The Cops and Robin

• Director: Allen Reisner
• AMG Rating:
• Genre: Thriller
• Movie Type: Police Detective Film
• Themes: Robots and Androids, Witness Protection
• Main Cast: Natasha Ryan
• Release Year: 1978
• Country: US
• Run Time: 100 minutes

Plot

Future Cop had been a disastrous 1977 TV series about a human cop and his "biosynthetic android" (or robot) partner. Not content to leave bad enough alone, Paramount Television attempted to revive the Future Cop concept under the title The Cops and Robin. As in the earlier TV series, Ernest Borgnine is the flesh-and-blood policeman, teamed with humanlike robot Michael Shannon. Borgnine and Shannon are assigned to protect Robin (Natasha Ryan), the 6-year-old daughter of the witness to a cop killing. Even if Cops and Robin had made it as a series, it would have run into trouble from authors Harlan Ellison and Ben Bova, who sued the producers on the basis that this TV-movie pilot was swiped from their own short story Brillo. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide

Cast

John Amos; Ernest Borgnine; Terry Kiser; Carol Lynley; Natasha Ryan; Michael J. Shannon

Credit

Daniel Lomino - Art Director, Allen Reisner - Director, Jerry Young - Editor, Anthony Wilson - Executive Producer, Gary Damsker - Executive Producer, Charles Bernstein - Composer (Music Score), Howard Schwartz - Cinematographer, William Kayden - Producer, Brad Radnitz - Screenwriter, John Anthony Mulhall - Screenwriter

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