''SOKO Rhein-Main'' is a German police procedural television series that premiered on 19 April 2006 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 ...

. The series aired for two seasons and was discontinued in 2008. It is the seventh 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. "SOKO" is an abbreviation of the German word ''Sonderkommission'', which means "special investigative team". The story is set in the region of

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, focusing on the city of

Frankfurt Frankfurt, officially Frankfurt am Main (; Hessian: , " Frank ford on the Main"), is the most populous city in the German state of Hesse. Its 791,000 inhabitants as of 2022 make it the fifth-most populous city in Germany. Located on it ...

. Due to differences from other shows in the ''SOKO'' franchise, the first season of ''SOKO Rhein-Main'' was titled ''Die Spezialisten: Kripo Rhein-Main'' (The Specialists: Criminal Police Rhein-Main), and the ''SOKO'' moniker was adopted in the second season and later retained for reruns.

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on ZDF (archived) 2006 German television series debuts 2008 German television series endings German crime television series 2000s German police procedural television series Television shows set in Frankfurt German television spin-offs German-language television shows ZDF original programming {{Germany-tv-prog-stub

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