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Due South is a Canadian television police comedy-drama created by Paul Haggis and produced by Alliance Communications. The show ran for four seasons from 22 September 1994 to 10 December 1999. It followed the adventures of a fictional Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) officer, Constable Benton Fraser, who finds himself living and working in Chicago. Fraser's methods, usually more sensitive and understanding than is typical for police work, gave the series a reputation for well rounded characters. Adapted from the Wikipedia article on Due South.

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  • Due South is a Canadian television police comedy-drama created by Paul Haggis and produced by Alliance Communications. The show ran for four seasons from 22 September 1994 to 10 December 1999. It followed the adventures of a fictional Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) officer, Constable Benton Fraser, who finds himself living and working in Chicago. Fraser's methods, usually more sensitive and understanding than is typical for police work, gave the series a reputation for well rounded characters. Adapted from the Wikipedia article on Due South.
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  • Canada
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  • Title logo of the Due South television series.
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  • 1994(xsd:integer)
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  • Due South
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  • CTV, CBS
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  • television series
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  • Paul Haggis
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  • Due South is a Canadian television police comedy-drama created by Paul Haggis and produced by Alliance Communications. The show ran for four seasons from 22 September 1994 to 10 December 1999. It followed the adventures of a fictional Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) officer, Constable Benton Fraser, who finds himself living and working in Chicago. Fraser's methods, usually more sensitive and understanding than is typical for police work, gave the series a reputation for well rounded characters. In the original pilot, Fraser (Paul Gross) travels to Chicago accompanied by his half-wolf Diefenbaker to solve the murder of his father; this is how he first meets his soon-to-be partner, Ray Vecchio (David Marciano), a tough, streetwise cop. The investigation leads Fraser to uncover a corporate plot that implicates corrupt members of the RCMP. This along with the consequent loss of many jobs makes him persona non grata in Canada; and he chooses to live instead in Chicago, attached as liaison to the Canadian consulate. The show falls somewhere between a cop show and a comedy show. Although superficially following the police drama format, the comedy derives from outrageous plots, the self-deprecating Canadian and the American stereotypes, and the occasional fantasy elements such as the regular visits paid to the Mountie by his father's ghost, whose advice varies between helpful and absurdly useless. Being overly polite, Fraser's probably best known short quotes were: 'thank you kindly'; when he found himself in trouble – an understated 'oh dear'; and when faced with contradictory circumstances from other characters – an all knowing and eloquently stated 'understood'. Another humorous angle of the show was the fact that his sidekick, a wolf named Diefenbaker, though deaf, could read lips. Due South originally debuted as a made for television movie aired on CTV in Canada and CBS in the United States. After higher than anticipated ratings, Due South was turned into a continuing drama series—the first Canadian-made series to earn a prime time slot on a major US network. However, CBS moved its time slot continuously, and often preempted it with other programs, so maintaining an audience was a challenge; and, after the first season, they cancelled it. The production company was successful in raising sufficient money for a second season, and the show was once again shown on CBS; but again they refused to renew the series. After a one-year hiatus, CTV revived the series with international investment (from the BBC, ProSiebenSat.1 Media AG in Germany, and the French company TF1), and it ran for two further seasons. Marciano (the original Ray Vecchio) did not appear in these final seasons, save for the first and last episodes, but was replaced by Callum Keith Rennie as Stanley Raymond Kowalski. Adapted from the Wikipedia article on Due South.
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