Les Cinq Dernières Minutes
| Les Cinq Dernières Minutes | |
|---|---|
| Genre | Crime |
| Created by | Claude Loursais |
| Written by | Claude Loursais |
| Starring | Raymond Souplex |
| Country of origin | France |
| Original language | French |
| No. of seasons | 4 |
| No. of episodes | 149 |
| Production | |
| Producer | Claude Loursais |
| Running time | 90 minutes |
| Original release | |
| Network | RTF, Antenne 2 |
| Release | 1 January 1958 – 20 December 1996 |
Les Cinq Dernières Minutes (French: [le sɛ̃k dɛʁnjɛʁ miˈnyt]; English: The Last Five Minutes) is a French crime television series created and written by Claude Loursais, broadcast from 1 January 1958 till 20 December 1996. The show was aired in four series on several channels.
The first series was broadcast in 56 episodes between 1 January 1958 and 7 November 1973 on RTF. After an intermediary series of four 90-minute episodes were broadcast from 19 July 1974 to 16 January 1975, a second 72-episode series was broadcast from 1975 to 1993, then a third 17-episode series from 1993 to 1996 was broadcast on Antenne 2.