Cold Squad

Cold Squad
Created by	Julia Keatley Matt MacLeod
Starring	Julie Stewart
Country of origin	Canada
No. of seasons	7
No. of episodes	98
Production
Running time	60 min.
Production company	Alliance Atlantis
Original release
Network	CTV
Release	January 23, 1998 – June 4, 2005

Cold Squad was a Canadian police procedural television series first broadcast in 1998 that followed the investigations of a part of the Vancouver Police Department Homicide Division tasked with solving cold cases, the titular Cold Squad, as led by Sergeant Ali McCormick (Julie Stewart).

The cast of Cold Squad was diverse and changing. Between the second and third seasons, almost the entire cast other than Julie Stewart was replaced (although Michael Hogan, who played main character Det. Tony Logozzo in Seasons 1 and 2, appears in the third season two-part opener episode "Deadly Games"). Along with new sets, a significant revamp of the credits and theme music, and McCormick's hair colour change from auburn to dirty-blonde, these changes contributed to a considerable reworking of the series. The only character to appear in all seven seasons was Sgt. Ali McCormick.

When American television series Cold Case premiered in 2003, the show's similarities to Cold Squad (including a tough female cop with dirty blonde hair leading a team investigating cold cases) led Cold Squad creators Julia Keatley and Matt MacLeod to retain an intellectual property attorney to look into the situation (CTV also aired Cold Case as well).

In 2005, Program Partners/Sony Pictures Television announced that it had acquired the U.S. syndication rights and began airing the show in the United States beginning in September 2006. Currently in this form it is seen overnights on the Retro Television Network, and it has remained in continued American syndication since.

Cold Squad aired on Sleuth in the U.S. in 2009, and currently airs intermittent reruns on Mystery TV within Canada.

Cast

• Julie Stewart as Sgt. Ali McCormick
• Garry Chalk as Insp. Andrew Pawlachuk (seasons 3–7 / 68 episodes)
• Tamara Marie Watson as Detective Mickey Kollander (seasons 3–6 / 59 episodes)
• Gregory Calpakis as Det. Nicco Sevallis (seasons 3–6 / 58 episodes)
• Joely Collins as Christine Wren (seasons 4–7 / 57 episodes)
• Jay Brazeau as Sam Fisher (season 1–4 / 52 episodes)
• Matthew Bennett as Det. Len Harper (seasons 4–7 / 41 episodes)
• Stephen McHattie as Sgt. Frank Coscarella (seasons 3–4 / 33 episodes)
• Michael Hogan as Det. Tony Logozzo (seasons 1–3 / 28 episodes)
• Joy Tanner as Jill Stone (seasons 1–2 / 26 episodes)
• Hiro Kanagawa as Det. James Kai (seasons 1–2 / 26 episodes)
• Linda Ko as Christine Liu (seasons 1–2 / 26 episodes)
• Paul Coeur as Sgt. Lloyd Mastrowski (seasons 1–2 / 26 episodes)
• Peter Wingfield as Insp. Simon Ross (seasons 2–3 / 17 episodes)
• Jill Teed as Laura (seasons 4–5 / 17 episodes)

Broadcast

Due to CTV's sporadic scheduling of the final season, the last episodes of the series initially premiered in their French-dubbed versions on Séries+ in 2004, long before the English versions of those episodes eventually aired on CTV in the Spring of 2005 as part of a "crime time" block on Saturday nights.

Home media

On September 2, 2003, Alliance Atlantis released the complete first season of Cold Squad on DVD in Region 1 (Canada only). This release has been discontinued and is now out of print.

See also

• The Enigma Files, UK / BBC, 1980
• Cold Case Files, A&E, 1999
• Waking the Dead, UK / BBC, 2000
• New Tricks, UK / BBC, 2003
• Cold Case, CBS, 2003

External links

• Cold Squad at IMDb
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