DUE SOUTH

Alliance Communications/CTV (Canada) (season three co-produced with BBC (UK)/Pro Sieben Media AG (Germany)/TF1 (France)) (BBC1)

Colour

67 episodes (standard length: c.50-minutes)

1995-98

Created by Paul Haggis

Pilot (Tue 9 May 95, 75 mins)

First season (16 May 95 - 28 Nov 95)

2 Free Willie (Tue 16 May 95)
3 Diefenbaker's Day Off (Tue 23 May 95)
4 Manhunt (Tue 30 May 95)
5 They Eat Horses, Don't They? (Fri 9 Jun 95)
6 Pizzas and Promises (Fri 16 Jun 95)
7 Chinatown (Fri 23 Jun 95)
8 Chicago Holiday (part 1) (Sat 18 Oct 96)
9 Chicago Holiday (part 2) (Sat 18 Oct 96)
10 A Cop, a Mountie and a Baby (Fri 30 Jun 95)
11 The Gift of the Wheelman (Fri 7 Jul 95)
12 You Must Remember This (Fri 14 Jul 95)
13 Hawk and a Handsaw (Fri 21 Jul 95)
14 An Eye for an Eye (Tue 3 Oct 95)
15 The Man Who Knew Too Little (Tue 5 Sep 95)
16 The Wild Bunch (Tue 12 Sep 95)
17 The Blue Line (Tue 19 Sep 95)
18 The Deal (Tue 10 Oct 95)
19 An Invitation to Romance (Tue 7 Nov 95)
20 Heaven and Earth (Tue 24 Oct 95)
21 Victoria's Secret (part 1) (Tue 14 Nov 95)
22 Victoria's Secret (part 2) (Tue 14 Nov 95)
23 Letting Go (Tue 28 Nov 95)

Second season (27 Jul 96 - 12 Oct 96, 4 Jan 97 - 1 Feb 97, 31 Mar 97)

24 North (Sat 27 Jul 96)
25 Vault (Sat 3 Aug 96)
26 The Witness (Sat 10 Aug 96)
27 Bird in the Hand (Sat 17 Aug 96)
28 The Promise (Sat 24 Aug 96)
29 Mask (Sat 31 Aug 96)
30 Juliet is Bleeding (Sat 7 Sep 96)
31 One Good Man (Sat 14 Sep 96)
32 The Edge (Sat 21 Sep 96)
33 We are the Eggmen (Sat 28 Sep 96)
34 Starman (Sat 5 Oct 96)
35 Some Like it Red (Sat 4 Jan 97)
36 White Men Can't Jump to Conclusions (Sat 11 Jan 97)
37 All the Queen's Horses (Sat 18 Jan 97)
38 Body Language (Sat 12 Oct 96)
39 The Duel (Sat 25 Jan 97)
40 Red, White or Blue (Sat 1 Feb 97)
41 Flashback (Mon 31 Mar (11.45am))

Third Season (30 May 98 - 27 Jun 98)

42 Burning Down the House (Sat 30 May 98)
43 Eclipse (Sat 6 Jun 98)
44 I Coulda Been a Defendant (Sat 13 Jun 98)
45 Strange Bedfellows (Sat 20 Jun 98)
46 Mountie & Soul
47 Bounty Hunter (Sat 27 Jun 98)
48 Seeing is Believing
49 Spy Vs Spy
50 Dead Guy Running
51 Perfect Strangers
52 Asylum
53 Mountie on the Bounty (part 1)
54 Mountie on the Bounty (part 2)
55 Dr Longball

Notes

The above list refers to Due South as transmitted (terrestrially) by the BBC in the UK. (BSkyB transmitted the first two seasons initially in the UK.) I've listed the day of transmission to show how poorly the BBC treated the first season! Despite these to-ings and fro-ings, the first episode was watched by 9.32 million people, becoming BBC1's tenth most popular programme that week. The rest of the season averaged somewhere in the region of 7.2 million viewers. The BBC showed the two-part story 'Chicago Holiday' out of sequence during the second season.

Incidentally, I have simplified this page by cutting the regular cast list, which is available elsewhere on the Web and in Geoff Tibballs's book Due South: The Official Companion, and my episode order now reflects Tibballs's (official?) order, with UK dates, of course, in brackets. There is some extra third season information, to be added... One day.