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Cold Case: Characters, Music & Art

Cold Case is an American police procedural crime drama television series. It ran on CBS from September 28, 2003, to May 2, 2010. The series revolved around a fictionalized Philadelphia Police Department division that specializes in investigating cold cases, usually homicides. On May 18, 2010, the series was cancelled after seven seasons.

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Cold Case topic overview

The analysis highlights Characters, Music and Art as prominent areas in the source structure around Cold Case.

Related topics
76
Source areas
10
Connected nodes
86
Extracted relationships
190
Concept neighborhoods
17
Bridge connections
86

What this topic covers Research coverage

Source areas are shown by the number of related topics found in each part of the analysis. Use smaller areas too: they can reveal specialized angles and content gaps.

Distribution · 17 topics
Music · 17 topics
Premise · 15 topics
Awards and nominations · 6 topics
Cast and characters · 6 topics
Overview · 6 topics
Adaptations · 4 topics
Cold Squad controversy · 2 topics
U.S. television ratings · 2 topics
Fictional universe · 1 topics

Smaller areas are not necessarily less important. They contain fewer connections in this analysis and can be useful for finding specialized angles or coverage gaps.

Key facts & relationships

High-confidence facts extracted from structured source data. Use them as anchors for further research.

Genre
Crime drama · Police procedural · Mystery
Composer
Michael A. Levine
Country of origin
United States
Created by
Meredith Stiehm
Executive producers
Meredith Stiehm · Jerry Bruckheimer · Jonathan Littman
Network
CBS

Explore all related topics Closing gaps

Browse the complete topic structure, not only the most central items. Less prominent entities and concepts can reveal missing angles, specialized context and useful research gaps. Each item opens a new analysis centered on that subject.

Overview

Premise

Music

Cast and characters

Fictional universe

Adaptations

Cold Squad controversy

U.S. television ratings

Distribution

Awards and nominations

Advanced semantic analysis

Deeper signals for content research, entity SEO and topical coverage. The plain-language headings explain what each technical view is useful for.

How Cold Case connects Entity context

The extracted context around Cold Case shows recurring relationship patterns in the source. For example, Cold Case → Chris Lassing, Danny Pino, Homicide, Homicide Detective, In, Jeremy Ratchford, John Finn, John Stillman, Justin Chambers, Kat Miller, Kathryn Morris, Lilly, Lilly Rush, Lilly's, Nick Vera, Philadelphia Homicide Division, Philadelphia Homicide Division's, Rush, Scotty Valens, Season Another extracted example is Cold Case → All, Cases, Danny Pino, Detective Chris Lassing, Detective Lilly Rush, Detective Scotty Valens, Generally, Jeremy Ratchford, John Finn, Justin Chambers, Kat Miller, Kathryn Morris, Lieutenant John Stillman, Nick Vera, Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Philadelphia Police Department, Rush, The, They. Use these groups to spot repeated connection types before inspecting the individual relationships.

Cold Case

Top relations

related to Cast and characters · 24
Cold Case → Chris Lassing, Danny Pino, Homicide, Homicide Detective, In, Jeremy Ratchford, John Finn, John Stillman, Justin Chambers, Kat Miller, Kathryn Morris, Lilly, Lilly Rush, Lilly's, Nick Vera, Philadelphia Homicide Division, Philadelphia Homicide Division's, Rush, Scotty Valens, Season
related to Premise · 24
Cold Case → All, Cases, Danny Pino, Detective Chris Lassing, Detective Lilly Rush, Detective Scotty Valens, Generally, Jeremy Ratchford, John Finn, Justin Chambers, Kat Miller, Kathryn Morris, Lieutenant John Stillman, Nick Vera, Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Philadelphia Police Department, Rush, The, They
see also · 24
Cold Case → BBC One, BBC Two, CAN, Case Files, CBS, Czech Republic, Dead, Fuji Television, ID, Japan, Justice, Killer, OWN, Signal, South Korea, Television, TNT, To Catch, Tricks, UK
related to Cold Squad controversy · 20
Cold Case → American, At, Both, Canada, Canadian, Canadian Film Centre, Carole Handler, CBS, Cold Squad, CTV, In, In November, July, Mail, Meredith Stiehm, O'Donnell, Our, Schaeffer, The Globe, TV
related to Cancellation · 14
Cold Case → CBS, CBS Sunday, February, For, In, May, More, On November, One, September, The, They, Trace, Without
related to Fictional universe · 12
Cold Case → Cold Reveal, Crime Scene Investigation, CSI, Cyber, Danny Pino, Miami, NY, This, Trace, Valens, Vegas, Without
related to Home media and streaming · 10
Cold Case → After, Blu-ray, CBS, December, DVD, In May, Roku Channel, September, The, United States
related to Japanese adaptation · 9
Cold Case → December, February, Japanese, October, Shinjitsu, The, Tobira, WOWOW Prime, Yokohama
Starring · 7
Cold Case → Danny Pino, Jeremy Ratchford, John Finn, Justin Chambers, Kathryn Morris, Thom Barry, Tracie Thoms
related to Russian adaptation · 6
Cold Case → Company Star Media, Detective Rush, Russia, Russian, The, Without Prescription

Important terminology

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Important terminology

cold series case cbs show television episode season police detective also seasons philadelphia music episodes crime 2010 would viewers 2003

Cold Case relationships Subject–Predicate–Object triples

TTTA extracted 190 structured relationships around Cold Case. Examples in this analysis include Cold Case → Composer → Michael A. Levine and Cold Case → Country of origin → United States. The table shows each extracted connection, where it came from and its confidence.

SubjectPredicateObjectConfidenceSrc
Cold CaseComposerMichael A. Levine1.00infobox
Cold CaseCountry of originUnited States1.00infobox
Cold CaseCreated byMeredith Stiehm1.00infobox
Cold CaseExecutive producersMeredith Stiehm1.00infobox
Cold CaseExecutive producersJerry Bruckheimer1.00infobox
Cold CaseExecutive producersJonathan Littman1.00infobox
Cold CaseGenreCrime drama1.00infobox
Cold CaseGenrePolice procedural1.00infobox
Cold CaseGenreMystery1.00infobox
Cold CaseNetworkCBS1.00infobox
Cold CaseNo. of episodes156 (list of episodes)1.00infobox
Cold CaseNo. of seasons71.00infobox
Cold CaseOpening themeNara1.00infobox
Cold CaseOriginal languageEnglish1.00infobox
Cold CaseProduction companiesJerry Bruckheimer Television1.00infobox
Cold CaseProduction companiesCBS Television Studios[a]1.00infobox
Cold CaseProduction companiesWarner Bros. Television1.00infobox
Cold CaseProduction locationsPhiladelphia, Pennsylvania1.00infobox
Cold CaseReleaseSeptember 28, 2003 (2003-09-28) – May 2, 2010 (2010-05-02)1.00infobox
Cold CaseRunning time42–45 minutes1.00infobox
Cold CaseStarringKathryn Morris1.00infobox
Cold CaseStarringJustin Chambers1.00infobox
Cold CaseStarringThom Barry1.00infobox
Cold CaseStarringJohn Finn1.00infobox
Cold CaseStarringJeremy Ratchford1.00infobox
Cold CaseStarringDanny Pino1.00infobox
Cold CaseStarringTracie Thoms1.00infobox
Cold CaseTheme music composerHelmut and Franz Vonlichten with intro by Michael A. Levine1.00infobox
Cold Caseis aAmerican police procedural crime drama television series0.90text

Related concept clusters Concept neighborhoods

The concept neighborhoods around Cold Case bring nearby vocabulary together. In this analysis, examples include Cold, Series and Squad. Use the clusters to find adjacent concepts and terminology that may deserve separate research.

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    • Squad
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    • Crime
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    • Cases
    • Without
    • Ratings
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    • Ratings
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    • Music
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  • cold squad controversy
    • Series
    • Squad
    • Cbs
    • Crime
    • Police
    • Television
    • Episode
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    • Cases
    • Without
    • Ratings
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Connections between topic areas Semantic bridges

For Cold Case, one of the stronger structural bridges in this analysis connects Cold Case with Music. Bridges highlight paths between different parts of the map and can reveal research angles that are easy to miss in a flat list.

Min side: 3
Cold CaseMusic · splits 69 ⟂ 18
Cold CaseDistribution · splits 69 ⟂ 18
Cold CasePremise · splits 71 ⟂ 16
Cold CaseOverview · splits 80 ⟂ 7
Cold CaseCast and characters · splits 80 ⟂ 7
Cold CaseAwards and nominations · splits 80 ⟂ 7
Cold CaseAdaptations · splits 82 ⟂ 5
Cold CaseCold Squad controversy · splits 84 ⟂ 3
Cold CaseU.S. television ratings · splits 84 ⟂ 3

Map overview Semantic statistics

Cold Case

Nodes87
Edges86
Triples190
Avg. degree1.98
Density0.022989
Components1

Source & methodology

TTTA analyzes the structure around Cold Case to surface related topics, entities, relationships, concept neighborhoods and bridge connections. Use the map to explore areas such as Characters, Music & Art, including less central topics that may reveal useful research gaps. Automatically extracted connections are research leads rather than rewritten encyclopedia content.

Source: Wikipedia — Cold Case · EN edition · Analysis: TopicsToTalkAbout

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