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• Developed by the German television channel ARD, it is unique in its approach, in that it is jointly produced by all of the station's regional public-service broadcasters whereby every regional station contributes a number of episodes to a common pool
• Therefore, the series is a collection of different police stories where different police teams each solve crimes in their respective city
• Uniqueness in architecture, customs and dialects of the cities is therefore a distinctive part of the series and often the city, not the police force is the real main character of an episode
• The concept of local stations only producing a couple of shows per year has also enabled the shows to be longer (90 minutes) and more fleshed out psychologically than other weekly TV dramas
• The first episode was broadcast on 29 November 1970
• Episodes are broadcast on ARD's main channel Das Erste on Sunday evening at the prime viewing time of 8
• 15 pm (just after the 8 o'clock Tagesschau news) around three times a month
• Reruns are often shown by various regional ARD stations and on foreign broadcasters
• Next to the member stations of the ARD, the National Austrian broadcasting corporation Österreichischer Rundfunk joined the production pool in 1971 and airs the program on its ORF 2 channel
• Switzerland's Schweizer Fernsehen joined the pool from 1990 to 2001 and again in 2011 and distributes its episodes through its channel SRF 1