CID (Indian TV series)
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CID is an Indian police procedural television series that premiered on Sony Entertainment Television on 21 January 1998. The series was created by B. P. Singh and produced by Singh and Pradeep Uppoor under the banner of Fireworks Productions in season 1; Deepak Dhar, Rajesh Chadha, Akshay Singh and B.P. Singh under Banijay Asia in season 2 alongside Fiction Factory. It features Shivaji Satam as ACP Pradyuman, Aditya Srivastava as Sr. Inspector Abhijeet, Dayanand Shetty as Sr. Inspector Daya, Dinesh Phadnis as Inspector Fredricks and Narendra Gupta as Dr. Salunkhe. The location of CID is set in Mumbai. The series is one of the longest-running television series in India. The series first premiered on 21 January 1998 and aired its 500th episode on 18 January 2008, 1000th episode on 13 September 2013, 1500th episode on 4 March 2018, last episode on 27 October 2018. The series renewed for a second season, which premiered on 21 December 2024. The second season also started streaming simultaneously on Netflix from 22 February 2025.
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| Series | Episodes | Originally released | ||
| First released | Last released | |||
| 1 | 1,547 | 21 January 1998 (1998-01-21) | 27 October 2018 (2018-10-27) | |
| 2 | 102 | 21 December 2024 (2024-12-21) | TBA | |
| Episode | Title | Original release date |
| 1 | "The Case of Missing Heroine (Part - 1)" | 3 January 2005 (2005-01-03) |
| 2 | "The Case of Missing Heroine (Concluding part)" | 4 January 2005 (2005-01-04) |
| 3 | "The Case of Lost Memory (Part - 1)" | 10 January 2005 (2005-01-10) |
| 4 | "The Case of Lost Memory (Concluding part)" | 11 January 2005 (2005-01-11) |
| 5 | "2015 Bones and More (Part - 1)" | 17 January 2005 (2005-01-17) |
| 6 | "2015 Bones and More (Concluding part)" | 18 January 2005 (2005-01-18) |
| 7 | "The Case of the Poisonous Panther (Part - 1)" | 24 January 2005 (2005-01-24) |
| 8 | "The Case of the Poisonous Panther (Concluding part)" | 25 January 2005 (2005-01-25) |
| 9 | "Minutes Before Death (Part - 1)" | 31 January 2005 (2005-01-31) |
| 10 | "Minutes Before Death (Concluding part)" | 1 February 2005 (2005-02-01) |
| 11 | "Mysterious Letters (Part - 1)" | 7 February 2005 (2005-02-07) |
| 12 | "Mysterious Letters (Concluding part)" | 8 February 2005 (2005-02-08) |
| 13 | "Murder At The Lake (Part - 1)" | 14 February 2005 (2005-02-14) |
| 14 | "Murder At The Lake (Concluding part)" | 15 February 2005 (2005-02-15) |
| 15 | "Clue In The Ring Finger (Part - 1)" | 21 February 2005 (2005-02-21) |
| 16 | "Clue In The Ring Finger (Concluding part)" | 22 February 2005 (2005-02-22) |
| 17 | "Sunday Picnic (Part - 1)" | 28 February 2005 (2005-02-28) |
| 18 | "Sunday Picnic (Concluding part)" | 1 March 2005 (2005-03-01) |
| 19 | "Bullet (Part - 1) ^" | 7 March 2005 (2005-03-07) |
| 20 | "Bullet (Concluding part) ^" | 8 March 2005 (2005-03-08) |
| 21 | "Curse of the Mummy (Part - 1)" | 14 March 2005 (2005-03-14) |
| 22 | "Curse of the Mummy (Concluding part)" | 15 March 2005 (2005-03-15) |
| 23 | "Gold Coins in a Skull (Part - 1)" | 21 March 2005 (2005-03-21) |
| 24 | "Gold Coins in a Skull (Concluding part)" | 22 March 2005 (2005-03-22) |
| 25 | "Exchange (Part - 1)" | 28 March 2005 (2005-03-28) |
| 26 | "Exchange (Concluding part)" | 29 March 2005 (2005-03-29) |
| 27 | "Silent Witness (Part - 1)" | 4 April 2005 (2005-04-04) |
| 28 | "Silent Witness (Concluding part)" | 5 April 2005 (2005-04-05) |
| 29 | "Bank Robbery (Part - 1)" | 11 April 2005 (2005-04-11) |
| 30 | "Bank Robbery (Concluding part)" | 12 April 2005 (2005-04-12) |
| 31 | "Murder in Trance (Part - 1)" | 18 April 2005 (2005-04-18) |
| 32 | "Murder in Trance (Concluding part)" | 19 April 2005 (2005-04-19) |
| 33 | "Drunken Killer (Part - 1)" | 25 April 2005 (2005-04-25) |
| 34 | "Drunken Killer (Concluding part)" | 26 April 2005 (2005-04-26) |
| 35 | "The Case of the Strange Skeleton (Part - 1)" | 2 May 2005 (2005-05-02) |
| 36 | "The Case of the Strange Skeleton (Concluding part)" | 3 May 2005 (2005-05-03) |
| 37 | "Betrayal (Part - 1)" | 9 May 2005 (2005-05-09) |
| 38 | "Betrayal (Concluding part)" | 10 May 2005 (2005-05-10) |
| 39 | "The Case of Party (Part - 1)" | 16 May 2005 (2005-05-16) |
| 40 | "The Case of Party (Concluding part)" | 17 May 2005 (2005-05-17) |
| 41 | "The Jinxed Case (Part - 1)" | 23 May 2005 (2005-05-23) |
| 42 | "The Jinxed Case (Concluding part)" | 24 May 2005 (2005-05-24) |
| 43 | "Secret of the Coffin (Part - 1)" | 30 May 2005 (2005-05-30) |
| 44 | "Secret of the Coffin (Concluding part)" | 31 May 2005 (2005-05-31) |
| 45 | "Bone Marrow (Part - 1)" | 6 June 2005 (2005-06-06) |
| 46 | "Bone Marrow (Part - 2)" | 7 June 2005 (2005-06-07) |
| 47 | "Bone Marrow (Part - 3)" | 13 June 2005 (2005-06-13) |
| 48 | "Bone Marrow (Part - 4)" | 14 June 2005 (2005-06-14) |
| 49 | "Bone Marrow (Part - 5)" | 20 June 2005 (2005-06-20) |
| Episode | Title | Original release date | |
| 1 | "Little Fans of CID" | 1 February 2013 (2013-02-01) | |
| Five kids in the Suryakiran Apartments play the role of their favourite CID characters in order to find their lost cat Sweety. However, their adventure is cut short as one of them named Micky stumbles upon the dead body of Jay. | |||
| 2 | "Devil Robbers" | 8 February 2013 (2013-02-08) | |
| While a young girl waits for her friend, Happy, who has entered the departmental store to come out, she sees a gang of thieves with masked faces enter and take over the store, holding those inside hostage. | |||
| 3 | "The Secret of Rebirth" | 15 February 2013 (2013-02-15) | |
| The CID team finds a skeleton chained to a big rock in the water. They come over to Namitha's house to ask why her and Baljeet's relationship broke. | |||
| 4 | "Bus Hijack" | 22 February 2013 (2013-02-22) | |
| Freddie takes all of the children in his colony on a summer camp. On the way to the summer camp, the driver stops the bus because the road will be blocked with barricades. Freddie and the driver get off the bus to check and a man comes from behind and holds Freddie at gun point while a few other armed men enter the bus. | |||
| 5 | "The Case of the Mark" | 1 March 2013 (2013-03-01) | |
| Kunal witnesses two robbers escaping from the society with a bag and a bloody knife. CID arrive to investigate the robbery and find out that a second robbery has taken place in the society, along with a murder. | |||
| 6 | "Brave Kid" | 8 March 2013 (2013-03-08) | |
| Dhruv who was upset with his exam result. He gets lost on his way to school and while finding his way back, he sees a man exhausted from running and helps him. He gets himself in deep trouble by helping the stranger. | |||
| 7 | "Heroine in Danger" | 15 March 2013 (2013-03-15) | |
| Tinu, who works with a tea seller, is a huge fan of Bindiya, an actress. But, Bindiya dislikes acting and is only doing it because her stepmother pressurises her. Tinu goes to the C.I.D s bureau to tell them about the imminent threat to Bindiya s life, as he fears that she may be kidnapped. | |||
| 8 | "Neighbor in Danger" | 22 March 2013 (2013-03-22) | |
| Micky sees a woman locked in a room, as another woman drives off in a silver-coloured car. Meanwhile, the CIDs find a dying man who has been on the road. With the help of Dhenchu, the CIDs find the man s killer. | |||
| 9 | "The Mystery of the Tifin Box" | 29 March 2013 (2013-03-29) | |
| A school teacher has been poisoned, and the CID team investigate. The man was poisoned while having food from a pupil, Guddu s lunchbox. Guddu is missing, and his friends tell the CID's that they had offered Guddu s lunchbox to the sir, without Guddu's permission. | |||
| 10 | "Kidnap in the Airport" | 5 April 2013 (2013-04-05) | |
| Airport managers find a child, Tanya, who is lost and weeping miserably. On checking her boarding-pass they find that she has come from Mumbai to Delhi. They decide to send Tanya back to Mumbai with an air hostess to hand her over to her parents. On reaching Mumbai, Tanya goes missing again from the wash room. | |||
| 11 | "Daya in Danger" | 12 April 2013 (2013-04-12) | |
| Ravi, a former offender, tries to kill Daya by dropping a huge concrete slab on Daya s car, but he escapes in the nick of time. Then, Daya remembers a drawing that he had got with the morning newspaper, that depicts the scene exactly. | |||
| 12 | "Innocent Killer" | 19 April 2013 (2013-04-19) | |
| From the Autopsy, the doctor finds a piece of betel nut from Aakash's body. Taking this as a cue and with clever investigation the CID team finds the tool, which was used to murder Aakash. | |||
| 13 | "Murder in a Car Race" | 26 April 2013 (2013-04-26) | |
| A young man dies in a mysterious go-karting accident, witnessed by his own friends & a few youn boys. However, one of the boys claim that it may not have been an accident but murder, as a few days ago all of them had almost been killed in another car accident. | |||
| 14 | "Little Comedian Kidnapped" | 3 May 2013 (2013-05-03) | |
| Rajat learns that Roma had undergone a failed kidney transplant, and Daya and the others go their separate ways searching for the hospital where Roma had undergone the surgery for the transplant. Later, the CIDs learn that Rajat s vehicle has met with an accident, and Rajat is missing. | |||
| 15 | "The Secret of Absconding Girls" | 10 May 2013 (2013-05-10) | |
| Damini is assumed to have eloped with a stranger. Damini's neighbour, Sunita, too is missing and is assumed to have eloped with another boy. Later, Damini's younger sister identifies a dead body as Sunita. | |||
| 16 | "The Secret of Treasure Hunt" | 17 May 2013 (2013-05-17) | |
| Tourists, Randeep and Savita, take their daughter, Tanya, on a tour of an island. However, Randeep is forced to call the CID team when he finds his daughter missing. The CID, on their investigation, find that Tanya was involved in a treasure hunt. | |||
| 17 | "Code of Remote" | 24 May 2013 (2013-05-24) | |
| As the CID team investigates a kidnapping case, Ajit, the director of a bio plant company whose daughter, Poonam, was kidnapped, receives a call from the culprit who asks him to produce the remote that controls the cooling plant as a ransom for Poonam. However, upon handing over the remote, he learns that Poonam has been relocated and poisoned. Ajit is then told that unless he produces the code to activate the remote within three hours, she will not be given the antidote to the poison and will be left to die. | |||
| Year | Awards | Category | Nominee | Status | Ref |
| 2002 | Indian Telly Awards | Best Continuing TV Programme | Fireworks Production | ||
| 2002 | Best Actor in a lead role | Shivaji Satam | |||
| 2003 | |||||
| 2004 | Best Director | B. P. Singh | |||
| 2004 | Best Thriller Programme | B. P. Singh, Pradeep Uppoor (Fireworks Production) | |||
| 2006 | Best Weekly Serial | ||||
| 2007 | Best Thriller Programme | ||||
| 2009 | Best Weekly Serial | ||||
| 2010 | Best Thriller Programme | ||||
| 2012 | Best Thriller Programme | ||||
| 2013 | Best Weekly Serial | ||||
| 2015 | Best Weekender Show |
| Year | Awards | Category | Nominee | Status | Ref |
| 2002 | Indian Television Academy Awards | Best Drama | B. P. Singh, Pradeep Uppoor (Fireworks Production) | ||
| 2004 | Best Teleplay | Rajat Arora | |||
| Best Videography | B. P. Singh | ||||
| Best Director | B. P. Singh | ||||
| Best Thriller / Horror Serial | B. P. Singh, Pradeep Uppoor (Fireworks Production) | ||||
| Best Drama | |||||
| 2005 | Best Actor in a negative role | Makrand Deshpande | |||
| 2009 | Best Thriller / Horror Serial | B. P. Singh, Pradeep Uppoor (Fireworks Production) | |||
| 2010 | |||||
| 2015 |
| Year | Awards | Category | Nominee | Status | Ref |
| 2025 | e4m Prime Time Awards | Best Relaunch Of Program | Banijay Asia |
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