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: 4/1/2024Network: CBSStatus: Ended
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The Case of the Baffling Bugman
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5.67
3 votes

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

#2 - 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 Iceberg Pirates
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6.00
1 votes

#3 - 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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The Case of the Lesser of Two Weevils
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6.00
1 votes

#4 - 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 Missing Masterpiece
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6.00
1 votes

#5 - 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

#6 - 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 Rock and Roll Robbers
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6.00
1 votes

#7 - 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
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6.00
1 votes

#8 - 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
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6.00
1 votes

#9 - 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 Disappearing Dough
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6.00
2 votes

#10 - 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 Ghost Crooks
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6.00
1 votes

#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.

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The Case of the Visiting Mother
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6.00
1 votes

#12 - The Case of the Visiting Mother

Season 1 - Episode 40 - Aired 11/11/1988

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.

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The Case of the Bogus Bride
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6.00
1 votes

#13 - 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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The Case of the Boy Nobody Wanted
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6.00
1 votes

#14 - 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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The Case of the Big Little Green Men
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6.00
1 votes

#15 - 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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The Case of the Giveaway Gold
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6.00
1 votes

#16 - 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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The Case of the Criminal Games
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6.00
1 votes

#17 - The Case of the Criminal Games

Season 1 - Episode 55 - Aired 1/16/1989

Three new crooks, Hyena, Bullit and Louie the Plumber, arrive at Empire City and challenge Big Boss to 'The Criminal Games' right after they nab a case full of loot that Berserko and Turbo have stolen from a bank. In order for Big Boss to win the game, he kidnaps Highway and forces Bulletproof and Barricade to help him win the criminal games or else he'll never see his teammate again.

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

#18 - 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 the Midas Touch
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6.00
1 votes

#19 - 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 Ready Room Mutiny
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6.00
2 votes

#20 - 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 High-Iron Hoods
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6.00
1 votes

#21 - 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.

The Case of the Kangaroo Caper
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6.00
1 votes

#22 - 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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The Case of the Missing Memory
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6.00
1 votes

#23 - The Case of the Missing Memory

Season 1 - Episode 54 - Aired 1/11/1989

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.

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The Case of the Lowest Crime
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6.00
1 votes

#24 - The Case of the Lowest Crime

Season 1 - Episode 48 - Aired 11/23/1988

A shady drug dealer named Addictem tries to sell his dangerous drug product called Crystal Twyst to the streets of Empire City. He even tries to join up with Big Boss and his crooks to help promote the drug product. But Big Boss rejects his offer. For once, there is a spark of morality inside this otherwise corrupt fat man. He even orders his crooks to reject Addictem's product completely. Easier said than done. For unfortunately, while out on a heist, Berserko accidentally falls into a crate full of Addictem's Crystal Twyst, which cause him to become unconscious and be taken to the hospital. As a result, Big Boss and his Crooks... of all things... join forces with COPS in a successful effort to take down Addictem and end his drug selling business for good.

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The Case of the Crooked Contest
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6.00
1 votes

#25 - The Case of the Crooked Contest

Season 1 - Episode 62 - Aired 2/13/1989

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.

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