Der Clown - Season 3

First aired: 9/9/1999 12 episodes

Episodes

1. Dirty Business

Aired: 9/9/1999

Government of African state Cananga negotiates mining rights with German firm. Civil rights activist Mukele holds old documents proving tribal ownership. When murder attempts fail, Max breaks into embassy, recovers the documents, and rescues Ludowski from antagonist Jerome (a hired thug)

2. After Work

Aired: 9/16/1999

Thug Jerome survives past events, kills Ludowski. The Clown avenges him and fakes new identity as Max Hecker. Dobbs is briefly arrested, then released. Mysterious “Shadow Men” threaten Max, Claudia, and Dobbs unless they comply with their orders .

3. Lovely Holidays – Part 1

Aired: 9/23/1999

Sent to Portugal by “Shadow Men” to prevent atomic weapon deal: drug lord Alvarado aims to purchase portable nukes from deserters. Max must retrieve them—and meets ex-colleague Hartmann, now Alvarado’s right-hand man .

4. Lovely Holidays – Part 2

Aired: 9/30/1999

In Portugal, Hartmann finalises Alvarado’s deal. Max and Dobbs disrupt the exchange, chasing the fugitives into the mountains, culminating in a tight standoff .

5. Mayday

Aired: 10/7/1999

On a Zurich-bound flight with Claudia aboard, Max receives a call that ex-comrades plan to hijack the plane and free witness Lenz mid-air. Despite interference, Claudia and a novice pilot land the plane after chaos ensues .

6. Handyman

Aired: 10/14/1999

Max and team must stop a saboteur, Smuts, before he accesses a new satellite and controls critical systems. He rigs explosives to erase evidence. The Clown fights a race against time to neutralize him .

7. Flash

Aired: 10/21/1999

Former NVA officer Jürgen Kress, brainwashed to sabotage with codewords, survives a camp accident and executes his plan on Cologne’s Hohenzollern Bridge (“Mouse Trap”). Max uncovers a second plot targeting a dam under the code “Castor” .

8. The Pied Piper

Aired: 11/4/1999

Claudia and Dobbs witness a cunning pickpocket incident. The boy, Ion, is chased by a car and saved by them. He leads Max and team to ringleader Hausschild’s gang of child thieves. Max is captured and locked in a flooded sewer but is rescued by Claudia before drowning. They continue tracking the gang via a hidden tracker

9. Happy Birthday

Aired: 11/11/1999

Lazlo Puskas hides a suitcase containing incriminating evidence against drug-dealer Elias Hollbeck. Lazlo turns himself in, but Hollbeck’s men plan to kill him in police custody. Max must extract Lazlo from lock-up before the hit is carried out

10. The Prodigy

Aired: 11/18/1999

The team is to rescue a highly gifted boy from the clutches of Dr. Werner Gräfe, who wants to use his abilities for terrorist purposes. Max is able to get the boy out of Gräfe's "institute", but in the process Dobbs is captured.

11. Vatertag

Aired: 11/25/1999

Dobbs reports a UFO encounter, dismissed by the team. Meanwhile, oil executive Dr. Gottwald plants explosives in his company’s refinery. The factory explodes. The Shadow Men claim Gottwald couldn’t be guilty. Dobbs alleges alien saboteurs are behind it, noting a missing general and suspicious black-clad figures dumping a body

12. The Court Jester

Aired: 12/2/1999

Dobbs inherits a functioning time machine. By an unfortunate coincidence, Max and Claudia end up in the Middle Ages at the castle of the Marquis of Mendoza. The tyrant is enchanted by Claudia and is determined to make her his wife.