Director Paul Lynch
Starring Richard Eden, Yvette Nipar & Blu Mankuma
Rated PG
Score 3/6

RoboCop and Madigan uncover a conspiracy by an insane genius and an OCP executive to develop a computer linked to a human brain designed to run the entire city.

Okay, I’m sure that you all know about the Robocop Remake Movie from 2014 and the original series of movies. Now, how many of you knew about the Canadian TV Series from 1994 that starred Richard Eden as Robocop? The Series had 23 episodes and ran from March to November. Apparently, the pilot episode had a connection to the original series because it is said to have been adapted from a discarded RoboCop 2 script, Corporate Wars, by the writers of the original RoboCop, Edward Neumeier and Michael Miner. For those of you who might be interested the given reason that the series was canceled because the cost to produce each episode was between $1.2 million to $1.5 million an episode.

Even though the series embraces the spirt of the movie I got the impression that they didn’t pull it off especially considering that this was television friendly and they couldn’t go to the extremes that they did with the movies, though I did feel that the family services sign was a little disturbing. The series doesn’t directly follow on from the events of the sequels and many character names are changed from the movie series. David Gardner’s portrayal of the OCP Chairman was radically different from the movies the direction the character was taken had a quality that reminded me of Commandant Eric Lassard from the police academy movies. There was some interesting science fiction gadgets and the billboard for the department of family services certainly a little disturbing. There was also a brilliant example of how main character plot armour is directly related to the ability of a villain as a marksman. Unfortunately, the entire pilot gave of a vibe that similar to a live action light-gun game like Crime Patrol.