A team of Metropolitan Toronto Police Department forensic scientists investigate crime scenes, frequently in conflict with the hard-boiled detectives and street cops who work on the front line.
"[2] When Paul Harding left the series after the first season of eight one-hour episodes (before they had even aired),[3] however, he noted that Michael Kane had dominated the show as the principal crime solver.
[2] Show writers included Grahame Woods, George Robertson,[citation needed] Lyal Brown, Tony Sheer, Claude Harz, and Carol Bolt.
[3] Michael Kane played the "gruff and instinctive" Brewer, who, with his rugged looks, looking harassed and given to strong emotional expression, fit the type of the television cop or detective.
[3] Ed Conroy remarks on the series' "seatbelt-less high-speed chases" in yellow police cars and "a menagerie of exotic villains that ranged from gay Nazi bikers to roaming gangs of mute children," asserting that it could only have ever been made in the "brown and orange haze of 1970s Toronto.