I adored this show growing up in the 80's. It was still so rare to watch a cartoon where a Black Man was the main lead character! As a Black child, this thrilled me, and I thought he was so cool with his shades! I enjoyed all the other characters too, and really liked the use of gadgets and technology assisting the characters in their missions. It's too bad this one didn't last that long, because I think it has aged pretty well. Thank you for the in-depth history and fun trip down memory lane. 😊

I used to watch this cartoon after school back in the 80s. Glad that some people haven't forgotten about it.

C.O.P.S. was brilliant. Easily one of the best cartoons of the 1980s.

On of my favourite cartoon intros of all time, I loved this show as a kid and managed to find season 1 and 2 at my local Dollar Store about 8 years ago... like what?

I remember this cartoon. It was amazing. Kids don't know what good TV and movies are these days.

Along with this, the Centurion, and Inhumanoids are the 80s cartoons that need to comeback.

I have the complete series on DVD! I love this show

Man, I just remember how big and heavy some of the figures were...you could crack a skull with Big Boss easily.

This was a good show. And very "diverse". Exo-Squad absolutely needs a comeback/remake. The combination of realism, politics, social issues, was untouched.

This show falls into the category of things I remember but wondered if it was real or part of my imagination. I remember the episode where Mainframe entered a beauty pageant as an undercover contestant. I also remember that Dr. Bad Vibes would often have brainstorms but I was never sure if he was a he or a she. Thanks for all the details!

Silverhawks also deserves a comeback as well.

As a 80's kid I loved Cops! My friends and I all thought it was so cool seeing B.P, a black man be a respected and great leader!

Loved this cartoon as a kid.

Found it after many years. Stands the test of time. Good show. Thanks for the video.

Loved this show, would like this to come back but I want the figures most of all. Thanks for sharing bro

I remember COPS. It was a fun show with a great intro and ending. Larry Hama, who wrote Marvel’s G. I. Joe: A Real American Hero, and the filecards for the members of G. I. Joe and Cobra as part of the action figures’ packaging also wrote the files for both the COPS and Crooks. One of the COPS, the MP Checkpoint, was hinted to be the son of G. I. Joe’s Beach-Head. DC Comics released a COPS comic that lasted 15 issues. In the comic, Airstream, the COPS helicopter pilot, was named Hugh S. Sikorski; implying he’s related to Victor W. Sikorski (Lift-Ticket in G. I. Joe). Its too bad that no female figures were released. Bulletproof, Longarm, Mainframe (who’s really very pretty, much moreso than Mirage), and Sundown; Big Boss, Buttons McBoomboom, Dr. Badvibes & Buzzbomb, and Nightshade were the best characters in both the comics and cartoons. DC’s COPS #s 1-2, 4, 7-8 & 11 were very well written.

I've been watching this on Tubi lately. Took me back to my early childhood days. Funny enough, I got my hands on some old issues of the tie-in comic series from DC from a bargain bin at my local comic store.

Can we talk about Ms Demeanor? She was an interesting criminal I wanted to know about. She definitely committed more than what her name suggested lol.

Cops was a cool show. I really liked Longarm with his grappling hook upgrade.

Thanks for the stroll down memory lane!

I had so many c.o.p.s toys when I was a kid. They all had big ass cap guns for an accessory piece, I always thought that was cool because I was big into cap guns in the 80's

I was 11 when this came out and I still remember it fondly. As far as I can remember its the first kids cartoon with a black lead hero that wasn't aimed at black kids only (like Fat Albert and Friends). That aspect alone really stands out to me.

Man tis was a GREAT show. Deserves a movie

I LOVED the art dierection on thsi show. I had some of the toys too. I used to love the urban design in this show and afterwards I spent a few years of my young life drawing futuristuc skylines based on Empire City.

I remember this cartoon. I used to watch it before I went to school.

I was the only person I knew growing up that knew of the show C.O.P.S. One of the many wonderful things about the internet

I still remember the episode where the boss got that special spray to put on his suit so he would never get dirty but it did the exact opposite effect and attracted dirt from everywhere LOL

Loved this show as a kid they do a pretty wild episode about drugs lol

The memories, Classic 80's cartoon if you ask me. Great Work on this one Marvelous Videos. Thanx....😁

I had to endure watching Gumby while waiting for this show to come on, I can't ever forget that. Freaking Gumby.

I love the fact that Carl Macek was a screenwriter for C.O.P.S. after his work on the Robotech series. The animation style is very reminiscent of Robotech, that’s why I remember C.O.P.S. so well. RIP Carl Macek

all the amazing shows from the 80s need to come back ... todays kids tv just doesn't hold up to the classics from my childhood

I got a dvd collection around 2005 when i was addicted to buying dvds on amazon. This show came out at the wrong time. I would loooove to see a movie with an all star cast

This cartoon was awesome. Even the action figures were awesome. They were like GI JOE action figures. My brother had the figure checkpoint and I didn't know his father was Beach Head from GI JOE.

When I was little I had the toys and I also watched this show. Please cover another show from my childhood called The Bionic 6 I really liked the action figures they had.

The Brave Star show and toys was also great

I loved this show when I was a kid

This show takes me back..... It reminds me of police academy but better.

I agree this show needs comeback it looks awesome.

I only knew about this from a random vhs that I found at my grandmother's when I was a child. Having no idea who bought it or when or for who but I remember it actually being a really cool short set of episodes that I wished I had more to see of. Edit: and myself being a 90's kid, I'm genuinely surprised to find out this was an 80s cartoon. O.o

This was a great show I love it👍

I remember this show! The action figures were like 1.5 scaled up versions of GI Joes.

This was an awesome cartoon back then!

I remember the story when the crooks and the cops teamed up to take down the crystal twist dealer. Even Big Boss did not deal in drugs. He just stole.

Still one of my all time favs... Would have lasted longer if it wasn't for Fox's COPS there was too much confusion why the cartoon name was switched to Cyber Cops but did not help it. Still crazy about this show today and think has one of the greatest theme songs ever

I used to watch this back in the early 1990s. Such great memories

I had a few episodes of the show on VHS as a kid.

No lie I a VHS of this show and never knew how I got a hold of it as a kid

The action figures were LEGIT too

Big Boss looks like an adult Cartman. B P Vess could be Token all grown up.

Classic. This was my ish. It was cool having a Black guy in charge. That caught my attention. Then it was just a good show. Along with the game NARC.

Watched it every morning before school

The single thing I remember most about this show are the interesting gadgets. Very toyetic. The PSAs had little to do with it being a show about police officers. Rather, broadcast standards at the time went after toy commercials like this and forced them to include PSAs so that they could claim the shows were education. You saw these in HI Joe, He-man, and just about every other cartoon of the time.

DARPA still has some catching up to do in the robot dog game

Oh yeah, every day after school! I always though Dr. Badvibes was a woman, always wondered why Big Boss had police badges for buttons and it was freaking hilarious what that Bugman named his favourite bug... I was like 6 😅! The toys were dope too, closest thing to cap guns my mother would let me play with.

Loved loved COPS I had a few action figures I love this cartoon

I use to watch this with Queen Latifah brother Lance everyday after school in the late 80's.. he was a cop and I wanted to be like my big bro.. The show was great but being a cop I totally changed my mind. RIP Lance💖🙏🏿

It’s was my favorite!! along with He-Man. 😀

Love the connection Hama gave COPS to GIJoe, even that characters name

Loved this show when I was a kid

this gave me goose bumps as the intro goes through my head.

One of my best childhood memories

Big Boss! Formerly known as "Dr. Claw" - Nemesis of Inspector Gadget.

love this show

I used to like watching the show. This needs a reboot just like other shows. Story, character development, mystery, and more sci-fi police crime noir series. It can work.

I loved this show as a kid. Btw great research guys!

I was born in 82, JUST missed this show, but i had the Sundown and Big Boss action figures from somewhere, dont remember where i got tnem. Never knew what they were from until now.

Growing up where I did in Manchester NH There's a lot of Geography that differs and a lot of Ahead of the Time Buildings thru time My friends and I would ride our bikes and skateboards acting like we were a Jr Division of C.O.P.S This is still a show my friends and I Talk about alot

Fighting crime in a future time

The intro song was crazy.

C.O.P.S was in my own personal opinion was a very fantastically cool 😎action 🎬cartoon series. I'm so very disappointed 😞😔😕😪😢😒that it didn't last past two seasons though because I felt that there could have been so much more ideas for the show had the creators not lose interest 😔!

I didn't like this cartoon at first as I skipped it, but slowly I started to appreciate it and liked it when I was bored and watch it while waiting for my other favorite cartoon turning up

Oh man we need some Lone Star next!

I remember this cartoon. Love it

Marvelous Videos still taking us down memory lane with these classics. Salute......

C.O.P.S. was cyberpunk as all get-out. My favorite episode was the one in which the Crooks convince the mayor of the city to use robots called Instant Justice Machines to enforce the law. Of course the Instant Justice Machines hand down stiff sentences for things like parking violations, while letting the Crooks get off scot free. Raises some interesting questions about the use of technology in policing, and corruption of government and the law enforcement process itself. I'd like to see a TV Funhouse parody of C.O.P.S. called A.C.A.B.

What I find fascinating about the show is they took a lot of fairly advanced cyberpunk story ideas and then tried to cram it into a show for a young kids. I'm thinking they might have done a little better if they had set the age bar a tad higher.

Omfg! Thank you YT algorithm for leading me to this! For the longest time, I’ve been busting my brain trying to figure out the name of “that one cartoon with the black dude as the leader”

Loved this cartoon

Still watching this today.

Wow! I was wondering when someone was going to review this cartoon.

I used to love this cartoon

a rather fun fact: some of the VAs here are in the 90s X-Men cartoon, the guy who voices big boss is the orderly with the coke bottle glasses from Terminator 2: Judgement Day.

Being I grow up in the tri state area Nyc Connecticut & New Jersey so we watched this on Wpix 11. Damn I’m turning 40

I was in 5th grade when this debuted i have the complete series on dvd

i remember C.O.P.S i even had a few of the toys

The toys for this line were amazing. I loved the ones I had.

you forgot about one of the Crooks, Miss Demeanour. shes basically Rock Crusher, but much stronger and smarter. she however is known to be the most violent of the Crooks. also you forgot Sundown the Texas Ranger.

C.O.P.S. only lasted 1 season in syndication, but since it was a daily, 65 episodes were produced before the show's eventual cancellation, with reruns aired until 1990. In November 21 and 28, 1989, Record Breakers pre-empted the series. These 30-minute thrillers were revived briefly in 1993 when CBS placed C.O.P.S. reruns, this time, rebranding it Cyber C.O.P.S. (same show, same episodes, new title) on its Saturday morning CBS Kid TV schedule (immediately following a full hour of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles) at the 11:00AM to 11:30AM half-hour timeslot as a temporary 1992-1993 midseason filler replacement program for Grimmy, from March 20 to September 4, 1993 for obvious reasons. Alas, after only 6 more months of busting crooks, the C.O.P.S. team was once again sent to an early retirement. 2 years later in 1995, USA Network also aired reruns of C.O.P.S. as part of USA Cartoon Express block from January 2, 1995 to March 9, 1995, when the show restored its original title.

I have the complete series of COPS. It is one of the greatest cartoons of all time and has some of the best animation ever. They sure don't make characters pretty like they use to...

I loved this toon.💯💯💯💯

Bowser and Blitz always reminded me of a future Joes Law & Order adding to the other GI Joe ties. Turbo Tu-Tone reminded me of a Dreadnok named Ripper.

Is there a channel that still has these old 1980s and 90s cartoons?

Oh my god i thought this was completely forgotten, the toys had a bunch of articulation and were large figures as well.

It's crime fighting time. ❤

Mainframe, Bowser and Blitz, Sundown, Mirage, Highway, and Mace were the C.O.P.S. I liked.

I loved this show. Basically it was GI Joe, but instead of the army, the battle was in the streets, so cops and crooks is what makes sense.

3:45 cant help but find this funny, cuz there is a 80s tokusatsu show called cyber cops

You guys should do one on James Bond Jr.

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