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    Drama TV Shows - 1990s 3 Mins Read

    Cold Squad

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    The Canadian drama series Cold Squad – a conventional police drama about unconventional police detectives tackling unsolved murders from Vancouver’s past – revolved around sergeant Ali McCormick (Julie Stewart), an ambitious detective parachuted into a homicide unit to revitalise the investigative team that examined old, unsolved cases, known in the trade as “cold files”.

    Veteran Canadian character actor Michael Hogan played Detective Tony Logozzo, a world-weary street cop written off by his colleagues as a has-been. He longed for the good old days when a cop could beat a confession out of a suspect – and sometimes pretended those days were still here.

    Joy Tanner played civilian researcher and behavioural profiler Jill Stone, who had a knack for picking up on vital clues.

    Paul Boretski played Ali’s former partner, Nick Gallagher, a charismatic homicide detective often at loggerheads with his bosses over how to conduct investigations.

    The team used current scientific, medical and technological aids to reinvestigate cases that had never been solved because these modern tools were unavailable when the crimes had initially been committed, sometimes several decades ago.

    The cast was overhauled for the third season (the first to be syndicated in the US), keeping only Ali McCormick from the previous two seasons.Β Ali returned from vacation to find that almost everybody she had been working with, except Logozzo (who retired the following week), was gone, and Inspector Simon Ross (Peter Wingfield) – with whom she had an affair – was preparing to leave for a job working security at the UN in New York.

    When the sixth season ended, everyone assumed it was all over. Characters were killed off, Ali quit her job, and the production company got rid of the studio, the set and the wardrobe. But CTV decided to order one more season – and so the seventh and final season made it to air almost a year later, with new sets, new cast and new people behind the cameras.

    Julie Stewart returned as McCormick and new additions were Tahmoh Penikett as corporal Ray Chase and Sonja Bennett as homicide detective Samatha Walters.

    Cold SquadΒ was the brainchild of executive producer Julia Keatley and former undercover RCMP detective Matt MacLeod. It was the first entirely homegrown hour-long drama series to originate in the Lower Mainland of Canada.

    The production company sought legal advice when CBS began airing their own show,Β Cold Case, in 2003. The American show was incredibly similar – the lead character, Lily Rush (Kathryn Morris) even looked like Ali McCormick.

    Sgt. Ali McCormick
    Julie Stewart
    Det. Tony Logozzo
    Michael Hogan
    Jill Stone
    Joy Tanner
    Det. Nick Gallagher
    Paul Boretski
    Insp. Vince Schneider
    Jerry Wasserman
    Sam Fisher
    Jay Brazeau
    Det. Eddie Carson
    Bob Frazer
    Det. Christine Liu
    Linda Ko
    Det. Larry Iredell
    Eli Gabay
    Det. James Kai
    Hiro Kanagawa
    Det. Jackie Cortez
    Lori Ann Triolo
    Sgt. Lloyd Mastrowski
    Paul Coeur
    Insp. Simon Ross
    Peter Wingfield
    Manny Needlebaum
    Richard Ian Cox
    Bernice Boyle
    Sharon Alexander
    Det. Bill Overmeyer
    Allan Lysell
    Sgt. Frank Coscarella
    Stephen McHattie
    Det. Nicco Sevallis
    Gregory Calpakis
    Det. Mickey Kollander
    Tamara Marie Watson
    Insp. Andrew Pawlachuk
    Garry Chalk
    Christine Wren
    Joely Collins
    Det. Len Harper
    Matthew Bennett
    Dr Ben Wilson
    Adrian Holmes
    Cpl. Ray Chase
    Tahmoh Penikett
    Det. Samatha Walters
    Sonja Bennett

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