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, with fourteen 45-minute episodes first aired from 1996 to 1997. The series is a spin-off from the popular Austrian television drama '' Inspector Rex'', and focuses on Ernst Stockinger, one of the original members of the homicide division or ''Mordkommission'' in German. Stockinger ( Karl Markovics) leaves the series to return to

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where his wife (who did not appear in the original series) has inherited a dental practice from her late father. He is appointed as ''Bezirksinspektor'' (District Inspector) at the ''Landes Gendarmerie'' (provincial police force), sharing an office with District Inspector Antonella Simoni ( Sandra Cervik). Unlike the members of the team in ''Rex'', who appear to be self-directed and are seldom seen to answer to senior management, Stockinger reports to Dr Brunner (Herr Hofrat), a philosophising

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senior police inspector. Stockinger is portrayed as a clumsy, almost Inspector Clouseau-like character, driving a clapped-out 1973 VW Variant, but single-minded when following up clues. The series was first broadcast in

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in February 2008 on SBS television. SBS was responsible for the English subtitles therefore bringing the series to a wider audience than simply those with a knowledge of the German language. SBS also provided the English subtitles for all the Inspector Rex series. The series has since been released in two parts on DVD.

First Episode

'Stocki' arrives at the height of the

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, receiving free tickets to the annual performance of Jedermann (which he misses). Coincidentally, this event will set the scene for his first case which involves the murder of one of the city's chocolatiers, Herr Fehling. His bitter business rival, Baldinger, is the obvious suspect but Stockinger is not prepared to jump to conclusions.

List of episodes

#Salzburger Balls #Fatal Night #Last Stop Hallstadt #Corpse in a Field of Daffodils #Innocent Lambs #Horror on the Traun #Murder Season at See-Hotel #The Secret of Krimmler Falls #The Power of The Dead #Living Targets #Arrows at Tennegau #Still Water #Clues to a Death #Death at Saalbach

External links

review on The Age website''Stockinger'' at The Internet Movie DatabaseEpisode Synopses
(in German) Austrian crime television series 1996 Austrian television series debuts 1997 Austrian television series endings 1990s Austrian television series Austrian television spinoffs German-language television shows