The BEST episodes of The Clown

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

Member of the World Intelligence Police Agency in the United States, Max Zander returns to Germany, his native country, to dismantle a particularly powerful mafia network. Unfortunately, Leo, his lifelong friend, is murdered during the investigation. Devastated, Max no longer believes in Justice. He decides to die too and to be reborn in the skin of the Clown, in order to restore Law and Justice. Max Zander is the Clown!

Last Updated: 6/10/2025Network: RTL TelevisionStatus: Ended

9.00

1 votes

#1 - The Duel

Season 1 - Episode 6 - Aired 6/2/1998

The real estate shark Börner has already managed to acquire a large part of an apartment block in an attractive location. Only the bar owner Martina Sanchez remains stubborn. Then one of her employees is run over. Was it an accident or a murder?

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8.00

1 votes

#2 - Dirty Business

Season 3 - Episode 1 - Aired 9/9/1999

The Clown and his friends are drawn into some disputes over mining rights for an African copper mine. Max and his friends invade the country's embassy to recover important documents.

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7.00

2 votes

#3 - Death by extortion

Season 1 - Episode 2 - Aired 5/5/1998

The Clown is drawn into perfidious blackmail. An unknown person demands 50 million from the German government. If the government does not pay, he will carry out assassination attempts on members of the Bundestag.

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7.00

1 votes

#4 - Brothers in Arms

Season 1 - Episode 3 - Aired 5/12/1998

The unscrupulous organ trader van Vericke has kidnapped the young daughter Gina of Max's old friend Cosmo Nunnari in order to force him to hand over evidence of Van Vericke's criminal activities. Max does everything he can to free Gina.

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7.00

1 votes

#5 - 60 Minutes

Season 5 - Episode 3 - Aired 5/8/2001

During a mission, Max is hit by a poisoned projectile. The poison must be fought within 60 minutes with an extremely rare antidote, or he will die. A dramatic race against time begins.

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7.00

2 votes

#6 - The Magpie

Season 6 - Episode 4 - Aired 9/27/2001

Casual thief Frederico Spinosi only clears out apartments whose owners are deceased. During one of his burglaries, he breaks open the safe of a recently murdered prosecutor. This causes trouble for two corrupt commissioners.

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5.33

3 votes

#7 - In the Lion's Den

Season 4 - Episode 1 - Aired 6/5/2000

Max is up against a casino owner and his cronies who are planning to rob a train carrying federal banknotes. To keep the police off his back, the casino owner kidnaps the young daughter of an operations manager.

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5.33

3 votes

#8 - Invisible Enemy

Season 5 - Episode 2 - Aired 4/17/2001

The Clown fights against a traitor in the ranks of the Armed Forces who is cooperating with arms pushers and betrays the latest weapons systems of the army.

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5.00

3 votes

#9 - Protection Money

Season 6 - Episode 1 - Aired 9/6/2001

The mafia boss Di Peena controls the protection racket in a business district. Owners who refuse to pay are intimidated by his men. By chance, Max and Dobbs witness a money collection.

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4.50

2 votes

#10 - General Anesthetic

Season 5 - Episode 4 - Aired 5/15/2001

In order to solve the disappearance of some non-sedentary, Max has joined a group of homeless people undercover. He is attacked and wakes up in a shabby clinic. There he makes a terrible discovery.

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4.50

2 votes

#11 - Die Hard

Season 6 - Episode 5 - Aired 10/4/2001

A truck speeds through the streets of Cologne and drives into the sold-out Kölnarena. Shortly after the crash, an anonymous caller contacts the police chief and demands the release of imprisoned war criminal Mirko Drusic.

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4.50

2 votes

#12 - Amnesia

Season 6 - Episode 3 - Aired 9/20/2001

The dubious meat wholesaler Winkelmann is suspected of smuggling drugs. Winkelmann's former secretary agrees to testify against her ex-boss in court. A witness protection program is supposed to protect her from attacks.

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4.50

4 votes

#13 - Silent Death

Season 6 - Episode 2 - Aired 9/11/2001

By a lucky coincidence, Dobbs gets off a public bus before a poison gas attack kills all the passengers. Unfortunately, the police now suspect Dobbs of the perpetration. He flees and asks Max and Claudia for help.

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4.50

4 votes

#14 - Sister Heart

Season 5 - Episode 6 - Aired 6/5/2001

Claudia's half-sister Chantal, a stripper, accidentally gets hold of a videotape showing politician Klaus Schreiber beating a prostitute to death. Schreiber then calls in a hit-man.

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4.50

2 votes

#15 - Smoking Guns

Season 5 - Episode 5 - Aired 5/29/2001

Max and his crew are supposed to find Roy Roulette, who stole a special microchip. They get into a shootout with the cowgirl Shannon and a certain Bradley Brown. In the process, Roy Roulette is killed. Now, where is the chip?

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4.50

2 votes

#16 - The Trap

Season 5 - Episode 1 - Aired 4/10/2001

As Max is about to park in front of his front door, an attractive woman yanks open his car door and demands that he flee because his life is in acute danger. Shortly afterwards, the clown is shot from a moving van.

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4.50

2 votes

#17 - Jail

Season 4 - Episode 3 - Aired 10/24/2000

Max ends up in jail for the double murder of Claudia and Dobbs. There he is supposed to make contact with the felon Michalski, who threatens a terrorist attack on ten of the most important international business leaders.

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4.50

2 votes

#18 - Chase

Season 4 - Episode 2 - Aired 10/17/2000

Police officers Nicola and Sven have discovered that Robert Brock, the head of the LKA, is reselling confiscated weapons. To get certainty, they observe him making a deal, but are discovered in the process.

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4.50

2 votes

#19 - Harlequin

Season 1 - Episode 4 - Aired 5/19/1998

A man in a harlequin mask murders people from the red light milieu. The press and the BKA naturally suspect the clown. In order to prove Max's innocence and unmask the unknown kicker, Claudia takes a big risk.

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3.67

3 votes

#20 - Under Suspicion

Season 6 - Episode 6 - Aired 10/11/2001

Claudia receives information from a bodyguard about a corruption scandal involving a high-ranking politician. When she comes home, the bodyguard is lying dead in her bed. Claudia asks Max for help.

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3.00

3 votes

#21 - Dirty Money

Season 1 - Episode 1 - Aired 4/28/1998

The Clown has to deal with a gang of brutal money counterfeiters who are willing to kill.

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2.00

1 votes

#22 - The Lindenberg Baby

Season 2 - Episode 4 - Aired 9/29/1998

The entrepreneur Lindenberg has stipulated in his will that the first of his twin sons to become a father will receive the inheritance. This would give Michael an advantage over his brother Axel. But Axel develops a perfidious plan.

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2.00

1 votes

#23 - The Jester

Season 3 - Episode 12 - 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.

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2.00

1 votes

#24 - Kölsch Connection - Part 2

Season 4 - Episode 6 - Aired 11/14/2000

Claudia manages to gain access to El Cordon's fortress-like estate, where Karl Schall is hiding. When Claudia's cover is blown, Max and Dobbs are forced into a breakneck rescue operation.

2.00

1 votes

#25 - Kölsch Connection - Part 1

Season 4 - Episode 5 - Aired 11/7/2000

Chief Inspector Führmann blackmails the Clown and forces, Max and Dobbs, to travel to Colombia to arrest the wanted criminal Karl Schall. He has barricaded himself in the luxury mansion of his friend El Cordon.