When a famous film star dies during the premiere of her new film, both Max and Oskar are on the scene. Max admits she was a former emergency admission to his hospital, where he briefly treated her. Their investigation gets them embroiled in the dark underbelly of stardom and far-right Austrian politics.
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Series 4: 2. Mephisto Waltz, Part 2
With Max in the hospital, Oskar is racked with guilt but is determined to unmask the traitor in the heart of the Austrian establishment. He realises just how powerful this enemy ...
11-08-2024
BBC 2
Series 4: 1. Mephisto Waltz, Part 1
Vienna, 1909. Oskar is baffled when the director of security agrees to a secret rendezvous with a notorious, recently captured criminal. When the meeting is ambushed, he is comp ...
04-08-2024
BBC 2
Series 3: 3. Death Is Now A Welcome Guest
When a famous film star dies during the premiere of her new film, both Max and Oskar are on the scene. Max admits she was a former emergency admission to his hospital, where he ...
28-12-2022
BBC 2
Series 3: 2. The God Of Shadows
Max applies his neurological expertise to the case of a retired soldier, Captain Steiner, who is convinced that he is cursed and tortured by vengeful spirits. It looks like a tr ...
21-12-2022
BBC 2
Series 3: 1. Deadly Communion
Vienna, 1908. A young seamstress is murdered in a luxury fashion house. Oscar and Max are initially perplexed by the means and the motive for her death, but further clues are re ...
14-12-2022
BBC 2
Series 2: 3. Darkness Rising
When a monk is found brutally murdered in his monastery, suspicions immediately falls on a Jewish man who publicly reprimanded the victim for spreading anti-Semitic rhetoric.
24-12-2021
BBC 2
Series 2: 2. The Devil's Kiss
A beggar girl finds a mutilated corpse in Vienna's slum quarter. The secret services warn Oskar that the investigation is not the concern of the Leopoldstadt police. However, wh ...
17-12-2021
BBC 2
Series 2: 1. The Melancholy Countess
When a widowed Hungarian countess drowns in her bath at a luxury hotel, it is revealed that she has been suffering from melancholia - but a post-mortem reveals strychnine poison ...
10-12-2021
BBC 2
Series 1: 1. The Last Seance
Junior doctor Max Liebermann, son of a wealthy Jewish businessman in 1906 Vienna, is undertaking research in the new discipline of psychotherapy much to the disgust of his profe ...
29-10-2021
BBC 2
Series 2: 1. The Melancholy Countess
When a widowed Hungarian countess drowns in her bath at a luxury hotel, it is revealed that she has been suffering from melancholia - but a post-mortem reveals strychnine poison ...
10-12-2021
BBC 2
Series 1: 1. The Last Seance
Junior doctor Max Liebermann, son of a wealthy Jewish businessman in 1906 Vienna, is undertaking research in the new discipline of psychotherapy much to the disgust of his profe ...
29-10-2021
BBC 2
Series 3: 3. Death Is Now A Welcome Guest
When a famous film star dies during the premiere of her new film, both Max and Oskar are on the scene. Max admits she was a former emergency admission to his hospital, where he ...
28-12-2022
BBC 2
Series 3: 2. The God Of Shadows
Max applies his neurological expertise to the case of a retired soldier, Captain Steiner, who is convinced that he is cursed and tortured by vengeful spirits. It looks like a tr ...
21-12-2022
BBC 2
Series 3: 1. Deadly Communion
Vienna, 1908. A young seamstress is murdered in a luxury fashion house. Oscar and Max are initially perplexed by the means and the motive for her death, but further clues are re ...
14-12-2022
BBC 2
Series 4: 1. Mephisto Waltz, Part 1
Vienna, 1909. Oskar is baffled when the director of security agrees to a secret rendezvous with a notorious, recently captured criminal. When the meeting is ambushed, he is comp ...
04-08-2024
BBC 2
Series 2: 2. The Devil's Kiss
A beggar girl finds a mutilated corpse in Vienna's slum quarter. The secret services warn Oskar that the investigation is not the concern of the Leopoldstadt police. However, wh ...
17-12-2021
BBC 2
Series 2: 3. Darkness Rising
When a monk is found brutally murdered in his monastery, suspicions immediately falls on a Jewish man who publicly reprimanded the victim for spreading anti-Semitic rhetoric.
24-12-2021
BBC 2
Series 4: 2. Mephisto Waltz, Part 2
With Max in the hospital, Oskar is racked with guilt but is determined to unmask the traitor in the heart of the Austrian establishment. He realises just how powerful this enemy ...
11-08-2024
BBC 2