#17 - RoboCop The Series: Midnight Minus One

 First things first I love RoboCop, the first film from 1987 in absolutely fantastic and is of course the best of all but I enjoy both it's sequels (yes even III), it's animated counterparts, the TV movies and of course this 1994-95 Canadian series. Of course it's missing the violence of the film but it's still a pretty good show with some decent storylines (apparently it's main reason for lasting one season was the budget per episode was just too high to continue).

Richard Eden here plays Murphy/RoboCop (the rest of the cast have had there characters named changed) and it's about a "killer" about to be put to death by suicide (which will be televised) and even though he admits it, it's a race against time to prove his innocence.

While it's clear the RoboCop brand as been neutered by this point, the story of this episode is fairly compelling, and the ending in how they get (one of) the real guilty person to admit it is involvement is fun.

Overall, a show that is probably btter written then it's been given credit for (not saying it should have cleared up at the Emmys) but a show that is worth a chance.