The WORST episodes of C.O.P.S.

Every episode of C.O.P.S. ever, ranked from worst to best by thousands of votes from fans of the show. The worst 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: 12/17/2024Network: CBSStatus: Ended
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5.67
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#1 - The Case of the Baffling Bugman

Season 1 - Episode 17 - Aired 10/11/1988

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 uses them to pull their own jewel heists. The Bugman seeks aid from Mainframe and Bowser and Blitz, who not only help him get his bugs back, they turn around and arrest the Bugman as well.

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6.00
2 votes

#2 - The Case of the Bogus Bride

Season 1 - Episode 52 - Aired 1/5/1989

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.

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6.00
1 votes

#3 - The Case of Berserko's Big Surprise

Season 1 - Episode 26 - Aired 10/24/1988

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.

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6.00
2 votes

#4 - The Case of the Boy Nobody Wanted

Season 1 - Episode 30 - Aired 10/28/1988

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 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.

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6.00
2 votes

#5 - The Case of the Giveaway Gold

Season 1 - Episode 58 - Aired 2/3/1989

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.

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6.00
1 votes

#6 - The Case of the Iceberg Pirates

Season 1 - Episode 38 - Aired 11/9/1988

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.

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6.00
2 votes

#7 - The Case of the Big Boss's Master Plan (2)

Season 1 - Episode 19 - Aired 10/12/1988

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.

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6.00
1 votes

#8 - The Case of the Big Boss's Master Plan (1)

Season 1 - Episode 18 - Aired 10/12/1988

The President of the United States (who is an African American woman) 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's there on the train to provide security for her. Bulletproof, Hardtop, and LongArm are also there for additional security as well. But this doesn't stop Berserko, Buttons McBoomBoom, and Ms. Demeanor from breaking into the train, kidnap the president, and took her away by the orders of Big Boss who then agree to release her in exchanged 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.

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6.00
2 votes

#9 - The Case of the Wayward Whiz Kid

Season 1 - Episode 39 - Aired 11/11/1988

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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6.00
2 votes

#10 - The Case of the Brilliant Berserko

Season 1 - Episode 36 - Aired 11/7/1988

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.

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6.00
2 votes

#11 - The Case of the Super Shakedown

Season 1 - Episode 24 - Aired 10/20/1988

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.

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6.00
1 votes

#12 - The Case of the Crime Convention

Season 1 - Episode 22 - Aired 10/18/1988

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.

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6.00
3 votes

#13 - The Case of the Bulletproof Waldo

Season 1 - Episode 6 - Aired 9/23/1988

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.

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6.00
2 votes

#14 - The Case of C.O.P.S. File #1 (2)

Season 1 - Episode 47 - Aired 11/21/1988

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.

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2 votes

#15 - The Case of C.O.P.S. File #1 (1)

Season 1 - Episode 46 - Aired 11/21/1988

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!

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6.00
1 votes

#16 - The Case of the Prison Break-In

Season 1 - Episode 20 - Aired 10/14/1988

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.

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6.00
1 votes

#17 - The Case of the Crime Circus

Season 1 - Episode 15 - Aired 10/7/1988

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.

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2 votes

#18 - 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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2 votes

#19 - 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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6.00
2 votes

#20 - 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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2 votes

#21 - 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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2 votes

#22 - 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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2 votes

#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.

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2 votes

#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.

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2 votes

#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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