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This page is devoted to the RoboCop tv series and movies, also the subject of Robocop books.

It's Detroit sometime in the near future. Murphy, a tough cop transferred to old Detroit, is fatally wounded by a gang of lunatics. This is the big chance that OCP, the multi-national corporation that purchased the police department, has been waiting for to create a cyborg: part human, part machine, modern technology with on-the-street experience.

In the second movie, a ruthless OCP executive creates a new, improved robot-cop: a ten foot tall, powerful monster. There's just one little problem: it has a brain salvaged from a convicted felon. And now he's out to get Robocop...talk about good cop/bad cop!

In Robocop 3, the OCP merges with a Japanese corporation that has it's own, untested, ninja-robot. The perfect thing for crowd control. If you don't want the crowd to live. Naturally, the original Robocop takes him/it on in a final confrontation that he barely survives

There was also a three-movie series called Maniac Cop. This was sort of the evil twin of Robocop. Set in the dark innercity, a cop gone bad and out to out-bad the bad guys. The first one stars Bruce Campbell, with Sheree North as a bitter crippled policewoman.

A tv series about Robocop followed the original 3 robocop movies, though none of the episodes appear to be available on videotape.
A number of actors have appeared in RoboCop films:
RoboCop: Peter Weller, Nancy Allen (Murphy's partner), Ronny Cox (the corporate bad guy), Kurtwood Smith, Dan O'Herlihy (the appalled Chairman of the Board),
Director: Paul Verhoeven (who also directed Total Recall and Starship Troopers).
RoboCop 2: Weller and Allen, plus Belinda Bauer, Gabriel Damon, Tom Noonan, Dan O'Herlihy
and director Irvin Kershner (director of Never Say Never Again, The Empire Strikes Back, and Eyes of Laura Mars).
RoboCop 3: Robert John Burke (as the new RoboCop) Rip Torn, Jill Hennessy, Remy Ryan, CCH Pounder, Dan O'Herlihy
and director: Fred Dekker (who also directed Monstervision movie House, 1986).

Here's a list of videos available, followed by this month's episodes/movies on tv/cable:

Robocop 3 (1993)

Robocop 2 (1990)

Robocop (1987)

Maniac Cop (1988)

Maniac Cop 3 (1992)

         Previous (November 2001 to 2002) times are EST:
November 3    3:00 PM  ROBOCOP 3 (Sci Fi Channel)
December 15  12:00 AM  ROBOCOP 3 (USA Network) 
January 17    8:00 PM  RoboCop 2    CINEMAX    
Thursdy 17   11:00 PM  RoboCop 2    CINEMAX    
Sunday  27    3:15 AM  RoboCop 2    CINEMAX    
Sunday  27    6:15 AM  RoboCop 2    CINEMAX  
Feb 17  10:05 AM  RoboCop 3    TMC    
Mon 17    5:35 PM  RoboCop 3   TMC    
Tue 18    3:05 AM  RoboCop 3   TMC    
Fri 21    1:25 PM  RoboCop 3   TMC    
Sat 22  12:00 AM  RoboCop 3    TMC    
Sun 23    2:05 AM  RoboCop    STARZ    
March 17    3:15 PM  Robocop        MEGAV    
March 23    8:00 PM  Robocop        WKYC    
March 24    3:15 PM  Robocop        MEGAV  
April 10    9:00 PM  Sci Fi channel: ROBOCOP 3 

New RoboCop series aired on Sci Fi channel last July, 2001


ROBOCOP: PRIME DIRECTIVES

This 8-hour miniseries is set ten years after the original. Delta City is now considered "the safest place on Earth" and Robocop/Alex Murphy is beginning to feel his age. For one thing, his fully-grown son is both unaware of his father's survival and is an executive of OCP, the corporation that "owns" Delta City. What's a father who is made mostly of steel to do? It will follow a Saturday, July 14, 2001, 4:00 PM SCINEMA FEATURE showing of the movie ROBOCOP 3
Part I Monday, July 16, 2001 at 9PM & Midnight ET/PT
Part II Tuesday, July 17, at 9PM & 12AM ET/PT
Part III Wednesday, July 18, at 9PM & 12AM ET/PT
Part IV  Thursday, July 19, at 9PM & 12AM ET/PT

Previous Sci-Fi channel broadcasts:

Sept. 5, 2000, WHEN JUSTICE FAILS
Sept 12, THE HUMAN FACTOR
Sept 19, INSIDE CRIME (a reality-show profiling Robocop and the criminals he's after - live)
Sept 26, ROBOCOP VS. COMMANDER CASH
No episodes or movies are scheduled until:
Saturday, January 22, 2000, 9:00 PM & repeated in 4 hours, SCINEMA EVENT (movie) "ROBOCOP 3"
August 14, 10:00 AM, ROBOCOP MARATHON:
THE FUTURE OF LAW ENFORCEMENT
THE FUTURE OF LAW ENFORCEMEN
WHEN JUSTICE FALLS
THE HUMAN FACTOR
ILLUSIONS
MIDNIGHT MINUS ONE Sun, September 24, 8:00 PM, SCINEMA FEATURE: ROBOCOP 3
Mon, October 16, 10:00 AM, ROBOCOP marathon:
          GHOSTS OF WAR                 
11:00 AM, ZONE FIVE                     
12:00 PM, PROVISION 22                  
1:00 PM,  FACES OF EVE                  
2:00 PM,  TIN MAN                       
3:00 PM,  SISTERS IN CRIME              
27-JULY, 2001   ROBOCOP 3
29-SEP 5:00 PM  ROBOCOP 3   
29-SEP 7:00 PM  ROBOCOP 2   
29-SEP 9:00 PM  ROBOCOP 1  
30-SEP 1:00 PM  ROBOCOP 3   
30-SEP 3:00 PM  ROBOCOP 2   
30-SEP 5:00 PM  ROBOCOP 1
OCTOBER - none scheduled on the Sci Fi Channel
No further episodes scheduled so far on the Sci Fi Channel

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