''SOKO Köln'' (English title: ''Cologne P.D.'') is a German

police procedural The police show, or police crime drama, is a subgenre of procedural drama and detective fiction that emphasizes the investigative procedure of a police officer or department as the protagonist(s), as contrasted with other genres that focus on eith ...

television series that premiered on 22 October 2003 on

ZDF ZDF (, short for Zweites Deutsches Fernsehen; ; "Second German Television") is a German public-service television broadcaster based in Mainz, Rhineland-Palatinate. It is run as an independent nonprofit institution, which was founded by all fe ...

. It is the fourth offshoot of ''

SOKO München ''SOKO München'' (until 2015: ''SOKO 5113'') is a German police procedural television series that first aired on 2 January 1978 on ZDF. "SOKO" is an abbreviation of the German word ''Sonderkommission'', which means "special investigative team". ...

'', launched in 1978 under the name ''SOKO 5113''. "SOKO" is an abbreviation of the German word ''Sonderkommission'', which means "special investigative team".

Cast and characters

Current

Past

Crossover

On 3 April 2013, five SOKO teams were brought together for a five-part special titled ''

SOKO – Der Prozess ''SOKO – Der Prozess'' is a German five-part crossover between five ZDF SOKO series, combining the special investigative teams from Munich, Cologne, Leipzig, Stuttgart, and Wismar. It was broadcast from 30 September 2013 to 4 October 2013, on ...

''. In it, the teams from

Munich Munich ( ; german: München ; bar, Minga ) is the capital and most populous city of the States of Germany, German state of Bavaria. With a population of 1,558,395 inhabitants as of 31 July 2020, it is the List of cities in Germany by popu ...

, Cologne,

Leipzig Leipzig ( , ; Upper Saxon: ) is the most populous city in the German state of Saxony. Leipzig's population of 605,407 inhabitants (1.1 million in the larger urban zone) as of 2021 places the city as Germany's eighth most populous, as wel ...

Stuttgart Stuttgart (; Swabian: ; ) is the capital and largest city of the German state of Baden-Württemberg. It is located on the Neckar river in a fertile valley known as the ''Stuttgarter Kessel'' (Stuttgart Cauldron) and lies an hour from the ...

, and

Wismar Wismar (; Low German: ''Wismer''), officially the Hanseatic City of Wismar (''Hansestadt Wismar'') is, with around 43,000 inhabitants, the sixth-largest city of the northeastern German state of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, and the fourth-largest city ...

have to solve the murder of a police officer. The five episodes were shown across Germany from 30 September to 4 October 2013.

Episode list

Season 1

Season 2

Season 3

Season 4

Season 5

Season 6

Season 7

Season 8

Season 9

''SOKO – Der Prozess''

Season 10

Season 11

Season 12

References

External links

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''SOKO Köln'' on the ZDF website

Episode guide on fernsehserien.de
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