The Best TV Shows on NDR Fernsehen

Every NDR Fernsehen Show Ranked From Best To Worst

Dive into our updated selection of NDR Fernsehen’s finest, featuring more than 20 series as of October 2026. A broadcaster of distinction, NDR Fernsehen has aired more than 20 shows between 1957 and 2020. Highlighting NDR Fernsehen’s quality programming, Aktuelle Schaubude and Hamburg Transit stand out, premiering in 1957 and 1970.

  • Neues aus Büttenwarder
    Neues aus Büttenwarder (2001)9.4

  • Tietjen und Bommes
    Tietjen und Bommes (1997)9.0

  • Crime Scene Cleaner
    Crime Scene Cleaner (2011)8.2

    Heiko Schotte (Schotty) works for a cleaning company, cleaning all kind of crime scenes. There he sometimes meets weird people and tries to solve difficult situations.

  • Aktuelle Schaubude
    Aktuelle Schaubude (1957)8.0

  • Hamburg Transit
    Hamburg Transit (1970)8.0

    Hamburg Transit was a German crime television series that first aired in 1970. It ran for 52 episodes over four series until 1974. It depicts the officers of the Hamburg CID. It was a successor to the show Polizeifunk ruft which ran between 1966 and 1970.

  • 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.

  • Extra 3
    Extra 3 (2004)7.7

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

  • Night patrol
    Night patrol (2020)7.3

    Every night, the Mainz police teams go out into the unknown - to help, calm down, de-escalate, make arrests or take a close look at crimes and deaths. They often expect unusual missions. The SWR documentary series provides an exclusive and unadulterated insight into the demanding work of the Mainz police. It shows the police officers behind the uniform.

  • 3 nach 9
    3 nach 9 (1974)7.2

  • 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.

  • NDR Talk Show
    NDR Talk Show (1979)6.6

  • Polizeiruf 110
    Polizeiruf 110 (1971)6.2

    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.

  • 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.

  • Die Männer vom K3
    Die Männer vom K3 (1988)N/A

    Die Männer vom K3 is a German television series.

  • 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

  • Sportclub Story
    Sportclub Story (2015)N/A