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Yes, this is another thread about THAT popular 80's cartoon, but all this gushing over it got me to thinking.
Wouldn't it be awesome if, just a couple of years after the cartoon went off the air, it came back as a real-time action-drama series that aired on Friday or Saturday nights.
Yes, friends, I am talking the C.O.P.S. and Crooks and any guest characters being played by actual actors and actresses, and the set of Empire City looked more like a futuristic New York (where the series would be actually filmed.)
And let's throw in a twist to this series. I'm talking about six or seven teenagers from the 1990's travelling to the year 2020 by walking through the looking glass. This was an idea that fermented in my head while I was in high school, and originally the kids were assigned different positions to serve the C.O.P.S., like the Baby-Sitters Club. But now that I'm over the BSC, I think it would make more sense that these kids use their smarts to assist the C.O.P.S. in cases, and get themselves into sticky situations that the others need to get them out of. My original title was going to be "the Junior C.O.P.S." but then I thought, HOW LAME!!! I have now decided to call it "C.O.P.S. & Irregulars." The names of these Irregulars go as follows: John Jacob (J.J.) Dublin, Nate Peters, Sydney Fischer, her little brother, Evan, Denise Toeman, and Richard Welder. Maybe throw in an African-American girl named Zandrea Baldwin for a seventh one.
The pilot would start off like this: Sydney and her friends are hanging out at her house in the early 1990's, when Evan, having been sent to get her something from her room, discovers that her bedroom mirror is doing something weird. Evan calls for the older group, and they see an image of Empire City in the mirror. Evan sticks his hand and foot in only to discover they go through. He wants to see what this is all about, and steps through before Sydney could stop him.
When Evan discovers Empire City (though he doesn't know where he is,) the first place he goes to is C.O.P.S. headquarters. There, he first meets Baldwin P. "Bulletproof" Vess. In a demanding tone, Evan asks where he is, and why his sister's mirror changed form to bring him there (aka: what do Bulletproof and the C.O.P.S. want from Evan.) He keeps up with his attitude until Bulletproof is so fed up, he asks Mace to lock him in the broom closet. In the broom closet, Evan gets more attitudinal, as he demands that Mace let him out, banging on the door! Ignoring him, Bulletproof attempts to contact Sydney and her friends.
Meanwhile, back in the present time, Sydney tries to explain to her parents what happened to Evan when the phone rings. Her father answers and hears Bulletproof's voice, who requests to speak to Sydney. When she answers, she learns that Bulletproof and his cohorts have Evan, and that the Fischer siblings and the rest of their group are "the chosen ones," and they must come to Empire City. Upon hanging up, the mirro activates to the image of Empire City again, and the teens step through the mirror - right before Mr. and Mrs. Fischer's eyes!
In Empire City, they find the C.O.P.S. headquarters and head straight for it. After Sydney introduces herself and her friends, she requests that they release Evan from the broom closet (upon hearing him scream for his sister.) When Evan is released, Nate asks Bulletproof why they chose this particular group. Before Bulletproof can answer, they hear the computer expert, Mainframe, explain that she actually picked up a "time transmitter" (if that's the correct term) that allows her and the other C.O.P.S. to see in their time, and in the old houses of Sydney and Evan, Nate, J.J., Richard, Denise and Zandrea. Mainframe explains of "cameras they couldn't see" recording their activities together and individually. She comments on their intellegence, friendliness, respect for elders, and most importantly, kindness toward authority (one of the things the whole team noticed.) Though the whole group accepts it, (and the offer to work as their Irregulars) Nate humourly accuses the C.O.P.S. of invading their privacy.
This takes up about 20 or so minutes of screen time, and on it goes from there.
I think this would be ultra cool if something like this was actually seen on television. I'd definietly watch, would you?
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