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C.O.P.S. (Central Organization of Police Specialists) is an animated series released by DiC Entertainment in association with Paramount Television and distributed by Claster Television Inc and Celebrity Home Entertainment (some VHSs went through to Golden Book Video, though). This cartoon, which ran from 1988-1989, used the tag line: “Fighting crime in a future time, protecting Empire City from Big Boss and his gang of Crooks.” Each character in the series is totally different in appearance than both the toys and the comic series.

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Synopsis

The year: 2020 in the near future. The place: Empire City, a fictional megalopolis. The situation: Brandon "Big Boss" Babel, along with his Crooks, are holding the entire city under the palm of his iron hand and the Empire City Police Department can do nothing to stop him. As a last resort, Mayor Davis sends in Special Agent Baldwin P. Vess (Codename: Bulletproof) to take him down. However, Bulletproof suffered very serious injuries at the hands of Big Boss' criminal henchmen and had to be taken to the hospital, where he is given a cybernetic bullet-resistant torso to save his life.

While staying at the hospital, Bulletproof, knowing he cannot do all of this alone, sends out Police Officer P.J. O'Malley (Codename: LongArm) and rookie officer Donny Brooks (Codename: HardTop) to round up the best law enforcers from all over the country. With these men and women - including Highway, Mace, Barricade, LongArm, Hardtop, Mainframe, Sundown, Mirage, Bullseye, and Bowser and Blitz - he forms a team that is "the finest law enforcement agency there is in the country". Bulletproof becomes the proud founder and commander of C.O.P.S. Together, he and his C.O.P.S. team are able to take down Big Boss and his gang of crooks and thwart the first of many of Big Boss' criminal schemes.

About the Show

Each episode has a title that begins with "The Case of...." with a different phrase being added to it (i.e. The Case of the Iron C.O.P.S. and Wooden CROOKS; The Case of The Half-Pint Hero; and The Case of the Crime Nobody Heard) along with the C.O.P.S. file number. Bulletproof would narrate at the beginning of the episode as well as the end, concluding by repeating the C.O.P.S. file number and title, ending it with "Case Closed" with an abrupt "Closed" stamp mark being plastered onto the file. The two exceptions are the first parts each of the two-parter episodes, "The Case of Big Boss' Master Plan" and "The Case of C.O.P.S. File #1", where the conclusion of the episode is marked with a "Case Continued" plastered on the files.

In the cartoon, the C.O.P.S. frequently shouted, “It’s Crime Fighting Time!” as a battle cry when it was time to bag the CROOKS and solve a caper. Meanwhile, the CROOKS would shout “Crime’s a-wasting!” whenever they went to do another caper, whether it was pulling another heist (as in so many episodes such as The Case of The Blur Bandits), giving C.O.P.S. a hard time to the point of replacing (actually disposing) them for good (as in The Case of Big Boss' Master Plan) or taking captive a certain individual to be held prisoner for ransom (as in The Case of The Ransomed Rascal).

At the end of each episode, a special PSA segment known as C.O.P.S. For Kids is shown either in animated form featuring the C.O.P.S. and CROOKS or in live action form with real-life police officers giving kids information about safety issues. These included staying away from drugs, gangs, how to be safe at home and on the street, and how to help in preventing crime. Each and every C.O.P.S. for Kids segment was made with the blessing and assistance of organizations like DARE, the National Crime Prevention Council and the California Highway Patrol. These segments were omitted from some international broadcasts of the show.

The show became a hit with both parents and children when it was shown, but not enough of a hit to last very long. There were 66 episodes before the show was cancelled. Numerous characters were featured in the cartoon that did not have action figures (Including Mainframe, Brian O'Malley, Whitney Morgan, Nightshade, Ms. Demeanor, and Mirage.). It then was featured in reruns in syndication on CBS in 1993 and was renamed CyberCOPS in order to avoid confusion with the reality prime time show COPS, which was then gaining popularity.

The Case of The Boy Nobody Wanted

Many websites that talk about the C.O.P.S. series, including [TV.com], [tvshowsondvd.com], and [this site] have erroneously claimed that there were 65 episodes in the series while there are actually 66. They omit The Case of The Boy Nobody Wanted, the episode where Brian O'Malley (LongArm's son), Linda O'Malley (LongArm's wife) and Bulletproof help an underprivileged boy. At the end of the episode, a mishap occurs in Big Boss' penthouse that involves his computer system malfunctioning when a fake disk, switched from a real disk Big Boss was after, gets inserted into the computer, making the whole system malfunction greatly. A large vacuum cleaner chased and sucked up skinny Squeeky Kleen inside - and there was Big Boss yelling out from his penthouse window, "YOU DID THIS TO ME, BULLETPROOF!!!" as the camera zoomed out, concluding the penthouse scene. In the end, when Bulletproof was closing his C.O.P.S. file, he put multiple pictures in the file instead of just one like he done in the previous episodes of the series, including the photo of Bulletproof and Linda waving goodbye at the boy as he left to go home. At this time, the only way to see this episode is through bootleg recordings.

Memorable Quotes From The Show

Well-Known Repeated Quotes From The Show

Rare Quotes From The Show

Characters in the series

COPS

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CROOKS

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Supporting and Other Misc. Characters

C.O.P.S. Episodes

Main Article Complete List of C.O.P.S. Episodes

DVD

A DVD box set of the first 22 episodes was released in the United States on February 28, 2006 from Shout! Factory. It includes concept art, storyboard-to-screen, and the original PSAs that were shown after the episodes.

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