RoboCop: The Series

  • Richard Eden: Alex " RoboCop " Murphy
  • Yvette Nipar: Officer Lisa Madigan
  • Blu Mankuma: Sergeant Stanley Parks
  • Andrea Roth: Diana Powers
  • David Gardner: OCP CEO
  • Sarah Campbell: Gertrude "Gadget" Modestro
  • Ed Sahely: Charlie Lippencott
  • Cliff de Young: Dr. Cray Z. Mallardo
  • Dan Duran: Bo Harlan
  • John Rubinstein: Chip Chayken
  • Jennifer Griffin: Nancy Murphy
  • Peter Costigan: Jimmy Murphy

RoboCop is a Canadian science fiction series based on the RoboCop movie series and was produced by Rysher Entertainment and Skyvision Entertainment. It is located in content about two years after the first RoboCop movie.

Action

Alex Murphy is a patrolman in the 21st century, who was seriously wounded in an application. It applies to the public as having died, but the mega-corporation Omni Consumer Products ( OCP) made ​​him the RoboCop, a cyborg. His memories should be erased, but Murphy can still remember sporadic incidents from his past life. His partner in the police headquarters Metro South is the policewoman Lisa Madigan, with whom he goes on patrol in Delta City, to fight crime and violence on the streets. Other partners include Sergeant Stan Parks and the hologram Diana Powers, who like Murphy is officially dead, but lives on in cyberspace of Neuro- Net. In addition, the scientist Charlie Lippencott care of the artificial body Murphys, who befriends with the orphans " gadget ". His opponents include Pudface Morgan, who was disfigured in a chemical accident in the face, and the OCP Group CEO, who had created him and programmed with him unconditional loyalty.

Broadcast

After only one season in 1994 in the free American TV ( syndication ) launched series was discontinued. The German private broadcaster RTL showed German premiere at the end of 1995, late Friday evening program. Repetitions were made until 1998, RTL and VOX, since it airs only on pay TV.

This and that

  • The screenwriters Michael Miner and Edward Neumeier submitted a script for the second movie RoboCop in the film company Orion Pictures. It was indeed unused, but some content has been incorporated into the pilot and the series.
  • The pilot for the series was released in Germany as RoboCop 4 Law and Order (translated: RoboCop - For law and order ) as a VHS video cassette. It is likely that the number four is to give the impression to be a continuation of the three-part movie series.
  • The series was filmed on cost grounds in Canada. Each episode cost about 1.25 million U.S. dollars.
  • In the later episodes, the guy who shows RoboCop driving through the streets of Delta City, musical with the song Future Of This Life, presented by Joe Walsh and Lita Ford, backed.
  • Each episode begins with the two-line display " in the near future. Location: Detroit, Michigan "(originally " Time: The Near Future Place: . Detroit, Michigan ").
  • Some excerpts were in the miniseries RoboCop - Prime Directives recycled. Among them dating back to the scene of Murphy's death, as the producers had no direct license for the film.

Succession works

As the successor works are the 40 -part animated series RoboCop: Alpha Commando (1998 to 1999) and the four-part film series RoboCop: Prime Directives with Page Fletcher to name as RoboCop from the year 2001.

Media

The pilot episode of the series was released on DVD by now Sunfilm in Germany. The series was released on 17 April 2009.

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