fran blakes Long overdue a repeat... ------------------------One of the best TV series it back! Now being repeated in the UK on BBC Two, after a long await!!! Just have to count how many cars Ray had replaced - he loved that car! Having been axed once, the BBC saved it. It was axed again and got saved, but nothing could save this series when the axed fell for the third time :-( But it would be nice for a catch up mini-series -- can't remember how the series concluded...-------------------------Enjoy!

constable-diefenbaker I'm sorry to say this, but I feel that seasons 3 and 4 were not up to the same quality of the 2 earlier seasons. I'm fortunate in that ITV 3 have spent the last 6 months showing the seasons back to back(and again for good measure). I must admit that while I recall liking Due South back when it originally aired, I seemed to have remembered the show perhaps through rose tinted glasses. Now that I have had the opportunity to watch the show in it's entirety, I can see a marked difference after the loss of the David Marciano. Don't get me wrong, Rennie brought a new dynamic to the show but the very qualities that originally drew me were lost. Season 3's highlight was the popular Mounty on the Bounty but by series 4 the show had morphed into a parody of itself. I'm not suggesting that every episode had to be as dark and intense as Victoria's Secret, but it seemed to get progressively sillier and at times it was almost embarrassing to watch. Already part way through season 3 I'm fed up of hearing the stale "I came to Chicago on the trail....", it was funny a couple of times but virtually every episode?!....Nooooooo! Rennie and Paul Gross worked well off each other and I can't fault him as an actor or his portrayal of the character. It just seems that the scripts suffered, the story lines per se however did not falter as can be seen by the final episodes COTW. It would be nice if they could gather the cast together and do a one-off 10 years later special. Still, I live in hope!

Ricardo Tabone Although Due South was cancelled more than 6 years ago, it's legacy lives on DVD, albeit not the best DVD sets ever made.Now that I have seasons 1 and 2 on DVD, I started watching the episodes all over again. It feels so fresh! It's wonderful to laugh once more at the best jokes, to ponder about some unusual quote delivered by our favourite mountie (OFM), to pay attention and to understand several layers of symbolism in the most "brainy" episodes...What do we get from Due South? We get several quirky stories, from solving crimes to convincing people to do the right thing. We get wonderful and inspirational music, with some Canadian artists who are now big names, such as Sarah McLachlan and Loreena McKennitt. We get heart-felt monologues of Constable Benton Fraser using some Inuit tale to inspire people to do good. We get several early appearances of now household names, such as Melina Kanakaredes and Jane Krakowsky.Some double length episodes would have been excellent movies in their own right. The Pilot speaks for itself (not included in Season 1, bad Alliance)."Victoria's Secret" (towards the end of Season 1) is an excellent story of betrayal and lost love. It has two of the most poignant scenes ever on TV (SPOILERS!): 1. Fraser imagines Victoria through a revolving door while snows falls on her, all with McLachlan's Possession playing in the background. 2. After being shot, Fraser recites a poem, over and over again, just as Victoria had done when he had saved her life years back."All the Queen's Horses", with Leslie Nielsen, blends a great comedy with a very good action story, including an incredible scene in which OFM and Inspector Thatcher tried to free themselves from ropes using one her hairclips.There other memorable scenes, such as OFM hypnotizing people to find out what they had seen earlier, scenes from the perspective of OFM's deaf wolf (Diefenbaker) and a 1972 or 71? green Buick Riviera exploding in three different occasions.In short, bite the bullet, get the DVDs even if there are no extras and the packaging isn't the best and witness what TV should really be like.PS: Paul Gross (The Mountie) is amazing. He produced Seasons 3 and 4 and also wrote most of the episodes of those seasons. He also played Hamlet in the Canada's Stratford Festival to rave reviews.

sacrificialclam Why is it all the good shows get canceled early?Due South was no exception.I didn't even watch the show's first season. I had never paid any attention to it being on. Only after catching an episode of the second season on tape at a friend's house was I drawn into this quirky show. Who would have thought that a TV show starring a Dudley Do Right cloned member of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (a mountie) who lives by the rules and a sharp tounged Chicago Detective who lives to bend the rules could be such a fantastic show? This is a prime example of a fantastic show that was canceled way too early.But we had it for 4 years and that is better than nothing.