The BEST Episodes of C.O.P.S.
Every episode ever - ranked by fan votes!
Last Updated: Sep 19, 2021
Network: CBS
"C.O.P.S. - Central Organization of Police Specialists. Fighting crime in a future time,... protecting Empire City from Big Boss, and his gang of crooks. C.O.P.S.!" "It's crime fighting time!" In 1993, CBS picked up the syndication of this show, it was renamed "Cyber C.O.P.S."
#1 - The Case of the Lying Lie Detector
Season 1 - Episode 28 - Aired Oct 26, 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.
7.50 #2 - The Case of the Blurbandits
Season 1 - Episode 1 - Aired Sep 19, 1988
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.
7.39 #3 - The Case of the Baby Badguy
Season 1 - Episode 2 - Aired Sep 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".
6.90 #4 - The Case of the Pardner in Crime
Season 1 - Episode 3 - Aired Sep 20, 1988
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.
6.80 #5 - The Case of the Thieving Robots
Season 1 - Episode 11 - Aired Oct 3, 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.
6.75 #6 - The Case of the Bogus Justice Machines
Season 1 - Episode 10 - Aired Sep 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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#7 - The Case of the Criminal Mall
Season 1 - Episode 9 - Aired Sep 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.
6.50 #8 - The Case of the Blitz Attack
Season 1 - Episode 4 - Aired Sep 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.
6.17 #9 - The Case of the Stuck-Up Blimp
Season 1 - Episode 13 - Aired Oct 5, 1988
Bulletproof and Hardtop attend a charity dinner on the Mountback, the most state of the art blimp in Empire City. Unfortunately, the Crooks are there, too – to rob it! Hardtop must get over his fear of heights to help Bulletproof and the COPS team stop the crooks from looting the blimp.
6.00 #10 - The Case of the Crime Circus
Season 1 - Episode 15 - Aired Oct 7, 1988
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.
6.00 #11 - The Case of Berserko's Big Surprise
Season 1 - Episode 26 - Aired Oct 24, 1988
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.
6.00 #12 - The Case of the Prison Break-In
Season 1 - Episode 20 - Aired Oct 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.
6.00 #13 - The Case of C.O.P.S. File #1 (1)
Season 1 - Episode 46 - Aired Nov 21, 1988
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 (A.K.A. Bulletproof) 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!
6.00 #14 - The Case of C.O.P.S. File #1 (2)
Season 1 - Episode 47 - Aired Nov 21, 1988
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 thwart the first of many criminal schemes rigged up by Big Boss.
6.00 #15 - The Case of the Highway Robbery
Season 1 - Episode 5 - Aired Sep 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.
6.00 #16 - The Case of the Crime Convention
Season 1 - Episode 22 - Aired Oct 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.
6.00 #17 - The Case of the Crook with a Thousand Faces
Season 1 - Episode 12 - Aired Oct 4, 1988
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.
6.00 #18 - The Case of the Super Shakedown
Season 1 - Episode 24 - Aired Oct 20, 1988
Dr. BadVibes creates 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.
6.00 #19 - The Case of the Big Bad Boxoids
Season 1 - Episode 8 - Aired Sep 28, 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.
6.00 #20 - The Case of the Half-Pint Hero
Season 1 - Episode 23 - Aired Oct 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.
6.00 #21 - The Case of the Brilliant Berserko
Season 1 - Episode 36 - Aired Nov 7, 1988
Berserko steals a special headband that makes him 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.
6.00 #22 - The Case of the Big Frame-Up
Season 1 - Episode 29 - Aired Oct 27, 1988
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.
6.00 #23 - The Case of the Sinister Spa
Season 1 - Episode 21 - Aired Oct 17, 1988
A brand new spa has just been opened and Ms. Demeanor claims it as her own. She 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 by the Crooks. But that won't stop the two COPS from escaping the spa of crime, help their teammates clean up the streets of Crooks, and rescuing Mayor Davis from the fuming trance afterwords.
6.00 #24 - The Case of the Cool Caveman
Season 1 - Episode 7 - Aired Sep 27, 1988
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.
6.00 #25 - The Case of the Wayward Whiz Kid
Season 1 - Episode 39 - Aired Nov 11, 1988
A boy genius' mainframe computer system named "Chip" accidentally took control of Buzzbomb when he tries to steal a priceless diamond from the school's art museum. To correct his mistake, Dr Badvibes attempts to make friends with the whizkid so that he can regain control of Buzzbomb and have him once again steal the priceless diamond and take control of the COPS computer systems along the way.
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