Cold Case
2003
📺 7 Seasons
🎬 156 Episodes
📅 Canceled
🌐 EN
⏱️ 44 min/episode
CrimeDramaMystery
The Philadelphia homicide squad's lone female detective finds her calling when she is assigned cases that have never been solved. Detective Lilly Rush combines her natural instincts with the updated technology available today to bring about justice for all the victims she can.
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Seasons
Season 1
Lilly investigates a 1976 case involving a teenage girl who was beaten to death on a tennis court during a party at a plush estate.
Season 2
Lilly returns to her last case before joining the Cold Case Squad as she re-investigates the brutal triple homicide of a restaurant owner and his family, murdered in the restaurant bathroom in 2003. Also the other team member have personal reasons to closing the case; Jeffries grew up in the predominantly black neighborhood while Vera was the one assigned to the case when Det. Rush left.
Season 3
When a young girl is contacted by a man claiming to be her father, Det. Rush and her team reopen a 1988 case of a teenaged boy, killed on the same night the girl was born.
Season 4
Lilly investigates a 1995 shooting spree at a mall in which two teen boys killed 15 people before committing suicide. The case is reopened when a video of the crimes is found and it suggests that a third shooter was involved. Elsewhere, Stillman asks Valens to investigate whether Valens' brother may have been molested by a boxing coach in the 1980s.
Season 5
Recovered from the shooting, Lilly wants to convince her boss that she's ready to get back to work. The team re-opens the 1994 case of three 10-year-old kids who were beaten to death when Lilly suspects the teens convicted of the killings may have been wrongfully incarcerated.
Season 6
The 1973 murder of a college-football star's on the eve of a championship game. The unsolved case is reopened when new evidence suggests he was killed earlier than previously assumed and the victim may have been involved with steroids.
Season 7
With the team investigating the 1966 shipboard murder of a young woman traveling in steerage on a luxury ocean liner who was believed to have committed suicide by jumping overboard. But new evidence indicates otherwise. Meanwhile, the trial of a military academy official who attempted to harm Lilly begins.
Cast
User Reviews
This was easily the most creative and freshest of the detective series of the modern time frame from 1980 to 2020.
The show revolves around the regular cast, who pretty much stay in the background to the actions of guest stars. That's pretty much how most good TV action shows work. For instance, shows like The Big Valley and The Virginian would have the regular players be the "passing crowd of the public" for whatever guest stars came around with their drama.
In other words, the "drama kings and queens" come and go.
In this show, there was always some ironic twist to a "cold case" of murder. It might not even be "murder" when it's figured out.
There are lots of "flashbacks", and of course these don't involve the regular players.
The show had a fresh approach that one doesn't generally see from the usual hacks of the writer's guild.
April 18, 2023
Crew
Producer
Jonathan Littman, Jerry Bruckheimer, Meredith Stiehm
Network
CBS
Production
Jerry Bruckheimer Television, Kurtis Productions, Warner Bros. Television
Keywords
philadelphia, pennsylvaniadetectivevictiminvestigationpolicepolice detectivefemale detectivemurder investigationhomicide detectivecold case