Future Cop is an American science fiction

Science fiction

Science fiction is a genre of fiction dealing with imaginary but more or less plausible content such as future settings, futuristic science and technology, space travel, aliens, and paranormal abilities...

 television series which starred Ernest Borgnine

Ernest Borgnine

Ernest Borgnine is an American actor of television and film. His career has spanned more than six decades. He was an unconventional lead in many films of the 1950s, including his Academy Award-winning turn in the 1955 film Marty...

 and Michael Shannon. It was based on the TV movie of the same name and predated RoboCop

RoboCop

RoboCop is a 1987 American science fiction-action film directed by Paul Verhoeven. Set in a crime-ridden Detroit, Michigan in the near future, RoboCop centers on a police officer who is brutally murdered and subsequently re-created as a super-human cyborg known as "RoboCop"...

by ten years. The series was aired on ABC

American Broadcasting Company

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 in 1976 and was re-piloted as "Cops and Robin" on NBC

NBC

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 in 1978. A veteran street cop gets an experimental android that has been programmed by the police lab for his new partner.

List of Future Cop episodes with airdates

1. "Future Cop" (May 1, 1976)
2. "Fighting O'Haven" (March 5, 1977)
3. "The Mad Mad Bomber, Part I" (March 25, 1977)
4. "The Mad Mad Bomber, Part II" (March 25, 1977)
5. "Girl on the Ledge" (April 7, 1977)
6. "The Carlisle Girl" (April 22, 1977)
7. "The Kansas City Kid" (April 30, 1977)
8. "Cops and Robin" (March 28, 1978)