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1	* ActorInspiredElement: Leslie Nielsen, who played Sgt. Buck Frobisher, was the son of a Mountie in real life. During his first appearance on the show, he took Paul Gross aside and told him that he was lacing his boots incorrectly and then proceeded to teach him the proper way for a Mountie to tie his shoes.
2	* CaliforniaDoubling:
3	** Toronto takes the place of Chicago for most exterior settings, including Kensington Market, the city's downtown core and the American Consulate (which stands in for Chicago's Canadian Consulate).
4	** Amusingly inverted, when a Toronto-set episode was filmed in... Chicago.
5	* CastIncest:
6	** Paul Gross is married in real life to the actress who played his character, Benton's, mother Caroline.
7	** David Marciano, who played Ray Vecchio, was married to the actress (Katayoun Amini) who played his character's ex-wife.
8	* TheCastShowoff: Paul Gross co-wrote and sang at least two songs in the course of the series. See also WrittenByCastMember.
9	* ChannelHop:
10	** From Creator/{{CBS}} to Creator/{{CTV}} (Canada) after the show was UnCanceled.
11	** Went through this in Britain when it was demoted from a primetime slot on Creator/TheBBC's flagship channel BBC One to an early evening slot on BBC Two.
12	* FakeAmerican:
13	** While Fraser's original partner is a genuine native-born American, Ray Kowalski is portrayed by Canadian actor Callum Keith Rennie, and his Canadian accent is audible at times.
14	** Ramona Milano (who played Francesca) is from Toronto --which makes a joke she cracks near the end of the series about how there's no life in Toronto all the funnier.
15	* FakeNationality: Chinese character Charlie Wong is played by Filipino-American (and rather multi-ethnic) Joel de la Fuente. His character's snark about RacialFaceBlindness in "Chinatown" serves double-duty as a bit of LampshadeHanging, since Joel de la Fuente is neither Chinese nor Japanese.
16	* GermansLoveDavidHasselhoff: ''Due South'' was popular in Britain, to the point where Creator/TheBBC ended up providing some of the show's funding. Creator/{{ITV}} also produced their own documentary, "Southbound," charting the origins and popularity of the series.
17	* TheOtherDarrin:
18	** The journalist Mackenzie King was played by two actresses -- Madolyn Smith-Osborne in the first-season episode "Diefenbaker's Day Out", and Creator/MariaBello" in Season 2's "One Good Man".
19	** Ray's boss Lt. Welsh was re-cast from Chuck Shamata to Beau Starr after the PilotMovie.
20	* RealLifeRelative: Paul Gross's wife Martha Burns as Fraser's mother, Caroline, in the series finale.
21	* UnCanceled: To the extent that it flirted with this for nearly its entire run. The show was originally cancelled by CBS after its first season, despite reasonably-good ratings. It was then renewed on the bubble, and "Letting Go" was filmed to keep the fans from wondering what happened after the finale. It was cancelled again at the end of Season 2, with the production company going as far as taking down the sets. A group of Canadian production companies banded together to fund the show, and it returned for two more seasons on Creator/{{CTV}}. Callum Keith Rennie also replaced David Marciano as Ray Vecchio (because Marciano had already moved his family after the apparent cancellation and didn't want to move back).
22	* WhatCouldHaveBeen:
23	** If the show had ended after season one, it was indicated Fraser would have been said to have died after being shot in "Victoria's Secret, Part 2".
24	** Originally, the real life wreck of the ''Edmund Fitzgerald'' was going to be used in the Season 3 finale, "Mountie on the Bounty'," but after talking to the families, Paul Gross opted for a fictional ship.
25	** The original scripted ending of "Call of the Wild" had both Rays in Chicago at the same police station, and acting friendly to each other, and Fraser in remote Canada with Turnbull and Meg Thatcher. Fraser seemingly not choosing one Ray over the other at the end of the series would have probably avoided the Ray Wars.
26	** Ray Vecchio's character in the first script of the Pilot was Hispanic, and he smoked cigarettes!
27	* WrittenByCastMember:
28	** "All The Queen's Horses," "Red, White Or Blue," "Burning Down The House" and the two-parters "Mountie On The Bounty" and "Call Of The Wild" were written or co-written by Paul Gross.
29	** The song Huey and Dewey write in "Mountie Sings The Blues" is "Two Houses", the title track of Paul Gross and David Keeley's first CD. "Ride Forever" and "32 Down On The Robert Mackenzie" were also written by Gross.
30	* YouLookFamiliar:
31	** Maury Chaykin plays secret agent Pike in "Spy Vs. Spy" and shipping depot [[spoiler: and sweat shop]] owner Gutman in "Mojo Rising".
32	** Also, Martha Burns as a Russian spy/terrorist and then as Fraser's mother.
33	** And Dean [=McDermott=]: playing Laurier (one of the "mooks") in "The Man Who Knew Too Little" and Constable Turnbull starting in Season 2.

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