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The Peppercorns

1999 · 22 seasons · 30m per episode · Action & Adventure, Kids, Family, Crime

Die Pfefferkörner is a German television series produced by Der Kinderkanal. The peppercorns are five friends from Hamburg: Jana Holstein Coutre, Natasha "Tascha" Jaonzäns, Philip "Fiete" Overbeck, Cem Gülec and Vivien "Vivi" Overbeck, Fiete's eight year old sister. After school, the young detectives meet at a high level of a spice warehouse of the company Overbeck & Associates, which belongs to Fiete and Vivi's parents in the first part, but is later given to Fiete and Vivi to look after. Here, in the historic warehouse district, the five friends have their headquarters. With smarts, combined delivery and support of the Internet, they find their cases here. The detectives convict polluters, animal dealers and drug smugglers. They also help each other with personal problems they encounter. Cem has lost his parents in a car accident and sometimes feels sad and lonely. Jana lives with her divorcee mother, a lawyer who is rarely at home. Natasha comes from Latvia. Her parents initially have very strict rules in terms of her education, that make Natasha unhappy. Fiete has problems showing his feelings and hides them behind grumpiness and hostility towards girls, until he falls in love with Natasha. Vivi is suffering from her role of the youngest member of the group. She believes that she must constantly struggle for recognition.

Seasons

• Season 01 — 13 episodes (December 27, 1999)
• Season 02 — 13 episodes (March 22, 2001)
• Season 03 — 13 episodes (January 2, 2003)
• Season 04 — 13 episodes (February 26, 2004)
• Season 05 — 13 episodes (March 15, 2008)
• Season 06 — 13 episodes (April 11, 2009)
• Season 07 — 13 episodes (October 9, 2010)
• Season 08 — 13 episodes (February 5, 2011)
• Season 09 — 13 episodes (October 8, 2012)
• Season 10 — 13 episodes (November 16, 2013)
• Season 11 — 13 episodes (October 25, 2014)
• Season 12 — 13 episodes (November 7, 2015)
• Season 13 — 13 episodes (November 20, 2016)
• Season 14 — 13 episodes (November 12, 2017)
• Season 15 — 13 episodes (November 24, 2018)
• Season 16 — 13 episodes (November 23, 2019)
• Season 17 — 13 episodes (February 20, 2021)
• Season 18 — 13 episodes (January 15, 2022)
• Season 19 — 13 episodes (March 11, 2023)
• Season 20 — 13 episodes (May 11, 2024)
• Season 21 — 13 episodes (March 15, 2025)
• Season 22 — 10 episodes (March 21, 2026)

Details

Created by

Katharina Mestre

First aired

December 27, 1999

Episodes

283

Genres

Action & Adventure, Kids, Family, Crime

Network

NDR Fernsehen, KiKa and Das Erste

Status

Returning Series

TMDB score

6.9 / 10 from 11 votes