Gestatten, mein Name ist Cox is a series of crime novels and audio dramas written by the German couple Rolf and Alexandra Becker, later also adapted to a television series and a movie. The series chronicle the adventures of Paul Cox, a professional gambler in London, with a tendency to get involved in intricate murder mysteries, where he often ends up as the main suspect and has to evade police and solve the crime to clear his name. He's aided in all his adventures by his friend Thomas Richardson, a private detective.
There's no time to waste: in just 48 hours a fugitive can disappear for good! The motto of Deputy Head of Police Diego Montagna and his Catturandi squad is: “in order to know where they are, we must find out who they really are”. In order to do so, the squad must enter the minds and the hearts of the fugitives before it's too late. This battle against time will force them to face up to their own dreams, fears and weaknesses, because the only way of knowing the mind of another is to learn to know and dominate one's own.
The commander of the Italian Coast Guard, Riva Tara, along with his trusted men, have to find out who is endangering the Italian seas through illegal experiments on the seabed, to extract methane hydrates. The Island of Elba is at imminent risk of catastrophe.
Cliff Dexter was a detective series in the ZDF 1966 until 1968. It produced two seasons each with 13 episodes each 25 minutes, lead actor was Hans von Borsody. Other performers have included Hans Schellbach as Commissioner Meinert, Sabine Bethmann as Jacqueline and Andrea Dahmen as Carrol. In two episodes occurred Günter Strack.
Cliff Dexter is a former FBI agent who - working as a private investigator - in a German city. Parts of the series were filmed in Hamburg, including the startup sequence, runs in his Mercedes Benz Dexter Cliff SEb convertible through the Wallringtunnel to his office.
The series was, although popular with audiences, not continued after 26 episodes, probably partly because the critics little good at the 'pocket-Bond' was. Yet in this series broadcast period 1966-1968 reached regularly 36-38 million viewers.
Donna Roma is a four-part mini-series thriller from director James Schäuffelen who plays in Italy or Germany. The first broadcast took place on 1 March 2007 on ZDF.