Future Cop (1976– )A veteran patrol officer gets an android for a partner. |
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| Ernest Borgnine | ... |
Joe Cleaver
(6 episodes, 1976-1977)
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| Michael Shannon | ... |
Officer Haven
(6 episodes, 1976-1977)
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| John Amos | ... |
Officer Bill Bundy
(6 episodes, 1976-1977)
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Herbert Nelson | ... |
Captain Skaggs
(6 episodes, 1976-1977)
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| Irene Tsu | ... |
Doctor Tingley
(5 episodes, 1977)
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Bill Zuckert | ... |
Lieutenant Fisk
(3 episodes, 1977)
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John Haven is a rookie cop assigned to work the streets with a pair of veteran patrol officers, Cleaver and Bundy. Haven is also a super-strong robot. Cleaver knows Haven's secret, but Bundy doesn't, which causes a few complications. Despite the show's high concept, the leads normally battled ordinary criminals like drug dealers and mobsters rather than super-villains. Written by Marty McKee <mmckee@wkio.com>
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1 May 1976 (USA) See more »Company Credits
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Oddly, less than a year before this series (an action-drama), there was a short-lived zany comedy series about a cop with a robot partner called "Holmes & Yoyo".
Decades ago, I saw an interview with famous (and often disgruntled) SciFi author Harlan Ellison, in which he said that the "Future Cop" series was ripped off of an idea for a series which he had submitted. Apparently, Ellison's proposed series, called "Big Mac", was about a very scientifically plausible police robot that was more along the lines of R2-D2. Yeah, that seems like quite a stretch from that to "Future Cop", but he won the lawsuit. I've also heard it called the "Brillo" case.