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Balko

1995–2006 · 8 seasons

A breezy, joke-filled cop show where mismatched partners trade banter between cases, easy to dip into and never heavy.

Created by
Manfred Stelzer
Genres
Crime
Starring
Bruno Eyron, Ludger Pistor, Jochen Horst
Overview
Balko is a German prime time television series broadcast on the private TV channel RTL. It is a police detective story with comical twists featuring two inspectors of the Dortmund police, Balko and his colleague Klaus Krapp. Balko's main characteristics are his coolness and his consistently laid-back appearance, whereas “Krappi” is a typical mama’s boy and very clumsy. The series started in 1995 and has won several television awards.

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Created by
Manfred Stelzer
Genres
Crime
Starring
Bruno Eyron, Ludger Pistor, Jochen Horst
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How it feels

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Tone
  • lightstrength 2 of 3
  • satiricalstrength 1 of 3
  • warmstrength 1 of 3
  • absurdstrength 1 of 3
Pacing
brisk, 3 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
Attention
easy-watch, 2 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
Themes
  • crime
  • friendship
  • work
  • deception
  • family
Places
  • big city
  • workplace
Era
contemporary
Audience
teen
Form
  • procedural
  • serialised
Content intensity
  • Gore none
  • Language mild
  • Violence mild
  • Sex mild
All scales, 0 to 10
Scales, 0 to 10
ScaleValue0 to 10
Action3
Horror0
Humour6
Realism6
Romance2
Tension3
Darkness2
Complexity3
Emotional weight2

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Details

Genres
crime
Created by
Manfred Stelzer
Starring
Bruno Eyron, Ludger Pistor, Jochen Horst, Armin Krug, Jürgen Elbers, Dieter Pfaff, Mathias Kniesbeck, Lars Pape
Length
8 seasons, 124 episodes, 45 min each
Network
RTL
Country
Germany
Languages
German

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