Underplayed Gems

RoboCop: The Series (1994)

RoboCop: The Series poster
Directed by
Paul Shapiro
Genre
action television series
Country
United States, Canada
Length
1 season, 22 episodes
Rated
TV-14
Rating
6.3 of 10 from 104 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb
The 3D catalogue: film cases on wooden shelves, with the cat sitting at the counter next to its greeting.

The catalogue in 3D

The film shelves have a room of their own that you can walk around in. The cat behind the counter is the AI Catbot, and they pick real films from the same catalogue when you tell them what you feel like watching. Nothing is for sale, here or in there. Go in from here and this series is already out on the counter, with more like it waiting on the shelf next to it.

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How it feels

A cyborg police officer named RoboCop patrols a futuristic city fighting crime. This version is made for younger audiences so it avoids graphic violence and often uses non-lethal methods. The corporate villains are portrayed as foolish rather than evil.

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What happens

RoboCop (also known as RoboCop: The Series) is a 1994 cyberpunk television series based on the RoboCop franchise. It stars Richard Eden as the title character. Made to appeal primarily to children and young teenagers, it lacks the graphic violence of the original film RoboCop and its sequel RoboCop 2 and is more in line with the tone of RoboCop 3. The television series ignores the events of the sequels and many character names are changed from the movie series. The RoboCop character has several non-lethal alternatives to killing criminals, which ensures that certain villains can be recurring. The OCP Chairman and his corporation are treated as simply naïve and ignorant, in contrast to their malicious and immoral behavior from the second film onward. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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