CID (Indian TV series)
CID is an Indian police procedural television series originally aired on Sony Entertainment Television from 1998 to 2018. The series was created by B. P. Singh and stars Shivaji Satam as ACP Pradyuman, Aditya Srivastava as Sr. Inspector Abhijeet, Dayanand Shetty as Sr. Inspector Daya, Dinesh Phadnis as Inspector Fredricks aka Freddy and Narendra Gupta as Forensic expert Dr. Salunkhe respectively.
| CID | |
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| Genre |
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| Created by | B. P. Singh |
| Directed by | B. P. Singh |
| Creative director | Christabelle D'Souza Chirag Shah |
| Country of origin | India |
| Original language | Hindi |
| No. of episodes | 1,547 (list of episodes) |
| Production | |
| Producers | B. P. Singh Pradeep Uppoor |
| Production locations | Mumbai, Maharashtra, India |
| Running time | 40–45 minutes |
| Production company | Fireworks Production |
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| Network | Sony Entertainment Television |
| Release | 21 January 1998 – 27 October 2018 |
| Related | |
| C.I.D. Kolkata Bureau | |
The location of CID is set in Mumbai. The series aired for 20 years on Sony Entertainment Television and is one of the longest-running television series in India. The series first premiered on 21 January 1998 and aired its 500th episode on 18 January 2008, 1000th episode on 13 September 2013, 1500th episode on 25 February 2018 and the last episode on 27 October 2018.