History Series / ACaseForTwo

* LocalHangout: Matula loves playing pool, always in the same bar.

* RedLightDistrict

* The detective, Josef Matula (played by Creator/ClausTheoGartner for the entirety of the show's existence), a former police officer who has gone into the private investigation business, has a very effective and direct method, and he sometimes even resorts to dirty tricks. Gärtner reprised the role for three TV movies.

* FatAndSkinny: Matula always kept himself in good shape (as an ActionHero he better had to). Renz, meanwhile, was fat.

* By contrast, the attorney character has changed several times. The first was Dr. Dieter Renz (played by Günter Strack). Dr. Renz retired in episode #60 and was replaced by Dr. Rainer Franck (played by Rainer Hunold). In episode #149, Dr. Franck took a job as a law school teacher, and was replaced by Dr. Johannes Voss (played by Mathias Herrmann). In episode #182, Dr. Voss was shot dead by an escaping criminal, and was in turn replaced by Dr. Markus Lessing (played by Paul Frielinghaus).

* The detective, Josef Matula (played by Claus Theo Gärtner for the entirety of the show's existence), a former police officer who has gone into the private investigation business, has a very effective and direct method, and he sometimes even resorts to dirty tricks. Gärtner reprised the role for three TV movies.

''A Case for Two'' (German: ''Ein Fall für zwei'') is a UsefulNotes/{{German|y}} (originally UsefulNotes/{{West German|y}}) detective television series, which premiered in September 1981 on the [[UsefulNotes/GermanTVStations ZDF]] channel. Music/KlausDoldinger (of ''Film/DasBoot'' fame) composed the main theme just like he did for fellow German crime & punishment series ''Series/{{Tatort}}''. The original show [[LongRunners lasted until 2013]], and it has a new version with new leads since 2014, ''A Case for Two: Reloaded''.

* StrictlyFormula: Most episodes follow the same pattern: Someone get murdered, and the police arrest the most likely suspect. The suspect claims to be innocent and hires the attorney (Renz, Franck, Voss or Lessing) as his lawyer. The attorney does all the paperwork, talks with the police and attends court. Meanwhile, Matula does all the actual research and investigation work, often getting into fights and knocking out the bad guys. In the end, the [[RedHerring original suspect]] usually (but not always) turns out to be innocent after all, and the real culprit is found.

The series, set in Frankfurt am Main ([[UsefulNotes/TheSixteenLandsOfDeutschland Hesse]]), features two main characters who solve crimes -- a defense attorney and a private detective:

* SpiritualAntithesis: Was conceived as this to ''Series/{{Tatort}}''. The series doesn't directly involve the police, kept the same leading investigator and it has only one location (Frankfurt am Main), whereas ''Tatort'' directly involves the police, has had multiple leading investigators and has expanded in pretty much every major German city.

* FatAndSkinny: Matula always kept himself in good shape. Renz, meanwhile, was fat.