In the years after “Night Heat,” Hylands worked predominantly in television, and appeared in series including “NYPD Blue,” “The X-Files,” “Due South,” “Stargate SG-1,” “The Outer Limits, “V,” “Once ...

Scott Hylands, who starred as the cynical Det. Kevin “O.B.” O’Brien on the 1980s cop show Night Heat, the first Canadian original drama series to simultaneously air in the U.S., has died. He was 83.