The Best TV Shows on BR Fernsehen

Every BR Fernsehen Show Ranked From Best To Worst

Stay up-to-date with over 20 of BR Fernsehen’s elite series, with our list refreshed for September 2025. Highlighting BR Fernsehen’s quality programming, Polizeiinspektion 1 and kinokino stand out, premiering in 1977 and 1978. BR Fernsehen has delivered an expansive roster of over 20 shows, dating from 1977 all the way to 2016.

  • Löwengrube
    Löwengrube (1989)8.0

    "Löwengrube – Die Grandauers und ihre Zeit" is a German television series first aired between 1989 and 1992, created by Willy Purucker and directed by Rainer Wolffhardt. It is set in Munich and follows the lives of Ludwig Grandauer and his son Karl, both policemen, covering the years from 1897 to 1954. The TV show is based on Purucker's radio play series Die Grandauers und ihre Zeit (‘The Grandauers and their time’). The series’ main title "Löwengrube", meaning ‘Lions’ Den’, refers to the address of the Munich Police Headquarters inaugurated in 1913.

  • Der Letzte seines Standes?
    Der Letzte seines Standes? (1991)7.0

    Der Letzte seines Standes? Is a documentary television series of the BR. On behalf of the Bayerischer Rundfunks, several filmmakers produced 30-minute film documentaries on old craftsmanship and old production methods. The aim of the series was to portray centuries of craft trades that are threatened with extinction because of industrial progress. In the individual documentation craftsmen were represented in the manual production of a product corresponding to their guild. The protagonist provides information about his apprenticeship, his working life, but also about the recipes, handbooks, materials and techniques of the traditional way of producing his product.

  • Abendschau
    Abendschau (2000)6.0

    The Berliner Abendschau is the news magazine for Berlin.

  • Dahoam is Dahoam
    Dahoam is Dahoam (2007)5.6

    The lives of the residents of the fictitious village of Lansing in Upper Bavaria.

  • Polizeiinspektion 1
    Polizeiinspektion 1 (1977)N/A

    Polizeiinspektion 1 is a German television series.

  • kinokino
    kinokino (1978)N/A

  • Bavarian Film Awards
    Bavarian Film Awards (1979)N/A

  • Showgeschichten
    Showgeschichten (1986)N/A

  • Blauer Panther
    Blauer Panther (1989)N/A

  • Café Meineid
    Café Meineid (1990)N/A

    Café Meineid is a German courtroom comedy television series based on actual cases. The series aired 147 episodes from 1990 to 2003 and ended with the death of lead actor Erich Hallhuber.

  • Alpha Forum
    Alpha Forum (1998)N/A

  • Münchner Runde
    Münchner Runde (2000)N/A

  • Quer... durch die Woche
    Quer... durch die Woche (2002)N/A

  • Wir in Bayern
    Wir in Bayern (2003)N/A

  • Gipfeltreffen
    Gipfeltreffen (2003)N/A

  • Der Sonntags-Stammtisch
    Der Sonntags-Stammtisch (2007)N/A

  • Nachtlinie
    Nachtlinie (2007)N/A

  • Schlachthof
    Schlachthof (2013)N/A

  • Lebenslinien
    Lebenslinien (2014)N/A

  • Ringlstetter
    Ringlstetter (2016)N/A