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{{Short description|Canadian television series}} {{Infobox television | image = Cold Squad.jpg | caption = | genre = {{Plainlist| * [[Police procedural]] * [[Drama (film and television)|Drama]] }} | creator = {{Plainlist| <!-- Listed as appear in title sequence. --> * Matt MacLeod * Philip Keatley * Julia Keatley }} | developer = | starring = <!-- Per [[MOS:TV]] instructions for infobox: main cast list is organized according to original opening credits (S1-2); followed by billing order of new main cast (S3-7). --> {{Plainlist| * [[Julie Stewart]] * [[Michael Hogan (Canadian actor)|Michael Hogan]] * [[Joy Tanner]] * Paul Boretski * [[Jerry Wasserman]] * [[Hiro Kanagawa]] * [[Jay Brazeau]] * Paul Coeur * [[Eli Gabay]] * Linda Ko * [[Bob Frazer]] * Lori Triolo * [[Peter Wingfield]] * [[Garry Chalk]] * Tamara Craig Thomas * Gregory Calpakis * [[Stephen McHattie]] * [[Joely Collins]] * [[Matthew Bennett]] * [[Sonja Bennett]] * [[Tahmoh Penikett]] }} | theme_music_composer = {{Plainlist| * [[Claire Lawrence]] {{small|(S1, 2)}} * Terry Frewer {{small|(S1, 2)}} * Graeme Coleman {{small|(S3, 4)}} * James Jandrisch {{small|(S5, 6, 7)}} }} | country = Canada | language = English | num_seasons = 7 | num_episodes = 98 | list_episodes = List of Cold Squad episodes | executive_producer = {{Plainlist| * Matt MacLeod * Julia Keatley * Anne Marie La Traverse * [[Seaton McLean]] * Peter Mitchell * Steve Ord * Marlene Matthews * Suzanne Chapman * R.B. Carney }} | producer = {{Plainlist| * Philip Keatley * Gigi Boyd * [[Gary Harvey (director)|Gary Harvey]] * David Cole * Richard Davis }} | location = [[Vancouver, British Columbia]], Canada | runtime = 43 minutes <!--source Amazon Video: https://www.amazon.com/Cold-Squad/dp/B016W3RC4U--> | company = {{Plainlist| * Keatley MacLeod Productions * [[Alliance Atlantis]] }} | network = [[CTV Television Network|CTV]] | first_aired = {{Start date|1998 |1|23}} | last_aired = {{End date|2005|6|4}} }} '''''Cold Squad''''' is a Canadian [[police procedural]] [[Television in Canada|television]] series that premiered on [[CTV Television Network|CTV]] on January 23, 1998, at 10 p.m., 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 case|cold]]" cases (the titular "Cold Squad"), using present-day [[Forensic science|forensic technology]] and [[Offender profiling|psychological profiling]] to help crack them. ''Cold Squad'' premiered simultaneously in [[French Canada]] on [[Séries+]] as ''Brigade spéciale''.<ref>{{cite web|title=Brigade spéciale|url=http://www.seriesplus.com/emissions/brigade-spéciale|website=[[Series+]]|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150417200458/http://www.seriesplus.com/emissions/brigade-sp%C3%A9ciale|archive-date=April 17, 2015|url-status=dead}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|title=Brigade spéciale (v.o.a) Cold Squad|url=http://www.doublage.qc.ca/p.php?i=162&idmovie=3113|website=doublage.qc.ca|access-date=2016-09-19|archive-date=2016-09-19|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160919235443/http://www.doublage.qc.ca/p.php?i=162&idmovie=3113|url-status=live}}</ref> 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).<ref name=crimetime>{{cite web|title=CTV's New CrimeTime Saturday Slot to Begin With All-New Cold Squad Episodes, Beginning September 4|url=http://www.channelcanada.com/canadian-channels/nets/ctv/ctvs-new-crimetime-saturday-slot-to-begin-with-all-new-cold-squad-episodes-beginning-september-4|website=Channel Canada|date=August 31, 2004|access-date=September 9, 2016|archive-date=January 11, 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170111162145/http://www.channelcanada.com/canadian-channels/nets/ctv/ctvs-new-crimetime-saturday-slot-to-begin-with-all-new-cold-squad-episodes-beginning-september-4|url-status=live}}</ref> ''Cold Squad'' is the first [[prime time]] national series produced out of [[Vancouver]].<ref name=onset>{{cite web|last1=Edwards|first1=Ian|title=On set: Cold Squad|url=http://playbackonline.ca/1997/09/22/19261-19970922/|website=[[Playback (magazine)|Playback]]|publisher=Brunico Communications|date=September 22, 1997|access-date=October 21, 2016|archive-date=October 21, 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161021131901/http://playbackonline.ca/1997/09/22/19261-19970922/|url-status=live}}</ref><ref name=groundbreaking>{{cite web|last1=Edwards|first1=Ian|title=Groundbreaking cop series takes final bow|url=http://playbackonline.ca/2004/10/11/history-20041011/|website=[[Playback (magazine)|Playback]]|publisher=Brunico Communications|date=October 11, 2004|access-date=September 15, 2016|archive-date=September 11, 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160911092438/http://playbackonline.ca/2004/10/11/history-20041011/|url-status=live}}</ref> With seven seasons and 98 episodes it became the longest-running prime time drama series on Canadian television.<ref name=groundbreaking /> 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.<ref name=bickley2004>{{cite web|last1=Bickley|first1=Claire|title=Squad cast gets Cold shoulder|url=http://jam.canoe.com/Television/TV_Shows/C/Cold_Squad/1999/05/26/734811.html|website=[[Canoe.com]]|publisher=[[Sun Media]]|date=May 26, 1999|access-date=September 9, 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160909100606/http://jam.canoe.com/Television/TV_Shows/C/Cold_Squad/1999/05/26/734811.html|archive-date=September 9, 2016|url-status=dead}} (Published originally in the ''[[Toronto Sun]]'' on May 26, 1999.)</ref> ([[Michael Hogan (Canadian actor)|Michael Hogan]], who played main character Det. Tony Logozzo in Seasons 1 and 2, appeared in the third season two-part opener episode "[[List of Cold Squad episodes#ep27|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]] (Seasons 1–2, 3–6, 7), [[theme music]] (Seasons 1–2, 3–4, 5–6, 7), new [[Set construction|sets]] (Seasons 3–6, 7), and change in McCormick's hair colour from auburn to blonde along with her wardrobe (in particular her jacket), these differences 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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