Father Matteo
An unique priest and an extraordinary detective.
Don Matteo is a thoroughly ordinary Catholic priest with an extraordinary ability to read people and solve crimes. He’s a parish priest who never met an unjustly accused person he didn’t want to help.
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Season 1
16 episodes
Premiered Jan 7, 2000
Season 2
16 episodes
Premiered Oct 21, 2001
Season 3
16 episodes
Premiered Sep 27, 2002
Season 4
24 episodes
Premiered Feb 19, 2004
Season 5
24 episodes
Premiered Feb 1, 2006
Season 6
24 episodes
Premiered Jan 17, 2008
Season 7
24 episodes
Premiered Sep 10, 2009
Season 8
24 episodes
Premiered Sep 15, 2011
Season 9
26 episodes
Premiered Jan 9, 2014
Season 10
26 episodes
Premiered Jan 7, 2016
Season 11
25 episodes
Premiered Jan 11, 2018
Season 12
10 episodes
Premiered Jan 9, 2020
Season 13
10 episodes
Premiered Mar 31, 2022
Season 14
10 episodes
Premiered Oct 17, 2024
Season 15
10 episodes
Premiered Jan 8, 2026
Ep 1The Foreign Man
In the series premiere, parish priest Don Matteo investigates a young man's apparent suicide.
Ep 2Trivial Operation
The murder of a doctor is investigated.
Ep 3The Courage to Speak
Don Matteo's help is needed by a young woman, whose family is in financial distress and being blackmailed. The citizens, surprised about their priest's meetings with this beautiful woman, start to spread rumours.
Ep 4Anna
Don Matteo investigates a drug ring that attacked an undercover police officer.
Ep 5The Scorpion's Strategy
An inmate is killed in jail. Suspicion falls on a prisoner who claims to be not guilty, although his fingerprints were found on the murder weapon. A scorpion fight, organized by the citizens, points Don Matteo in the right direction.
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