Cold Squad

Cold Squad
Genre	Police procedural Drama
Created by	Matt MacLeod Philip Keatley Julia Keatley
Starring	Julie Stewart Michael Hogan Joy Tanner Paul Boretski Jerry Wasserman Hiro Kanagawa Jay Brazeau Paul Coeur Eli Gabay Linda Ko Bob Frazer Lori Triolo Peter Wingfield Tamara Craig Thomas Gregory Calpakis Stephen McHattie Richard Ian Cox Sharon Alexander Allan Lysell Garry Chalk Joely Collins Matthew Bennett Sonja Bennett Tahmoh Penikett
Theme music composer	Claire Lawrence (Seasons 1, 2) Terry Frewer (Seasons 1, 2) Graeme Coleman (Seasons 3, 4) James Jandrisch (Seasons 5, 6, 7)
Country of origin	Canada
Original language(s)	English
No. of seasons	7
No. of episodes	98
Production
Executive producer(s)	Matt MacLeod Julia Keatley Anne Marie La Traverse Seaton McLean Peter Mitchell Steve Ord Marlene Matthews Suzanne Chapman R.B. Carney
Producer(s)	Philip Keatley Gigi Boyd Gary Harvey David Cole Richard Davis
Location(s)	Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
Running time	43 minutes
Production company(s)	Keatley MacLeod Productions Alliance Atlantis
Distributor	Keatley MacLeod Productions Alliance Atlantis
Release
Original network	CTV
Original release	January 23, 1998 (1998 -01-23) – June 4, 2005 (2005-06-04)
External links
Website

Cold Squad is a Canadian police procedural television series that premiered on CTV on January 23, 1998, and ran for seven seasons. Led by Sergeant Ali McCormick (Julie Stewart), a team of homicide detectives from the Vancouver Police Department reopen long-unsolved, or "cold" cases (the titular "Cold Squad"), using present-day forensic technology and psychological profiling to help crack them.

The series was created by Matt MacLeod, Philip Keatley and Julia Keatley, and produced by Keatley MacLeod Productions and Alliance Atlantis in association with CTV Television Network, with the participation of the Canadian Television Fund (Canada Media Fund).Cold Squad is the first prime time national series produced out of Vancouver. With seven seasons and 98 episodes it became the longest-running prime time drama series on Canadian television.

The cast of Cold Squad was diverse and changing. Except for Julie Stewart, almost the entire cast was replaced between the second and third seasons, and the series revamped. The revision was meant to attract a younger audience and more male viewers. (Michael Hogan, who played main character Det. Tony Logozzo in Seasons 1 and 2, appeared in the third season two-part opener episode "Deadly Games" but thereafter was gone from the series). Starting with the third season, the "Cold Squad" division was folded into a province-wide task force and its basement setting eliminated. Along with significant variations of the title sequence, theme music (Seasons 1–2, 3–4, 5–7), new sets, 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.

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