"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)

Also Known As:

Cold Squad, brigade spéciale (France) [fr]
Files from the Past (Israel: English title) [en]
Halott ügyek (Hungary) [hu]

Runtime:

Canada:60 min

Country:

Canada

Language:

English

Color:

Color

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)

The West Coast Edge

Miami Vice, move over. Way over! Cold Squad encompasses the drug trade, prostitution, murder, child sex abuse and political corruption. All this is investigated with cold leads that are years, sometimes decades, old.

Ali McCormick (Julie Stewart) is among toughest of cops portrayed on North American TV screens and she leads a team of cops who investigate the grittiest of crimes in the Greater Vancouver area. As a cop with an erratic schedule, Ali decides to become a Big Sister to a pre-teen girl and then develops feelings for the father of the girl. This makes her work/home life more complicated.

The complexities of being a cop on Cold Squad are further complicated by the personalities and talents of other members of the team. There is the ambitious office assistant, Christine Wren, (Joely Collins) who embarrasses superiors with her correctness and knowledge, a former undercover RCMP officer Nicco Sevallis, (Gregory Calpakis), who mixes up his alliances, the hardworking, but not very careful Mickey Kollander (Tamara Craig Thomas) and the right-wing Christian fundamentalist, Len Harper, (Matthew Bennett) who listens genuinely well before making his thoughts known to Ali.

Stewart, who has played motherly and romantic roles in the past, can glory in her success as one of the most watched hard-edged lead roles on TV today as she enters another "seasoned" season.

If her performance and scope continue, in few short years she will take her place alongside actors like Helen Mirren. Go for it, Julie!