Eurocops (1988)

1h
Running Time

7
Seasons

69
Episodes

November 6, 1988
Release Date

TV
IMDb ratings
5.9
Eurocops

Eurocops (1988)

1h
Running Time

7
Seasons

69
Episodes

November 6, 1988
Release Date

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Televisión EspañolaChannel 4 TelevisionRAIZDFFrance 2 (FR2)ORFSociété Française de Production (SFP)
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Plot.

Exciting cases of espionage, murder, blackmail, robbery or prostitution. In each episode, different Commissioners from different European countries investigate

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Release Date
November 6, 1988

Status
Ended

Seasons
7

Episodes
69

Running Time
1h

Genres

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Wiki.

Eurocops is a European television crime TV-series produced between 1988 and 1992. It is a co-production between seven European TV stations in which each station produced a number of episodes which were then pooled, dubbed and otherwise adapted when needed and broadcast by all participating stations, a format used earlier in the German crime series Tatort. The participating networks were ZDF from Germany, ORF from Austria, SRG from Switzerland, RAI from Italy, Televisión Española from Spain, Antenne 2 from France and Channel 4 from the United Kingdom.

A direct consequence of the 'pooled production' format was that all episodes by one particular network had a strong local -even national- feel and were distinctly different from the episodes produced by other networks. Not only were they filmed in the network's own country with local actors, but they were also written by local screenwriters, thus reflecting that nation's specific taste for crime dramas. With national networks at that time still relying on self-produced programs, a big part of Eurocop's allure was that it offered viewers in one country a first-hand look at what crime series in other countries looked like.

Despite being a pan-European TV series, the three German speaking networks did more than half of the filming with Germany and Austria filming 15 episodes on their own and one more joint production. Switzerland contributed another 12. Of the four non-German speaking countries, Italy made 13 episodes and France made 8, whereas Spain and the UK made only 4 and 3 episodes respectively.

All in all, in a span of five and a half years, seventy-one episodes were produced. Typically they were broadcast once a month. In Germany, ZDF broadcast the series on every fourth Friday as part of its Friday night crime lineup. (The three other Fridays it would broadcast episodes from other homemade crime series). Its first broadcast was on November 6, 1988 with a Swiss production called "Tote reisen nicht" (English: The dead don't travel).

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