"Cold Squad" (1998) TV series 1998-2005

User Rating:

7.6/10   

Creators:

Julia Keatley
Philip Keatley
Matt MacLeod

Seasons:

1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7

Release Date:

21 November 1999 (France)

Genre:

Crime | Drama

Plot:

Cold Squad is a one hour police crime-drama made in Vancouver about a team of Vancouver police officers...

Plot Keywords:

Police | Coroner | Blood | Detective | Crime Scene

Awards:

8 wins & 37 nominations

Cast

Julie Stewart	...	Sgt. Ali McCormick (98 episodes, 1998-2005)
Tamara Craig Thomas	...	Detective Mickey Kollander (59 episodes, 1999-2003)
Gary Chalk	...	Insp. Andrew Pawlachuk / ... (47 episodes, 1999-2005)
Matthew Bennett	...	Det. Len Harper / ... (41 episodes, 2000-2005)

Runtime:

Canada:60 min

Country:

Canada

Language:

English

Colour:

Colour

Filming Locations:

Burnaby, British Columbia, Canada

Company:

Alliance Atlantis Communications

Trivia:

The show had a complete cast overhaul for the third season keeping only one of the characters Sgt. Ali McCormick (Julie Stewart) from the previous two seasons. In fact Julie Stewart is the only cast member to appear in all the episodes for all seven seasons.

Movie Connections:

Follows "Cold Squad: Christopher Williams (#1.1)" (1998)

Good, but not amazing

While I enjoyed this series in that it was Canadian, well acted, fairly well scripted and with a good plot, it is my personal opinion that it fails to reach the standards set by such series as CSI and Law and Order. The over-involvement of the squad's personal lives is what I think galled me the most. Don't get me wrong, I like a little personal spice thrown in here and there, but it often seemed to be more about the investigators than the investigation. But hey, if that's what you're going for, then this is certainly the show for you. I'm certainly not a expert, having only seen one season, but I did see the entire first season, and what I saw there mostly pleased me. There was a good, solid plot; a script that is much more high-brow and MUCH less painfully corny than the twenty million other hack cop shows being aired; More than decent actors who are decently but not unrealistically beautiful and who wear clothes detectives would actually WEAR; and for the fellow science nuts out there, forensics is added JUST enough to make it interesting from that aspect. All in all, I'd say, for a Canadian thing, its pretty darn amazing- but out of the whole world, I've seen better.