Die Cleveren

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Die Cleveren
StarringHans Werner Meyer
Opening themeCrime
Country of origin Germany
No. of seasons6
No. of episodes48
Production
Running time43 minutes
Original release
NetworkRTL
Release1998 (1998) 
2006 (2006)

Die Cleveren (English: The Smart Ones) is a German television series that was produced from 1998 to 2003 on RTL. It is about a nationwide special unit of the German Bundeskriminalamt (BKA), dealing with serial offenders. The main characters are the profiler Dr. Dominik Born and a policewoman of the BKA, who co-ordinates the necessary steps to be taken by the local police authorities.

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The pilot was a ninety-minute telefilm broadcast on March 10, 1998, which was more than eighteen months before the regular first season in November 1999.

On 30 April 2003 the series came to an end after the fifth season. It took about three years until the sixth season was shown. RTL had already completed eight new episodes in 2003, which they kept in the archives until September 2000, then they were aired in a twin pack. RTL said that no sequel was planned, but there is the option to continue the series in an irregular series of films.

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