SOKO Stuttgart

SOKO Stuttgart (English title: Stuttgart Homicide) is a German police procedural television series that premiered on 12 November 2009 on ZDF. It is the eighth offshoot of SOKO München, launched in 1978 under the name SOKO 5113. "SOKO" is an abbreviation of the German word Sonderkommission, which means "special investigative team".

SOKO Stuttgart
Genre	Police procedural
Starring	Peter Ketnath Nina-Friederike Gnädig Benjamin Strecker Mike Zaka Sommerfeldt Astrid M. Fünderich Sylta Fee Wegmann Karl Kranzkowski Eva Maria Bayerwaltes Cordula Seiffert
Theme music composer	Uwe Schenk
Composers	Günther Illi Peter Gromer
Country of origin	Germany
Original language	German
No. of seasons	16
No. of episodes	374
Production
Producers	Torsten Lenkeit Oliver Vogel
Camera setup	Thomas C. Weber Pascal Rémond
Running time	45 minutes
Production company	Bavaria Film
Original release
Network	ZDF
Release	12 November 2009 (2009-11-12) – present
Related
SOKO – Der Prozess

The first season of Stuttgart Homicide, consisting of twenty episodes, aired on ZDF from November 2009.^[1] In February 2022, filming began on the fourteenth season, made up of twenty-five episodes.

Crossover

On 3 April 2013, five SOKO teams were brought together for a five-part special titled SOKO – Der Prozess. In it, the teams from Munich, Cologne, Leipzig, Stuttgart, and Wismar have to solve the murder of a police officer. The five episodes were shown across Germany from 30 September to 4 October 2013.

See also

• List of German television series