Starting at 0:45, that's the damn electronic melody I've been whistling for almost 30 years. It drove me nuts because I couldn't remember from where I heard it! Finally, some closure. Thanks for this.
I'm gonna take a shot in the dark here and say that it's extremely likely that the idea for RoboCop came from this show. I don't remember this at all, but I wish I'd seen at least one episode.
OMG! I wish I could find the original "Future Cop" movie somewhere. I remember laughing hysterically as a kid. For years, until now I thought it was called Super Copy. Thanks for posting this! Excellent!
@nacireman2009 John Amos was fired from "Good Times". Every time the writing on that show was slack, Norman Lear would parade JJ Walker out in a chicken hat for cheap laughs. Amos found it demeaning, got sick of it and objected. The conflict eventually escalated to the point where Lear canned him.
if I remember right, the establishing building exterior is down the street from my house across from what used to be TRW in Manhattan or Redondo Beach CA.
And who can forget the 1976 buddy cop show from ABC called "Holmes & Yo-Yo" that featured Detective Holmes and his new android partner Yoyo. Oh, I guess everyone could forget that show. Future Cop, also from ABC, came after it but also failed.
@nightshadedesign Yeah I remember hearing that. That's also why the mom ended up leaving too. They both felt the JJ character was demaning and was a negitive sterotype for young black men. Especially since he barely got through high school, didn't go to college and even rarely (if ever) had a real job or anything.
"A cop of the future...a future cop." Welcome to Redundancy Theater. Wow, I thought AirWolf was the only TV show Borgnine did. Where's the DVD set of this series? :)
@nacireman2009: No it didn't suck-Good Times was beginning to suck, and Amos wanted out completely (he was tired of being upstaged by Jimmie Walker as J.J. and couldn't take it anymore.)
Dominic Santini!! What's funny is, Harlan Ellison & Ben Bova sued ABC over this show b/c they pitched a similar series called "Brillo" (like metal Fuzz) to them but were turned down - but Brillo was sort of like K9 from Dr Who...
Am I crazy or do I remember the android saving Borgnine's life by getting in the way of a bullet? If I remember, he sacrificed himself willingly ... but was repaired shortly afterwards for a neat and clean ending.
I can understand this series not doing well back in the 70's. The special effects used in TV back then were lame in comparison to what you saw in motion picture. If it was made in the 80's it would have done much better. I would be curious to watch these episodes. This kind of show can be considered a cult classic now.
@nacireman2009 Oh you say that now but imagine if the show had been a major hit and ran for years. :) There's another reality out there somewhere where he made the right choice.
Wait, is that the same Michael Shannon from the next "Superman" movie or someone else? This just strikes me as the serious version of "Holmes and Yo-Yo"...
Crap, Indeed. But one must admit that such crap worked a hell of a lot better back in the '60s and '70s--especially the British programmes. Can you imagine how much worse a show like this would be if it were just getting started now?! For example, compare the old Charlie's Angels series to those yucky movies they've made in recent years, based on it. How 'classic' the old shows now seem in comparison!
Never seen this crap, looks like a six million dollar man rip off. Always wondered where Amos went after Good Times, never saw him again until Die Hard 2....
Very cheesy and cheap looking. Thank goodness RoboCop did it better as it had a bigger budget and was a movie made by a proper studio at the time (Orion).
