page_title: Derrick (TV series)
hierarchical_section_title: Derrick (TV series)
caption_attribution_description: For documentary purposes the German Federal Archive often retained the original image captions, which may be erroneous, biased, obsolete or politically extreme. Bundeskanzler Willy Brandt empfängt Filmschauspieler Information added by Wikimedia users.Deutsch: Von links nach rechts: Heidi Hansen, Horst Tappert (GND 117201669), Katharina Focke (GND 105170682).
context_page_description: Derrick is a German TV crime series produced between 1974 and 1998 starring Horst Tappert as Detective Chief Inspector Stephan Derrick, and Fritz Wepper as Detective Sergeant Harry Klein, his loyal assistant. They solve murder cases in Munich and surroundings. It was produced by Telenova Film und Fernsehproduktion in association with ZDF, ORF and SRG.
  Derrick is considered to be one of the most successful television programmes in German television history, it was also a major international success and the series was sold in over 100 countries.
  On 2 May 2013 ZDF announced it would no longer carry reruns of the show, after it emerged that Tappert had been untruthful in discussing his service in the Waffen-SS in World War II.
context_section_description: Derrick is a German TV crime series produced between 1974 and 1998 starring Horst Tappert as Detective Chief Inspector (Kriminaloberinspektor) Stephan Derrick, and Fritz Wepper as Detective Sergeant (Kriminalhauptmeister) Harry Klein, his loyal assistant. They solve murder cases in Munich and surroundings (with three unsolved cases in total). It was produced by Telenova Film und Fernsehproduktion in association with ZDF, ORF and SRG.
  Derrick is considered to be one of the most successful television programmes in German television history, it was also a major international success and the series was sold in over 100 countries.
  On 2 May 2013 ZDF announced it would no longer carry reruns of the show, after it emerged that Tappert had been untruthful in discussing his service in the Waffen-SS in World War II.
caption: Horst Tappert at a reception of the Chancellor in 1971, with colleague Heidi Hansen (left) and minister Katharina Focke
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