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C.I.D. is a series that airs on Sony Entertainment Television. The series is about a team of detectives belonging to the Crime Investigation Department inMumbai. The protagonist of the show is Shivaji Satam. The series is regarded as the longest running TV series inIndia.[1] ACP Pradyuman, Senior Inspector Daya, Senior Inspector Abhijeet, Inspector Fredricks and Dr Salunkhe are among the main characters.
On 21 January 1998, Sony Entertainment Television and Fireworks Productions launched a weekly crime thriller called CID.[2] CID set another record on 7 November 2004, when B. P. Singh entered the Limca Book of Records and Guinness Book of World Records for canning an entire episode of CID named "The Inheritance" / C.I.D. 111 in one single shot of 111 minutes (one hour fifty one minutes) without a single cut.[3]
According to an old interview of B. P. Singh, he shot six episodes of CID on Doordarshan (DD) in 1986 'even before Sony TV saw its first daylight'.
On 3 January 2005, Sony Entertainment Television and Fireworks Productions launched a daily investigative thriller called CID Special Bureau, which had a run of 168 episodes, and ended on 27 April 2006. CID Special Bureau was also aired on SAB TV.
Beginning on 7 July 2006, a nationwide hunt called "CID Operation Talaash" was launched, in search of a new officer to join the CID team,[4] which ended on 1 September 2006. Viivek V. Mashru was declared the winner of the hunt and his character's name is Vivek.[5]
After its success, CID's producers arranged an award function named "CID Gallantry Awards" on Tuesday, 26 January 2010, at 9:00 pm IST on Sony Entertainment Television to celebrate their 12th anniversary.
The CID team currently consists of officers ACP Pradyuman, Senior Inspector Abhijeet, Senior Inspector Daya, Inspector Fredricks, Inspector Sachin , Sub-Inspector Vivek , Sub-Inspector Kajal and Forensic experts Dr. Salunkhe, and Dr. Tarika portrayed by – Shivaji SatamAditya SrivastavaDayanand Shetty, Dinesh Phadnis, Hrishikesh Pandey, Vivek Mashru, Jasweer Kaur, Narendra Gupta, and Shraddha Musale respectively

C.I.D
FormatPolice Procedural / Action /Crime
Created byB. P. Singh
Pradeep Uppoor
Directed byB. P. Singh
Starringsee below
Country of originIndia
Language(s)HindiEnglish
No. of episodes716 [503 Cases](List of episodes)
Production
Producer(s)Pradeep Uppoor
B. P. Singh
Running time20-22 minutes (April 29, 1997 - Mar 3, 2006)
40-43 minutes (Mar 10, 2006 - Jul 17, 2009)
46-49 minutes (Jul 24, 2009 - Mar 5, 2010)
58-60 minutes (Mar 12, 2010 - Present)
Productioncompany(s)Fireworks Productions
Broadcast
Original channelSony Entertainment Television,Sab Tv and Apna Channel
Picture format480i (SDTV)
Original runJanuary 21, 1998 Wed 9.30 pm originally – present now Fri-Sat 10 pm (2 new stories) from 21 May
External links
Website