Aktenzeichen XY… ungelöst (1967)

Directed by

Michael Bentele, Kurt Grimm

Genre

factual television program, true crime

Country

Germany, Austria, Switzerland

Length

60 seasons, 636 episodes

Rated

NR

Rating

8.0 of 10 from 9 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

This true crime series presents unsolved criminal cases to the public. Viewers are asked to provide tips to help law enforcement solve them. It has been airing monthly in Germany since 1967.

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What happens

Aktenzeichen XY... ungelöst ("Case number XY... unsolved") is a German interactive television programme first broadcast on 20 October 1967 on ZDF. Created by Eduard Zimmermann, it aims to combat and solve crimes. The programme is currently presented by Rudi Cerne. It airs monthly, with 12 episodes in a year, on Wednesday at 8:15 PM. From March 1968 until December 2002, it was produced in cooperation with the Austrian public service broadcaster ORF and Schweizer Fernsehen, a division of the Swiss public broadcaster SRG SSR, who joined in January 1969 and left in December 2003. The programme was adapted by the BBC as Crimewatch and for the US market as America's Most Wanted. Other adaptations of the format were aired in a number of countries including Ireland, Israel, Italy, Netherlands, New Zealand, Poland and Sweden. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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