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!

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.

I loved the show first-run and was thrilled last December (2002) when a local tv station in southern Sweden began to replay every episode as a daily filler. It's extremely clever, with wonderful, witty dialogue. The exchanges that Fraser has with the deaf Dief and his father's ghost are priceless as is the subtle (and not so subtle) sarcasm.Just a few complaints:*My favorite storyline was "Victoria's Secret" -- but what happened to Victoria? There should have been an ending there.*By the time I got used to the "other" Ray (Stanley) being in the cast, they made him cartoonish and dumb.*I think at the end, there was too much junk about women mooning over Frasure. All the googly-eyed stuff from his superior just plain embarassed me.*Fraser should have ended up with a woman -- a good woman who would make him more human and save him from his own perfection.It was a clever, clever bit to use actor Paul Gross' (Fraser) real-life wife as the ghost of his mother in the last episode. I have read that Gross "is sick of" this show and resents being remembered for it. If it's true, that's a shame. "Due South" will forever be one of my favorite television programs.

Due South was one of the great TV shows, successfully able to blend comedy and drama, to produce a serious, yet witty show. The acting is of very good quality, with Paul Gross and David Marciano able to depict the "best friend" type relationship in a very real way.The show, as far as I am concerned, did take a bit of a dive when Marciano left, however it was still an enjoyable show to watch and I feel that it was a pity that it was only given 4 seasons. It deserved a few more.