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- 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 Some time later the assistance call is withdrawn.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.
- A dead woman found in the Donau, is the wife of a very important guest of the Austrian Government. Oberinspektor Marek is asked to investigate the case very gently.
- Brigitta Beerenberg calls the police to inform them she has killed her husband in self-defense. Trimmel wants her to be examined by a psychiatrist.
- Max Bergusson hijacks flight AE612 from Milaan to Beirut. His wife's murderer is on board and he demands the captain to fly to Hamburg instead. Before he boards the plane, he informs Hauptkommissar Trimmel through a curious message.
- After a few days away from home with his girlfriend constructor Breuke from Sieverstedt hurries home to convince his wife he is not having an affair. On the road home he hits a bicyclist, but drives on instead of calling an ambulance. Arriving at his house he deliberately hits the post of the driveway gate to disguise the damage of the accident. All the while he is unaware that his wife is watching him. Hauptkommissar Finke arrives in the village after the local police has taken Peter Reichert as a suspect. His assistant wants to investigate further. Meanwhile Breuke is being blackmailed by an unknown person. Then an actual murder takes place.
- In Frankfurt con man Johannes Stein is making easy money with his latest trick: He is selling "Gold" to unsuspecting people. He too talks the Wimper family into buying some, later to be stored in a Swiss bank. After seeing proof, Grandpa Wimper is eager to buy. Little does he know about that "Gold". When Stein tries to sell some more to a business tycoon, he gets busted and has to flee. It's now up to investigator Konrad to track down the swindler and to arrest him.
- Kressin is back in Cologne, where he works for the customs office. Soon he is ordered to a new case. A gang of bootleggers keep outwitting the customs authorities. Kressin's colleagues can't find any evidence of a crime. Everytime the suspicious trucks are checked at the border, their load is always correct, as declared. Kressin now has to find the liquor and the bootleggers' HQ.
- Customs officer Kressin is on holiday in Hamburg and sees the tour guide acting suspiciously. He ignores it, but the day after the guide is found dead in the water.
- An American private eye is shot dead in Germany by an international extortion gang, and his partner arrives to seek revenge.
- Sixteen year old pupil Sina Wolf has a love affair with her married teacher Fichte. Also pupil Michael Harms, her ex-boyfriend, cannot resist her beauty. One day Michael follows Sina by the lake and sees her having sex with Fichte. Then he blackmails her and force her to meet him in the forest the following day, telling her that he can do what Fichte did to her. She accepts to show-up but he soon begins to kiss her wildly, she lay down quickly on the ground, not to be sighted. She finally stops him doing anything further by taking a big stone, later telling everyone that somebody tried to rape her in the forest while Michael was helping her. As the police begins to investigate Michael's death they regard teacher Fichte with suspicion. Things screw up for Sina as now Fichte stops dating her and police's questions are beginning to be uncomfortable.
- When an immigrant railway worker from Italy is found dead in Munich, homicide inspector Veigl and his team suspect murder. However, it turns out that the deceased died in an accident when he an his workmates did illegal construction work for one of their German colleagues who stole the building material from the railway company.
- A murderer of women is going around in Stuttgart. And he seems to have a thing for redheads.
- The delicatessen.
- Baker Schmidt quickly returns home from the pub after an urgent phone call from his wife, who has discovered burglars in the house. But he arrives only to find her dead - murdered. He suspects that the case might be related to a series of burglaries in the neighbourhood. Kriminalkommissar Nagel starts being suspicious about Schmidt when he learns that the latter has an affair with his former employee, Anni Klein. Single mother Klein has to submit to lengthy questioning by the police, but denies any knowledge about the crime. And Schmidt's alibi seems iron-clad, seeing that he was in a pub surrounded by people who knew him. Meanwhile, the burglary series is solved, the perpetrators denying vigourously any connection to the murder. Because nothing had been stolen from the bakery, Nagel is bent to believe them. Little does he know that the lover of Schmidt's neighbour, Ms. Scherzer, could throw light on the case, because he has seen Wilhelm Fink leaving the house that evening - but, being a politician and married on top, he fears for his reputation. Finally the police receives an anonymous tip about Fink, and he admits to having had an affair with Mrs. Schmidt. As was his wont, he had awaited her husbands departure on that evening and then entered the house with his own key - only to find her dead. This information finally shatters Schmidt's alibi, and he admits to the murder.
- Geroth, editor of an advertising newspaper, leaves a bar late at night and drives at high speed. When he tries to brake in a sharp curve, the vehicle does not react, flies out of the curve and overturns. He is dead.
- It's about the disappearance and death of a ten-year-old girl from a difficult family background.
- In the fictional town of Endwarden, pensioner Fintzel wants to renovate his attic. He finds a suitcase that belonged to his brother who died in World War II.
- A dead person is found in the port of Duisburg. It is the inland boatman Heinz Petschek. He was stabbed. The skipper Jan Poppinga turns out to be urgently suspect; Petschek had a relationship with his wife.
- Pale lilac letters, addressed to Grete Steinbeiss by a Marion Winterfeldt, are necessary so that Lutz Waldner can cultivate his love affair with the addressee.
- When police officer Horst Schimanski came back late at night the young girl Katja is waiting for him. She came back from the privatschool and her mother did not stay at home. Next day the police found a dead woman not far from their home shot down. Has the old lover of her mother Henje something to do with the crime ? The soundtrack Das Mädchen auf der Treppe has been created by the german electronic band Tangerine Dream and has been their most popular track.
- 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. They soon discover that many couples in Duisburg use an illegal adoption agency in Amsterdam, which convey children from Hong-Kong to europe without asking to many questions. Following the cuddly toys, hence the name of the episode, the german word for it, "Kuscheltiere" of the kids, Schimanski, Thanner and their dutch coworker Hänschen have to cross borders and investigate in Amsterdam. Since the dutch authorities can't find any hard facts to support the german cops in their inquiry, they have to go their own way. But to find out more about the criminal scheming of the agency, Schimanski not only has to work undercover - he also has to cross the thin line between law and vigilante justice, getting himself in more trouble then ever before.
- When the crook Wessel Gerda suggests playing his hostage for half the loot in a bank robbery, she agrees. After the robbery, Inspector Lutz discovers inconsistencies in her statement.
- The death of a woman brings turmoil to the world of tramps because the murder took place in Tiergarten, in the center of Berlin.
- The furniture manufacturer Heinrich Hencken is shot dead in front of his hotel at night. The son of the biggest competitor of the victim delivers unsolicited alibis for all members of his family. Schimanski and Thanner are on the case.
- Schimanski and Thanner are confronted with an old case that back in 1978 they were unable to solve but a "blind passenger" in Thanner's trunk change things on Christmas 1988.
- Kommissar Palu muss den Mörder der jungen Anne finden, die ihr Geld mit Telefonsex verdient hat.
- The Bernese city police officer has to solve a mysterious arms trade and also struggle with family problems.
- Two brutal murders point detective Lena Odenthal to a mysterious young woman who seems to have been sexually involved with both of the victims. But a motive and irrefutable proof is hard to come by.
- Beim Eislaufen bricht Schimanski ein und entdeckt die Leiche eines Mädchens. Frau Czermak,die verwitwete Mutter,hat keine Ahnung,wer die Kleine getötet haben könnte. Auch ihr im Heim lebender Sohn Markus hüllt sich in Schweigen. Schimanski entdeckt,daß Herr Czermak vor seinem Tod einen gewissen Köglmeier wegen Kindesmißbrauchs vor Gericht brachte - erfolglos!
- Lena Odenthal researches the vanishing of a late repatriate in a village two years ago after his clothes are found.
- Berger owned a nursery located in northern Munich next to a landfill site until he was murdered. The investigations lead Batic and Leitmayr into the red-light milieu, since the gardener often enjoyed the company of girls during his lifetime.
- Carsdorff, a once-celebrated actor, is in a psychiatric hospital after the murder of his girlfriend. He manages to escape with a hostage. In freedom, he hijacks a bus and uses the passengers as hostages. Carsdorff contacts the police, he wants revenge on Lena Odenthal.
- A group of Satan's disciples are staying in the English Garden in Munich. One of her was found dead on the Isar after an overdose of drugs.
- The musician Steiner is found dead in his bathtub in a middle-class, average apartment building in Dresden.
- The Munich investigators Kommissare Batic, Leitmayr and Menzinger determine in the milieu of marriage trade with Thai women and child abuse.
- He is the swarm of pathology: Professor Dr. Sorensky, a music lover and a fine spirit in a class of its own. His business is death, day by day. He dissects corpses, pinpointing the cause of death. The pathologist is a man of exquisite humor - and he is a murderer, skillful and cold-blooded. At least Chief Inspector Lena Odenthal is firmly convinced of it. Stella, Sorensky's lover, has disappeared without a trace. The evidence points to a bestial violent crime. Hendryk Dornbusch, Stella's friend, has since gone into hiding. He seems strongly suspect, especially since he was seen at the scene. Lena and Mario Kopper, their smart assistant, set out to find Hendryk and the dead Stella. And face a mysterious riddle: what happened to Stella's corpse? Meanwhile, Sorensky starts a strange game. He tries to get close to the beautiful inspector, gives her hidden clues, makes her his confidante. Lena apparently lets herself be taken into confidence. She gets to know an impressive, extremely cultivated and successful man who is by no means unemotional in his craft. "This is the place where death happily rushes to the aid of life" - is written in scholarly Latin on the board in the section room. That sounds like a bad joke and corresponds to the philosophy of life of an ambitious scientist for whom life in death finds one last fascinating confirmation. Lena cannot evade the pathologist's charisma. She realizes that she has to face him, his charm, but also the dark, dangerous, dark side of this existence. Sorensky is obsessed with the abyss over which he hovers. He flirts with his downfall. Lena knows that: And she doesn't avoid him anymore.
- In the Holy Blood monastery, the young nun Theresa is found dead at the foot of the bell tower by her fellow sisters.
- A body was found in water 4 months ago. Now a female student has been strangled. Do the two murders have something to do with each other?
- In einer Brauerei in Dresden wird ein Mitarbeiter in der Nacht erschossen.
- 1970– 1h 30mTV-145.6 (50)TV Episode
- When a famous ufologist disappears, the police in Ludwigshafen do not seriously consider foul play - but then a mysterious phone caller claims he was murdered.
- After a horse race the horse and his rider, Agnes Demrau, are disqualified on suspicion of doping. A short time later she is found dead by the horse stalls. The coroner suspects poison as the cause of death.
- Art auctioneer Hall has no idea that he is setting the cat among the pigeons when he hires private detective Leo Fellner to observe his wife. Elli Hall used to be a dancer, but had to interrupt her career when she was expecting a child. She lived with her little daughter Angie at her sister Traudel's until she met Hall and they got married. The older man loves her passionately and at the same time fears losing the attractive young woman to someone else. This is exactly what happens when Elli Hall discovers that her husband has set the detective on her. Fellner takes a shine to her and she flirts with him; when the detective wants to return the job and Hall confesses that he has fallen in love with his wife, he kills him in a fit of rage. He hides the body in his magazine and later dumps it in the Main. The next day Elli tells her husband that she wants to leave him and move in with Fellner. Hall implores her in vain to stay with him. The next morning, Elli is found stabbed to death in a wooded area near a sex bar. Since she has her papers with her, she can be quickly identified. Inspector Brinkmann takes over the investigation. He learns from Hall that his wife had jewelry worth several 100,000 marks with her when she left him. Since the jewelry has disappeared, the first suspicion is that Elli was the victim of a robbery-murder; however, the way the unknown perpetrator mauled her speaks against it. The first clue points to the striptease bar Elli visited on the night of the murder.
- In ihrem ersten Fall muss ein Mord an einer jungen Frau von den Kommissaren aus Düsseldorf aufgeklärt werden. Zur Karnevalszeit wird auch noch der Taxifahrer der ermordeten Frau tot aufgefunden.
- First episode of Tatort in Cologne since 1973. Max Ballauf, who worked in Duesseldorf and also as a DEA Agent in the USA, returns to Germany to partner up with Freddy Schenk. Schenk has been working in the Cologne Police for a long time and doesn't agree with Ballauf joining the team. Obviously they don't get off to a good start, but meanwhile have to solve a murder: The dead body of a former cop is found in the Rhein river. He had worked in the drugs unit and he and his team liked to torture their convicts. Is the murder someone who held a grudge against him?
- A teacher recently acquitted of sexual molestation charges is killed by a bomb blast at his school. Then a second death rocks the campus