Due South
(1994-1999)
52 minutes
Adventure / Crime / Drama
Cast:
Paul Gross as Constable Benton Fraser
David Marciano as Ray Vecchio
Callum Keith Rennie as Det. Stanley Raymond Kowalski
Beau Starr as Lt. Harding Welsh
Catherine Bruhier as Elaine Besbriss
Daniel Kash as Louis Gardino
Kevin Rushton as Henry
Ramona Milano as Francesca Vecchio
Tony Craig as Jack Huey
Camilla Scott as Margaret Thatcher
Dean McDermott as Constable Turnbull
Gordon Pinsent as Fraser Sr.
Tom Melissis as Thomas E. Dewey
Lincoln as Diefenbaker
Draco as Diefenbaker
Due South was a unique television series, primarily a crime drama but with definitely quirky aspects, produced in Canada. Premiering with a 93 minute movie pilot in April, 1994, the series aired in 68 episodes from April 1994 to December 1998 on CTV in Canada and on CBS in the United States.
The basic premise is that Royal Canadian Mounted Police Constable Benton Fraser travels to Chicago with his deaf pet wolf/dog, Diefenbaker, in search of his father’s killer. In Chicago, while attached to the Canadian consulate, Fraser is assigned to work with Chicago Police Department Detective Raymond Vecchio. They find the killer, and at the same time expose an environmental scam in Canada involving other members of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police. After this turn of events Fraser is definitely unwelcome back in Canada and so is indefinitely assigned to work in Chicago.
Constable Fraser is a highly intelligent, uncannily able detective, and unfailingly polite, and is contrasted with the more brash and assertive Detective Vecchio, but the two manage to work well as a team.
In the 1997 season Constable Fraser returns to Chicago to find that there is another detective impersonating Vecchio, who is supposedly working undercover. Fraser and his new partner, Detective Stanley Kowalski, also find a working rhythm and are soon successfully solving crimes together.
The quirkiness of the series involves the appearances of Fraser’s dead father as a ghost ; the fact that Fraser’s wolf/dog is deaf but can read lips; and the fact that Fraser often solves crimes by finding clues by scent, such as when he sniffs a rat’s breath and determines what type of barbeque it had been eating, which leads to solving a crime.
Episodes:
Season One
1. Pilot (1) 4/23/1994
2. Pilot (2) 4/23/1994
3. Free Willie 9/22/1994
4. Diefenbaker's Day Off 9/29/1994
5. Manhunt 10/6/1994
6. They Eat Horses, Don't They? 10/13/1994
7. Pizzas and Promises 10/20/1994
8. Chinatown 11/3/1994
9. Chicago Holiday (1) 11/10/1994
10. Chicago Holiday (2) 11/17/1994
11. A Cop, a Mountie and a Baby 12/1/1994
12. The Gift of the Wheelman 12/15/1994
13. You Must Remember This 1/5/1995
14. Hawk and a Handsaw 1/19/1995
15. An Eye for an Eye 2/2/1995
16. The Man Who Knew Too Little 2/9/1995
17. The Wild Bunch 2/16/1995
18. The Blue Line 3/8/1995
19. The Deal 3/30/1995
20. An Invitation to Romance 4/13/1995
21. Victoria's Secret (1) 6/2/1995
22. Victoria's Secret (2) 6/2/1995
23. Letting Go 6/9/1995
24. Heaven and Earth 6/16/1995
Season Two
25. Vault 12/8/1995
26. Witness 12/15/1995
27. Bird in the Hand 12/22/1995
28. North 1/5/1996
29. The Promise 1/12/1996
30. Mask 1/19/1996
31. Juliet is Bleeding 2/2/1996
32. One Good Man 2/9/1996
33. The Edge 2/16/1996
34. Starman 2/23/1996
35. We are the Eggmen 3/1/1996
36. Some Like It Red 3/29/1996
37. Whie Men Can't Jump to Conclusions 4/5/1996
38. All the Queen's Horses 4/12/1996
39. Body Language 4/26/1996
40. The Duel 5/3/1996
41. Red, White or Blue 5/24/1996
42. Flashback 5/31/1996
Season Three
43. Burning Down The House 9/20/1997
44. Eclipse 9/23/1997
45. I Coulda Been A Defendant 9/30/1997
46. Strange Bedfellows 10/7/1997
47. Seeing Is Believing 10/14/1997
48. Bounty Hunter 10/21/1997
49. Mountie and Soul 10/28/1997
50. Spy vs. Spy 11/4/1997
51. Asylum 11/11/1997
52. Perfect Strangers 11/18/1997
53. Dead Guy Running 12/30/1997
54. Mountie on the Bounty (1) 1/6/1998
55. Mountie on the Bounty (2) 1/13/1998
56. Dr. Longball 1/27/1998
57. Easy Money 2/24/1998
58. A Likely Story 3/3/1998
59. Odds 3/20/1998
60. The Ladies' Man 3/27/1998
61. Mojo Rising 4/21/1998
62. Mountie Sings the Blues 4/28/1998
63. Call of the Wild (1) 5/5/1998
64. Call of the Wild (2) 5/12/1998
65. Dead Men Don't Throw Rice 11/2/1998
66. Good for the Soul 12/7/1998
67. Say Amen 12/9/1998
68. Hunting Season 12/10/1998
