Series synopsis
Blue Murder is a Canadian crime drama action & adventure television series that premiered on Global TV on January 10, 2001. It ended on July 9, 2004. It was created by Steve Lucas. It stars Jeremy Ratchford, Maria del Mar, Mimi Kuzyk and Joel S. Keller.
Blue Murder is a Canadian crime drama television series, featuring stories that reflected the turbulence of urban life and the crimes that make headlines. The Blue Murder squad members were an elite group of big-city investigators out to solve some of the city's most complicated and riveting crimes.
Premise
Blue Murder is a Canadian crime drama television series, featuring stories that reflected the turbulence of urban life and the crimes that make headlines. The Blue Murder squad members were an elite group of big-city investigators out to solve some of the city's most complicated and riveting crimes.
Cast and characters
Leading cast
- Jeremy Ratchford
- Maria del Mar
- Mimi Kuzyk
- Joel S. Keller
- Benz Antoine
- Kari Matchett
- Maurice Dean Wint
- Alison Sealy-Smith
Supporting cast
- William Colgate
- Gordon Pinsent
- Jacqueline Pillon
- Pat Mastroianni
- Aron Tager
- Yank Azman
- Cara Pifko
- David Orth
- Kevin Jubinville
- Hugh Dillon as Kevin Marshall
- John Ralston
- Mike Beaver
Guest cast
Episodes
This series spans 5 seasons with 54 episodes.
| Season | Episodes | First aired | Last aired |
|---|---|---|---|
| Season 1 | 13 | January 10, 2001 | April 2, 2001 |
| Season 2 | 13 | October 12, 2001 | January 30, 2002 |
| Season 3 | 13 | January 17, 2003 | April 25, 2003 |
| Season 4 | 13 | April 21, 2004 | July 9, 2004 |
| Season 5 | 2 |
| Episode | Title | Air date |
|---|---|---|
| 1 |
Heroes (1) An alliance between a detective and a criminal create deadly consequences. |
January 10, 2001 |
| 2 |
Heroes (2) The investigation of a police officer's murder shows he is allied with a notorious criminal. |
January 10, 2001 |
| 3 |
Black Sheep The officers must investigate the murders and rapes of new mothers. |
January 17, 2001 |
| Episode | Title | Air date |
|---|---|---|
| 1 |
Baby Point The officers must investigate an assault on two women. |
October 12, 2001 |
| 2 |
Asylum A psychiatrist is found murdered at a criminally insane hospital. |
October 19, 2001 |
| 3 |
Inside Jobs A failed bank heist brings low police morale to the surface. |
October 26, 2001 |
| Episode | Title | Air date |
|---|---|---|
| 1 |
America's Most Wanted The squad gets involved when a shoot-out in a market leaves a popular officer paralyzed from the waist down. It doesn't take long before they realise that a bounty hunter is after the men in question, all of whom seem to be on the run from various conviction threats in the U.S. |
January 17, 2003 |
| 2 |
Search Party Pogue and Oosterhuis investigate when a young girl named Erica Warner is taken from in front of a local store, with her older sister Shannon as the only witness. While Oosterhuis questions Shannon, he can't help but see similarities between the two of them, because when he was 13 he once lost track of his little brother at a carnival for a few hours and felt responsible for years. The squad soon realises that Erica's disappearance as a lot in common with that of a young girl who disappeared three years earlier, and they're determined to find Erica and stop the kidnapper before he can take another young girl from her home. |
January 24, 2003 |
| 3 |
Respect When Amber Watley calls to report the body of a young man by the tracks, the squad immediately moves in to investigate, but it doesn't take long before Weeks and Gillam realise that there is no way it happened the way that she said it did. As the squad continues to investigate the death of Donnie Tenio, they soon discover that the problems in the group of teens go far deeper than they could have imagined. |
January 31, 2003 |
| Episode | Title | Air date |
|---|---|---|
| 1 |
Blind Eye Oosterhuis and Stahl investigate the death of Filippino nanny Rhodoura Santos, whose employers hadn't even realised she was missing. The Vucetas swear that Rhodoura was about to be fired because she wasn't a very good nanny, but in talking to other nannies in the park, Stahl and Oosterhuis get a whole different view of things. Weeks and Bender investigate the shooting of Alan Rotteirs, the director of a local youth center, who had announced his plans to clean up the community, in particular to get rid of local tough Bobby Fuentes. |
April 21, 2004 |
| 2 |
Special Delivery When construction company owner Richard Marr goes missing, the squad is brought in by his devastated wife Peggy, but the squad soon learns that Marr was a child molester who faked his own disappearance to get away from the angry parents of his victims and the criminal charges associated with it. Forensics specialist Roberta Thorpe asks Ed to prove the innocence of her young colleague Noel Watson in the death of his wife, but she ends up coming under suspicion herself. |
April 28, 2004 |
| 3 |
Boys' Club The squad is called in to investigate the death of Detective Sergeant John Van Impe, and are soon faced with two suspects -- the officer's younger partner, Wayne Tocchet, and a long-time informant who fled the scene, Marlon Cummins. As the investigation continues, the squad begins to realise that they may have to arrest one of their own. |
May 5, 2004 |
| Episode | Title | Air date |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Private Sins (Part 1) | |
| 2 | Private Sins (Part 2) |
Production
Release
| Original network/platform | Global TV |
|---|---|
| First aired | January 10, 2001 |
| Last aired | July 9, 2004 |
| Runtime | 60 minutes |
| Status | ended |