1990s German TV Shows
The 40 most popular 1990s german TV shows, ranked. Click any show for ratings, reviews, trailers, and where to watch.
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DAS!
1991 · DE
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.
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Volle Kanne
1999 · DE
No overview available
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Gute Zeiten, schlechte Zeiten
1992 · DE
Gute Zeiten, schlechte Zeiten is a long-running German television soap opera, first broadcast on RTL in 1992. The programme concerns the lives of a fictional neighborhood in Germany's capital city Berlin. Over the years the soap opera tends to have an overhaul of young people in their late teens and early twenties; targeting a young viewership.
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Morgenmagazin
1992 · DE
No overview available
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Die Harald Schmidt Show
1995 · DE
The Harald Schmidt Show is a German late night talk show hosted on Sky Deutschland by comedian Harald Schmidt. The show first aired from 5 December 1995 to 23 December 2003 on Sat.1. Schmidt then moved his show to Das Erste as Harald Schmidt and Schmidt & Pocher, but he returned to Sat.1 on 13 September 2011. After cancellation on Sat.1, the show continued on Sky Deutschland in September 2012.
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Leute heute
1997 · DE
No overview available
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In All Friendship
1998 · DE
German soap opera about the staff of the fictional hospital "Sachsenklinik" in the city of Leipzig.
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Alarm for Cobra 11: The Motorway Police
1996 · DE
A long-running German television series about a two-man team of highway police, originally set in Berlin and later in North Rhine-Westphalia.
Die Johannes B. Kerner Show
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Die Johannes B. Kerner Show
1998 · DE
No overview available
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maybrit illner
1999 · DE
Political talk show on current topics presented by Maybrit Illner.
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Riverboat
1992 · DE
No overview available
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Taff
1997 · DE
Taff is a tabloid news magazine airing on the German television network, ProSieben.
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Zimmer frei!
1996 · DE
No overview available
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Küstenwache
1997 · DE
Küstenwache is a German television series that tells the fictionalized adventures of a unit of Federal Coast Guard officers off the German coast of the Baltic Sea.
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Beckmann
1999 · DE
Reinhold Beckmann hosts a weekly talk show.
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Schloss Einstein
1998 · DE
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Die Anrheiner
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Die Anrheiner
1998 · DE
Die Anrheiner is a German television soap opera series, broadcast on WDR-TV since March 21, 1998. The series is set and filmed in Cologne.
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Eisenbahn-Romantik
1991 · DE
Railway-related documentary covering modern railway systems, museum railways and their facilities as well as items on model railway layouts. Politics and criticism is not left out; the series reports on closures, controversial model ideas, delays to reconstruction plans or smart commuter transport concepts.
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V.I.P.
1998 · US
While attending a Hollywood premiere with a famous action star, a crazed fan pulls a gun—but her movie hunk turns into a coward, and it's Vallery who becomes the hero. Suddenly, she's thrown into a world of action and danger as owner of a Hollywood protection agency, Vallery Irons Protection (V.I.P.), taking risks to protect others at a price few are willing to pay.
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Die Fallers – Eine Schwarzwaldfamilie
1994 · DE
No overview available
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Galileo
1998 · DE
This daily German magazine show delivers interesting facts on numerous topics centering around technology, life, and bizarre knowledge.
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Exclusiv - Das Star-Magazin
1994 · DE
Exclusiv: das Starmagazin reports on the latest news and topics from the world of celebrities on a regular weekly basis. It covers the latest headlines relating to the stars as well as rumors and insights into the everyday lives of famous personalities around the globe. In addition to the 15-minute weekday magazine, there is a particularly detailed one-hour weekend edition on Sundays with additional reports and background reports on the celebrities.
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Verbotene Liebe
1995 · DE
Verbotene Liebe is a German television soap opera Verbotene Liebe was initially based on original story and character outlines from the Australian soap opera Sons and Daughters, before evolving into a show of its own as the series progressed. The show originally focused on two core families: the wealthy Anstetten family and the middle-class Brandner family. More specifically, it dealt with the story of Jan Brandner and Julia von Anstetten, two strangers whose fascination for each other leads them to fall in love, neither of them cognizant of the fact that they are twins separated by their parents. It is this story of forbidden love that gave the series its title.
Die Wache
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Die Wache
1994 · DE
No overview available
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Für alle Fälle Stefanie
1995 · DE
Für alle Fälle Stefanie is an German medical drama television series created by Werner Krämer that aired on Sat.1 from May 15, 2005 to August 29, 2005. It was produced by Novafilm Fernsehproduktion. Für alle Fälle Stefanie follows the professional and personal life of nurse Stefanie Engel, then Stephanie Wilde and for a short time Fanny 'Stephanie' Stephan. The show was a giant success for the network and had around seven, in later years, five million viewers on a weekly basis. It won the Goldene Kamera award in 1997 and the Bavarian TV Award in 1996.
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Tigerenten Club
1996 · DE
Tigerenten Club is a German children's television programme. The programme involves a mix of games, quizzes, cartoons and outside reports from the presenters and children, with the aim to educate and entertain. It is produced by SWR in co-operation with other regional broadcasters, and is broadcast on ARD and KiKa. The logo and the name of the programme is based upon the Tigerente or 'Tigerduck', created by German cartoonist Janosch.
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Quarks
1993 · DE
No overview available
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alfredissimo! Kochen mit Bio
1994 · DE
No overview available
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Between Us
1994 · DE
Unter uns is a German television soap opera, first broadcast on RTL on 28 November 1994. Centered around the lives of the people in a residential house, which is set in the fictional Schillerallee in Cologne. Since the show debuted the baker's family Weigel is the series core family. Unter uns isn't based on a foreign soap opera like Verbotene Liebe or Gute Zeiten, schlechte Zeiten. After Gute Zeiten, schlechte Zeiten, the show was the second daily soap for RTL, followed years later in 2006 by Alles was zählt. The show aired its 3,500th episode on 30 December 2008.
Tietjen und Bommes
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Tietjen und Bommes
1997 · DE
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Sabine Christiansen
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Sabine Christiansen
1998 · DE
No overview available
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Kulturzeit
1995 · DE
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Alphateam – Die Lebensretter im OP
1997 · DE
Alphateam – Die Lebensretter im OP was a German hospital drama television series which aired on Sat.1 between 1996 and 2005. The series covered the work of a team of doctors, nurses and caregivers in the fictional Hamburg Hansa Clinic, located in the Altona district.
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Marienhof
1992 · DE
Marienhof is a German soap opera, first shown on October 1, 1992 on German TV channel, Das Erste. It started as a weekly series, before becoming a daily program on January 2, 1995. The show was canceled in February 2011 and aired its last episode on June 15, 2011. In the 90s, the Marienhof became a huge success in Finland and remained a fan favorite until it was canceled to license problems. Over the years, the show became known for tackling several social issues, such as homosexuality, homelessness, private bankruptcy, rape, drug abuse, AIDS, child abuse, suicide, cancer, adultery and murder. The show focuses on the everyday life of the residents of the Marienhof, a fictional suburb in Cologne.
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Unser Charly
1995 · DE
The exciting stories about the cheeky chimpanzee Charly, who finds a new home with a Berlin vet family.
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Hinter Gittern - Der Frauenknast
1997 · DE
Drama set in a women's prison in Germany. Susanne Teubner, a sympathetic young woman who has killed her husband in an affect, is poorly advised by her lawyer and sentenced to life imprisonment for willful murder. The arrival in prison is a shock to her. Resigned and exhausted, she endures the degrading admission procedure. She doesn't notice that the young doctor Dr. Beck immediately felt more than professional interest for her.
Im Namen des Gesetzes
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Im Namen des Gesetzes
1994 · DE
No overview available
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Brisant
1994 · DE
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Jede Menge Leben
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Jede Menge Leben
1995 · DE
Jede Menge Leben is a German television series.
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The Peppercorns
1999 · DE
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.
About 1990s German TV Shows
The 1990s
1990s television was the last era of true mass audiences, when a network sitcom or a season finale could be a shared national event.
German television
German television has found an international audience through high-concept genre serials and historical drama, backed by some of the largest production budgets in continental Europe.
In this list
- Most common genres
- Talk, Drama, News
- Longest run
- 50 seasons
Common questions
- What are the best 1990s German TV shows?
- By popularity across Flickfolio and TMDB, the top picks right now are DAS!, Volle Kanne, and Gute Zeiten, schlechte Zeiten. The full ranked list of 40 sits above — open any show for ratings, reviews, and streaming availability.
- How is this list ranked?
- 1990s German TV shows are ordered by overall popularity, which blends how often a title is viewed, searched, and logged. It updates as viewing habits shift, so the list reflects what people are actually watching rather than a fixed critical canon.
- Where can I watch these TV shows?
- Every show page lists current streaming, rental, and purchase options for your region, alongside community ratings and reviews from Flickfolio members.