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COPS (Central Organization of Police Specialists) is a 1988 animated television series released by DIC Animation City, and distributed by Claster Television. The series focuses on a team of highly trained police officers tasked with protecting the fictional Empire City from a group of gangsters led by the "Big Boss". The tag lines for the series are "Fighting crime in a future time" and "It's crime fightin' time!" In 1993, the series was shown in reruns on CBS Saturday mornings under the new name CyberCOPS, 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, which were designed by Bart Sears.

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  • COPS (Central Organization of Police Specialists) is a 1988 animated television series released by DIC Animation City, and distributed by Claster Television. The series focuses on a team of highly trained police officers tasked with protecting the fictional Empire City from a group of gangsters led by the "Big Boss". The tag lines for the series are "Fighting crime in a future time" and "It's crime fightin' time!" In 1993, the series was shown in reruns on CBS Saturday mornings under the new name CyberCOPS, 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, which were designed by Bart Sears. (en)
  • C.O.P.S. (Comando Organizado de Policías Superiores) es una serie de animación creada por DiC Entertainment en asociación con y distribuida por Claster Television Inc. y Celebrity Home Entertainment. La serie, se emitió entre 1988 y 1989, y tenía por lema: "combatiendo el crimen en un tiempo futuro, protegiendo Ciudad Imperio del Gran Jefe y su banda de delincuentes". Cada personaje posee un aspecto totalmente diferente al de los juguetes, la serie humorística o el programa para adultos del mismo nombre. (es)
  • COPS est une série télévisée d'animation américaine en 65 épisodes de 30 minutes, créée par DiC Entertainment en partenariat avec Hasbro et diffusée entre le 5 octobre 1988 et le 1er janvier 1989 en syndication. En France, la série a été diffusée à partir du 5 septembre 1989 dans Cabou Cadin sur Canal+. Rediffusion dans l'émission Graffitis 5-15 à partir du 11 octobre 1989 sur Antenne 2. (fr)
  • C.O.P.S. - Squadra anticrimine (C.O.P.S.) è una serie televisiva a disegni animati prodotta da Hasbro, DiC Entertainment e Paramount Television. In Italia è stata trasmessa in prima TV su Italia 1 nel 1992. (it)
  • C.O.P.S. is een Amerikaanse tekenfilmserie, ontwikkeld door Hasbro, uit 1988. De serie werd voor het eerst in 1990 uitgezonden in Nederland door RTL-Véronique. De serie gaat over de strijd tussen de Central Organization of Police Specialists (C.O.P.S.) en Big Boss met zijn Crooks. (nl)
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  • Crooked Wedding bells are ringing as Jenny Wringer, a con artist and safe cracker, plans to marry Berserko as part of a plot to run off with a horde of stolen gold bars Big Boss has stashed away at a hotel. The COPS team will have to call off the wedding before Jamie heads to the altar with Berserko and out the door with the stolen horde. (en)
  • Ms. Demeanor is 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, it never worked out because Ms. Demeanor is overdoing it with the band and is causing more trouble than she does without it. (en)
  • Big Boss orders Nightshade to steal charity money raised for the homeless at a ballroom party event for a lousy 10% cut. Nightshade refuses. So, Big Boss forces her to do it by having Buttons McBoomBoom kidnap her own younger sister Kathleen and frame Nightshade for it. Nightshade gets Mace to help her rescue her sister and thwart Big Boss' charity heist. That's when romance between Cop and Crook begins to ignite and flare up starting with a special thank you kiss Nightshade blows to Mace from the precinct window. (en)
  • Brian is confronted by a carpool filled with drunken people who asks if he needs a lift. Brian remembers what his father said, "It's a bad risk to ride in the car with someone behind the wheel who's been drinking." Brian says, "No thanks," and the car speeds away only to crash into something off camera. LongArm in front of the precinct tells the views to stick with good risks, such as trying out for a team you're not certain you're going to make it. Bad risks are for people who like to lose. (en)
  • Highway tells the viewers never to steal traffic signs and shows an example of a kid showing off a large stop sign he has stolen from a street corner to a group of kids meeting inside of a clubhouse. (en)
  • Dr. Badvibes creates a shape changing android named Shifty, who can change into anything and anyone at will. He uses his shape changing abilities to kidnap Mirage and sneak inside the Empire Mint to steal a $1 print. Bulletproof, Highway, Bowzer, and Blitz must rescue Mirage, get back the print, and put an end to Shifty's crooked shape-shifting career. (en)
  • Checkpoint teams up with Inspector Yukon to capture a tricky Canadian thief named Mukluk who has arrived in Empire City. He even steals the BlackJack Trophy Big Boss won in "The Case of the Crime Convention" and prompts the Boss to send Bullit and Rock Krusher to head to Mukluk's Arctic hideout and reclaim the trophy – only for all their luck to run out and for the trophy to land at the paws of a polar bear. (en)
  • Mace expresses how much he hates graffiti. He hates it because it is hard to clean it up and costs money to do so. Secondly, he hates it most of all because it is against the law. Especially when a troublesome kid sprays graffiti on Mace's uniform. (en)
  • Big Boss hosts a special Crooks Convention in Empire City where he plans to award 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. (en)
  • In this caper, COPS 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 two bags of stolen cash hidden at a construction site taken from a robbed bank by Krusher and Turbo. (en)
  • A deaf boy is afraid to tell the COPS team about a crime he witnessed being committed by Turbo Tu-Tone and Rock Krusher. Once he's brave enough to tell what he saw, the boy, through lip-reading, helps the team thwart another caper by switching a floppy disk containing some vital information Big Boss wants to get his hands on with a fake disk containing a computer virus that causes the computer system in the penthouse to go haywire. (en)
  • Three new crooks, Hyena, Bullit and Louie the Plumber, arrive at Empire City and challenge Big Boss to "The Criminal Games" right after they nab a case full of loot that Berserko and Turbo have stolen from a bank. In order for Big Boss to win the game, he kidnaps Highway and forces Bulletproof and Barricade to help him win the criminal games or else he'll never see his teammate again. (en)
  • Two kids are playing ball. Then the ball goes out into the street. Mainframe discourages one of the little kids from going out and getting the ball. A car comes and runs over it. Streets are for cars, not for kids. Mainframe tells the younger viewers to never go out into the street . Toys can be replaced, not kids. (en)
  • Willy Bright, a boy genius who owns a mainframe computer system named "Chip" accidentally took control of Buzzbomb when he tries to steal a priceless diamond from the school's art museum. Dr. Badvibes, intrigued by Willy's computer savyness, attempts to make friends with the Willy and trick him into helping him hack the COPS security system and force it to trapped the COPS team inside their headquarters while Buzzbomb and Turbo Tu-Tone goes to steal the priceless gem. Willy, realizing what Badvibes and Big Boss is doing, uses his computer skills to escape from the crooks and help the COPS team regain control of the precinct's security system and short circut Big Boss and Badvibes' techo scheme. (en)
  • Highway shows off his normal bicycle while discussing a few bicycle safety tips to the viewers. Berserko did not care. Instead, he rode down just the opposite of where one is supposed to go while bike riding down the road and crashed into a car pulling out in front of him. Highway turns around to see if Berserko is all right and says to the viewers, "Don't be Bicycling Berserko. Ride safe. Ride right." (en)
  • Berserko steals a special headband that makes him very unusually intelligent when he puts it on his head. In this new form, Berserko makes plans to intelligently trap the COPS team at his amusement park hideaway while inciting Dr. BadVibes' jealousy of his new-found brilliance. (en)
  • Big Boss hatches a plot to destroy all the currency in Empire City and replace them with his own counterfeit "Boss Bucks". (en)
  • Mainframe, Bowser, and Blitz pay a visit to the newly opened shopping mall to test out the Mall's new theft-proof security system created by Mr. Keen, the head of mall security and foil Dr. BadVibes' plans to steal the brain behind the system. (en)
  • Small Guy and his men are back. This time to pose as three grandsons of an old lady to infiltrate the mansion and get their greedy little hands on the old lady's fortune. (en)
  • Big Momma pays her son, Big Boss a visit in Empire City to accompany him to an auction brought on by Commissioner Highwaters to raise money for the global police charity fund Big Boss wants his crooks to steal, but the crime is doomed to failure thanks to Big Boss having to struggle to be good and generous by hiding his true colors from her such as pretending to run an orphanage at an abandoned warehouse with his crooks posing as "orphans". Big Boss, for the sake of Big Momma, partake in the auction and won every item he wants except for one item and then later on help the COPS team thwart the robbery attempt on the funds at the airport. (en)
  • 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 COPS team put a stop to the heist and nab the rustlers along the way. (en)
  • Brian has decided to try smoking a cigarette. One whiff, and he starts coughing. From this, Brian learns to think twice before smoking with Longarm affirming his decision. (en)
  • Dr. BadVibes invents a special suit that allows the crooks to go very fast. Highway tries to stop them, but he fails. Ashamed, Highway turns in his badge. Later on, Highway gets kidnapped and held captive by Turbo Tu-Tone in his garage. Shortly afterward he escapes to bag Turbo, gets his badge back, and uses Turbo's speed suit to arrest the other crooks in record time. (en)
  • BadVibes and Buzzbomb were going for a ride in a car. But BadVibes realized he forgot something so he tells Buzzbomb not to play with the car while he goes for something and leaves. Disobedient, Buzzbomb started to mess around with the car and crashes it. "I thought I told you not to play with the car!" BadVibes exclaimed. Then, Bulletproof tells the young viewers "Take it from BadVibes, kids. Cars are not toys. Besides, you're not as replaceable as Buzzbomb is." (en)
  • The President of the United States is traveling to Empire City to attend a dedication ceremony of the S.S. Empire, a brand new state-of-the-art aircraft carrier built as part of the country's defense. She is traveling on board the presidential train with Agent Belson and many other FBI agents who are there on the train to provide security for her. Bulletproof, Hardtop, and LongArm are also there for additional security. But this doesn't stop Berserko, Buttons McBoomBoom, and Ms. Demeanor from breaking into the train, kidnapping the president, and took her away by the orders of Big Boss who then agree to release her in exchange for the aircraft carrier he wants to have for his own. The COPS team and Mayor Davis agrees, only for Big Boss to double cross them by making them receive an android version of the president while he and his crooks went out to take procession of the aircraft carrier, still holding the real Madame President captive. (en)
  • Brian and a friend walks past a dark alley with Berserko lurking inside. Later Brian walks up to a back alley and turns away just as Rock Krusher was walking forward twirling around his handcuffs. This is an example of LongArm and his son showing everyone to go neither into dark alleys nor take deserted shortcuts because one never knows who or what is lurking in there. (en)
  • Mickey O'Malley, LongArm's father gets arrested for a crime he didn't commit. He's falsely accused of stealing priceless furs from a warehouse and is sent to prison for it. It's up to both his son and his grandson Brian to help clear his name and send the real crooks responsible for the fur heist to the slammer. (en)
  • In his prison cell, Rock Krusher talks about his boyhood days when he was once part of a gang that got involved with a deadly brawl against a rival gang one night. He escaped and was lucky that he was merely arrested afterwards and not killed like some of his friends were. This is a rare instance of a "villain" character being allowed to host a PSA segment in a cartoon. In most PSAs, participating "villain" characters are limited to acting in a supporting role as the bad example while an established "good" character delivers the message. (en)
  • With the help of Waldo, the robot, Mainframe tells the young viewers that since they are much too small to be seen by drivers moving in their cars, they are to play away from cars so they will not get hurt by them. (en)
  • Dr. BadVibes creates an earthquake device known as the Ground Shaker for Big Boss who plans to use it to level the city to the ground unless his demands for the city are met. It's up to the COPS team to stabilized the city and shakedown Big Boss' crooked caper before it's too late. (en)
  • Prince Baddin, a bratty prince who came to visit Empire City along with his father the king, gave the COPS team a read hard time with his spoiled rotten behavior which caught the attention of Berserko and Rock Krusher who kidnapped the boy and brought him to "Uncle Fatty Big Boss" and try to hold him for ransom only for the prince to manipulate the crooks into catering to his every whim, prompting the Boss to send him back to the COPS. Later the Prince learned his lesson when he tried to get on a broken down Ferris wheel to ride it only to find himself trapped on the Ferris wheel with the seats coming loose. After being rescued by LongArm, Baddin decides to change his ways and become a good prince rather than a spoiled bad prince leading the king to change his name to from Baddin to Goodin. (en)
  • Bulletproof fakes a vacation trip after a failed raid on a criminal hideout and puts Sundown in charge of the entire COPS team, who has a very low approval rating for Sundown's poor leadership. That way he can engage in a secret plot to expose a certain fellow from city hall named Brannigan as a spy for the Big Boss who sent him to spy on the COPS' handling of Sundown's poor leadership. (en)
  • A few months after the event of "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 decides to gain control over Jim's programming circuits and force him to go out and commit a robbery. Is Jim's career as a police officer about to be ruined before it ever got started? (en)
  • Bulletproof shows to the viewers a TV beer commercial and a smoking ad in a magazine and says, "You can have a good time without smoking or drinking. Alcohol and Cigarettes are drugs. Say 'No. (en)
  • In direct retaliation for thwarting a criminal heist put on by Berserko and Rock Krusher, Big Boss orders Dr. BadVibes to do whatever it takes to tame Blitz, who helped Bowser in thwarting the heist, and get rid of him. So the mad scientist goes out and creates a dog whistle-like device which he uses to control Blitz, forcing him to ruin the efforts of the COPS team to perform their duties. Meanwhile, Berserko forces Dr. Adams, the one who saved Blitz's life years ago, to lie to Bulletproof and Bowser, telling them that Blitz must be dismantled because of a glitch found inside his body. But not if Mainframe and Bowser, who knows for a fact that there's nothing wrong with Blitz, and knows that Blitz cannot be controlled the way Dr. BadVibes controls his own robots, can help it. (en)
  • It's Big Boss' birthday and Berserko plans on giving his uncle the Cornucopia Bridge for his birthday. Mirage, on the other hand, has a much different plan – save the bridge and arrest Berserko and his henchmen in the process. (en)
  • Rock Krusher steals 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 COPS team lays out for him just by burning through walls and floors and incinerating anything in his path. They are able to lead Krusher onto the Mountback Blimp, where they, with the help of Nancy and Cathleen, 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 dear life. Krusher gives up at that point and is placed back behind bars where he belongs. (en)
  • Dr. BadVibes has decided to be "generous" and shower down a stockpile of gold coins to the people of Empire City. Unfortunately the gold coins are actually explosives which 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. (en)
  • The Ultimate Crime Machine, a huge air vessel shaped like a flying saucer, looms over Empire City. Piloted by Turbo Tu-Tone, Buzzbomb, and Rock Krusher, this machine hovers over the Empire City Mint, rips it off of its foundation with powerful cables and carries it up into the sky with Bulletproof inside of it! It's up to the COPS team to stop the large vessel and foil the first of many criminal schemes rigged up by Big Boss. (en)
  • Dr. BadVibes creates musical instruments that hypnotize concert goers so that his pals can rob them of their valuables and forms a rock band he calls the Bad News featuring Berserko and Rock Krusher as part of their plan to take over the ECTV's Doctor Rock show and stage a concert to hypnotize all citizens into giving up their valuables. Mirage and Hardtop are 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. (en)
  • This file has been classified until now. Welcome to Empire City, where we meet for the first time the nefarious Crime Boss, Brandon "Big Boss" Babel and his crooked henchmen who are holding the entire city in their grip of terror. Federal Agent, Baldwin P. Vess is sent to take him and his crooks into custody. Unfortunately, he gets seriously injured and has to be taken to the hospital. He is given a new lease on life with a cybernetic torso and the formation of a team of the most highly trained law enforcers in the entire country known as the Central Organization of Police Specialists – COPS! (en)
  • After overhearing Big Boss and Dr. Badvibes' plans to scrap him after a heist, Buzzbomb decides to run away with the stolen rocket fuel which Big Boss plans to sell it for millions. Buzzbomb joins Amanda who also ran away from home, leading the COPS team to go out and search for Amanda, while at the same time, Dr. Badvibes and Rock Krusher go out to search for Buzzbomb so they can get back the rocket fuel. (en)
  • Brian befriends a prehistoric caveman who was frozen in ice since the Ice Age. This sparks an interest from the Crooks since the caveman bears a striking resemblance to Berserko, leading them to switch roles so that they can have Berserko go in to pull off a heist at the Empire City's museum. (en)
  • Big Boss' crooks make themselves invisible to make things difficult for the COPS team to catch them and have an easy time committing robberies in the process. This episode features Mace being highly annoyed by Airwave and his constant babbling. Airwave is the newest member of COPS who serves the team as a communications expert and could make an excellent sportscaster if he hadn't chosen to be part of COPS. (en)
  • Hyena pulled the old switcheroo on Bullseye by stealing his Air Raid copter and used it to pull a successful robbery on an armor truck. Bullseye on the verge of quitting the team was talked into giving himself another shot at going after the Crooks to arrest Hyena and get his helicopter back. (en)
  • Big Boss and Squeeky Kleen at the mall shows to the viewers how one must never flash his/her cash in front of the crowd with Squeeky showing off an example of this the hard way by getting mugged and whipped by thugs when he flashes some wad of cash in front of them. This is another of the rare instances where a villain character hosts a PSA segment. (en)
  • Big Boss' attempts to build the tallest skyscraper in the world to which he calls the Big Boss Building. But the Empire City Tower being built next to it is out-sizing the building, leading Big Boss to send Rock Krusher and Berserko to sabotage the construction of the tower. Meanwhile, Bullseye thinks Mace is betraying the COPS team. (en)
  • A huge heatwave hits Empire City and the water supply for the city is nearly depleted. Inspector Yukon of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police offers a huge iceberg to help replenish the city's reservoir. Big Boss decides to steal the iceberg and hold it for ransom. The COPS team must put the freeze on Big Boss' cold caper and deliver the iceberg to Empire City. Along the way, Sundown has to learn how to swim. (en)
  • The circus has come to town! But it's no ordinary circus. It's a mechanical circus run by Dr. BadVibes as a cover-up for his plan to heist the Gold Depository by the orders of Big Boss. He hadn't counted on a tomboy named Samantha to help LongArm and Hardtop permanently bring the curtain down on BadVibes' Big Top Caper, though. (en)
  • A string of jewelry store robberies is reported the COPS team. Nightshade is falsely accused of robbing the jewelry stores and Mace believes her to be innocent. But she is planning on robbing the main jewelry store that's unfortunately guarded by a mean vicious dog named Shredder who is owned by the proprietor of the store who turns out to be the real culprit behind the robberies. (en)
  • Dr. Badvibes creates man-controlled powered suits that come to life and rob computer micro chips from a computer laboratory so that Big Boss can sell them for millions while making the security guard believe that he's seeing ghosts. Meanwhile, Bowser gets very superstitious on account of today being Friday the 13th. (en)
  • A shady drug dealer named Addictem tries to sell his dangerous drug product called Crystal Twyst to the streets of Empire City. He even tries to join up with Big Boss and his crooks to help promote the drug product. But Big Boss rejects his offer. For once, there is a spark of morality inside this otherwise corrupt fat man. He even orders his crooks to reject Addictem's product completely. Easier said than done. For unfortunately, while out on a heist, Berserko accidentally falls into a crate full of Addictem's Crystal Twyst, which cause him to become unconscious and be taken to the hospital. As a result, Big Boss and his Crooks...of all things...join forces with COPS in a successful effort to take down Addictem and end his drug selling business for good. (en)
  • A mysterious Bugman with his huge swarm of trained bugs led by Gaylord, the Bugman's prize bug, is pulling robberies at various jewelry stores and wants to join Big Boss' crooked gang. But a lousy payment from Big Boss forced the Bugman to resign, only to have his precious swarm "bugnapped" by Nightshade and Buttons McBoomBoom, who use them to pull their own jewel heists. The Bugman seeks aid from Mainframe and Bowser and Blitz, who helped him get his bugs back and arrest the Bugman, too. (en)
  • Dr. BadVibes creates a robotic clone version of Bulletproof controlled by a small robot named Waldo to replace the real Bulletproof as leader of COPS. But only Blitz knows the real Bulletproof when he sees one. (en)
  • Squeeky Kleen winds up having a special "Midas" glove device stuck on one of his hands, changing everything and everyone to gold . Squeeky goes about trying to get the stubborn thing off his hand while changing everything he touches into gold, including Sundown and one of the ECTV camera droids, until eventually it is neutralized by Powderkeg. Squeeky himself along with Berserko and Rock Krusher gets time in prison for disturbing the peace. (en)
  • The COPS are in danger of being replaced by a new brand of crime fighting robots known as The Instant Justice Machines, which did poorly in handling law enforcement thanks to a corrupt Head Councilman named Vargas who is bribed by Big Boss to continue to make the robots and put C.O.P.S. out of business for good. Can the COPS team stop Vargas and put an end to his own brand of justice? (en)
  • Buttons McBoomBoom gets upset when he loses his lucky penny: the very first penny he ever stole. He searches frantically for it in the sewers and also in his old rundown apartment house. Big Boss wants him to rob the lottery machine filled with money at the 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 has decided to double-cross him into robbing the lottery machine by switching his real lucky penny with a counterfeit version. (en)
  • Big Boss enrolls Nightshade and Ms. Demeanor in the Miss World Beauty Contest in order to snag the grand prize–-a new car loaded with cash, jewels, and other valuables. (en)
  • A brand new Skyline Spa has just been opened and is operated by Ms. Demeanor who uses mesmerizing fumes to put Mayor Davis under a trance and force him to hand over all authority to Berserko who temporary becomes Deputy Mayor of Empire city and force the COPS team to do community service as garbage collectors while Mainframe and Mirage gets captured and forced to do laundry for the Crooks. But the two lady COPS escaped to help their teammates clean up the streets of Crooks and rescue Mayor Davis from the fuming trance. (en)
  • 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 bring it directly to 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. (en)
  • Three of the best Boxoids has 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, causing a major blackout over the entire city unless Mayor Davis can cough up twenty million dollars in one hour. It's up to the COPS team to K.O. Big Boss' plans before it's too late. (en)
  • Dr. BadVibes decides to toy around with the idea of creating toy size robots and program them to steal items from the homes of the children who own them. Brian O'Malley, the son of LongArm, gets one of the robots for his birthday. Named "Rocky", this robot ends up stealing a family heirloom, a green leprechaun statue passed down from LongArm's great-grandfather, and runs off with it. Brian follows the robot to where BadVibes set up his hideout at an old abandoned toy factory right near the sewers. There, he gets captured and held captive by BadVibes, who winds 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. (en)
  • A small midget-size man known as Small Guy and his two henchmen pose as orphaned babies to get into the newly opened Empire City Orphanage to take over the place and use it as their hideout. They take hostage Mrs. Lopside, the caretaker of the orphanage, and Whitney Morgan, who came to interview her about her project of helping homeless orphans find loving homes. The COPS team must storm the orphanage to rescue the hostages and discipline those three naughty “babies". (en)
  • 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 lookalike 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. (en)
  • Where's Big Boss? That's what his henchmen would like to know. After discussing plans to snag an island getaway, Big Boss is seized by an ear while going into the subway and gets kidnapped. When the crooks realize what's happening, they go out and kidnap Barricade and hold him captive assuming he and the COPS were the ones who captured Big Boss and brought him into custody. On the other hand, the crooks are unaware that it was really Big Momma, Big Boss' mother, who has made a surprise move to Empire City, where she "kidnaps" her son and brought him back home so she can deliver him into custody when the COPS arrive to arrest him. (en)
  • Blitz helps the COPS team arrest Nightshade and Turbo Tu-Tone for stealing Mayor Davis' briefcase which contain the blueprint of city hall. This leads the Big Boss to plot his revenge by sending Dr. Badvibes to kidnap Bowser and Blitz so that he can frame them for the theft by reversing Blitz's lie detector chip one bark for a lie and twice for the truth. Bowser has to clear his, Blitz, and the COPS' name while heading out to rescue Mayor Davis from being held hostage from the crooks. (en)
  • The Bugman escapes from prison when his prized weevil Gaylord gets brainwashed and bugnapped by his arch nemesis Boll Weevil. He then uses a stolen growth formula to turn Gaylord and another bug into giants and then teams up with Big Boss to rob a large gold scarab being displayed in the Empire City Museum. Elsewhere, Mace and Bowser go out searching for the Bugman the moment they found out about his escape. Will they know that he broke out of jail just to rescue his bug friend? (en)
  • 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 on board the S.S. Empire he and his crooks went forth and took over. The citizens are forced to bow to Big Boss' demands and leave the city forever if they ever want to see the president again. As for COPS, Big Boss wants them to stay in the city and be locked away in prison so he can get back at them for all the times they imprisoned the crooks. They aren't there for long. With the help of Belson and his men, the COPS team escape and then go out to rescue the president, bring the city back to normal, and be awarded the Medal of Honor by Madam President for their bravery. (en)
  • The Famous painting of the Mona Lisa gets stolen by Big Boss for his own stolen art collection, but Nightshade beats him to it and tries to seduce Rock Krusher into allowing her to keep the painting, but the crooks steals it back and plans to cut the painting up in shreds and sell the pieces for 3 million dollars each – but not if the COPS can help it. (en)
  • Sometimes Big Boss likes to take advantage of the city's problems and use it to his own advantage. Empire City is having many financial troubles and Mayor Davis has declared that all unnecessary employment in Empire City must be eliminated. Bulletproof has to assure the COPS team that they are not one of those unnecessary employment areas. However, Big Boss makes COPS to be one of them by faking retirement and takes off to a tropical island hideaway, anticipating the COPS 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 is thwarted by Bulletproof, Highway, Mainframe, and Mace, who all get their jobs back afterwards. (en)
  • After a mechanical sea monster ate his grandfather's watch, LongArm’s son Brian goes to tell him and Hardtop about what he saw. But when they don't believed him, Brian sets out to prove what he saw and ends up being a prisoner of Rock Krusher and Dr. Badvibes, who created the sea monster to commit a series of robberies along the harbor. (en)
  • Johnny Yuma, Sundown's ex-"pardner" and master train robber, escapes from prison for a revenge showdown with Sundown for putting him in prison in the first place. When he hears about what happened, Sundown goes off to face Yuma to convince him to turn himself back to the side of the law. (en)
  • Sundown has to go after Rock Krusher and Louie the Plumber, who not only kidnap a famous Australian boxing kangaroo named Bruce, but Whitney Morgan as well. The two crooks are holding them both prisoners at the Empire City Park in a forested area for ransom. Sundown is able to track them down, freeing Whitney and Bruce–-who is in fact a female kangaroo who has a little joey tucked inside her pouch. With the help of this special marsupial, Sundown is able to nab Louie and Krusher and get the jump on their plans. (en)
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  • Gangs (en)
  • Vandalism (en)
  • Bicycle Safety (en)
  • Cars Are Not Toys (en)
  • Don't Flash Your Cash (en)
  • Don't Go Into Dark Alleys (en)
  • Don't Ride with Drunk Drivers (en)
  • Don't Steal Traffic Signs (en)
  • No Smoking (en)
  • Play Away from Cars (en)
  • Say 'No' to Alcohol and Cigarettes (en)
  • The Case of Berserko's Big Surprise (en)
  • The Case of Big Boss' Big Switch (en)
  • The Case of Big Boss' Bye Bye (en)
  • The Case of C.O.P.S. File #1, Part 1 (en)
  • The Case of C.O.P.S. File #1, Part 2 (en)
  • The Case of Mace's Romance (en)
  • The Case of MukLuk's Luck (en)
  • The Case of the Baby Badguy (en)
  • The Case of the Baby Badguy's Return (en)
  • The Case of the Bad Luck Burglar (en)
  • The Case of the Baffling Bugman (en)
  • The Case of the Big Bad Boxoids (en)
  • The Case of the Big Boss' Master Plan, Part 1 (en)
  • The Case of the Big Boss' Master Plan, Part 2 (en)
  • The Case of the Big Frame Up (en)
  • The Case of the Blitz Attack (en)
  • The Case of the Blur Bandits (en)
  • The Case of the Bogus Bride (en)
  • The Case of the Bogus Justice Machines (en)
  • The Case of the Boy Nobody Wanted (en)
  • The Case of the Boy Who Cried Sea Monster (en)
  • The Case of the Brilliant Berserko (en)
  • The Case of the Bulletproof Waldo (en)
  • The Case of the Cool Caveman (en)
  • The Case of the Crime Circus (en)
  • The Case of the Crime Convention (en)
  • The Case of the Criminal Games (en)
  • The Case of the Criminal Mall (en)
  • The Case of the Crook with a Conscience (en)
  • The Case of the Crook with a Thousand Faces (en)
  • The Case of the Crooked Contest (en)
  • The Case of the Disappearing Dough (en)
  • The Case of the Ghost Crooks (en)
  • The Case of the Giveaway Gold (en)
  • The Case of the Half Pint Hero (en)
  • The Case of the High-Iron Hoods (en)
  • The Case of the Highway Robbery (en)
  • The Case of the Iceberg Pirates (en)
  • The Case of the Invisible Crime (en)
  • The Case of the Iron C.O.P.S. and Wooden Crooks (en)
  • The Case of the Kangaroo Caper (en)
  • The Case of the Lawless Lady (en)
  • The Case of the Lesser of Two Weevils (en)
  • The Case of the Lost Boss (en)
  • The Case of the Lowest Crime (en)
  • The Case of the Lying Lie Detector (en)
  • The Case of the Midas Touch (en)
  • The Case of the Missing Masterpiece (en)
  • The Case of the Missing Memory (en)
  • The Case of the Pardner in Crime (en)
  • The Case of the Prison Break-In (en)
  • The Case of the Ransomed Rascal (en)
  • The Case of the Ready Room Mutiny (en)
  • The Case of the Red Hot Hoodlum (en)
  • The Case of the Rock and Roll Robbers (en)
  • The Case of the Runaway Buzzbomb (en)
  • The Case of the Sinister Spa (en)
  • The Case of the Spotless Kingpin (en)
  • The Case of the Stashed Cash (en)
  • The Case of the Super Shake Down (en)
  • The Case of the Thieving Robots (en)
  • The Case of the Visiting Mother (en)
  • The Case of the Wayward Whiz Kid (en)
  • Traffic Safety (en)
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  • Brent Titcomb (en)
  • Jane Schoettle (en)
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  • Mary Long (en)
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  • Paul De La Rosa (en)
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  • COPS (Central Organization of Police Specialists) is a 1988 animated television series released by DIC Animation City, and distributed by Claster Television. The series focuses on a team of highly trained police officers tasked with protecting the fictional Empire City from a group of gangsters led by the "Big Boss". The tag lines for the series are "Fighting crime in a future time" and "It's crime fightin' time!" In 1993, the series was shown in reruns on CBS Saturday mornings under the new name CyberCOPS, 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, which were designed by Bart Sears. (en)
  • C.O.P.S. (Comando Organizado de Policías Superiores) es una serie de animación creada por DiC Entertainment en asociación con y distribuida por Claster Television Inc. y Celebrity Home Entertainment. La serie, se emitió entre 1988 y 1989, y tenía por lema: "combatiendo el crimen en un tiempo futuro, protegiendo Ciudad Imperio del Gran Jefe y su banda de delincuentes". Cada personaje posee un aspecto totalmente diferente al de los juguetes, la serie humorística o el programa para adultos del mismo nombre. (es)
  • COPS est une série télévisée d'animation américaine en 65 épisodes de 30 minutes, créée par DiC Entertainment en partenariat avec Hasbro et diffusée entre le 5 octobre 1988 et le 1er janvier 1989 en syndication. En France, la série a été diffusée à partir du 5 septembre 1989 dans Cabou Cadin sur Canal+. Rediffusion dans l'émission Graffitis 5-15 à partir du 11 octobre 1989 sur Antenne 2. (fr)
  • C.O.P.S. - Squadra anticrimine (C.O.P.S.) è una serie televisiva a disegni animati prodotta da Hasbro, DiC Entertainment e Paramount Television. In Italia è stata trasmessa in prima TV su Italia 1 nel 1992. (it)
  • C.O.P.S. is een Amerikaanse tekenfilmserie, ontwikkeld door Hasbro, uit 1988. De serie werd voor het eerst in 1990 uitgezonden in Nederland door RTL-Véronique. De serie gaat over de strijd tussen de Central Organization of Police Specialists (C.O.P.S.) en Big Boss met zijn Crooks. (nl)
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  • COPS (animated TV series) (en)
  • C.O.P.S. (serie animada de televisión) (es)
  • COPS (série télévisée d'animation) (fr)
  • C.O.P.S. - Squadra anticrimine (it)
  • C.O.P.S. (nl)
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