This got to be the worst cop show ever.

Don't watch it then.

When people say they don't like something and they give reason(s) why, at least there can be a discussion on people's tastes and what makes for good art.

Saying you don't like something without giving a reason just amounts to worthless trolling.

I watched Due South the first season, and I don't normally watch cop shows (or most anything else). It was kind of refreshing. A taste of northernness.

Genre: Adventure / Family / Comedy / Drama

It's a fun, light show. If you want a realistic cop then one about a highly moral Canadian Mountie and his pet wolf surely isn't the way to go.

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I thought this was a great show. At the time I had heard that this show was enormously popular in Canada, but reading on these boards others say that wasn't so.

I liked way they depicted his outback and nice guy technique as converting those around him to being more cooperative.

I was also amused at how the women fawned over him like lost puppy dogs. That's not inaccurate (sorry girls), as another real-life example is women reacting to guys wearing kilts--it's hilarious (and quite a few take more "liberties" with those guys than "society" allows guys to even joke about anymore--part of the double-standard that still exists; watch Sleepless in Seattle, remembering it's pre-Internet time, and Meg Ryan was a classic stalker, utilizing company resources to track Tom Hanks down). I know, as I'm one of those guys (I'm part Scottish).

As for the "wolf", it's a Husky. My high school's (Robert E. Peary HS) mascot was a Husky, and the community had 11 times the national average density of Huskies in the dog population.

I'll give you some trivia. If you watch the pilot episode, and then the regular season episodes, you can see that his RCMP uniform changes a bit. I heard at the time of the airing of the series that Leslie Nielsen's dad was a Mountie, and so upon playing a guest role in the beginning of the regular season, he pointed out what they were (like the lanyard, and apparantly Mounties tie up their boots a certain way) so they could do it right.

I'm not surprised by that. The RCMP would avoid any "consulting" of the show, as they are very wary of anything that could be seen as impinging on their image. To the point that there is a law on the books that allows them to suppress broadcast/publication of material they think would impinge on their image. The most notable case of that being implemented was with The Rocky & Bulwinkle Show, where Canadian broadcasts were (from what I heard) done without episodes of Dudley Doright (the cartoon of a bunch of bumbling Mounties against the notorious Boris and Natasha).

I have to say that when DS was first shown here in the UK I was not remotely interested in watching it. Another Buddy cop show (yawn), another cop who's partner was a dog....been done a 100 times over.

But when I saw "A Cop, A Mountie and A Baby" for the first time I loved it. It was original, funny, and I could have kicked myself for not watching it from the beginning. Gross and Marciano played off each other perfectly (much better than C.K.R-personal opinion), and I fell in love with this show.

"Are you my Daddy??" Orphan to Ray

the only thing, that made this show unrealistic, was the fact that the mountie wore the parade uniform, as if it's something that rcmp officers wear all the time...that was just friggin stupid.