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.

Balko (1995)
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Ludger Pistor
Klaus Krapp (124 episodes)
AK
Armin Krug
Marek (124 episodes)
MK
Mathias Kniesbeck
Hans Wittek (124 episodes)

Jochen Horst
Balko (64 episodes)

Bruno Eyron
Balko (60 episodes)

Lars Pape
Schafranek (48 episodes)
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Jürgen Elbers
Conny Kremer (43 episodes)

Sabine Vitua
Katharina Jäger (32 episodes)

Uwe Rohde
Holtmann (16 episodes)Jochen Hülsenbeck (1 episode)