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An anthology series that follows the work of homicide detectives in Germany, Austria and Switzerland.

The cases of the crew of the Albatros, a patrol boat of the German Coast Guard operating in the Baltic Sea area.

During an informal visit in province Styria, where he represents the imperial Habsburg house, archduke Johann, brother of Austrian emperor Francis I, falls in love with Anna Plochl, the postmaster's equally common daughter. Johann and his arranged Wurtemberg royalty bride both decline a dynastic alliance advised by minister Metternich in favor of their private loves. The emperor refuses to allow a marriage, yet Johann lets Anna move in to live nearly as spouses, without sharing the bed. A near-tragedy rocks that boat seven years later.

City meets country - but differently than expected. When city plant Hannes Schulte, chief detective and helicopter pilot from Berlin-Wedding, is transferred to the Holstein police station in Altenkrempe, a tranquil town in Ostholstein

The Weimar Republic (1918-1933) is regarded as a departure into the modern age, which failed because too many opponents wanted to put the clock back in the past. The need in Germany was not yet sufficiently developed to face democracy and take political fate into its own hands.

In the Name of the Law is a German television series that was broadcast from 1994 to 2007 by RTL.

Michael leaves his job as a spy after failing a mission and takes with him Helena, the daughter of a Russian spy who dies under suspicious circumstances. They leave their past behind and move to Barcelona and open a small restaurant, but his former colleagues reappear with unfinished business.

The series "Achterbahn" is about friendships and the handling of difficulties and problems from children's everyday lives.

Commissioner Maik Brunner is director of an operation command, that wants to catch a kidnapper and serial killer. His girlfriend Bettina is pregnant. The two live temporarily at her mother Heike. When Bettina goes with her mother to the funeral of her recently deceased father, Maik doesn't accompany them. His own father was killed at the inside-German border and Bettina's father was an officer in the GDR border troops. Suddenly Bettina is abducted at the funeral. During the search for her it happens an accident: Maik tried to defense a subway, loses consciousness and wakes up in the GDR of the year 1984 in a hospital. Some VOPOS describe him as "Captain Brunner." Maik is totally confused, as even 20 years younger Heike appears. Nevertheless, Maik is picked up to the service by his colleague Gaby Krempe because he should also find a serial killer in 1984.

Rich Niklas von Schermann and his wife Vivian leave to Berlin on urgent business for a few days, so they have cleaning lady Marie Wagner mind his villa and troublesome mother, senile widow Greta, whose nurse Reisch just made a crippling fall. Taking to the old lady, Greta even cancels the weekend her cop husband Dirk booked and volunteers to stay after the agreed weekend. Niklas's firm and marriage going bust, Greta supports him and flirts, but also insists on uncovering Greta's dark family secret, which shocks Niklas.

The dark-skinned daughter of an African/German looks after old people in Berlin. She doesn't feel at home in the city, and after her loosely knit relationships break up, all that remains is a bond with a little Turkish boy.

Prisoner Edmund Frank is offered a large amount of money by the editor of a magazine, to tell the real story of his crime and the hiding place of the one million Mark he stole from the bank he worked for.

After receiving a dubious Phone call at work, Eva Konalsky, a typist working at a Steel Factory disappears without a trace. The Saarbrücken Police sends the two cops Liersdahl and Schäfermann to investigate. Both of them have a very different view of how police work should be done and they are not very fond of each other at first. When another person of the Steel Factory's personnel is murdered they both have to do their best to solve the case.

The East German authorities are calling the West German Police for assistance on a case. The body of a boy was found at a Truck Stop near Leipzig. The boy wears shoes made in West Germany. Some time later the assistance call is withdrawn. Phoning his colleague in East Berlin, a man he worked together with in the past, investigator Paul Trimmel in Hamburg is told: "There is no work for you here." But Trimmel investigates on his own. He finds out that the wealthy Erich Landsberger is the illegitimate father of the dead kid. Landsberger and his other son have moved to Frankfurt. Trimmel pays him a visit there. The man is of no great help for him, but Trimmel gets an unexpected clue from Landsberger's little son. He has to go to Leipzig himself to find out more. So he leaves the Transit Route near the city, pretending his car broke down, takes a Taxi and goes looking for Eva Billsing, the dead boy's mother. She is not home when Trimmel arrives. The next day Trimmel encounters Eva's boyfriend Peter Klaus, who works for the East German Police, and talks him into letting him have a word with Eva. At least Klaus gives in to Trimmel and the things Eva tells him help solve the case.