed to be mentally ill and irregularities in a clinic.

Sep 4, 1994

Oct 16, 1994

Oct 30, 1994

Nov 13, 1994

Dec 11, 1994

Jan 1, 1995

Jan 8, 1995

Feb 19, 1995

Mar 5, 1995

Mar 12, 1995

Mar 26, 1995

Apr 2, 1995

Apr 17, 1995

May 7, 1995

May 21, 1995

Jun 5, 1995

Jun 18, 1995

Jun 25, 1995

Jul 9, 1995

Jul 16, 1995

Jul 30, 1995

Aug 13, 1995

Sep 17, 1995

Oct 1, 1995

Oct 15, 1995

Nov 12, 1995

Nov 26, 1995

Jan 1, 1996

Jan 14, 1996

Jan 21, 1996

Feb 18, 1996

Mar 10, 1996

Mar 24, 1996

Mar 31, 1996

Apr 8, 1996

Inspector Flemming and his colleague Miriam Koch find out that the unknown dead woman - together with other sufferers - lived in a discarded bus. They manage to notify the girl's brother, to whom she regularly sent her savings. Milan appears in Düsseldorf. When he finds out how his sister earned her money, he is determined to avenge her life and death and begins to research on his own. When Kurt learns that the young Croatian has tracked down the porn photographer Carlos, he fakes a suicide to deceive Milan and the police. But Milan suspects that the photographer is innocent of his sister's death and follows Kurt. But Flemming and Koch have long since seen through his plan for revenge. When the daring boy finally realizes that he has underestimated the two of them, it is almost too late for him.

May 5, 1996

May 12, 1996

May 19, 1996

May 27, 1996

Jun 9, 1996

Jun 23, 1996

Jul 7, 1996

Jul 14, 1996

Jul 28, 1996

Sep 8, 1996

Sep 22, 1996

Sep 29, 1996

Oct 6, 1996

Oct 13, 1996

Oct 27, 1996

Nov 10, 1996

A letter bomb explodes in a Berlin postbus and kills an innocent letter carrier - apparently an accident, as the parcel was intended for someone else. At the same time, the body of a young Russian woman with links to organized human trafficking of Eastern European women is discovered in the city forest. Inspector Roiter and his assistant Zorowski enter a brutal realm...