Siska (TV series)

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Siska
Genre Police drama
Created by Herbert Reinecker
Helmut Ringelmann
Starring Peter Kremer
Wolfgang Maria Bauer
Music by Eberhard Schoener
Country of originGermany
Original languageGerman
No. of episodes91
Production
Running time60 minutes
Release
Original network ZDF
Original releaseOctober 30, 1998 (1998-10-30) 
July 4, 2008 (2008-07-04)

Siska is a German television series created by Herbert Reinecker and Helmut Ringelmann and broadcast since October 30, 1998 on the network ZDF. In France, the series was broadcast on France 3 and rebroadcast on 13th Street. It is a police drama and follows the adventures of Peter Siska, a police officer of Munich, and later Victor Siska. [1]

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