Parole Chicago

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Parole Chicago
Genre Crime
comedy
period piece
Starring Christoph Waltz
Gottfried Vollmer
Country of originGermany
Original languageGerman
No. of seasons1
No. of episodes13
Production
Running time25 minutes
Release
Original network ARD
Original release24 September (1979-09-24) 
17 December 1979 (1979-12-17)

Parole Chicago was a German television series directed by Reinhard Schwabenitzky, starring Christoph Waltz as Eduard "Ede" Bredo, an inept wannabe criminal in 1920s Berlin. Its entire run of 13 episodes first aired in 1979. The show was loosely based on Henry Slesar's Ruby Martinson series of short stories, written from 1957 to 1962. [1]

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  1. "Parole Chicago: Infos zur TV-Serie". Fernsehserien.de. 1979-09-24. Retrieved 2012-03-12.