A trio of taxi drivers working the night shift investigate a series of bizarre murders, kidnappings, and disappearances. Along the way, they keep encountering a mysterious glowing car known as the phantom taxi.
Journalist Alexander Vetrov is a sensation hunter. His specialty is mysterious incidents and murders. Each of his materials is the result of an independent investigation. Every now and then Alexander gets involved in dangerous adventures that can cost him his life. But even that doesn't stop the resourceful stringer. Alexander will have to solve the mystery of the return to the Sablinsky caves of the legendary strangler from the distant 50s, find the werewolves terrorizing the city, expose the criminals involved in organ transplantation, unravel the almost mystical case of the cursed apartment...
Irie is ordered to investigate George Hakushu, a key person in the missile defense program.
The mysterious man's identity may be Kitayama, his former senior who committed suicide after being captured as an industrial spy...
Denis Dubov is a professional cleaner: he cleans crime scenes and gets rid of traces of murders, so he knows too much. But even taking refuge in a small southern town, he continues to attract trouble. So on his doorstep there is a thunderstorm of local crime, a harsh but fair investigator Diana and her not the smartest, but persistent assistant Hajdukov. And to prove his innocence, the cleaner will have to challenge the entire criminal district.
This is a 7-part German crime series by Peter A. Horn. In self-contained and unconnected episodes, the great detectives of crime literature solve various cases. Sherlock Holmes (Ernst Fritz Fürbringer) and Dr. Watson (Harald Mannl) start things off, followed by Auguste Dupin, David Wilson, Father Brown, Inspector Bucket, Sergeant Cuff and Hercule Poirot. Every episode of this early crime series in the early days of television was still broadcast live. It could hardly have been more irregular: it was broadcast in loose succession on different days at different start times in prime time, and the length of the broadcast varied between 25 and 50 minutes.
Radio presenter Lara is a charismatic but complex woman who never minces her words. Much to her dismay, her station has relegated her to the night shift, where she plays records for lonely taxi drivers, emotional drunks, and other oddballs. A mysterious caller during her broadcast turns a boring weeknight into a grueling psychological cat-and-mouse game.
The multicultural world of a select American city and its black population through the lens of psychological horror stories. New Orleans will be the debut city.
Spring of 1971, Johanna, a professor of Nordic Studies comes home from Paris to attend her father’s funeral. She’s also looking to find work at the University, but her feminist viewpoints about the systematic silencing of women’s voices in history does not go over well with the university board.
The plot centers on a large-scale conspiracy by a group of US military personnel, led by General James Scott, against the current President Jordan Lyman. Further events show that the President, who sent his closest aides and friends to investigate, easily and almost indifferently accepts the news of their deaths, because he is only interested in his own person.