Mumbai, Feb 7 (TIWN) Among her few favourites, the legend Lata Mangeshkar loved the CID teleserial that was telecast on a private TV channel for two decades.

She rarely missed an episode and in case she skipped any owing to her busy schedules, she made it a point to catch up the repeat telecast.  "CID" one of the earlier fiction-crime and suspense thrillers of its kind in the country, started on January 21, 1998 and became the longest-running serial when it ended on October 28, 2018, clocking 1,547 instalments that were popularly lapped up.