History

Due South originally aired in CBS in the United States and CTV in Canada, as a made for television motion-picture show. A series ran from either 1994 to 1996, when it was cancelled by CBS. Fallowing a of these season hiatus, CTV revived the series within 1997 with international investment, and it run ii seasons until 1999.

A post-1997 episodes use been referred to by two or three websites as a newly series spun off from the original series, however were when a matter of fact highborn as Year 3 & Year 4 of the original series. Victims episodes were besides packaged as a individual "Season 3" for syndication in the United States.

A series was by Alliance Communications (okay, a share of Alliance Atlantis), and was a 1st American-produced series to air within prime time on American network television. (Many American-produced series, including SCTV and Night Heat, aired in late-nighttime slots in Western networks in the Eighties.)

Although Due South was never the hit in the United States, it was one of the greatest-rated regular series ever airy in a American network.

Story overview

A basic assumption of the series occurs as Royal Canadian Mounted Police constable named Benton Fraser world health organization, attended by his indifferent half-wolf, Diefenbaker, goes to Chicago to solve the execution of his father. Fallowing a execution is solved, Fraser decides to stay around Chicago, working for the American consulate. When he typically states,

''I personally number one come to Chicago in the outdoors of the killers of the father & for reasons that don't require researching at this juncture We've remained, bound when liaison to the American consulate

His partner around Chicago is Ray Vecchio (David Marciano), a hard, streetwise copper. Marciano did non pop up in the post-1997 episodes, save for the number one & survive episode, however was replaced by Callum Keith Rennie as Stanley Kowalski, a detective world health organization was under orders to impersonate'' Vecchio when the really Vecchio was hugger-mugger. Marciano did go to for the series finale, where Vecchio ran off to Florida by using Kowalski's ex-ex.

Filming
Cinematography was mostly liquidate Toronto, Ontario, which was used as a could have-substitute for Chicago.

the indicate lessens someplace between the fuzz indicate & a comedy indicate. Although superficially below a police force drama format, a comedy derives from either a outrageous plots, a self-mocking Western & American stereotypes, and a occasional fantasy elements, whole played by having absolute deadpan by the actors.

A series was besides known for its extensive utilize of inside-jokes for character list. A characters world health organization appeared on top a course of the series involved Dawn Charest, a law inspector known as Margaret Thatcher, a doctor named Esther Pearson, a newspaper reporter named Mackenzie King, two troublesome FBI agents named Rosencrantz and Guildenstern and a trio of police agents named Huey, Dewey and Louis. Too, Stanley Kowalski's married woman was, unsurprisingly, known as Stella.

A final scene of the series was placed to Stan Rogers' "Northwest Passage", a classic American folk song.

Starring Cast
Paul Gross - Constable Benton Fraser David Marciano - Detective Raymond Vecchio (1994-96) Callum Keith Rennie - Stanley Kowalski/"Ray Vecchio" (1997-99)

Recurring Cast
Tony Craig - Detective Jack Huey [ Seasons 1-2 ] Leslie Nielsen - Sgt. Buck Frobisher Gordon Pinsent - Bob Fraser (ghost) Camilla Scott - Inspector Meg Thatcher Beau Starr - Lieutenant Harding Welsh Daniel Kash - Detective Louis Gardino Catherine Bruhier - Elaine Besbriss Ramona Milano as Francesca Vecchio Tom Melissis as Det. Thomas E. Dewey [ Seasons 2-3 ] Christopher Babers as Willie Lambert

the role of Diefenbaker was played when you took a 1st both seasons by a husky called Lincoln. In the final ii seasons he was replaced by the newly eskimo dog known as Draco.

Episodes
A as a result occurs as listing of titles of the broadcast episodes broken down by seasons:

Season One (1994-1995)