ORBzine - Due South TV Review

Paul Gross as Benton Fraser

David Marciano as Ray Vecchio [ 1-2 ]

Beau Starr [Halloween 4] as Capt. Harding Welsh

Tony Craig as Det. Jack Huey

Daniel Kash as Det. Louis Guardino [ 1-2 ]

Catherine Bruhier as Elaine Besbritt

Ramona Milano as Francesca Vecchio

Gordon Pinsent as Robert Fraser

  Pilot Spring 1994 (CBS)

  0- 1             23 Apr 94   pilot (1)
  0- 2             23 Apr 94   pilot (2)

Season 1

  1- 1     101     22 Sep 94   Free Willie
  1- 2     102     29 Sep 94   Diefenbaker's Day Off
  1- 3     103      6 Oct 94   Manhunt
  1- 4     104     13 Oct 94   They Eat Horses, Don't They?
  1- 5     105     20 Oct 94   Pizzas and Promises
  1- 6     106      3 Nov 94   Chinatown
  1- 7     107     10 Nov 94   Chicago Holiday (1)
  1- 8     108     17 Nov 94   Chicago Holiday (2)
  1- 9     109      1 Dec 94   A Cop, a Mountie and a Baby
  1-10     110     15 Dec 94   The Gift of the Wheelman
  1-11     111      5 Jan 95   You Must Remember This
  1-12     112     19 Jan 95   Hawk and a Handsaw
  1-13     113      2 Feb 95   An Eye for an Eye
  1-14     114      9 Feb 95   The Man Who Knew Too Little
  1-15     115     16 Feb 95   The Wild Bunch
  1-16     116      8 Mar 95   The Blue Line
  1-17     117     30 Mar 95   The Deal
  1-18     118     13 Apr 95   An Invitation to Romance
  1-19     120      2 Jun 95   Victoria's Secret (1)
  1-20     121      2 Jun 95   Victoria's Secret (2)
  1-21     122      9 Jun 95   Letting Go
  1-22     119     16 Jun 95   Heaven and Earth

Season 2

Tom Melissis as Det. Thomas E. Dewey [ 2-3 ]

Camilla Scott as Insp. Meg Thatcher [ 2-3 ]

  2- 1     224      8 Dec 95   Vault
  2- 2     225     15 Dec 95   Witness
  2- 3     226     22 Dec 95   Bird in the Hand
  2- 4     223      5 Jan 96   North
  2- 5     227     12 Jan 96   The Promise
  2- 6     228     19 Jan 96   Mask
  2- 7     229      2 Feb 96   Juliet is Bleeding
  2- 8     230      9 Feb 96   One Good Man
  2- 9     231     16 Feb 96   The Edge

Due South [Season 2, Episode 10] Starman
Shown 5th June 2006 [Monday]

A compulsive liar claims his fiance has been abducted by Aliens.

Ray and Fraser take their lunch hour to investigate. They join a UFO-hunting tour-bus and visit nearby Rosewell Army Base.

Amanda Tapping is a US military scientist, not unlike her character in SG-1 .

  2-11     232      1 Mar 96   We are the Eggmen
  2-12     234     29 Mar 96   Some Like It Red
  2-13     235      5 Apr 96   Whie Men Can't Jump to Conclusions

Due South [Season 2, Episode 14] All The Queen's Horsemen
Shown 6th June 2006 [Wednesday]

Kenneth Walsh [ Twin Peaks ] hijacks a train full of Mounties.

Things hot up between Fraser and his commanding officer, Ms Thatcher [ Camilla Scott ] while they are trapped on the roof of the train.

It is up to Buck Frobisher [Leslie Nielsen - Forbidden Planet ] to save the day. Everything depends on his sharp-shooting abilities, and Diefenbaker the deaf wolf being able to defuse a bomb! Luckily, Buck can see the ghost of Fraser's dad.

  2-15     237     26 Apr 96   Body Language
  2-16     238      3 May 96   The Duel
  2-17     239     24 May 96   Red, White or Blue
  2-18     240     31 May 96   Flashback

Season 3

Callum Keith Rennie [Battlestar Galactica 2003] as Stanley "Ray" Kowalski [ 3 ]

Burning Down the House 
Eclipse 
I Coulda Been a Defendant 
Strange Bedfellows 
Mounty and Soul 
Bounty Hunter 
Seeing is Believing 
Spy vs. Spy 
Dead Guy Running 
Perfect Strangers 
Asylum 
Mountie on the Bounty, Part 1 
Mountie on the Bounty, Part 2 

Doctor Longball 
Easy Money 
A Likely Story 
Odds 
The Ladies Man 
Mojo Rising 
Mountie Sings the Blues 
Good for the Soul 
Dead Men Don't Throw Rice 
Say Amen 
Hunting Season 
Call of the Wild, Part 1 

Due South [Season 3, Episode 26] Call of the Wild (Part 2)
Shown Sept 1999

The Show finally comes to an end. Episodes of Season 3 were shown on UK terrestrial TV in 1996-7, but this was the first showing of the final episode on BBC2. The director - Kathryn Bigelow!

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Fraser Snr solves his last case; with the help of his [still-living] son he captures the killer of his wife.

Constable Turnbull goes into politics and gets run over by his campaign bus. Surprise, surprise.

Ms Thatcher leaves the RMCP and transfers to Canadian Intelligence [stop shouting oxymoron!] - she topples dictators worldwide, but her relationship with Fraser Jnr is never consumated. :(

Ray Veccio marries Kowalski's ex-wife, and retires from the Chicago PD with sickness benefit [wounded in action] and the gold bullet he was wounded by.

Kowalski and Fraser Jnr? They mount up on a dog sled, and ride off into the wilderness - in search of Adventure.

Due South

Due South [Season 1, Episode 2 ]
Shown th June 2006 [Wednesday]

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