Best Austrian comedy series

To save his town Braunschlag from bankruptcy, the mayor decides to fake a Marian apparition. This black-humored farce revolves around greed, corruption, churchianity and alcohol.

Vienna suburb. Better society. Appearance and reality. A golden cage. But is everything that glitters really gold? Actually, the five "suburban women" of the title couldn't be doing any better in their supposedly perfect, affluent world – could they?

Fuhrmann's colleague Dr. Wehninger has abducted her deceased father from the pathology department to her home in order to prevent an autopsy, and it is only with great difficulty that Fuhrmann manages to persuade her to turn back. But it's not that easy to get to the hospital with a dead body without being recognized. Fuhrmann himself remains stubbornly confrontational, especially when it comes to Dr. Böck, and even more so since it turns out that Böck and Fuhrmann's ex-wife are expecting a child together. Assistant Dr. Winkler encounters unexpected difficulties when he discovers that the prosector's assistant and the mortician are engaged in a lively trade in corneas from deceased patients. They are not about to let this business go to waste without a fight.

A family, blessed with richness and power, is desperately seeking for a liver for their father, who wants to hand down his wealth to the one who gets the organ.

Ein echter Wiener geht nicht unter is a classic Austrian television series. It was produced by Österreichischer Rundfunk, Austrian Television, and ran for 24 episodes from 1975 to 1979. The script writer was Ernst Hinterberger; the series was based on his 1966 novel Das Salz der Erde. The producer was Hans Preiner, who initiated the project in his series Impulse, which centered on development of new program formats and training of new, young directors. Ein echter Wiener geht nicht unter starred popular Austrian actor Karl Merkatz as the main character, Edmund "Mundl" Sackbauer. Mundl lives in a typical Vienna Gemeindebau at Hasengasse, in Vienna's 10th municipal district. The series used Viennese dialect and became successful after an initial campaign against it by the Krone newspaper as too "common."

Country doctor you will not, but one is born as a country doctor. It is a vocation and not a profession. Although Dr. Martin Gruber has long fought against it and did not want to admit it: He is the new country doctor.

MA 2412 is an Austrian television series.

When a rotten gravestone kills the cemetery manager, his deputy Butz Bohrlich already sees himself as the new number one at Donnerscheidt Cemetery. However, the ambitious man is ignored and the new boss Ursula Fink is put in front of him.

Natalie, Raffi, Simon and Lukas in a new para-normal. Monstrous creatures and humans live side by side, more or less harmoniously. At least that's true in theory. Because sometimes it is quite tricky to fend off a monster attack without violating the "Creature Rights Charter" and the exclusion of vampires from public pension insurance triggers a discrimination debate - headaches are inevitable. But the group's biggest problems remain interpersonal ones: in the midst of the supernatural chaos, the four young adults struggle with the big and small dramas of adulthood, love and thus finding their place in the world - although zombies, vampires and other beasts don't necessarily exist make it easier.

BÖsterreich explores the abysses of the alpine republic.

Kaisermühlen Blues is an Austrian television series.

The relationship between Germans and Austrians is illuminated in a satirical and tragicomic way. The main characters of the series are the members of the German Family Sattmann, who have been spending their holidays for years in the fictional village of Lahnenberg in the Tyrolean Zillertal. The story begins with real excerpts from the TV show "Let's Go!" Asked by Fuchsberger, Austrian candidates explain that the Piefkes are the imaginary Germans who threw their marks around them and believed that something was better. The outrage among German tourists is great, especially among the Berlin business family Sattmann. The Tyroleans are doing everything they can to contain the threat of a stornowelle of German tourists (which in reality also existed).

Kottan ermittelt is an Austrian television series that was aired by Austrian television ORF between 1976 and 1984. The satirical 19-episode series about a policeman from Vienna now sports cult status. Police major Adolf Kottan was played by three actors who each gave the character a distinct 'flavor'.

Two worlds collide when two best friends from modest backgrounds who dream of a better life and two sisters who live their dreams - mainly with their parents' money. Love, lies and recklessness are inevitable.

Everything dark. From the cell phone to the refrigerator, from the lamp to the toilet flush - nothing works anymore. Not even in the small village of Kekenberg on the Della, where people have to think quickly. Because it quickly turns out that when it comes to surviving without electricity, we're all pretty stupid these days.

School of Champions tells the story of a freshman class at Austria's most renowned and prestigious ski-academy. There is only a thin line between love and jealousy, loyalty and betrayal, ambition and frustration....

Die Abenteuer des braven Soldaten Schwejk is an Austrian television series. Schwejk is a bumbling fool (he claims to have been discharged from the army on the grounds of being a certified idiot) but manages to outwit his superiors and his arch nemesis, the secret policeman "Bretschneider" with hilarious results. Set during the first world war, it follow Schwejks adventures as a recruit in the Austro-Hungarian army.

Echt fett is an Austrian hidden camera television series. Like in e.g. Just for Laughs: Gags and Trigger Happy TV, it exclusively shows clips of how unsuspecting subjects are brought into unusual situations by actors while being filmed with a hidden camera. A typical clip is filmed on the streets, or in a shopping mall. The comedic situations produced by the actors and the reactions of the unknowinlgy fooled are to entertain viewers. It was broadcast between 2003 and 2007.

An Austrian late-night talk show, hosted by Sterman & Grissemann.

An austrian mockumentary about the viennese "Bobo" society.

Science Busters is an Austrian science oriented comedy boy group consisting of Univ.-Prof. Heinz Oberhummer, Prof. Werner Gruber and comedian Martin Puntigam. The show features scientific questions with particular emphasis on physical phenomena, which are explained in a simple and entertaining way.

Robert Palfrader plays Empereor Robert Heinrich I. of Austria, He's supported by his chamberlain Seyffenstein (Rudi Roubinek – he's also the main writer of the show) and his servant Vormärz (FM4-host Rudi Schöllerbacher).

Dolce Vita & Co is an Austrian television series.

Oben ohne is an Austrian television series. It is about two families of tenants seeking to avoid eviction from their flats.

Wenn das die Nachbarn wüßten is an Austrian television series.

At the center of the TV comedy series Tohuwabohu is a small, amateurish private television station, whose name says it all: a curious hodgepodge of news, sport, entertainment, culture, music, entertainment, information, show, entertainment and entertainment. Under pressure from financiers and creditors as well as on the run from the ORF, the post office and the police, the staff of Tohuwabohu chases from scene to scene and from one media and artistic faux pas to the next. The result of this type of programming is not only a desolate chaos, but also an expression of advanced lack of talent and ideas. But behind the presented absurdities of Tohuwabohu, on closer inspection, there is a TV, media and social criticism that picks up everything and everyone or unmasked them with parodic references.

Mozart und Meisel is an Austrian television series.

Die Lottosieger is an Austrian comedy television series. It was produced from 2008 to 2011 and broadcast from 2009 to 2012 on ORF 1. Die Lottosieger is about a family, that, over night, becomes rich, by winning the lottery.

Kupetzky was an Austrian TV show aired on ORF1 in the frame of Donnerstag Nacht from March to June 2006. It was also shown on Swiss channel SF2 later that year.

Peter Klien, the reporter without borders, has grown up and moves into his own studio in ORF1. From his desk, he takes a close look at the political situation in Austria - and there's no turning a blind eye!