The BEST episodes of C.O.P.S.
Every episode of C.O.P.S. ever, ranked from best to worst by thousands of votes from fans of the show. The best episodes of C.O.P.S.!
"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 10/26/1988
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.
Watch Now:Amazon#2 - The Case of the Blurbandits
Season 1 - Episode 1 - Aired 9/19/1988
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.
#3 - The Case of the Baby Badguy
Season 1 - Episode 2 - Aired 9/19/1988
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".
Watch Now:Amazon#4 - The Case of the Pardner in Crime
Season 1 - Episode 3 - Aired 9/20/1988
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.
Watch Now:Amazon#5 - The Case of the Thieving Robots
Season 1 - Episode 11 - Aired 10/3/1988
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.
Watch Now:Amazon#6 - The Case of the Criminal Mall
Season 1 - Episode 9 - Aired 9/29/1988
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.
Watch Now:AmazonApple TV#7 - The Case of the Bogus Justice Machines
Season 1 - Episode 10 - Aired 9/30/1988
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?
Watch Now:Amazon#8 - The Case of the Big Bad Boxoids
Season 1 - Episode 8 - Aired 9/28/1988
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.
Watch Now:Amazon#9 - The Case of the Blitz Attack
Season 1 - Episode 4 - Aired 9/21/1988
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.
Watch Now:Amazon#10 - The Case of the Midas Touch
Season 1 - Episode 43 - Aired 11/16/1988
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.
Watch Now:Amazon#11 - The Case of the Ghost Crooks
Season 1 - Episode 31 - Aired 10/31/1988
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.
Watch Now:Amazon#12 - The Case of the Iron C.O.P.S. and Wooden Crooks
Season 1 - Episode 35 - Aired 11/4/1988
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?
Watch Now:Amazon#13 - The Case of Big Boss's Bye Bye
Season 1 - Episode 37 - Aired 11/8/1988
Sometimes Big Boss likes to take advantage of the city's problems and use 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 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 successfully thwarted by Bulletproof, Highway, Mainframe, and Mace, who all get their jobs back afterwards.
#14 - The Case of the Lesser of Two Weevils
Season 1 - Episode 27 - Aired 10/25/1988
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?
Watch Now:Amazon#15 - The Case of the Missing Masterpiece
Season 1 - Episode 32 - Aired 11/1/1988
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 steal it back and plan to cut the painting up in shreds -- but not if the COPS can help it.
Watch Now:Amazon#16 - The Case of the Runaway Buzzbomb
Season 1 - Episode 33 - Aired 11/2/1988
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.
Watch Now:Amazon#17 - The Case of the Boy Who Cried Sea Monster
Season 1 - Episode 16 - Aired 10/10/1988
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.
Watch Now:Amazon#18 - The Case of the Rock and Roll Robbers
Season 1 - Episode 49 - Aired 11/28/1988
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.
Watch Now:Amazon#20 - The Case of Mukluk's Luck
Season 1 - Episode 56 - Aired 1/30/1989
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 ran out and for the trophy to land at a paws of a polar bear.
Watch Now:Amazon#22 - The Case of the Crook with a Conscience
Season 1 - Episode 14 - Aired 10/6/1988
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.
Watch Now:Amazon#23 - The Case of the Ready Room Mutiny
Season 1 - Episode 63 - Aired 2/14/1989
Bulletproof fakes a vacation trip after a failed raid on the Crooks' 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.
Watch Now:Amazon#24 - The Case of the High-Iron Hoods
Season 1 - Episode 45 - Aired 11/18/1988
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.
#25 - The Case of the Kangaroo Caper
Season 1 - Episode 44 - Aired 11/17/1988
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.
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