Cold Case canceled

[Justin_Bailey]

@Hal_Briston

My personal best moment: Earlier this season, they had a pro-wrestling themed episode. As soon as it started and they were showing the flashback of the guys in the ring, I turned to my wife and said “The promoter did it” (and mind you, this was seconds into the show – well before they even introduced that there was a promoter). Nailed it.

Yeah, but in a boxing/wrestling themed episode of any show, it’s always the promotor. Don King and Vince McMahon must be the two most hated men in Hollywood.

[TWDuke]

[quote=“ThelmaLou, post:1, topic:540945”]

[li]Great music that matches the era of the flashbacks- a prison breakout show featured all Johnny Cash[/li][/QUOTE]
Hey, I think I was in that one! Well, I was an extra in a cafeteria scene that was filmed at Sybil Brand, and we listened to a few seconds of “Folsom Prison Blues Blues” over and over again. I told the wardrobe lady I had a really big head but she didn’t believe me and gave me a hat that didn’t fit. After a few takes the director noticed and made someone take it away from me. So if I’m visible at all, I’m the prisoner with a ridiculously small hat, or the hatless prisoner with a big head.

And I wore an onion on my belt, which was the fashion at the time…

[interface2x]

@DrFidelius

I wandered away from the show two years ago or so. I kept thinking “How many old, unsolved cases do they have in this city, and how can they justify taking the time of the entire homicide department to work them?”

That’s the genius of it. If the entire homicide department is working on cold cases, they can’t get around to the new cases until they’re …cold.

[ThelmaLou]

I didn’t think it was the whole homicide department… just the five of them. They’re the cold case squad. How could a big city like Philadelphia have only four detectives in the whole homicide department?

[Hal_Briston]

@Justin_Bailey

Yeah, but in a boxing/wrestling themed episode of any show, it’s always the promotor.

You know it and I know it, but my wife didn’t know it. Made me look like a complete Svengali to her, it did.

[Swallowed_My_Cellphone]

@Kyla

I’ve never actually seen this show, but I love the Canadian show that it’s apparently based on, Cold Squad. (Although according to Wikipedia, it wasn’t done with permission, and the Cold Squad people have considered suing CBS.) It’s a very original and sometimes quite shocking show. I recommend it highly!

I thought Cold Squad was better too.

[BrainGlutton]

@ThelmaLou

The detail in past scenes is so much fun to see. In one late 1950’s flashback, a kid had the SAME red plaid metal lunchbox that my friend Diane had in seventh grade. (I WANTED that lunchbox, but it was too expensive… and people wonder why I’m in therapy… )

Not because of The Pail?

[Clothahump]

@Hal_Briston

It’s kind of odd – I generally hate predictability in shows, yet I loved how predictable CC was. It almost never veered from format:

Person A brings cold case to the team’s attention, casts suspicion on Person B.
Person B is interviewed, claims innocence, casts suspicion on Person C.
Person C is interviewed, claims innocence, casts suspicion on Person D.
Person D is interviewed, claims innocence, casts suspicion on Person E.
Person E is interviewed, claims innocence, casts suspicion on Person F.
Person F is interviewed, claims innocence, points team back at Person B, C, D or E.
Reinterview above Person, lie is exposed, confession results.

That’s half the fun of the show. Watch and try to immediately pick B or C or whichever one dunnit. We got to be pretty good at it.

I didn’t like all the family and personal stuff towards the end. But, man - Lily is hawt!

[medstar]

@Hal_Briston

Good points all – Cold Case was never one of my “Oooo, I’m really looking forward to watching this” shows, but I always enjoyed it quite a bit. You’re dead on regarding the music – no other current show I’m aware of made as much good use out of music as CC did (and dear God, did I ever love the Rocky Horror episode). Still, I’ll miss the show.
By the by, Cold Case Files can be decent if you like true-crime shows.

My favorite episode was “Wishing”; the ending song was a version of the old Judy Garland song “Over the Rainbow”. There was a totally different arrangement and the singer was a hawaiian man named Israel (some difficult long name I’m blanking on) accompanied by a ukulele.

[TWDuke]

@medstar

There was a totally different arrangement and the singer was a hawaiian man named Israel (some difficult long name I’m blanking on) accompanied by a ukulele.

A lot of people just called him Iz.

OFFICIAL Somewhere over the Rainbow - Israel "IZ" Kamakawiwoʻole

[ThelmaLou]

Medstar, thanks for that post! That episode was just on (what a heartBREAKER!) and I couldn’t remember where I had heard that version of “Over the Rainbow” before.

The singer was Israel Kamakawiwo’ole.

Israel Kamakawiwoʻole

Sadly, he died in 1997.

From Wikipedia
Throughout the later part of his life, Kamakawiwoʻole suffered from severe obesity and at one point carried 770 pounds (350 kg) (55 stone) on his 6-foot 2-inch (1.88 m) frame. He endured several hospitalizations and died of weight-related respiratory illness on June 26, 1997, at 12:18 a.m. at the age of 38.

Here is the song:

- YouTube

ETA: Oops! Simultaneous post!

[Larry_Mudd]

@Kyla

I’ve never actually seen this show, but I love the Canadian show that it’s apparently based on, Cold Squad. (Although according to Wikipedia, it wasn’t done with permission, and the Cold Squad people have considered suing CBS.) It’s a very original and sometimes quite shocking show. I recommend it highly!

Cold Squad kicked ass, right up to the incomprehensible end. Cold Case was a poor imitation/

[BrassyPhrase]

@BrotherCadfael

The thing that I always enjoyed about the show (aside from the translucent porcelain skin, about which I agree with you) is the casting of the various guest stars. In particular, the selection of actors to play the young and older versions of the characters is absolutely flawless.

I hope the people in charge of casting have won emmys, b/c yes, they do an amazing job.

Sometimes it’s a bone structure thing, sometimes it’s been body language–but I’ve always been stunned by the past/present casting when it wasn’t more of a ‘we can get this actor/actress’ thing.

I’ll miss this show. It wasn’t perfect or great, but fun to watch and like another poster said–it’s easy to forget how the world changes.