Die Wache

*Die Wache*
Die Wache
Genre	Police procedural
Inspired by	The Bill
Country of origin	Germany
Original language	German
No. of seasons	12
No. of episodes	245
Production
Running time	45 minutes
Production company	Endemol
Original release
Network	RTL
Release	3 January 1994 –; 8 June 2006

Die Wache is a German weekly police procedural show that was broadcast from 1994 until 2006 by RTL Television.^[2] Set in a fictional police station in Cologne,^[1] it was modelled on the British series The Bill and described typical police episodes and investigations.^[3]

The entire series consisted of 245 episodes of 45 minutes during 12 seasons, between 3 January 1994 and 8 June 2006.^[4]

Selected cast and characters

Actor	Role	Appearing
Hans Heinz Moser	Hans Maybach	Seasons 1–2
Axel Pape [de]	Theo Severing	Seasons 1–2
Bernd E. Jäger von Boxen [de]	Ulf Schelling	All seasons
Siegfried W. Kernen [de]	Werner Krause	Seasons 1–2
Mogens von Gadow [de]	Karl Schumacher	Season 1

References

^ ^a ^b "Die Wache – Fighting Crime". RTL (in German). 2 June 2021. Retrieved 29 January 2025.
^ "RTLplus Revives RTL Police Series "Die Wache"" (in German). DWDL. Retrieved 25 January 2025.
^ "Die Wache". Fernsehlexikon (in German). Retrieved 29 January 2025.
^ "The Watch (1994)". TheTVDB. Retrieved 29 January 2025.

External links

Die Wache at IMDb

[rtl-1] "Die Wache – Fighting Crime". RTL (in German). 2 June 2021. Retrieved 29 January 2025.

[2] "RTLplus Revives RTL Police Series "Die Wache"" (in German). DWDL. Retrieved 25 January 2025.

[3] "Die Wache". Fernsehlexikon (in German). Retrieved 29 January 2025.

[4] "The Watch (1994)". TheTVDB. Retrieved 29 January 2025.

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