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El comisario (1999)

El comisario poster
Directed by
Mateo Meléndrez Chas, José Ramos Paíno, Jesús Font i Urgell, Ignacio Mercero
Genre
police procedural
Country
Spain
Length
12 seasons, 191 episodes
Rated
13
Rating
4.8 of 10 from 6 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

A police drama about the daily work of officers at a Madrid police station. The show follows a team of detectives as they handle investigations and patrol the city.

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What happens

El comisario is a Spanish police drama television series that originally aired for twelve seasons from 1999 to 2009 on Telecinco. Produced by BocaBoca and Estudios Picasso and starring an ensemble cast with the likes of Tito Valverde, Juanjo Artero, Elena Irureta, Marcial Álvarez, Jaime Pujol, Cristina Perales and Fernando Andina, among others, the plot tracks the daily life the members of the Cuerpo Nacional de Policía at the police station of San Fernando in Madrid. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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