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."

Last Updated: 1/6/2024Network: CBSStatus: Ended
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The Case of the Lying Lie Detector
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7.50
2 votes

#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.

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The Case of the Pardner in Crime
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7.00
6 votes

#2 - 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.

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The Case of the Baby Badguy
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6.88
8 votes

#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".

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The Case of the Thieving Robots
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6.80
5 votes

#4 - 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.

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The Case of the Blurbandits
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6.79
19 votes

#5 - 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.

The Case of the Bogus Justice Machines
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6.67
3 votes

#6 - 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?

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The Case of the Crook with a Thousand Faces
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6.67
3 votes

#7 - The Case of the Crook with a Thousand Faces

Season 1 - Episode 12 - Aired 10/4/1988

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.

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The Case of the Criminal Mall
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6.67
3 votes

#8 - 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.

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The Case of the Cool Caveman
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6.67
3 votes

#9 - The Case of the Cool Caveman

Season 1 - Episode 7 - Aired 9/27/1988

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.

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The Case of the Highway Robbery
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6.50
4 votes

#10 - The Case of the Highway Robbery

Season 1 - Episode 5 - Aired 9/22/1988

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.

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The Case of the Big Bad Boxoids
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6.50
2 votes

#11 - 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.

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The Case of the Blitz Attack
star
6.43
7 votes

#12 - 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.

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The Case of the Disappearing Dough
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6.00
2 votes

#13 - The Case of the Disappearing Dough

Season 1 - Episode 64 - Aired 2/16/1989

Big Boss hatches a plot to destroy all the currency in Empire City and replace them with his own counterfeit "Boss Bucks".

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The Case of the Midas Touch
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6.00
1 votes

#14 - 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.

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The Case of the Iron C.O.P.S. and Wooden Crooks
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6.00
1 votes

#15 - 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?

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The Case of Big Boss's Bye Bye
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6.00
1 votes

#16 - 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.

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The Case of the Lesser of Two Weevils
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6.00
1 votes

#17 - 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?

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The Case of the Ready Room Mutiny
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6.00
2 votes

#18 - 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.

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The Case of the Missing Masterpiece
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6.00
1 votes

#19 - 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.

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The Case of the Runaway Buzzbomb
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6.00
1 votes

#20 - 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.

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The Case of the Boy Who Cried Sea Monster
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6.00
2 votes

#21 - 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.

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The Case of the Rock and Roll Robbers
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6.00
1 votes

#22 - 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.

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The Case of the Baby Badguy's Return
star
6.00
1 votes

#23 - The Case of the Baby Badguy's Return

Season 1 - Episode 41 - Aired 11/14/1988

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.

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The Case of Mukluk's Luck
star
6.00
1 votes

#24 - 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.

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The Case of the Big Little Green Men
star
6.00
1 votes

#25 - The Case of the Big Little Green Men

Season 1 - Episode 34 - Aired 11/3/1988

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.

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