RoboCop

In the second movie, a ruthless OCP executive creates a new, improved robot-cop: a ten foot tall, powerful monster. There's just one little problem: it has a brain salvaged from a convicted felon. And now he's out to get RoboCop...talk about good cop/bad cop!

In Robocop 3, the OCP merges with a Japanese corporation that has it's own, untested, ninja-robot. The perfect thing for crowd control. If you don't want the crowd to live. Naturally, the original RoboCop takes him/it on in a final confrontation that he barely survives.

There was also a three-movie series called Maniac Cop. This was sort of the evil twin of Robocop. Set in the dark inner-city, a cop gone bad and out to out-bad the bad guys. The first one stars Bruce Campbell, with Sheree North as a bitter crippled policewoman.

A tv series about RoboCop followed the original 3 robocop movies, though none of the episodes appear to be available on videotape.
A number of actors have appeared in the RoboCop films:
RoboCop: Peter Weller, Nancy Allen (as Murphy's partner), Ronny Cox (the corporate bad guy), Kurtwood Smith, Dan O'Herlihy (the appalled Chairman of the Board),
Director: Paul Verhoeven (who also directed Total Recall and Starship Troopers).
RoboCop 2: Weller and Allen, plus Belinda Bauer, Gabriel Damon, Tom Noonan, DanO'Herlihy
and director Irvin Kershner (director of 007 movie Never Say Never Again, The Empire Strikes Back, and Eyes of Laura Mars).
RoboCop 3: Robert John Burke (as the new RoboCop) Rip Torn, Jill Hennessy, Remy Ryan, CCH Pounder, Dan O'Herlihy
and director: Fred Dekker (who also directed Monstervision movie House, 1986).

Here's a list of videos available, followed by this month's episodes/movies on tv/cable:

Robocop 3 (1993)

Robocop 2 (1990)

Robocop (1987)

Maniac Cop (1988)

Maniac Cop 3 (1992)
Monstervision's Joe Bob Briggs looks at Maniac Cop and Maniac Cop 2 including Drive-In Totals

Check the Sci Fi Channel movies page and for movies this month. American Movie Classics had "RoboCop 3" recently, and The Movie Channel had RoboCop 2. Robot Jox has been on Spike (TNN)

               Previous 2006/2007 broadcasts:
RoboCop (Peter Weller)
Mon  Oct 16  07:15P on Starz Edge

RoboCop 2 (Peter Weller)
Wed  Nov  8  02:00A on Mystery
Sat  Nov 11  01:45A on Encore

RoboCop 3 (Robert John Burke as Robocop vs. Mako as a merciless Cyber-Ninja)
Mon  Dec 25  09:15A, 2:45P & 8:20P on Action

Screamers (Peter Weller, 1995)
In 2078 a planet is overrun by robotic killers who take human form
Thu  Jun 21  08:00P on Cinemax

New RoboCop series aired on Sci Fi channel last July, 2001

ROBOCOP: PRIME DIRECTIVES

This 8-hour miniseries is set ten years after the original. Delta City is now considered "the safest place on Earth" and RoboCop/Alex Murphy is beginning to feel his age. For one thing, his fully-grown son is both unaware of his father's survival and is an executive of OCP, the corporation that "owns" Delta City. What's a father who is made mostly of steel to do? It followed a Saturday, July 14, 2001, 4:00 PM SCINEMA FEATURE showing of the movie ROBOCOP 3

Part I Monday, July 16, 2001 at 9PM & Midnight ET/PT
Part II  Tuesday, July 17
Part III Wednesday, July 18
Part IV  Thursday, July 19

Previous Sci-Fi channel episode broadcasts:

Sept. 5, 2000, WHEN JUSTICE FAILS
Sept 12, THE HUMAN FACTOR
Sept 19, INSIDE CRIME (a reality-show profiling Robocop and the criminals he's after - live)
Sept 26, ROBOCOP VS. COMMANDER CASH
No more episodes or movies scheduled until:
Saturday, January 22, 2000, 9:00 PM & repeated in 4 hours, SCINEMA EVENT (movie) "ROBOCOP 3"
August 14, 10:00 AM, ROBOCOP MARATHON:
THE FUTURE OF LAW ENFORCEMENT
THE FUTURE OF LAW ENFORCEMEN
WHEN JUSTICE FALLS
THE HUMAN FACTOR
ILLUSIONS
MIDNIGHT MINUS ONE Sun, September 24, 8:00 PM, SCINEMA FEATURE: ROBOCOP 3
Mon, October 16, 10:00 AM, ROBOCOP marathon:

          GHOSTS OF WAR                 
          ZONE FIVE                     
          PROVISION 22                  
          FACES OF EVE                  
          TIN MAN                       
          SISTERS IN CRIME              

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