RoboCop: Alpha Commando

RoboCop: Alpha Commando
Genre	Animation
Created by	Michael Miner Edward Neumeier
Voices of	David Sobolov
Country of origin	USA / Canada
Language(s)	English
No. of seasons	1
No. of episodes	40
Production
Running time	30 minutes
Broadcast
Original run	September 7, 1998 – February 3, 1999

RoboCop: Alpha Commando was a short lived animated series based on the Orion Pictures film RoboCop and the series/films that followed in the 1980s-1990s. It was the second animated version of the character, following on from RoboCop: The Animated Series. The series premiered on September 7, 1998, and ran until February 3, 1999. It was the final animated series from Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Animation (via their parent company's purchase of Robocop distributor Orion).

As of 2011, none of the show's 40 episodes have been released onto DVD. The series is currently streaming on Hulu.

Synopsis

The series is set in the year 2020, and deals with RoboCop being reactivated after five years offline to assist a federal high-tech group, "Alpha Division" in their vigilance and struggle against DARC (Directorate for Anarchy, Revenge, and Chaos) a highly advanced terrorist organization and other forces of evil whenever that may be, globally or nationally.

The series shared many of the same writers who had contributed to the 1980s animated series, but had even less in common with the movies or television canon that it was based on. RoboCop has numerous gadgets in his body that were never in the film, such as roller skates and a parachute. The show also suffers from major continuity errors. In the first episodes we see RoboCop's son in his memories flashback and he appears to be around 10. We later see his son in the series, to be exactly the same age and even wearing the same clothing, as his memories. The names of Robocop´s wife and son were also changed to Susan and Richie.

The absence of Anne Lewis was never explained. Besides RoboCop himself, Sgt. Reed and Alex J. Murphy are the only characters from the movies in the series. Unlike the movies, and previous TV incarnations, RoboCop never takes off his helmet in Alpha Commando.

Cast

• David Sobolov as the voice of RoboCop
• Akiko Morrison as the voice of Agent Nancy Miner
• Dean Haglund as the voice of Dr. Cornelius Neumeier
• Blu Mankuma as the voice of Sgt. Reed - Blu Mankuma, the voice actor for Sgt. Reed, was also in RoboCop: The Series where he played Sgt. Parks, the show's version of Reed.
• Campbell Lane as the voice of Alpha Prime

The characters of Dr. Cornelius Neumeier and Nancy Miner were named after RoboCop co-creators Edward Neumeier and Michael Miner.

Episodes

1. Justice Reborn (1)
2. Justice Reborn (2)
3. Justice Reborn (3)
4. Doppelganger
5. Town of Tomorrow
6. Cyber-Fagin
7. Plague on Ice
8. Robo Racer
9. The Hermanator
10. Robopop
11. The Weakest Link
12. Really, Really Big Shoo
13. A Pretty Girl Is Like a Malady
14. Francesca's Quest
15. Power Play
16. Deep Trouble
17. Maxsop 4
18. Oh Tannenbaum Whoa Tannenbaum
19. We'll Always Have Paris
20. Best Friends
21. Garden of Evil
22. Robodog
23. Brawl in the Family
24. Cop Games
25. H-2-Uh-Oh
26. Inside Out
27. The ERG and I
28. Survival of the Fittest
29. While You Were Sleeping
30. Return of the Hermanator
31. Family Reunion (1)
32. Family Reunion (2)
33. Small Packages
34. Head Games
35. DARC Secrets
36. Thank You Very Mulch
37. Father's Day
38. Out of the Dark
39. Das Re-Boot
40. Talk About the Weather

External links

• RoboCop: Alpha Commando at the Internet Movie Database
• RoboCop- Alpha Commando at the Big Cartoon DataBase
• RoboCop: Alpha Commando at TV.com