The Best TV Shows on NDR Fernsehen

Every NDR Fernsehen Show Ranked From Best To Worst

NDR Fernsehen has delivered an expansive roster of over 20 shows, dating from 1961 all the way to 2020. Among NDR Fernsehen’s finest offerings are Panorama and Polizeiruf 110, which debuted in 1961 and 1971, respectively. Check out the most acclaimed shows on NDR Fernsehen, with a catalog of over 20 series updated for August 2026.

  • Tietjen und Bommes
    Tietjen und Bommes (1997)9.0

  • ARD Crime Time
    ARD Crime Time (2020)9.0

    In Crime Time, the public prosecutor's office, forensic medicine, police and profilers talk about Hessian criminal cases that they won't soon forget. How do they manage to catch the perpetrators? How do real murderers think?

  • mare TV
    mare TV (2001)8.3

  • Extra 3
    Extra 3 (2004)7.9

    Extra 3 is a political satirical magazine from Norddeutscher Rundfunk (NDR).

  • Inas Nacht
    Inas Nacht (2007)7.8

    A late-night show featuring Northern German cabaret artist, singer and presenter Ina Müller - done "Müller-style": talk, comedy and lots and lots of music.

  • 3 nach 9
    3 nach 9 (1974)7.2

  • Sportclub
    Sportclub (2000)7.0

  • The Peppercorns
    The Peppercorns (1999)6.9

    Die Pfefferkörner is a German television series produced by Der Kinderkanal. The peppercorns are five friends from Hamburg: Jana Holstein Coutre, Natasha "Tascha" Jaonzäns, Philip "Fiete" Overbeck, Cem Gülec and Vivien "Vivi" Overbeck, Fiete's eight year old sister. After school, the young detectives meet at a high level of a spice warehouse of the company Overbeck & Associates, which belongs to Fiete and Vivi's parents in the first part, but is later given to Fiete and Vivi to look after. Here, in the historic warehouse district, the five friends have their headquarters. With smarts, combined delivery and support of the Internet, they find their cases here. The detectives convict polluters, animal dealers and drug smugglers. They also help each other with personal problems they encounter. Cem has lost his parents in a car accident and sometimes feels sad and lonely. Jana lives with her divorcee mother, a lawyer who is rarely at home. Natasha comes from Latvia. Her parents initially have very strict rules in terms of her education, that make Natasha unhappy. Fiete has problems showing his feelings and hides them behind grumpiness and hostility towards girls, until he falls in love with Natasha. Vivi is suffering from her role of the youngest member of the group. She believes that she must constantly struggle for recognition.

  • Hallo Spencer
    Hallo Spencer (1979)6.8

    Hallo Spencer is a German children's television series, created by Winfried Debertin and produced by Norddeutscher Rundfunk from 1979 until 2001. In these 22 years, 275 episodes were filmed, including a number of 'specials' featuring the characters taking part in traditional fairy tale and nursery rhyme themed stories. It is a puppet based show, featuring characters created and operated in the same fashion as Jim Henson's Muppets and Sesame Street, which in fact, some of the show's staff were former employees of the German version of Sesame Street. To this day, the series is popular and well loved in its home country to the extent that the theme park Heide Park features a themed area devoted to the show. The series has been repeated on the commercial channels Nickelodeon Germany and on the pay-TV channel Premiere. Episodes were regularly found on regional broadcast stations until March 2011.

  • NDR Talk Show
    NDR Talk Show (1979)6.6

  • Polizeiruf 110
    Polizeiruf 110 (1971)6.3

    Polizeiruf 110 is a long-running German language detective television series. The first episode was broadcast 27 June 1971 in the German Democratic Republic, and after the dissolution of Fernsehen der DDR the series was picked up by ARD. It was originally created as a counterpart to the West German series Tatort, and quickly became a public favorite.

  • Panorama
    Panorama (1961)6.0

  • Gefragt - Gejagt
    Gefragt - Gejagt (2012)5.6

  • DAS!
    DAS! (1991)4.7

    Every evening at 6:45 p.m. sharp, a prominent guest takes a seat on the red sofa—and DAS! provides daily updates on what's hot in the north.

  • Bingo! – Die Umweltlotterie
    Bingo! – Die Umweltlotterie (1997)N/A

  • Echtes Leben
    Echtes Leben (1998)N/A

  • Zapp
    Zapp (2002)N/A

  • Mein Nachmittag
    Mein Nachmittag (2008)N/A

  • 45 Min
    45 Min (2010)N/A

  • Die Nordstory
    Die Nordstory (2011)N/A