Wed, Dec 26, 1990
Studly cruise ship M/S Berlin sailor Stefan systematically acts as gallant white knight for passengers and even other tourists, but often pays a personal price, such as a three years contract. Grandpa Freytag raised doting darling orphan Daniel (12), a fellow jazz fan. On this cruise to New Orleans however, Daniel learns that his pa Rick is alive, a trumpeter in the French Quarter, who left the boy for career prospects and now hopes Daniel will choose him over grandpa. Old Walter finally stands up against his much younger mistress's excessive demands when his bossy ex offers him sanctuary aboard.
Thu, Dec 26, 2013
Captain Paulsen stuns Dr. Wolf Sander, passing a full medical but confiding only into him he intends to resign after this trip to the Malyasian capital, having bought his birth house in Hamburg. Passenger Martin Pollack is aboard as crown witness against the mob, to be entered in a witness protection program, but falls in love with the foxy agent in charge, Lena Rüthers, who intends to eave that job after luring him to a safe house, but he boards as stowaway. Paulsen's friend Paul Bronski boarded with his wife Maria, who finally convinced him to hand over the construction firm to their son, but is bored senseless on world tour with her, so she realizes this isn't working for either, and searches a third way. Paulsen hoped Beatrice would join him renovating his family estate, but she's stunned and marches out of the restaurant like an ice maiden. Doctor Wolf Sander went to great trouble for a goodbye present: the beloved Harley Davidson the captain once sold to Malaysian former crewman Beto who can't just sell it back given its state and sold-off parts.
Fri, Dec 26, 2014
Capitain Victor Burger agrees to help German justice investigator Sonja Preiss to help identify on this voyages destination, Mauritius, the suspected leader of the pirates who held his entire crew hostage when he still commanded a freighter. Julian Spielmann's wife Lucie gives birth to their daughter aboard the voyage with her parents, diplomat Klaus and Vera Mitteregger, to the island where those met and raised Lucie, for their silver anniversary. But the early birth in stormy weather yields a colored baby, suggesting Julian was cuckolded, which Lucie denies, but doc comes up with an alternative theory and test. Jazzsinger Jeannie expected to be hired for a grand jazz-show but finds herself on stage only with unknown yodeler Thomas, and ex Hardy is aboard. Ship's hairdresser Stefan Arndt 's recruit Katharina Braun turns out much older and fatter then her application picture, but conspires with old, rich Emilia Sandhoff who has been residing aboard for three years and takes to her.
Thu, Jan 1, 2015
Simone Klarenfeld boards as partner of Thomas Roll, former assistant of her late husband Martin, to Canada where he presumably died on his last assignment. Thomas present aboard his first own photographic nature documentary, on Canadian wildlife. Martin Klarenfeld however survived and booked, shocking unaware Simone, preparing a cruel revelation for both of them. Beatrice can't prevent newbie cabin attendant Lena Küppers, who got the job dating crew member Daniel, from intruding the bridge to surprise "her father", captain Burger, when of her mother's many partners, whom she bonded to. Victor Burger takes Lena along searching for her sire's Quebec family. Life-long senior buddies Julius Dornfelder and Walter Königswore off women before boarding in a joint cabin, yet both get seduced by Josephine Mellert, Beatrice's most flirtatious friend.
Mon, Jan 1, 2018
Orphan Nico, a dropout daredevil, is the only one of Sabine's foster foundation charges accompanying her on retirement present cruise to L.A., where he hopes to somehow finance a stuntman training. They befriend desperately-lonely spoiled brat Carina, whose ever-absent tycoon father's credit-card no longer compensates her emotional neediness, while a fraction could make Nico's dreams come true, kick-starting an explosive dynamic, while the 'fatherly' captain must rescue Nico from fool-hearted stunt. Serious widower Ralf backtracks the triumphal news he finally warms to a lady again after realizing she's the fiancee of his fickle-womanizer playboy brother Christoph, but Ralf's teen daughter becomes the glue to drive them together and to truth time. Beatrice's first-ever family novel, under a unisex pseudonym, proves a potential film script, and a new career now she's decided to leave the crew.
Fri, Dec 26, 1997
Seasoned 'retired' master thief Walter Buchner teaches his naively eager nephew Sven the ropes of society high life and jewel theft, but the knave is more interested in their wine waitress and the suspicious captain proves a competent researcher. A father shows his son where his late mother died and overcomes his related diving phobia. The cruise's hired singer Patrick Lindner is fake, or not him at all.
Sun, Apr 1, 2018
The dream ship cruises to the Maldives, where it will be boarded by its new hotel director Hanna Liebhold,. who was delayed by her successor's broken leg longer at her former job, managing a luxury island resort. Ilona and Roland Michel is aboard, wrongly expected to bail out by his now thrice-divorced, ever-bickering true youth love Ilona, who hence came with her new lover, hotel owner Benno. Roland befriends young heiress Bella, who 'posthumously accepts an invitation' from recently deceased father Achim to the Malediven to meet his second love. On the Maldives Benno learns to appreciate the devotion of his native hotel deputy Amita while Ilona and Roland might make up. Reserved goldsmith Marie becomes lovers with junior professor Sönke, having convinced him she made a pendant for a client from one of the Portuguese gold coins he showed during a lecture aboard on colonial galleys sunk near the archipelago, but Marie grows jealous of his efforts to acquire it from Hanna, who got it from Achim. Bellas meanwhile gets the captain to preside over a memorial ceremony and flirts with diving instructor Jean-Luc, who closes his school for her so the cruising director can't take lessons which worried the ship doctor anyway and a ray fish causes a medical emergency.
Mon, Dec 26, 2011
Deaf Tobias Förster boards with his wife Manuela and common neighborhood youth buddy Benjamin Hellwig, but feels excluded when they talk. Then an incident restores his hearing, but he keeps that to himself. Ship chef Dieter Walde is far from amused when his former restaurant nemesis Philipp Mejée, now a famous gastronomic innovator, is invited aboard, leading to mutual sabotage. Stefan Bogner is told by once ex Eva Mommsen their daughter, whom he never knew about, is aboard to celebrate sweet 18 and meet him, but crew member Martin Starke, another ex, is the one the girl expect to be revealed as her pa.
Mon, Dec 26, 1994
The shipping company plans to dump old staff, notably captain Hansen and engineer Max, now the cruise ship is docked in Dubai due to mechanical trouble they warned for. Crew technician Wolf Riekmann risks his job by visiting his lover, overprotective Holger Philipp's daughter Jesscia, on deck, but can redeem himself by finding the ship bug. Rich gambler passengers's wives resolve to attract their attention by spending more then their stakes, eccentric outfits etc.