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C.O.P.S. Season 1

October. 05,1988
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C.O.P.S.

C.O.P.S. is an American animated television series released by DIC Entertainment and Celebrity Home Entertainment. 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". In 1993, the series was shown in reruns on CBS Saturday mornings as CyberCOPS, the name change due to the 1989 debut of the unrelated primetime reality show of the same name. The show was based on Hasbro's 1988 line of action figures called C.O.P.S 'N' Crooks.

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C.O.P.S.

1988  / NR

C.O.P.S. is an American animated television series released by DIC Entertainment and Celebrity Home Entertainment. 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". In 1993, the series was shown in reruns on CBS Saturday mornings as CyberCOPS, the name change due to the 1989 debut of the unrelated primetime reality show of the same name. The show was based on Hasbro's 1988 line of action figures called C.O.P.S 'N' Crooks.

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Ken Ryan, John Stocker
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C.O.P.S. Season 1 Full Episode Guide

Episode 65 - The Case of the Invisible Crime
First Aired: October. 11,1988

Big Boss' crooks made themselves invisible to make things difficult for the C.O.P.S. team to catch them and to have an easy time committing robberies in the progress. This episode features Mace being highly annoyed by Airwave and his constant babbling. Airwave is the newest member of C.O.P.S. who serves the team as a communications expert and could make an excellent sportscaster if he hadn't chosen to be part of C.O.P.S.

Episode 64 - The Case of the Red-Hot Hoodlum
First Aired: October. 11,1988

Rock Krusher stole a special flaming suit that causes the wearer to go up in flames literally. With this special suit, he is able to create successful heists and escape from any trap the C.O.P.S. team laid out for him just by burning through walls and floors and incinerate anything in his path, until they are able to lead Krusher onto the Mountback Blimp, where, with the help of Nancy and Cathleen, they are able to trap Krusher by tricking him into melting through the floor to the outside of the blimp, causing him to get stuck through the blimp's bottom, screaming for help since his head is facing down below the city many, many feet up in the air and he's trying to hang on for his dear life. Krusher gave up at that point and was placed back behind bars where he belonged.

Episode 62 - The Case of the Bad Luck Burglar
First Aired: October. 11,1988

Buttons McBoomBoom got upset when he lost his lucky penny: the very first penny he ever stole. He searched frantically for it in the sewers and also in his old rundown apartment house. Big Boss wanted him to rob the lottery machine filled with money at a huge mall but Buttons can't find his lucky penny and he's been getting a lot of bad luck as a result of this. So, Big boss have decided to double-cross him into robbing a lottery machine at the Mall.

Episode 60 - The Case of the Lawless Lady
First Aired: January. 09,1989

Nightshade is falsely accused of robbing several jewelry stores. But she is planning on robbing the main jewelry store that's unfortunately guarded by a mean vicious dog named Shredder who's owned by the proprietor of the store who is the real culprit behind the robberies.

Episode 59 - The Case of the Spotless Kingpin
First Aired: October. 11,1988

Big Boss orders a new stain resistant suit made to completely resist dirt. However, a major screw-up by Berserko causes the suit to completely pull all the dirt away from the room and bringing it directly towards Big Boss, covering him up completely. Now Squeeky will have to find a way to fix up the problem..or else he'll be in much more of a mess than ever before.

Episode 58 - The Case of the Ransomed Rascal
Episode 57 - The Case of the Crooked Contest
Episode 56 - The Case of the Lowest Crime
First Aired: October. 11,1988

A very evil crook named Addictim tried to sell his dangerous drug product called Crystal Twyst to the streets of Empire City. He even tried to joined up with Big Boss and his crooks to help promote the drug product. But Big Boss rejected his offer. For once, there is a spark of morality inside this otherwise corrupted, fat man. He even order his crooks to reject Addictim's product completely. Easier said than done. For unfortunately, Berserko accidentally injected himself with Addictem's Crystal Twyst and is seen dying from the deadly drug overdose, Big Boss had no choice but to beg the C.O.P.S. team to help save his nephew, which they did. As a result, Big Boss and his Crooks....of all things...joined forces with C.O.P.S. in a successful effort to take down Addictem and end his drug selling business for good.

Episode 55 - The Case of the Missing Memory
First Aired: October. 11,1988

Sundown, while suffering from amnesia after being knocked out by a fallen lamp post, unwittingly teaches Big Boss' Crooks all the tricks and traits of what it's like to be a cowboy, not knowing that this is part of Big Boss' plot to use Sundown as a pawn to commit an armored truck robbery. Sundown later regains his memory and helps the C.O.P.S. team put a stop to the heist and nab the rustlers along the way.

Episode 54 - The Case of the Kidnapped Kangaroo Caper
First Aired: November. 17,1988

Sundown had to go after Rock Krusher and Louie the Plumber, who not only kidnapped a famous Australian boxing kangaroo, but Whitney Morgan as well. The two crooks were holding them both prisoners at the Empire City Park in a forested area for ransom. Sundown was able to track them down, freeing Whitney and the kangaroo - who had a little joey tucked inside her pouch. With the help of this special marsupial, Sundown was able to take down Louie and Krusher and get the jump on their plans.

Episode 53 - The Case of the High Iron Hoods
Episode 52 - The Case of the Ready Room Mutiny
Episode 51 - The Case of the Midas Touch
First Aired: November. 16,1988

Squeeky Kleen wound up having a special "Midas" glove device get stuck on one of his hands, changing everything and everyone to gold (including Big Boss and Dr. BadVibes). He went about trying to get the stubborn thing off his hand while changing everything he touched into gold, until eventually it was removed by Powderkeg. Squeeky himself got time in prison for disturbing the peace.

Episode 50 - The Case of the Iron C.O.P. and the Wooden Crooks
First Aired: October. 11,1988

A few months after "The Case of the Bogus Justice Machines,"Justice Machine Jim begins his first day on the job as a police officer. That's when Dr. Badvibes gains control over Jim's programming circuits and forces him to commit a robbery.

Episode 49 - The Case of the Big Boss's Bye-Bye
First Aired: October. 11,1988

Sometimes Big Boss likes to take advantage of the city's problems and uses it to his own advantage. Empire City is having lots of financial troubles and Mayor Davis has declared that all unnecessary employment in Empire City must be eliminated. Bulletproof had to assure the C.O.P.S team that the C.O.P.S. organization is not one of those unnecessary employment areas. However, Big Boss made C.O.P.S. to be one of them by faking retirement and took off to a tropical island hideaway, anticipating the C.O.P.S. team to receive the pink slip. Afterwards, Big Boss returns to pull a heist on the Empire Central Railroad train that's coming to Empire City to deliver relief funds to the city, which was successfully thwarted by Bulletproof, Mainframe, and Mace, who all got their jobs back afterwards.

Episode 48 - The Case of the Lesser of Two Weevils
Episode 46 - The Case of the Runaway Buzzbomb
First Aired: November. 02,1988

Big Boss hurt Buzzbomb's feelings so bad that Buzzbomb have decided to runaway. He is joined by Highway's niece who is also running away too for something she's afraid her uncle would be mad over if he finds out what she had done.

Episode 45 - The Case of the Boy who Cried Sea Monster
Episode 44 - The Case of the Rock and Roll Robbers
First Aired: October. 11,1988

Dr. BadVibes created musical instruments that hypnotize concert goers so that his pals can rob them of their valuables and formed a rock band he calls The Bad News featuring Berserko and Rock Krusher. Mirage and Hardtop is sent to go undercover as talent scout agents to put an end to The Bad News' musical career and bring one big sour note to this caper.

Episode 40 - The Case of the Lying Lie Detector
First Aired: October. 11,1988

Blitz can detect lies with great accuracy and barks whenever he hears a lie. However, Blitz was installed (by the crooks) with a device that causes him to do the opposite of what he's supposed to do. Thankfully, it was corrected with the right fixings allowing Blitz to help the C.O.P.S. team rescue Mayor Davis from being held hostage by the crooks.

Episode 39 - The Case of the Ghost Crooks
First Aired: October. 11,1988

Big Boss and his pals steal remote control suits and use them for crimes such as bank robbery, which convince people that ghosts are doing the stealing, which is what Big Boss want everyone to think. Only the C.O.P.S. can get to the bottom of this.

Episode 38 - The Case of the Visiting Mother
First Aired: October. 11,1988

Big Momma paid her son, Big Boss a visit in Empire City to accompany him to an auction brought on by Commissioner Highwaters to raise money for charity. Big Boss had to struggle to be good in front of his momma even though it was pretty difficult thing to do for a kingpin such as Big Boss. He even had to hide his true colors from her by pretending to run an orphanage with his crooks posing as orphans.

Episode 37 - The Case of the Bogus Bride
First Aired: January. 05,1989

Crooked Wedding bells are ringing as Jamie Wheeler, a con artist, makes plans to marry Berserko as part of a plot to ran off with a horde of stolen gold bars stashed away at a hotel, where Big Boss is keeping the loot at. The C.O.P.S. team will have to call off the wedding before Jamie heads to the altar with Berserko and out the door with the stolen horde.

Episode 35 - The Case of Mace's Romance
First Aired: October. 11,1988

Big Boss wants Nightshade to rob a charity ball, but when she asks for too much money for the job, he blackmails her into doing it for free by kidnapping her sister. When Mace arrests Nightshade for the abduction, the two end up investigating the matter together.

Episode 34 - The Case of the Crook with a Conscience
First Aired: October. 06,1988

Ms. Demeanor was ordered by Judge Davis, Mayor Davis' twin brother, to wear a conscience band on her head that tells her whether her actions are either right or wrong. Unfortunately, that never worked out. Ms. Demeanor is overdoing it with the band and was causing more trouble than she does without it.

Episode 33 - The Case of the Big Little Green Men
First Aired: November. 03,1988

The C.O.P.S. team experience an out-of-this-world caper when the Martian gem brought to Earth from Mars gets stolen by Big Boss and his crooks who disguise themselves as space aliens for this purpose.

Episode 32 - The Case of the Giveaway Gold
First Aired: February. 03,1989

Dr. BadVibes has decided to be "generous" and shower down a stock pile of gold coins to the people of Empire City. Unfortunately the gold coins are actually explosives Big Boss plans on using to blast open the safes where the fake gold will be stored in to get at the real loot stored inside.

Episode 31 - The Case of the Iceberg Pirates
First Aired: November. 09,1988

A huge heatwave hits Empire City and the water supply for the city is nearly depleted. Inspector Yukon of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police offered a huge iceberg to help replenished the city's water supply. Big Boss decides to steal the iceberg and hold it for ransom. The C.O.P.S. team must put a freeze on Big Boss' cold caper. But first, Sundown has to learn how to swim.

Episode 30 - The Case of the Criminal Games
First Aired: January. 16,1989

Big Boss got some new recruits in his army of Crooks. Louie The Plumber, Hyena, and Bullit meets up with Big Boss with plans to capture one of the members of C.O.P.S. who's none other than Highway, and used him to lure the rest of the C.O.P.S. team to where they are forced to compete in a set of games as entertainment for the Crooks.

Episode 29 - The Case of the Big Boss's Master Plan (2)
First Aired: October. 12,1988

Empire City is plunged into a state of crisis when Big Boss tells everyone that Empire city is all his and he's got the president all lock up tight in a cage. The citizens were force to bow to Big Boss demands and leave the city forever if they ever want to see the president again. As for C.O.P.S., Big Boss wanted them locked away in prison so he can get back at them for all the times they imprisoned the crooks. They weren't there for long. With the help of Agent Belson and his men, the C.O.P.S. team escaped and went out to rescue the president and bring the city back to normal.

Episode 27 - The Case of the Stashed Cash
First Aired: October. 11,1988

35 years ago, Mickey O'Malley nabbed one of Empire City's most wanted crooks by the name of Suds Sparko, who secretly hid five million dollars in cold hard cash in a secret location. The only vital clue to its whereabouts is a map carved on a bar of soap. Big Boss sends Rock Krusher and Buttons McBoomBoom to steal the soap. But a mishap occurred and the map was completely dissolved. So, the two crooks kidnaps Mickey and Brian and took them to where Krusher knew exactly where the loot is stashed at - The West Side Laundry, where Mickey will have to figure out where at the place the loot is stashed at - and help LongArm and Barricade send the criminals to the cleaners.

Episode 26 - The Case of the Wayward Whiz Kid
Episode 25 - The Case of the Cool Caveman
First Aired: September. 27,1988

Brian befriends a prehistoric caveman who was frozen in ice since the Ice Age. This spark interest from the Crooks since the caveman bears a striking resemblance to Berserko and is believed by the crooks to be Berserko's direct ancestor.

Episode 23 - The Case of the Big Frame-Up
First Aired: October. 27,1988

Mickey O'Malley, LongArm's father gets arrested for a crime he didn't commit. He was falsely accused of stealing priceless furs from a warehouse and is sent to prison for it. It's up to his son and his grandson Brian to help clear his name and send the real crooks responsible for the fur heist to the slammer.

Episode 22 - The Case of the Brilliant Berserko
First Aired: November. 07,1988

Berserko stole a special headband that made him very unusually intelligent when he puts it on his head. In this new form, Berserko makes plans to intelligently trap the C.O.P.S. team at his amusement park hideaway while inciting Dr. BadVibes' jealousy of his new-found brilliance.

Episode 21 - The Case of the Half-Pint Hero
First Aired: October. 19,1988

In this caper, C.O.P.S. are aided by a very unusual ally - Cindy Johnson as Captain Crimefighter! A little girl in a superhero costume who helps the team capture Rock Krusher, Turbo Tu-Tone, and Ms. Demeanor and, along the way, uncover 2 bags of stolen cash hidden at a construction site taken from a robbed bank by Krusher and Turbo.

Episode 20 - The Case of the Big Bad Boxoids
First Aired: September. 29,1988

Three of the best Boxoids (robot boxing suits) have been stolen by Big Boss who plans on using them to steal the mazer melter from a construction site and use it to melt down the Empire City Power plant and cause a major blackout over the entire city unless Mayor Davis can cough up twenty million dollars in one hour. It's up to the C.O.P.S. team to K.O. Big Boss' plans before it's too late.

Episode 19 - The Case of the Criminal Mall
First Aired: September. 29,1988

Mainframe, Bowser, and Blitz pays a visit to a large newly opened shopping mall to foil Dr. BadVibes plans to steal a super computer brain to the mall's theft proof security system created by Mr. Keen, the head of mall security.

Episode 18 - The Case of the Super Shakedown
First Aired: October. 20,1988

Dr. BadVibes created an earthquake device known as The Ground Shaker for Big Boss who plans on using this device to level the city to the ground unless his demands for the city are met. It's up to the C.O.P.S. team to stabilized the city and shakedown Big Boss' crooked caper.

Episode 16 - The Case of the Crime Convention
First Aired: October. 18,1988

Big Boss stage a special Crooks Convention in Empire City where he plans on giving out The Criminal of The Year Award to one lucky crook. Buttons McBoomBoom and Berserko both duke it out to see who will have that title.

Episode 15 - The Case of the Highway Robbery
First Aired: September. 22,1988

Mayor Davis is enraged when his Limousine gets stolen by Nightshade and Squeeky Kleen who are planning on converting it into Big Boss' own personal limousine look-a-like along with all of the other cars they stole. He demands Highway and Hardtop to get his limousine back....or else! Meanwhile, Highway must go out and get his Bluestreak motorcycle back that was stolen from Nightshade before it shares the same fate as the other vehicles she stole.

Episode 14 - The Case of the Thieving Robots
First Aired: October. 03,1988

Dr. BadVibes decides to toy around with the idea of creating toy size robots and programmed them to steal items from the homes of the children who own them. Brian O'Malley gets one of the robots for his birthday. Named "Rocky", this robot went and stole a family heirloom, a leprechaun statue passed down from LongArm's great-grandfather and ran off with it. Brian followed the robot to where Badvibes set up his hideout at an old abandoned toy factory right near the sewers. There, he was captured and is held captive by BadVibes, who wound up arguing with Buzzbomb over the share of the stolen loot, hurting his feelings in the process. Brian must talk Buzzbomb into releasing and helping him, Sundown, and his father put a stop to BadVibes and his army of thieving robots.

Episode 13 - The Case of the Baby Badguy
First Aired: September. 19,1988

A small midget-size man known as The Baby Badguy and his 2 henchmen poses as orphaned babies to get into the newly opened Empire City Orphanage to take over the place and used it as their hideout. They took hostage the caretaker of the orphanage and Whitney Morgan, who came to interview the caretaker. The C.O.P.S. team must rescue the hostages and discipline those three naughty "babies".

Episode 12 - The Case of the Blitz Attack
First Aired: September. 21,1988

Dr. BadVibes created a dog whistle-like device and used it on Blitz, forcing him to ruin the efforts of the C.O.P.S. team to perform their duties. Both Bowser and Mainframe must find out what or who's causing Blitz's off-the-wall behavior and must also rescue Dr. Gregory Adams, too, who was force by Berserko to tell the C.O.P.S. team that Blitz must be decommissioned because of a glitch found inside him, while in fact there's nothing wrong with him.

Episode 6 - The Case of the Prison Break-In
First Aired: October. 14,1988

Rock Krusher has taken over Graystone Prison and plans on using a large device known as The Neutron Pulverizer to disintegrate City Hall unless demands are met by 6:00 pm. Bowser, going undercover as a prison inmate named "Maddog", was able to radio the C.O.P.S. team on Krusher's plan just before Krusher cuts off all communications to the outside. The only way for the C.O.P.S. team to stop Krusher's plan is to break into the prison the same way inmates break out.

Episode 5 - The Case of the Bogus Justice Machines
First Aired: September. 30,1988

The C.O.P.S. are endangered of being replaced by a new brand of crime fighting robots known as The Instant Justice Machines, which proves to be much better in handling law enforcement than the C.O.P.S....sort of. The C.O.P.S., however, has smelled a rat. And his name is Head Councilman, Vargas, who is bribed by Big Boss to continue to make the robots and put C.O.P.S. out of business in a most corruptive way. Can the C.O.P.S. team stop Vargas and put an end to his own brand of justice for good?

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