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.
Seasons & Episode
Big Boss plans to rob a large group of guests on-board Empire City's premier blimp.
Dr. Badvibes is using the cover of a circus to rob the banks of Empire City.
A mysterious figure known as the Bugman is committing a series of heists in Empire City.
Berserko plans to throw a surprise party for Big Boss.
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?
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.
Johnny Uma , the ex-partner of Sundown, escapes from prison and plans a heist on the Silver Bullet Train.
Agent Vess comes to Empire City following a series of crimes and is severely injured by the Big Boss and his Henchmen.
C.O.P.S must unite to fight Big Boss and his ultimate crime machine.
Dr. Badvibes has designed a series of speed suits that will make Big Boss's criminals difficult to catch by the C.O.P.S team.
The Big Boss wants to have Bulletproof replaced with a fake copy that he can control.
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.
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".
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.
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.
The cops have to face a shapes changer robot, who's stealing all around the city.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
The city's criminals made a spa with device that controls brains, and their first client in the grand opening is the governor.
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.
A boy genius becomes an unwitting pawn in Big Boss' plans to use a computer to break into other computer systems and manipulate them for his own criminal purposes.
The president is visiting Empire City, and the Big Boss sends his thugs to take her hostage.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
A deaf boy is afraid to tell the COPS team about a crime he witnessed being committed by Turbo Tu-Tone and Rock Krusher.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Big Boss hatches a plot to destroy all the currency in Empire City and replace them with his own counterfeit "Boss Bucks."
Checkpoint teams up with Inspector Yukon to capture a tricky Canadian thief named Mukluk who has arrived in Empire City.
The Baby Badguys return in this episode, posing as an old rich lady's 3 grandsons in order to get to her fortune.
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.
Brian thought he saw a sea monster. He has. A Mechanical sea monster made by Dr. BadVibes to help the crooks with another one of Big Boss' schemes.
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.
The Famous painting of the Mona Lisa gets stolen by Big Boss to start his own stolen art collection.
The Bugman escapes from prison when his prized weevil Gaylord is brainwashed and bugnapped by his arch nemesis Boll Weevil.
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.
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.
Bulletproof had to go away. So he puts Sundown in charge of the entire C.O.P.S. team, who has a very low approval rating for Sundown's leadership.
Big Boss' attempts to build the tallest skyscraper in the world. Meanwhile, one C.O.P.S. officer thinks another C.O.P.S. officer is betraying him.
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.
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.
Big Boss wanted Nightshade and Ms. Demeanor to take part in a beauty contest in order to rob it of its the grand prize - a new car with cash and jewels inside.
Uncle "Fatty" Big Boss and his crooks kidnaps Baddin, a bratty prince from the visiting royal family and tried to hold him for ransom. But the prince has other plans.
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.
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.
Big Boss disappears and C.O.P.S. must find him after Big Boss's henchmen kidnap Barricade.
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.
Big Boss manages to steal Bullseye's Jet Copter and use it in a series of robberies.
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.
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