Alarm for Cobra 11 – The Highway Police
| Alarm for Cobra 11 – The Highway Police | |
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| Alarm für Cobra 11 – Die Autobahnpolizei | |
| Genre | Action Crime drama Police procedural |
| Starring | Johannes Brandrup Rainer Strecker Almut Eggert Erdoğan Atalay Mark Keller René Steinke Christian Oliver Gedeon Burkhard Tom Beck Vinzenz Kiefer Daniel Roesner Katja Woywood Katrin Heß Niels Kurvin Daniela Wutte |
| Composers | Reinhard Scheuregger Klaus Garternicht Nik Reich & Jaro Messerschmidt Kay Skerra Daniel Freundlieb Frederik Wiedmann Justin Burnett Maximilian Nieberle |
| Country of origin | Germany |
| Original language | German |
| No. of seasons | 28 |
| No. of episodes | 381 (list of episodes) |
| Production | |
| Running time | c. 45 minutes c. 90 minutes (pilot movies) |
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| Original release | |
| Network | RTL |
| Release | 12 March 1996 – present |
Alarm für Cobra 11 – Die Autobahnpolizei (German pronunciation: [aˈlaʁm fyːɐ̯ ˌkoːbʁaː ˈʔɛlf diː ˈʔaʊtobaːnpoliˌtsaɪ]; Alarm for Cobra 11 – The Highway Police) is a long-running, popular German television series about a two-man team of highway police (Autobahnpolizei), originally set in Berlin and since 1999 in the area of Cologne. The series has been broadcast in 120 countries worldwide.
The last regular episode "Das Team" aired on 12 August 2021. In an interview, main star Erdoğan Atalay blamed the stoppage on the COVID-19 pandemic. In 2022, the series returned in the form of 90-minute TV movies.