Derrick / episode list

This is a listing of the episodes of the German television crime series Derrick , in chronological order of the first broadcast. The series comprises 281 episodes, which were first broadcast in Germany from October 20, 1974 to October 16, 1998 on ZDF . Herbert Reinecker was responsible for the scripts for all 281 episodes.

main characters

• Horst Tappert as Chief Inspector Stephan Derrick
• Fritz Wepper as Inspector Harry Klein
• Willy Schäfer as a detective Willy Berger (from episode 8)
• Günther Stoll as Schröder detective (episodes 5 to 35)
• Gerhard Borman as a detective Echterding (episodes 12 to 38)
• Marion Kracht as police psychologist Sophie Lauer (episodes 242, 252, 266, 272, 278)

also:

• Hermann Lenschau as Kriminalrat Harder (episodes 5, 8, 21)
• Johanna von Koczian as Derrick's friend, psychologist Renate Konrad (episodes 11, 20)
• Claus Richt as a detective Lippert (episodes 40, 41, 43)
• Margot Medicus as Derrick's friend, interior designer Ariane (episodes 115, 117)

By far the most guest appearances in the series was made by Dirk Galuba in a total of 22 episodes, followed by Philipp Moog (16 episodes), Pierre Franckh , Sky du Mont and Jutta Kammann (14 episodes each). If you also consider small actors, Holger Petzold's list is topped with 23 appearances.

Directors

• Theodor Grädler (50 episodes)
• Helmuth Ashley (46 episodes)
• Zbyněk Brynych (37 episodes)
• Alfred Weidenmann (30 episodes)
• Alfred Vohrer (28 episodes)
• Dietrich Haugk (15 episodes)
• Günter Gräwert (14 episodes)
• Wolfgang Becker (11 episodes)
• Jürgen Goslar (11 episodes)
• Horst Tappert (11 episodes)
• Franz Peter Wirth (5 episodes)
• Eberhard Itzenplitz (5 episodes)
• Michael Braun (3 episodes)
• Gero Erhardt (3 episodes)
• Peter Deutsch (3 episodes)
• Wigbert Wicker (3 episodes)
• Leopold Lindtberg (2 episodes)
• Erik Ode (2 episodes)
• Helmut Käutner (1 episode)
• Hans-Jürgen Tögel (1 episode)

Episode list

episode	title	First broadcast	Director	particularities
1	Forest path	Oct. 20, 1974	Dietrich Haugk	May only be broadcast in a version shortened by 24 seconds in German-speaking countries due to controversial depictions of violence.
2	Johanna	0Nov 3, 1974	Leopold Lindtberg
3	Foundation festival	0Dec. 1, 1974	Helmut Käutner
4th	Midnight bus	Jan. 12, 1975	Theodor Graedler	First episode produced, shot in the summer of 1973.
5	Death on the railroad track	0Feb 9, 1975	Alfred Weidenmann	First episode with Schröder.
6th	Only excitement for Rohn	09 Mar 1975	Wolfgang Becker
7th	Madeira	0Apr 6, 1975	Theodor Graedler
8th	Signs of violence	0May 4th 1975	Theodor Graedler	First episode with Berger. Sybil Danning was dubbed by Ingrid van Bergen .
9	Paddenberg	0June 1, 1975	Franz Peter Wirth
10	Hoffmann's journey into hell	June 29, 1975	Theodor Graedler
11	Pawn shop	July 27, 1975	Dietrich Haugk
12	A suitcase from Salzburg	Aug 24, 1975	Alfred Weidenmann	First episode with Echterding. Kurt Jaggberg has a guest appearance as District Inspector Wirz (known from the crime scene episodes with Chief Inspector Marek).
13	Kamilla's young friend	21 Sep 1975	Alfred Vohrer
14th	The day after the murder	Oct. 19, 1975	Helmuth Ashley	Oliver Grimm was dubbed by Michael Ande .
15th	Alarm on district 12	Dec. 14, 1975	Zbyněk Brynych
16	Death of the hummingbirds	Jan. 11, 1976	Dietrich Haugk	Director Haugk appears as the silent chief doctor.
17th	Death of the Trumpeter	0Feb. 8, 1976	Zbyněk Brynych	With the prominently used song "Without you it's night" by Sabrina & Peter Thomas . Director Brynych makes a brief appearance as a man fetching flowers from a locker.
18th	fear	07th Mar 1976	Theodor Graedler	The intro of the derrick theme from Les Humphries is used here as background music for a scene and is repeated several times for this purpose. Derrick has his most emotional moment in the series when he grabs the perpetrator by the collar and hits a closet with the exclamation "You pig, you damn pig!"
19th	Dead birds don't sing	0Apr 4, 1976	Alfred Vohrer	Former poison cabinet episode: 5 dead were too many for the audience.
20th	shock	0May 2, 1976	Alfred Vohrer	Former poison cabinet episode: The murder of a child also received harsh criticism.
21st	Calcutta	May 30, 1976	Alfred Weidenmann
22nd	Not a nice Sunday	June 27, 1976	Leopold Lindtberg	Was produced in 1974 as the 7th episode.
23	On your own	July 11, 1976	Zbyněk Brynych
24	An incomprehensible guy	July 25, 1976	Theodor Graedler
25th	The board party	0Aug 8, 1976	Alfred Weidenmann
26th	The super thing	05th Sep 1976	Wolfgang Becker
27	risk	19 Sep 1976	Franz Peter Wirth
28	Pecko	0Oct 3, 1976	Zbyněk Brynych	Berger, who is unusually present in this episode, is listed in the credits as “Kriminalbeamter Weber”.
29	The man from Portofino	Nov 28, 1976	Dietrich Haugk
30th	Yellow He	Jan. 23, 1977	Zbyněk Brynych
31	Neck in noose	0Feb 6, 1977	Alfred Vohrer
32	One night in October	06th Mar 1977	Wolfgang Becker
33	Open account	20 Mar 1977	Alfred Vohrer
34	Death of the Usurer	0Apr 3, 1977	Zbyněk Brynych
35	The cuckoo's egg	June 12, 1977	Alfred Vohrer	Last episode with Schröder.
36	Murder in the TEE 91	July 10, 1977	Zbyněk Brynych
37	Via Bangkok	Aug 21, 1977	Theodor Graedler
38	Debt collection	Sep 18 1977	Helmuth Ashley	Last episode with Echterding. First episode with a soundtrack by Frank Duval .
39	Dead in the forest	Oct 16, 1977	Helmuth Ashley
40	The photographer	0Jan. 6, 1978	Helmuth Ashley
41	Death of a fan	0Feb 3, 1978	Alfred Vohrer	The episode works entirely without the derrick theme.
42	Evening peace	Feb. 24, 1978	Helmuth Ashley
43	An ambush	31 Mar 1978	Alfred Vohrer
44	Stein's daughter	0May 5th 1978	Wolfgang Becker
45	Piano concerto	June 16, 1978	Helmuth Ashley
46	Coffee with Beate	July 14, 1978	Alfred Vohrer	A case for Harry.
47	Solo for Margarete	0Aug 4, 1978	Michael Braun
48	Lissa's father	Aug 25, 1978	Alfred Vohrer	The episode works entirely without the derrick theme.
49	The informer	22 Sep 1978	Zbyněk Brynych
50	The lost seconds	Oct 20, 1978	Alfred Vohrer
51	Ute and Manuela	Nov. 17, 1978	Helmuth Ashley
52	High School	Dec 15, 1978	Theodor Graedler
53	The L factor	0Jan. 5, 1979	Helmuth Ashley
54	Attack on Bruno	0Feb. 2, 1979	Theodor Graedler
55	Schubach's return	09 Mar 1979	Theodor Graedler
56	A scary house	30th Mar 1979	Alfred Vohrer
57	The doll	May 11, 1979	Theodor Graedler	A case for Harry.
58	tandem	0June 8, 1979	Zbyněk Brynych
59	Lena	June 29, 1979	Theodor Graedler
60	Visit from New York	July 27, 1979	Helmuth Ashley
61	A congress in Berlin	Aug 24, 1979	Helmuth Ashley	With a running time of 75 minutes, the special for IFA 1979 is the only episode that is excessively long.
62	The third victim	28 Sep 1979	Alfred Vohrer
63	The temptation	Oct 26, 1979	Erik Ode
64	An angel of death	Nov 23, 1979	Alfred Vohrer
65	Diamond ace	Dec 21, 1979	Dietrich Haugk
66	Hanna, dear Hanna	0Jan. 4, 1980	Theodor Graedler
67	Insatiable hunger	Jan 25, 1980	Helmuth Ashley
68	A song from Thebes	07th Mar 1980	Alfred Weidenmann
69	Deadly second	23 Mar 1980	Zbyněk Brynych
70	A deadly price	0May 2, 1980	Helmuth Ashley
71	The decision	May 30, 1980	Theodor Graedler
72	Death seeks subscribers	June 27, 1980	Zbyněk Brynych
73	On an estate	0Aug 1, 1980	Theodor Graedler
74	Witness Yurowski	22 Aug 1980	Alfred Vohrer
75	An incredibly strong personality	19 Sep 1980	Erik Ode
76	Pricker	Oct 17, 1980	Alfred Vohrer
77	A candle to the murderer	Nov 21, 1980	Dietrich Haugk	Duval's “Angel of Mine” from that episode became a hit.
78	A calculation doesn't work out	Dec 12, 1980	Helmuth Ashley
79	The channel	0Jan. 2, 1981	Helmuth Ashley
80	In the abyss	Jan. 30, 1981	Helmuth Ashley	Reinecker clearly borrows from his commissioner episode “A Spark in the Cold”. Even Klaus Behrendt reiterates its main role of the alcoholic witnesses to the crime.
81	No garden of Eden	Feb 13, 1981	Günter Gräwert
82	A very old story	27 Mar 1981	Zbyněk Brynych
83	The sister	0May 1, 1981	Helmuth Ashley	A case for Harry, who here has to deal with the death of a young delinquent whom he shot in self-defense.
84	Death of an Italian	July 10, 1981	Helmuth Ashley
85	The sixth match	Aug 14, 1981	Alfred Vohrer
86	Percentages	Aug 28, 1981	Theodor Graedler
87	The lodger	0Oct 9, 1981	Michael Braun
88	Death in the lake	0Nov 6, 1981	Alfred Vohrer
89	The hour of the murderer	0Dec. 4, 1981	Theodor Graedler
90	A rose in the trash	Jan. 22, 1982	Günter Gräwert
91	A trap for Derrick	05th Mar 1982	Theodor Graedler
92	At night in a strange house	0Apr 2, 1982	Helmuth Ashley
93	The trip to Lindau	May 14, 1982	Alfred Vohrer
94	A case for Harry	0July 9, 1982	Zbyněk Brynych	A case for Harry.
95	The alibi	Aug 20, 1982	Alfred Vohrer
96	House music	17 Sep 1982	Alfred Weidenmann
97	The man from Kiel	Oct 10, 1982	Alfred Vohrer
98	An eerie experience	Dec 10, 1982	Theodor Graedler
99	Via Genoa	0Feb. 4, 1983	Helmuth Ashley
100	The dead in the Isar	04th Mar 1983	Alfred Weidenmann
101	One night's secrets	25th Mar 1983	Alfred Vohrer
102	The perpetrator sent flowers	Apr 29, 1983	Helmuth Ashley
103	Little Ahrens	May 27, 1983	Günter Gräwert	Silent credits without music.
104	Deadly rendezvous	16 Sep 1983	Jürgen Goslar
105	Lohmann's inner peace	Oct 14, 1983	Jürgen Goslar
106	Assassination attempt on Derrick	Nov 11, 1983	Zbyněk Brynych	A case for Harry.
107	The horrors of the night	0Dec 9, 1983	Zbyněk Brynych	A case for Harry. The content of the episode follows on from the previous one.
108	Dr. Romans and the man of the year	Dec 30, 1983	Theodor Graedler	Silent credits without music.
109	The girl in jeans	Jan. 20, 1984	Theodor Graedler
110	The seduction	Feb 10, 1984	Helmuth Ashley
111	Manuel's nurse	02nd Mar 1984	Helmuth Ashley
112	Three breathless days	30th Mar 1984	Alfred Vohrer
113	Deadly way out	Apr 27, 1984	Alfred Vohrer
114	Not a nice trip to Rome	May 25, 1984	Alfred Weidenmann
115	Playing with death	June 15, 1984	Theodor Graedler
116	One killer too little	July 20, 1984	Alfred Vohrer
117	Attack from the dark	Aug 10, 1984	Jürgen Goslar
118	End of a longing	Aug 31, 1984	Michael Braun
119	Gangsters have different rules of the game	Sep 14 1984	Alfred Vohrer
120	The strange life of the judge	Oct 19, 1984	Theodor Graedler
121	The best in class	Nov 23, 1984	Theodor Graedler
122	Imagine having Dr. Prestel shot	Dec 14, 1984	Zbyněk Brynych	For the first time with a soundtrack by Eberhard Schoener .
123	The man from Antibes	Jan. 18, 1985	Jürgen Goslar
124	Greg's trumpet	0Feb 8, 1985	Jürgen Goslar
125	Rasko's children	01st Mar 1985	Theodor Graedler
126	Dead goldfish	22 Mar 1985	Zbyněk Brynych
127	Who Shot Asmy?	Apr 19, 1985	Jürgen Goslar
128	The deadly silence	0May 3, 1985	Theodor Graedler
129	An eerie finish	May 17, 1985	Jürgen Goslar
130	Sister Hilde	June 14, 1985	Theodor Graedler
131	Long night for Derrick	June 28, 1985	Dietrich Haugk
132	Wreath laying	06 Sep 1985	Zbyněk Brynych	Eduard Erne was dubbed by Michael Ande.
133	Death of a young girl	0Oct. 4, 1985	Theodor Graedler
134	The dancer	0Nov 3, 1985	Zbyněk Brynych	Based on Reinecker's 1977 novel The Commissioner and the Dancer .
135	Family in the fire	Dec 13, 1985	Zbyněk Brynych
136	On a Monday morning	0Jan. 3, 1986	Jürgen Goslar	At the beginning of this episode (up to the bank robbery) there was a one-off experiment with an authorial off-narrator.
137	Naujock's sad end	Jan. 24, 1986	Alfred Vohrer
138	Secret in the skyscraper	0Feb. 7, 1986	Wolfgang Becker
139	the eye witness	0Apr 4, 1986	Theodor Graedler
140	The absolute end	Apr 25, 1986	Alfred Vohrer
141	The charm of the Bahamas	May 16, 1986	Jürgen Goslar
142	The night Ronda died	04th July 1986	Theodor Graedler
143	An ice cold dog	July 25, 1986	Theodor Graedler
144	The Weidau case	0Aug 8, 1986	Alfred Weidenmann
145	Closed time for murderers	22 Aug 1986	Gero Erhardt	Based on the Reinecker novel Der Kommissar und der Despot from 1977.
146	The role of his life	0Oct 3, 1986	Alfred Weidenmann	Director Weidenmann is mentioned in this episode, but as "Weidemann".
147	Don't fire this man!	Nov 28, 1986	Horst Tappert
148	Girl in fear	0Jan. 2, 1987	Horst Tappert
149	The lady from Amsterdam	Jan. 30, 1987	Helmuth Ashley
150	Call at night	20 Mar 1987	Theodor Graedler
151	Absolute madness	Apr. 24, 1987	Horst Tappert	The episode shows parallels to “Death in the Lake”, and Robert Atzorn can be seen in a similar role again. The subplot in turn (a terminally ill man takes on a murder he did not commit in order to secure his surviving dependents financially) was later developed by Reinecker for “The Murderer's Wife”.
152	The dead man on the park bench	05th June 1987	Theodor Graedler	Both Ursula Karven and Werner Rom were dubbed by other speakers.
153	The night of the jaguar	June 19, 1987	Jürgen Goslar
154	A way to freedom	03rd July 1987	Gero Erhardt
155	Night patrol	Sep 18 1987	Dietrich Haugk
156	Koldau's last trip	0Oct 2, 1987	Franz Peter Wirth
157	Just trouble with the man from Rome	Oct. 30, 1987	Helmuth Ashley
158	Goos murder case	Nov 27, 1987	Franz Peter Wirth	Based on Reinecker's 1978 superintendent novel The Truth in the Goos Murder Case .
159	Flying bird	0Jan. 8, 1988	Wolfgang Becker	For the first time with a soundtrack by Helmut Trunz .
160	Murder dreams	0Feb 5, 1988	Gero Erhardt
161	A series of fine days	04th Mar 1988	Wolfgang Becker
162	No risk	25th Mar 1988	Alfred Weidenmann
163	Looking for a motif	Apr 22, 1988	Zbyněk Brynych
164	There's a big thing going on	May 13, 1988	Zbyněk Brynych
165	The Piraeus Adventure	0July 1, 1988	Zbyněk Brynych	Harry cries at the end of the episode.
166	The voice	July 22, 1988	Helmuth Ashley
167	The end of an illusion	Aug 12, 1988	Günter Gräwert
168	Including murder	Aug 19, 1988	Helmuth Ashley
169	The murderous Druse	Oct 21, 1988	Alfred Weidenmann
170	Kind of murder	Nov 25, 1988	Günter Gräwert
171	How do we get Bodetzki?	0Jan. 6, 1989	Horst Tappert	Based on Reinecker's 1979 novel of the same name.
172	Kissler's murderer	Jan. 27, 1989	Wolfgang Becker
173	The second murder	Feb. 24, 1989	Zbyněk Brynych
174	Blue Rose	17th Mar 1989	Zbyněk Brynych	Producer Helmut Ringelmann has a cameo as a passer-by in the underground car park.
175	The voice of the murderer	Apr 14, 1989	Theodor Graedler
176	Vengeance campaign	0May 5th 1989	Theodor Graedler
177	Scream in the night	0June 2, 1989	Günter Gräwert
178	The cold of life	June 30, 1989	Helmuth Ashley	The villain is shot by Derrick at the end of the episode.
179	Mozart and death	29 Sep 1989	Zbyněk Brynych
180	A little crook	Oct 20, 1989	Helmuth Ashley
181	Diebach's wife	Nov. 17, 1989	Alfred Weidenmann
182	A strange day in the country	Dec 15, 1989	Wolfgang Becker
183	No end in favor	0Jan. 5, 1990	Theodor Graedler
184	Deadly patent	0Feb. 2, 1990	Horst Tappert
185	Judith	09 Mar 1990	Zbyněk Brynych
186	Tossner's end	Apr 20, 1990	Günter Gräwert	Director Gräwert played the eponymous villain himself; Derrick and Harry only appear after 32 minutes.
187	Fall from hell	May 25, 1990	Theodor Graedler
188	The loner	0June 8, 1990	Zbyněk Brynych
189	The enemy of man	July 20, 1990	Günter Gräwert
190	Death at the edge of the forest	Aug 17, 1990	Wolfgang Becker	A case for Harry. Parallels to “Tote im Wald” up to the title.
191	Abyss of feelings	Sep 14 1990	Horst Tappert
192	The moment of truth	Oct 12, 1990	Alfred Weidenmann
193	Relationship broken	0Nov 9, 1990	Zbyněk Brynych
194	Solo for four	Dec 14, 1990	Franz Peter Wirth	Parallels to "open account".
195	Caprese in the city	0Jan. 4, 1991	Alfred Weidenmann
196	Dangerous way through the night	0Feb 1, 1991	Günter Gräwert
197	Penthouse	15th Mar 1991	Theodor Graedler
198	Who are you father	Apr 26, 1991	Helmuth Ashley
199	Lost dignity	May 31, 1991	Theodor Graedler
200	Open case	June 28, 1991	Zbyněk Brynych
201	The dead hardly plays a role	July 19, 1991	Horst Tappert
202	Disturbances in the desire to live	0Aug 9, 1991	Theodor Graedler
203	Death in the backyard	Sep 20 1991	Zbyněk Brynych	From this episode on, Derrick always wears glasses.
204	The Scream	Oct 18, 1991	Helmuth Ashley	A case for Harry.
205	Doctor Bloch's smile	Nov 29, 1991	Günter Gräwert
206	Isolde's dead friends	Dec 20, 1991	Helmuth Ashley
207	The trip to Munich	Jan. 17, 1992	Alfred Weidenmann
208	A strange man of honor	Feb 14, 1992	Zbyněk Brynych
209	Murder in the stairwell	20 Mar 1992	Helmuth Ashley
210	The festive menus of Mr. Borgelt	Apr 24, 1992	Alfred Weidenmann
211	The silent murder	May 22, 1992	Theodor Graedler
212	Beatrice and Death	June 19, 1992	Theodor Graedler
213	An ice cold number	17th July 1992	Helmuth Ashley	Was produced in 1990 as the 193rd episode.
214	Days of anger	Aug 21, 1992	Günter Gräwert
215	The murderer's wife	Sep 18 1992	Zbyněk Brynych
216	Billie's brave new world	Oct 16, 1992	Wolfgang Becker
217	A strange private investigator	Nov 13, 1992	Helmuth Ashley
218	Not an expensive dead man	Dec 11, 1992	Helmuth Ashley
219	A very sad process	Jan. 22, 1993	Theodor Graedler
220	Man in the rain	0Feb 5, 1993	Alfred Weidenmann
221	Slow waltz	05th Mar 1993	Helmuth Ashley
222	Closed walls	Apr 16, 1993	Theodor Graedler
223	After eight long years	0May 7, 1993	Helmuth Ashley
224	The partner	June 18, 1993	Günter Gräwert
225	The strange thing is love	July 16, 1993	Theodor Graedler
226	Two days, two nights	0Aug 6, 1993	Zbyněk Brynych
227	Night performance	Sep 24 1993	Helmuth Ashley
228	Melody of death	Oct 29, 1993	Alfred Weidenmann
229	The night with Ariane	Nov 26, 1993	Günter Gräwert
230	An object of desire	Dec 17, 1993	Zbyněk Brynych	Director Brynych makes a brief appearance as a pedestrian who touches his forehead.
231	The topic	0Jan. 7, 1994	Alfred Weidenmann
232	At night when she ran home	0Feb. 4, 1994	Helmuth Ashley
233	The plea	04th Mar 1994	Theodor Graedler
234	A very honorable gentleman	Apr 22, 1994	Zbyněk Brynych
235	A terminus	May 27, 1994	Alfred Weidenmann
236	May I introduce you to my murderer?	June 24, 1994	Theodor Graedler
237	Don't shake hands with the killer	0July 8, 1994	Theodor Graedler
238	Face behind the pane	0Aug 5, 1994	Dietrich Haugk	As a professor at the film school, director Haugk lectures on Bernd Eichinger .
239	The key	0Sep 9 1994	Zbyněk Brynych	Derrick composer Duval plays the hit man. Derrick himself has a rare outburst of anger, and from this episode onwards God is made a topic with great regularity.
240	The raft	0Oct 7, 1994	Helmuth Ashley
241	Night prayers	Nov 11, 1994	Theodor Graedler
242	Dinner with Bruno	0Dec 9, 1994	Alfred Weidenmann	First episode with Sophie Lauer (here still Sophia).
243	Cat with no ears	0Jan. 6, 1995	Horst Tappert	Silent credits without music.
244	Call from Vienna	0Feb 3, 1995	Dietrich Haugk
245	A murder, part two	24 Mar 1995	Alfred Weidenmann
246	Tea time with a murderess?	Apr 28, 1995	Alfred Weidenmann
247	A murder and lots of nice people	May 19, 1995	Theodor Graedler
248	Kostloff's theme	June 23, 1995	Dietrich Haugk	Silent credits without music
249	Derrick's dead friend	July 14, 1995	Theodor Graedler
250	A man's heart	Aug 18, 1995	Alfred Weidenmann
251	Your brother the killer	08 Sep 1995	Hans-Jürgen Tögel
252	The indifference of the murderer	0Oct 6, 1995	Helmuth Ashley
253	Mr Widanje dreams badly	Nov 17, 1995	Alfred Weidenmann
254	Midnight solo	Dec 15, 1995	Helmuth Ashley
255	The second bullet	0Jan. 5, 1996	Horst Tappert
256	Have a nice day, murderer	0Feb. 2, 1996	Alfred Weidenmann
257	Ruth and the killer world	0March 8 1996	Helmuth Ashley
258	Is Babette having breakfast with a murderer?	0Apr 5, 1996	Eberhard Itzenplitz
259	Girl in the moonlight	May 10, 1996	Jürgen Goslar
260	Murder echo	June 21, 1996	Helmuth Ashley
261	The empty room	July 12, 1996	Horst Tappert
262	Rieke's sad neighbor	0Aug 9, 1996	Eberhard Itzenplitz
263	The defender	06 Sep 1996	Peter German
264	The dark light	Oct 11, 1996	Alfred Weidenmann
265	Witness Karuhn	0Nov 8, 1996	Peter German	The two supposedly always “politically correct” investigators each use an expletive phrase in this late episode: “Shit!” (Derrick) or “the arrogant ass” (Harry).
266	Bleichröder is dead	Dec 13, 1996	Peter German
267	A little red number	0Jan. 3, 1997	Eberhard Itzenplitz
268	Juxtaposition	Jan. 31, 1997	Eberhard Itzenplitz
269	Lost place	14 Mar 1997	Alfred Weidenmann
270	Song of the night birds	Apr 18, 1997	Wigbert Wicker
271	Lost and found Anja	May 23, 1997	Dietrich Haugk
272	Hell in your head	June 20, 1997	Helmuth Ashley
273	The Chaplain's Nights	Sep 12 1997	Eberhard Itzenplitz
274	The murder that was a mistake	Oct 17, 1997	Dietrich Haugk
275	The first of all songs	0Nov 7, 1997	Horst Tappert
276	Pornocchio	Dec 12, 1997	Helmuth Ashley	Working title: The Broken Violin.
277	The murderer's daughter	Jan. 23, 1998	Dietrich Haugk	Shortly before the end of the series, Derrick shows himself again unusually emotional and, despite his advanced age, again takes a killer at the sleeper.
278	Anna Lakowski	06th Mar 1998	Wigbert Wicker
279	Mr. Kordes needs a million	Apr 17, 1998	Wigbert Wicker	This episode stands out due to the perpetrator's internal monologue and the haunting soundtrack, in which story elements such as church bells and dance steps are mixed with the music.
280	Mama Kaputtke	0May 1, 1998	Alfred Weidenmann
281	The parting present	Oct 16, 1998	Dietrich Haugk	Rolf Schimpf , Michael Ande and other actors from the series Der Alte and producer Ringelmann have guest appearances.

Production sequence

The order chosen for the first broadcast of the episodes often did not match their actual production order. Especially the order in which the early episodes from the experimental phase of the series were broadcast is a real mess. Here are the first thirty episodes in the order in which they were made (the first two were shot in 1973):

• 01 midnight bus (broadcast as episode 4)
• 02 Foundation Festival (episode 3)
• 03 Pawnshop (episode 11)
• 04 forest path (episode 1)
• 05 Paddenberg (episode 9)
• 06 Madeira (eps. 7)
• 07 Not a nice Sunday (episode 22)
• 08 Johanna (eps. 2)
• 09 Hoffmann's journey into hell (episode 10)
• 10 only excitements for Rohn (episode 6)
• 11 fear (eps. 18)
• 12 death on the railroad track (episode 5)
• 13 The Day After the Murder (episode 14)
• 14 signs of violence (eps. 8)
• 15 Calcutta (eps. 21)
• 16 A suitcase from Salzburg (episode 12)
• 17 Kamilla's young friend (eps. 13)
• 18 Death of the hummingbirds (eps. 16)
• 19 an incomprehensible guy (eps. 24)
• 20 alarm on district 12 (episode 15)
• 21 The Man from Portofino (eps. 29)
• 22 Death of the Trumpeter (eps. 17)
• 23 dead birds don't sing (eps. 19)
• 24 shock (eps. 20)
• 25 On your own (eps. 23)
• 26 The Bordfest (episode 25)
• 27 The super thing (episode 26)
• 28 Risk (eps. 27)
• 29 Pecko (eps. 28)
• 30 Yellow He (eps. 30)

Web links

• Derrick in the Internet Movie Database (English)
• Derrick blog (episode guide with annotations)
• Derrick Database (episode guide with list of actors A – Z)
• Derrick Fan Club (episode guide with list of actors A – J)
• EpisodeWorld: Derrick Episode Guide
• Fernsehserien.de: episode guide
• Derrick: Production order (Italian)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ [1] [2]
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3. ↑ [5] [6]
4. ↑ [7] [8]
5. ↑ [9] [10]
6. ↑ [11] [12]
7. ↑ [13] [14]
8. ↑ Derrick original production order at Die Krimihomepage