Da Vinci's Inquest
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| Created by | Chris Haddock |
| Starring |
Nicholas Campbell Suleka Mathew Sarah-Jane Redmond Donnelly Rhodes Venus Terzo Camille Sullivan Ian Tracey Gwynyth Walsh Robert Wisden |
| Country of origin | Canada |
| Original language(s) | English |
| No. of seasons | 7 |
| No. of episodes | 91 (list of episodes) |
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| Executive producer(s) | Chris Haddock Laszlo Barna |
| Running time | 45 minutes per episode |
| Production company(s) | Haddock Entertainment Barna-Alper Productions Alliance Entertainment Alliance Atlantis |
| Distributor | Program Partners (USA) Sony Pictures Television (USA; ad sales only) Entertainment One Television (Canada) |
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| Original network | CBC Television |
| Original release | October 7, 1998 – January 23, 2005 |
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Da Vinci's Inquest is a Canadian dramatic television series that aired on CBC Television from 1998 to 2005. While never a ratings blockbuster, seven seasons of thirteen episodes each were filmed for a total of ninety-one episodes.
The show, set and filmed in Vancouver, stars Nicholas Campbell as Dominic Da Vinci, once an undercover officer for the Royal Canadian Mounted Police, but now a crusading coroner who seeks justice in the cases he investigates.
The cast also includes Gwynyth Walsh as Da Vinci's ex-wife and chief pathologist Patricia Da Vinci, Donnelly Rhodes as detective Leo Shannon, and Ian Tracey as detective Mick Leary.
Da Vinci's Inquest was loosely based on the real life experiences of Larry Campbell, the former chief coroner of Vancouver, British Columbia, who was elected mayor of that city in 2002. The part of Da Vinci, however, was written specifically for actor Nicholas Campbell. Elements of the series storylines were also taken from sociopolitical issues faced by the real-life Vancouver, such as the plight of the homeless, the controversy over a designated injection site for drug users, the idea of establishing a red light district, and the disappearance of homeless women and sex workers-similar to the case of Robert Pickton.
Nicholas Campbell received the Gemini Award for Best Performance in a Continuing Leading Dramatic Role for his work on the series and has guest-starred in American shows such as Monk and T.J. Hooker. Donnelly Rhodes also received a Gemini Award for Best Actor in 2002 and the Earle Grey Award in 2006. The series was critically acclaimed as the best television series in Canada after winning the Gemini Award for Best Dramatic Series for five of its first six seasons. When Da Vinci's Inquest completed its seventh and final season, it was continued in 2005 as Da Vinci's City Hall. In 2002 actress Keegan Connor Tracy won a Leo Award for her guest appearance in Season 5's "Pretend You Didn't See Me" and was brought back for a second appearance in 2005.
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