Sun, Feb 1, 2004
Hamburg-schooled German expat MD Dr. Matthias Hellberg runs a practice for tourists and locals at Italy's glorious Lake Garda for years. He patiently helps people like Ingo Riedel, who can't embrace love feeling pointlessly guilty over his fiancées drowning, or Gero Schröder whose bitching wife snaps their daughter isn't biologically his. Matthias's own life is complicated when young orphan Luca's guardian-grandpa Giorgio Gabetta has a cardiac crisis and the doc's Hamburg-college-ex Bettina Stahl becomes a local hotel's new manager.
Sun, Mar 6, 2005
German chef Paul Hoffmann happily moved to Provence with his well-adapted pre-teen son David and wife Stefanie, whose medical practice keeps them afloat until he finally opens his own restaurant. Alas, an accidental concussion suddenly, but probably temporarily, blocks Paul's vital taste and smelling sense. Stefanie's handsome German apprentice Michael's handyman skills boost the practice and his love-life. David's riding lessons put him in contact with old Markus, who is to reveal a medical secret and a family dysfunction.
Sun, Mar 21, 2004
Dr. Ben Berger cheerfully runs a medical practice in Dürnstein, a town near the grand abbey of Melk in Austria's Danubian wine region Wachau. He volunteers to personally take in young Tobi Kern, who has measles, so his ma Verena can't keep him aboard the cruise ship she works on. Monk-teacher Arndt calls for Ben's help after the near-suicide of promising boarding student Lukas, whose heart was just broken, probably the wrong reason to plan joining the order. Tobi's dead Manfred picks him up but neglects Ben's prescription. He and Verena wrongly assume Ben to be married with pharmacist Karla, hence suppress their romantic interest.
Sun, Apr 30, 2006
Dr. Stefan Weber accepts another temporary foreign 'holdiay doctor' posting in Tessin (Ticino, Italian Switserland) while regular compatriot Dr. Anne Schäfer goes visit her ailing mother Elisabeth Gruber. Only at his arrival they realize that reunites schooldays first lovers, now without spouses. Groom Andreas Kerbel is found badly wounded in the mountains, his bride ignoring he didn't bail out. Anne's romantically frustrated daughter Lucy is jealous and fickle, her ex devises a clever revenge on the family.
Sun, Feb 13, 2005
Berlin-trained Dr. Jan Baumann has a medical practice on Capri (Italy). Habitual patient Katharina Steinmann systematically refuses to have cardiac surgery. That changes when her daughter Maria turns up, sort of fleeing for her grim husband Rüdiger Steinmann. Doc Jan also gets suspicious about fat Rolf Martinek, who acts very scared and is vague about his medical history in the clinic, run by Jan's local friend.
Sun, Apr 10, 2005
Widowed Dr. Martin Roth runs a medical practice on Tenerife since many years. His adult son Tobias, an avid, studly surfer, overcomes Martin's new bride Tatjana's daughter Nadine Bramstedt's objections to the union, ultimately forging one of their own. Meanwhile however manipulative rich bitch Evelyn Stein has arrived, who illegally found out her donor came came from Tobias's ma and claims Martin as 'her husband'.
Sun, Apr 9, 2006
Bavarian architect Marco Lanski calls fiancée Eva Wigand's bluff when she threatens to dump him rather then come along to his parents in Montalcino, near Sienna. Then he meets and falls in love with more recently immigrated doctor Katharina Berger. Her priority is getting biological father Volker Scheffler, a German actor she never gave a chance, to donate bone marrow for their leukemia-suffering pre-teen daughter Anja. Marco offers to help out financially, but Eva sabotages that by pretending to be abandoned pregnant with his inexistent child.