The WORST episodes of Babylon Berlin

Every episode of Babylon Berlin ever, ranked from worst to best by thousands of votes from fans of the show. The worst episodes of Babylon Berlin!

Beneath the decadence of 1929 Berlin, lies an underworld city of sin. Police investigator Gareon Rath has been transferred from Cologne to the epicenter of political and social changes in the Golden Twenties.

Last Updated: 6/2/2025Network: Sky DeutschlandStatus: Continuing
Episode 3
star
7.27
520 votes

#1 - Episode 3

Season 1 - Episode 3 - Aired 10/20/2017

Kardakov flees after the Soviet attack on The Red Fortress. Rath receives an uninvited guest in his apartment.

Episode 21
star
7.30
292 votes

#2 - Episode 21

Season 3 - Episode 5 - Aired 2/7/2020

Rath, Charlotte and Böhm attend Rot's mysterious event. Nyssen visits Helga, who questions her recent actions. Greta returns to court for sentencing.

Episode 20
star
7.31
307 votes

#3 - Episode 20

Season 3 - Episode 4 - Aired 1/31/2020

Evidence from Krempin's home reveals his and Rot's interest. A neighbor gives Charlotte something her mother left. Gräf accesses the Benda case file.

Episode 7
star
7.31
486 votes

#4 - Episode 7

Season 1 - Episode 7 - Aired 11/3/2017

Lotte's private investigation leads her to the depot where the hijacked train is held. Rath relives painful memories of the front.

Episode 4
star
7.32
509 votes

#5 - Episode 4

Season 1 - Episode 4 - Aired 10/20/2017

The May Day stand-off between communist protesters and police erupts in bloody violence.

Episode 6
star
7.34
492 votes

#6 - Episode 6

Season 1 - Episode 6 - Aired 10/27/2017

Kardakov seeks help in retrieving the Sorokins' gold. Rath faces a moral dilemma, and Bruno makes a power play.

Episode 9
star
7.36
466 votes

#7 - Episode 9

Season 2 - Episode 1 - Aired 11/10/2017

Second season of the intoxicating German drama. Rath awakes after a long night to be faced with a new case - the massacre of the Red Fortress.

Episode 2
star
7.36
527 votes

#8 - Episode 2

Season 1 - Episode 2 - Aired 10/13/2017

Rath attempts to interrogate Konig further about the missing film reel, and the Russian revolutionaries' location is revealed by an informant.

Episode 1
star
7.36
683 votes

#9 - Episode 1

Season 1 - Episode 1 - Aired 10/13/2017

Berlin, April 1929: Cologne police lieutenant Gereon Rath (Volker Bruch) joins his colleague Bruno Wolter (Peter Kurth) in the investigation against a porn ring in Berlin. After a raid his case turns into a new direction after stumbling over a photograph. He meets the stenographer Charlotte Ritter (Liv Lisa Fries) who feeds her family with work for the police. In a heist on a freight train russian revolutionaries append a wagon with explosive content to be smuggled to Berlin.

Episode 31
star
7.36
187 votes

#10 - Episode 31

Season 4 - Episode 3 - Aired 10/15/2022

In urgent need of money, Charlotte enters a lucrative dance marathon. Councillor Wendt pitches his plans to Nyssen. Rath visits Stennes in prison.

Episode 36
star
7.38
165 votes

#11 - Episode 36

Season 4 - Episode 8 - Aired 10/29/2022

As Widow Behnke kicks off her high stakes rescue plan, Stennes instigates a hall battle in the 'Moka Efti' and Charlotte makes a secret observation.

Episode 8
star
7.38
465 votes

#12 - Episode 8

Season 1 - Episode 8 - Aired 11/3/2017

Rath and Bruno finally get a lead to the location of the missing film reel, but after the truth come the consequences.

Episode 5
star
7.39
517 votes

#13 - Episode 5

Season 1 - Episode 5 - Aired 10/27/2017

As Berlin becomes increasingly politically charged, those in charge look to change the discourse on the May Day violence.

Episode 11
star
7.40
440 votes

#14 - Episode 11

Season 2 - Episode 3 - Aired 11/17/2017

Rath undertakes a dangerous mission to recover evidence of the secret German airfield based in Russia.

Episode 32
star
7.43
180 votes

#15 - Episode 32

Season 4 - Episode 4 - Aired 10/15/2022

Abraham Goldstein arrives in Berlin as secret organisation the 'White Hand' passes a verdict on a criminal and Rath investigates a boxing match.

Episode 19
star
7.43
309 votes

#16 - Episode 19

Season 3 - Episode 3 - Aired 1/31/2020

Wendt finds a way to change Greta's testimony. Nyssen's aide asks bank clients about their stock purchases. A casting call is held to replace Betty.

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Episode 17
star
7.43
336 votes

#17 - Episode 17

Season 3 - Episode 1 - Aired 1/24/2020

An associate of the Armenian is released from prison. An act of sabotage kills an actress during filming. Helga secretly visits a doctor, as does Rath.

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Episode 35
star
7.44
171 votes

#18 - Episode 35

Season 4 - Episode 7 - Aired 10/29/2022

Rath takes part in a risky experiment, a brutal gang war breaks out in Berlin, Widow Behnke tries to help Katelbach and Toni finds herself in danger.

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Episode 12
star
7.47
441 votes

#19 - Episode 12

Season 2 - Episode 4 - Aired 11/17/2017

After discovering one of his most trusted colleagues has been murdered, Rath comes to suspect that the killer was someone on the inside.

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Episode 18
star
7.48
314 votes

#20 - Episode 18

Season 3 - Episode 2 - Aired 1/24/2020

Rath hits an unexpected snag while investigating the Benda case, and later tracks down the movie set gaffer. Charlotte is visited by her older sister.

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Episode 39
star
7.49
166 votes

#21 - Episode 39

Season 4 - Episode 11 - Aired 11/12/2022

Rath is celebrated as Charlotte meets a boxer. Stennes plots a coup against Hitler while Goldstein learns the truth about the diamond.

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Episode 13
star
7.49
431 votes

#22 - Episode 13

Season 2 - Episode 5 - Aired 11/24/2017

Lotte is kidnapped and held in an ominously familiar location, while Rath and Benda's case against the Black Reichswehr stalls.

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Episode 24
star
7.50
274 votes

#23 - Episode 24

Season 3 - Episode 8 - Aired 2/14/2020

Litten faces a setback in appealing Greta's conviction. Wendt talks economics with Gen. Seegers's daughter. An unconscious Weintraub is forced to talk.

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Episode 26
star
7.50
271 votes

#24 - Episode 26

Season 3 - Episode 10 - Aired 2/21/2020

Desperate to find Weintraub, the police consult a psychic. Toni's job takes an unexpected turn. Moritz's association with Horst puts him in danger.

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Episode 22
star
7.50
294 votes

#25 - Episode 22

Season 3 - Episode 6 - Aired 2/7/2020

Nazis storm Tempo's office in search of Katelbach. The name list leads Rath to identify the men behind Benda's murder. Charlotte catches Vera in a lie.

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