''Kryminalni'' (eng. ''Crime Detectives'') was a Polish crime drama television series that aired on

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network from 18 September 2004 until 24 May 2008. It ran for 8 seasons and 101 episodes were broadcast in total. It was created by Polish director and screenwriter Piotr Wereśniak and produced by MTL Maxfilm studio. The series followed life and work of police officers from the elite Criminal Terror and Murders Division of the

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Metropolitan Police; the title refers to police officers in the crime section. The three main characters were Adam Zawada, an experienced, tough cop, his younger colleague Marek Brodecki and Barbara (Basia) Storosz, an ambitious female officer who in the first season joins the team just after graduating. Although none of the main actors had had star status before the series debuted, all three of them rose to prominence and popularity during the 5-year-long run. Many of Poland's best known actors guest starred, usually playing roles of people involved in just one particular investigation. The serial was one of the most popular in

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: each week it had an audience of 4 million.

Main characters

*Marek Włodarczyk (as commissioner, later underinspector Adam Zawada) * Maciej Zakościelny (as under-commissioner Marek Brodecki) *Magdalena Schejbal (as under-commissioner, later commissioner Barbara Storosz) *

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(as aspirant Szczepan Żałoda) *

Ryszard Filipski Ryszard Filipski (17 July 1934 – 22 October 2021) was a Polish actor and theatre and film director. He established the monodrama theatre ' in Kraków (1966–1981). Ryszard Filipski is known for '' Hubal (1973)'', ''Zamach stanu'' (1981) an ...

(as inspector Ryszard Grodzki) *Dorota Landowska (as prosecutor Dorota Wiśniewska) *Ewa Kutynia (as aspirant Zuzanna Ostrowska) *Kamil Maćkowiak (as prosecutor Jacek Dumicz) *Lesław Żurek (as CBŚ agent Rafał Król) *Alżbeta Lenska (as CBŚ agent Julia Wierzbicka) Television shows set in Warsaw Polish drama television series {{poland-tv-prog-stub