RoboCop: The Series
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RoboCop: The Series was the TV show made in 1994, starring Richard Eden as the title character, RoboCop. Made to appeal primarily to children and young teens, the graphic violence that was the hallmark of RoboCop and RoboCop 2 was absent. Rather than killing criminals, RoboCop now had a slew of non-lethal alternatives, which also insured that certain villains would be recurring. The OCP Chairman and his corporation were also treated as merely naïve and ignorant, in contrast to their malicious and amoral behavior from the second movie onward.
The series was filmed in Toronto, Canada, and each episode was one hour long. Twenty-two episodes were made, but the series was not renewed for a second season. One of the reasons was the expense involved: some episodes cost as much as a million dollars.
The pilot was actually adapted from the original RoboCop 2 script, Corporate Wars, by Edward Neumeier and Michael Miner, the writers of RoboCop.
The villains included Boppo the Clown, Dr. Cray Z. Mallardo, William "Pud-face" Morgan, and Commander Cash (although in one episode it was revealed that Commander Cash was actually a misunderstood hero - a former OCP employee who was the real creator of OCP's Commander Cash toy line whose idea was stolen by a co-worker and subsequently terminated from the company due to the said coworker). Many of the episodes were explicitly critical of conservative and libertarian policies, i.e. the privatization of health care and welfare.
A second series was planned but due to poor ratings with the first series, the second series was cancelled and the whole programme was axed.
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