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Detective Chief Inspector Stephan Derrick and his loyal assistant, Inspector Harry Klein, solve murder cases in Munich and surrounding areas.

A police department led by an older, experienced detective solves crimes together.

Female private investigator Nelly must solve the murder of a rich industrialist.

Recently two young men have been killed in Munich.The same pistol has been used for both murders.The young men were going to a bar for young people outside Munich and they ere killed near this place.Now the newspapers are writing about a serial killer.This night a young biker , Klaus Mahn, who has left the bar some times before, has been found dead under his motorbike.Leo Kress goes to the apartment of the family Mahn and was beginning to speak with the mother of Klaus when he receives the notice that another young man, Thorsten Jülich, has been killed before the house of his parents.Gregor Jülich , the father of Thorsten, has remained in his house because he is afraid of the journalists and is also preoccupied about his son Ewald.Gregor Jülich says that he listened to a shot outside and that went out of his house, saw somebody going away and then he saw he son Thorsten dead.

Three masked men are running away from a bank and the police managed to injure one of them. This afternoon the Dr. Günther is at home with his wife Elvira (he doesn't work on Wednesday afternoon).The doorbell rings , Günther opens the door and two masked and armed men kidnap the doctor: one of the masked man will take care of Elvira and free her when his accomplice will call him. So the other masked man obliges the doctor to take his car and to go to his doctor'office where he will treat the third masked man who has been injured when they were escaping from the bank.Some minutes later Leo Kress and his team are in the doctor's office: Günther Jonas has been stabbed with a scalpel and died immediately.The ex-wife of Günther, Helen, who called the police, explains that her daughter Claudia saw the car of his father in the parking place and lights in the office, then she looked for her mother ,Helen who shares the doctor's office with Günther and found the corpse of her ex-husband.

Stephan Derrick and Harry Klein remember the case of Lothar Bruns: an armored truck was stopped in a street, a man disguised as policeman shot against the two security guards and the three robbers went away.Some days later Derrick received an anonymous call telling him the name of of Lothar Bruns ; they went to his apartment and found the uniform and the weapon of the crime.The two other accomplices managed to escape from a sentence.Lothar Bruns received a life sentence.Now after 10 years of jail Lothar will be released because he has become nearly blind.Derrick has a meeting in the jail with Lothar who tells him that they have common interests and that Derrick must let him go without shadowing.Derrick and Harry are thinking that Lothar will settle his accounts with his former accomplices.As Lothar needs a housekeeper, Derrick and Klein proposes the young policewoman Gabriele Dressler to go undercover as housekeeper for Lothar and to inform them about the moves of Lothar.

The young supermarket cashier Katrin suffers from a 'Robin Hood complex', as her aunt Ruth puts it, which causes her to selflessly step into the breach for other people.

Maria wants to separate from her husband, but he suddenly collapses and falls into a coma. Maria wants to stay with him until he wakes up so she can break up with him consciously.

Ice hockey coach Harry Zoppke returns back to Freiburg from Canada after 15 years. By chance, he meets Benny Hinz, one of his former players. Benny, who grew up without a father, has now become professionally successful and believes that due to some hints that Harry is his biological father. Harry doesn't negate it.

Family comedies revolving around the Bundschuh couple, who, thanks to their exhausting relatives, are plunged from one disaster into the next.

A man and a woman switch their bodies and try to handle their occupations as a soccer trainer and a psychologist.

This year the Bundschuh family will spend their holiday in Mallorca.Gundula (the mother), Gerald (the father), Edgar (the grandfather who suffers senile dementia) and the two children have been invited by Susanne (the mother -in-law of Gundula).As soon as they arrived in Mallorca the problems begin.Edgar got lost, but they find him again,later in a rest place a pickpocket stole the wallet of Gerald. Edgar go away with the car and Gundula have to pay a taxi for reaching the hotel.Then in the hotel they meet Gundula's brother, Hadi and his wife Rose.

Because of her father's death, Rike Wildenstein returns to her parents' horse ranch after 13 years and tries to save the heavily-indebted farm.

Fashion reporter Laura Hansen's research in Tuscany, accidentally reveals that her late mother Gloria, who spent holidays in Prato for 25 years, had a secret adulterous affair in Lucca with surviving local gentleman Emanuele della Torre. Laura falls in love with business attorney Alessandro della Torre, before realizing he's Emanuele's son and works for an Italian luxury-label that exploits thousands of Chinese sweatshop laborers selling "made in Italy" without European labor conditions, as if her mother's secret weren't enough complications, yet lets them be drawn into a web of deceit.

Rike often gets along better with horses than with people. With the noble animals she finds a loving closeness that she lacks in her family and their traditional horse breeding. She doesn't want anything to do with the Wildenstein Riding School, which she turned her back on 13 years ago. When her father dies, Rike returns for the funeral from faraway Arizona, where she breeds mustangs with her partner Jack. As soon as she is home, Rike remembers why she first found happiness abroad: her mother Elsa teases her like she used to and her brother Ferdinand runs the farm in a tough "old school" way - unfortunately without success. Everything depends on the stallion Jacomo: If the expensive dressage horse doesn't start collecting prize money soon, there's a risk of bankruptcy. In order to protect the sensitive animal from the brutal tournament rider Dessaulier, Rike faces conflict with her family. She has to accept her unloved inheritance and saddle up in a tournament herself to keep investors on board. A key role is played by her childhood sweetheart Christian, who finds himself in a dilemma as a bank employee: on the one hand he wants to help the Wildensteins, on the other hand he has to represent the interests of the creditors. The fact that earlier feelings flare up again between him and Rike doesn't make things any easier - especially since he is a family man.