Dem Täter auf der Spur

Season

1967

8

German crime series by Studio Hamburg on behalf of the NDR from the years 1967 to 1973. Episodes 1 to 6 are black-and-white; the other 12 are in color. Jürgen Roland directed all of the episodes. The series is based on the French series Les cinq dernières minutes. The crime scene, situated in Paris and the surrounding area, was designed in most episodes by French authors, and should involve the viewers in the search for the perpetrator. Director Jürgen Roland asked the audience before the beginning of the film to solve the case by means of circumstantial evidence.

Episode List

S1 • E1

Am Rande der Manege

The clown Bock, main attraction of the Circus Metropol, is found murdered after the evening's show. Bock had recently started publishing his life story in a daily newspaper, heaping scorn on his colleagues and sometimes even exposing career-threatening secrets from their past, so that many wanted to see him gone. Or could the reason for his death be found in Bock's own past, his life as a nobleman which, together with his wife and daughter, he left behind to join the circus? Kommissar Bernard and Inspektor Mireux have more than enough suspects, even without the possibility that a jealous husband or boyfriend might be the killer, as the aging Casanova used his nightly performances to woo young women in the audience.

S1 • E2

10 Kisten Whisky

S1 • E3

Schrott

S1 • E4

Das Fenster zum Garten

S1 • E5

Familienärger

S1 • E6

Frau gesucht...

Woman wanted.

S1 • E7

Puppen reden nicht

Maurice Chazal, co-owner of a company producing animated store mannequins, is shot dead in his workshop. Chazal was an unpleasant, greedy man and there is a good chance that it was greed that killed him - though it is up to Kommissar Bernard and Inspektor Janot to find out whether it was his own greed or someone else's. Finding the killer would be so much easier if the only witness to the murder wasn't a dumb redhead secretary - the animated puppet Chazal was working on when he died ...

S1 • E8

Froschmänner

S1 • E9

Schlagzeile - MORD

S1 • E10

Tod am Steuer

S1 • E11

Flugstunde

S1 • E12

In Schönheit sterben

S1 • E13

Ohne Kranz und Blumen

The police is called in when blood stains and a half-burned jacket are found on a pig farm. But the original theory that pig farmer Antoine Malbosc has killed a man during an argument is proved wrong when Malbosc himself is found murdered in a vat full of pig swill. As his malice and brutality have blighted the lives of all those around him, Kommissar Bernard and Inspektor Janot have more than enough suspects, from Malbosc's abused wife to his illegal Portugese farm hand.