00:00 The Inspector - Death in Transit 59:33 Derrick - The Farewell Gift 01:58:33 The Old Man - Two Lives The Inspector is the title of a German television crime series from 1969 to 1976 with Erik Ode in the title role. It was written by Herbert Reinecker and set in Munich and the surrounding area. Content The 97 episodes of the series, shot in Munich and produced on 35mm film, were first broadcast on ZDF from January 3, 1969, to January 30, 1976. Filming began in the spring of 1968. The first completed episode, The Knife in the Safe, was broadcast second, the second first. It is noteworthy that Inspector Keller, played by Erik Ode, solved his first case from his sickbed. Although ZDF introduced color television in 1967, the series was produced in black and white until the end. The Commissioner followed almost immediately on from an older ZDF crime series, The Crime Museum, in which Erik Ode also appeared three times as an investigator and which was also produced by Helmut Ringelmann. In the stories of murder and police investigations staged by directors such as Wolfgang Staudte and Zbyněk Brynych with experimental camera work, the period colour is a particularly interesting aspect today. Many social issues of the time were addressed, such as generational conflicts and drug consumption. The series also reflected the changes in youth culture (hippie culture, beat music, discos). Although the stories are set in Munich, the actors mostly speak standard German, occasionally with a dialect accent, but very rarely Bavarian. In comparison to today's television world, the high alcohol and tobacco consumption of the protagonists is noticeable, which reflects the social reality of the time. In the first 26 episodes, a woman was also involved in the investigations in the person of detective assistant Helga Lauer, while her colleague Rehbein mainly performed anteroom duties as a secretary. Source: Wikipedia https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Der_Kom... Derrick is the title of a German television crime series with Horst Tappert in the title role of Munich Chief Inspector Stephan Derrick and Fritz Wepper in the role of his partner, Inspector Harry Klein. It was first broadcast between October 1974 and October 1998 on German-speaking television. Herbert Reinecker was responsible for the scripts for all 281 episodes. Helmut Ringelmann produced the series on behalf of ZDF, ORF and SF. The series was directed by Helmuth Ashley, Zbyněk Brynych, Gero Erhardt, Dietrich Haugk, Horst Tappert and Alfred Weidenmann, among others. Derrick, the best-selling German series in television history, has been broadcast in over 100 countries. Plot, characters and cast Chief Inspector Stephan Derrick and Inspector Harry Klein investigate murder cases in the greater Munich area; most of the action takes place in the city of Munich. Idea and scripts Herbert Reinecker had already made a name for himself in the crime genre by writing scripts for Edgar Wallace films and “street sweepers” such as Babeck and 11 Uhr 20. Even before his biggest audience success at the time, The Inspector, ended in early 1976 after 97 episodes, he wrote episodes for Derrick in parallel. His artistic role model was “Maigret” author Georges Simenon, who placed the psychology of the characters at the forefront. Many actors from the thirteen-part ZDF crime series The Little Doctor, which was based on Simenon’s stories, later also appeared in the series Derrick (Siegfried Rauch, Evelyn Opela, Hans-Georg Panczak, Ursula Lingen, Peter Pasetti, Gracia-Maria Kaus, among others). Reinecker had already used the name Derrick in 1973 in the episode “Rudek” of the series The Inspector; Sky du Mont played the pimp Manuel Derrick. Source: Wikipedia https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Derrick Der Alte is a German-language television crime series produced by Neue Münchner Fernsehproduktion for ZDF, SRF and ORF. The 94-minute pilot film entitled Die Dienstreise was broadcast on Easter Monday 1977. History In the first 100 episodes, Erwin Köster (Siegfried Lowitz) headed the Homicide Division II at Munich Police Headquarters. He was supported by his assistants Gerd Heymann (Michael Ande) and Martin Brenner (Jan Hendriks). His superior was Franz Millinger (Henning Schlüter). More information on Wikipedia https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Der_Alte