Episode list

Instead of early retirement, senior maverick judge Max Althammer, mistrusted by his superior for his 'creative judgments', however fair, transfers from Munich to a Bavarian countryside near the Austrian border. Firstly he hears a supermarket shoplifting claim against retired local Alfred Breuer, who took the 'three light bulbs for free' advertisement literal, ignoring the customary 'from a minimum sales amount' proviso. Althammers commandeers justice-allergic cabby Frieda Mirko from the former GDR, who owes him for a mild sentence, as his driver and informal investigator. Animal rights activist Fred Meister is charged for freeing and thus killing some of the chickens of unconventional cattle/poultry-for-pet-hire-farmer Hanna Christ, but Frieda stumbled upon his accomplice's fabrication of false evidence.

Womanizer Franz Kurz charges his latest exes Kathi Gerlach and Gerti Hain for entering and grossly vandalizing his home after finding out he secretly dated both alternatively, even gave identical presents. While maverick judge Max Althammer questions the parties, his driver Frieda Mirko seeks to manipulate Franz Kurz so as to 'incriminate' himself into attenuating circumstances for the vandals.

Farmer Sepp Brenner is sued by powerful enemies, the investors in his village's gas pipes for the new recreation park, which he systematically cuts where they cross his fields, and the project-committed mayor, Sepp's long-estranged brother Karl. Bereft of his flu-affected driver Frieda Mirko, judge Max Althammer drives her old-timer car to the town hall court room, but it breaks down and he hears first-hand about the case from the friendly farmer who helps him out with his tractor, although dressed up for the trial, not other then Sepp Brenner. Judge Althammer must now consider to disqualify himself as he was informed by a party in advance, albeit it inadvertently.