The WORST episodes of The Clown

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

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#1 - The Wonderkid

Season 3 - Episode 10 - 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.

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#2 - The Shadows of Rasputin

Season 1 - Episode 5 - Aired 5/26/1998

In Düsseldorf, a handful of former Russian special soldiers try to buy their way into the criminal milieu with a stolen war chest. The Russian army wants to stop them, and the Clown gets caught in between.

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#3 - Deadly Encounter

Season 2 - Episode 1 - Aired 9/8/1998

Wealthy industrialist Steinrich receives a multi-billion dollar order from China. Shortly afterwards, Steinrich's wife and one of his daughters are kidnapped. Max and Claudia are to find out who is behind the kidnapping.

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#4 - Free Fall

Season 2 - Episode 2 - Aired 9/15/1998

After his release from prison, the stunt parachutist Falk refuses to take part in a new coup by his cronies. They threaten to kill his new love, Claudia. Good thing that Max is already on the trail of the crooks.

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#5 - In the pliers - part 1

Season 2 - Episode 5 - Aired 10/6/1998

The Clown has to deal with merciless gangsters who storm a television tower and take Max's girlfriend Claudia into their power. While trying to free her, the clown gets help from World War veteran Kurz.

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#6 - In the pliers - part 2

Season 2 - Episode 6 - Aired 10/13/1998

The gangster Kott, who continues to hold Claudia, tries to escape via the sewers. In the meantime, a SEK unit has managed to break into the tower. A dangerous shootout ensues.

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#7 - Crash

Season 2 - Episode 7 - Aired 10/20/1998

In a mysterious helicopter crash, Herder, a local politician, died. Max, Claudia and Ludowski find out that the industrialist Hennermann had every reason to wish Herder dead.

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#8 - Death Angel

Season 2 - Episode 8 - Aired 10/27/1998

Professional killer Vana receives an order from her ex-combat companion Nakic to kill prosecutor Reuter. When Vana sees that the prosecutor has a daughter, she cannot bring herself to pull the trigger and is now being hunted by Nakic.

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#9 - Mayday

Season 3 - Episode 5 - Aired 10/7/1999

Max's girlfriend Claudia is on board a plane carrying a powerful drug dealer to Switzerland for trial. While the plane is in the air, the drug lord is freed by his followers.

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#10 - The Pied Piper

Season 3 - Episode 8 - Aired 11/4/1999

Claudia and Dobbs witness a pick-pocketing. Claudia confronts the thief, who is twelve-year-old Ion. Then an unknown man tries to run them both over with a car. At the last moment, they can save themselves.

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#11 - Happy Birthday

Season 3 - Episode 9 - Aired 11/11/1999

Max and his friends take on the petty criminal Lazlo, who has hidden information about the drug dealer Hollbeck in a suitcase. To get the case, Hollbeck's accomplices take Lazlo's daughter Renée hostage.

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#12 - 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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#13 - 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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#14 - 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.

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#15 - 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.

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#16 - Vulture

Season 4 - Episode 4 - Aired 10/31/2000

A journalist has sneaked into a refugee organization to prove that its president, Steinmann, is pocketing donations. Eventually, she manages to copy evidence from Steinmann's computer.

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#17 - Father's Day

Season 3 - Episode 11 - Aired 11/25/1999

Dobbs has an encounter with a UFO, but neither Max nor Claudia believes him. Then Dr Gottwald blows up a refinery of his oil company. Max and his friends find out that aliens want to throw the world into chaos.

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#18 - Flash

Season 3 - Episode 7 - Aired 10/21/1999

The Clown tries to put a stop to a former NVA officer who is committing acts of sabotage all over Europe and is even targeting the Hohenzollern Bridge in Cologne. The diabolical plan actually succeeds and Kress escapes.

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#19 - Handyman

Season 3 - Episode 6 - Aired 10/14/1999

Using expensive high-tech equipment, South African racist Jan Smuts wants to gain control of the European satellite network in order to make Europe blackmailable. To do this, he uses the researcher Dr Sartorius, a notorious gambler.

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#20 - Happy Holidays - Part 2

Season 3 - Episode 4 - Aired 9/30/1999

In order to take over the business himself, ex-policeman Hartmann kills drug dealer Alvardo and takes Claudia into his power. He only wants to release her if Max agrees to a meeting. Max agrees to a meeting.

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#21 - Happy Holidays - Part 1

Season 3 - Episode 3 - Aired 9/23/1999

The Shadow Men's first assignment takes the friends to Portugal. They are to prevent a nuclear weapons deal. The Portuguese drug lord Juan Alvarado wants to buy nuclear grenades from deserted Ukrainian soldiers.

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#22 - End of a Working Day

Season 3 - Episode 2 - Aired 9/16/1999

Max avenges the death of his friend Ludowski, who left him a new identity as his last gift. Actually, the Clown and his friends can now live in peace, but unfortunately, someone puts a spoke in their wheel.

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#23 - Yakuza

Season 2 - Episode 3 - Aired 9/22/1998

Max gets caught up in the fight between two Japanese mafia bosses, which has been going on since the end of the Second World War, and loses his heart to Akiko, the granddaughter of the gangster Kogeshai. But their happiness is short-lived.

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#24 - 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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#25 - 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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