Parole Chicago

Parole Chicago was a German television series directed by Reinhard Schwabenitzky, starring Christoph Waltz as Eduard "Ede" Bredo, an inept wannabe criminal in 1920s Berlin. Its entire run of 13 episodes first aired in 1979. The show was loosely based on Henry Slesar's Ruby Martinson series of short stories, written from 1957 to 1962.^[1]

Parole Chicago
Genre	Crime comedy period piece
Starring	Christoph Waltz Gottfried Vollmer
Country of origin	Germany
Original language	German
No. of seasons	1
No. of episodes	13
Production
Running time	25 minutes
Original release
Network	ARD
Release	24 September (1979-09-24) – 17 December 1979 (1979-12-17)

See also

• List of German television series