This study of multimedia political education in West Germany deals specifically with a South-West German Broadcasting Company's educational television project in the social studies. The dual purpose of the study was to assess the rationale behind the TV series and to present an overview of the structure and function of units which have been presented since the program's inception in 1968. As a background, the author describes the didactic structure of the project, the teacher's and student's manuals, the personal teaching medium, the developmental planning of the project, the characteristic features of the social studies project in general, and the specific objectives of the political education unit. The author identifies three conceptual categories which were of major concern to the curriculum developers: first, existential concepts; second, political dialectic concepts; and third, value concepts. The 25 units produced in 1974-75 are divided into categories of roles and group behavior, membership in social groups, membership in political groups, socioeconomic behavior, and political behavior of groups. References are included. (Author/DB)