

Season 38 • Episode 3
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Actual Hamburg locations — the Kiez IS a character.
Writing
Small crimes, smaller victories, zero glamour.
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
This is Germany's longest-running crime drama — a weekly ritual since 1986 that outlived the Berlin Wall and most of its original cast.
Creator Jürgen Roland shot the pilot in 1985 with real Hamburg police as consultants; many early storylines came from actual case files.