History Series / Timecop

* SpiritualSuccessor: The somewhat more successful ''Series/TimeTrax''.

''Timecop'' is a 1997 [[RecycledTheSeries TV series spun off]] from the Jean-Claude Van Damme action movie ''Film/{{Timecop}}''. Featuring an all new-cast, the series was unfortunately cut short after less than a season.

* ArtisticLicensePaleontology: Ian Pascoe claims to have witnessed a megalodon rip the throat out of a ''Tyrannosaurus rex''. These animals lived over 47 million years apart, assuming he didn't somehow (?) bring them together.

* ArtisticLicensePaleontology: Ian Pascoe claims to have witnessed a {{Megalodon}} shark rip the throat out of a ''Tyrannosaurus rex''. These animals lived over 47 million years apart, assuming he didn't somehow (?) bring them together.

* CutShort: Reportedly, ABC had ordered 13 episodes, but the plug was pulled after nine were produced.

* ArtisticLicensePaleontology: Ian Pascoe claims to have witnessed a {{Megalodon}} shark rip the throat out of a TyrannosaurusRex. These animals lived over 47 million years apart, assuming he didn't somehow (?) bring them together.

* MakeWrongWhatOnceWentRight: Technically speaking, this is a OnceAnEpisode trope, but Ian Pascoe really takes the cake. He's an evil time traveler who has committed many crimes throughout history, such as supplying Al Capone, taking part in assassinations, killing Jack the Ripper to take his place, and causing the Chernobyl and Hindenburg disasters. It's so extreme that the time agents note that they can't even correct all of Pascoe's previous meddling with the timestream, because they're already living inside one that was fundamentally shaped by his actions.

''Timecop'' is a 1997 [[RecycledTheSeries TV series spinned off]] from the Jean-Claude Van Damme action movie ''Film/{{Timecop}}''. Featuring an all new-cast, the series was unfortunately cut short after less than a season.

* GoodLookingPrivates: In "Rocket Science", when Jack Logan returns from his latest mission in a military uniform, one of his colleagues notes how attractive he looks. Purely tongue in cheek, since he was forced to wear a ''Wehrmacht uniform''.

->''The year: 2007. Time travel is a reality, and it's fallen into critical hands. With history itself at risk, the United States has formed the Time Enforcement Commission, a top-secret agency responsible for policing the temporal stream.''

* HitlersTimeTravelExemptionAct: This happened in "Rocket Science", complete with the hero going back in time to prevent the Nazi Future by stopping the Nazis from getting the atomic bomb.

* {{Expy}}: The somewhat more successful ''Series/TimeTrax''.
* GoodLookingPrivates: In "Rocket Science", when Jack Logan returns from his latest mission in a military uniform, one of his colleagues notes how attractive he looks. Purely tongue in cheek, since he was forced to wear a ''Wehrmacht uniform''.

* GodwinsLawOfTimeTravel: In "Rocket Science", Jack Logan has to stop a time traveller who's helping Hitler, complete with the hero going back in time to prevent the Nazi Future by stopping the Nazis from getting the atomic bomb.
* GoGoEnslavement: A subdued version in "Public Enemy" when Ian Pascoe kidnaps Claire and takes her back to 1928 with him. He compells her to wear more provocative clothing than her uniform, but conservative by modern standards.

* MakeWrongWhatOnceWentRight: Ian Pascoe is an evil time traveller who has committed many crimes throughout history, from supplying Al Capone, taking part in assassinations, killing Jack the Ripper to take his place, and causing the Chernobyl and Hindenburg disasters. It's so extreme that the time agents note that they can't even correct all of Pascoe's previous meddling with the timestream, because they're already living inside one that was fundamentally shaped by his actions.

* StalkerWithACrush: 1950s Hollywood actress Rita Lake from "Stalker" has ''two''. One of them is Ian Pascoe, a recurring villainous time traveller who decides to impersonate her boyfriend and murder her. The second turns out to be [[spoiler:the homicide detective who's investigating the case]], as he's the one who offed all her previous boyfriends so he could have her for himself.

* TimeIsDangerous: In "The Future, Jack, the Future", the protagonist and his temporary partner (played by Creator/BruceCampbell) find a mothballed time travel lab in the past. They find an early version of the pod still using rocket boosters instead of the so-called "timecop propulsion". When Bruce Campbell asks what happened if the speed wasn't high enough, the protagonist pointed him towards the blackened wall at the end of the track.

** In "The Heist", an old-timer cop assists the protagonist on a visit to the 70s to catch a criminal before he can steal several precious diamonds. The thing is he likes his old time better than the present, so he ends up stealing the stones himself.

* {{Expy}}: The somewhat more successful ''Series/'TimeTrax''.

''Timecop'' is a 1997 TV series spun off the Jean-Claude Van Damme action movie ''Film/{{Timecop}}''.

* HistoricalRapsheet: Ian Pascoe is an evil time traveller who has committed many crimes throughout history, from supplying Al Capone, taking the place of Jack the Ripper, and causing the Chernobyl and Hindenburg disasters. It's so extreme that the time agents note that they can't even correct all of Pascoe's previous meddling with the timestream, because they're already living inside one that was fundamentally shaped by his actions.

* HistoricalDomainCharacter: Lots of them. There's Jack the Ripper, Al Capone, Adolf Hitler, Elliot Ness, the Village People, and others.

* GivingRadioToTheRomans: There's an episode where a German yuppie travels to the 40s and introduces enhancements to Nazi technology. Slightly justified in that he had already done all the research he needs in order to improve their tech. When Logan goes back ([[ItMakesSenseInContext again]]) to stop him, he walks into his lab, where a German scientist is trying to figure out how to work the yuppie's laptop. The Nazi is obviously having trouble with a concept such as a portable computer. Logan simply smashes the laptop and leaves. Of course, he leaves all the pieces in the past, which means there should still be a potential for reverse-engineering it.
* HistoricalDomainCharacter: In "A Rip in Time", the first episode, a timetravelling cop travels back to 1888 to catch a criminal who has killed, and displaced, Jack the Ripper.
* HitlersTimeTravelExemptionAct: This happened in the first episode, complete with the hero going back in time to prevent the Nazi Future by stopping the Nazis from getting the atomic bomb.
* StupidJetpackHitler: There's an episode with a hipster from the future bringing a laptop back to 1944 with all kinds of technological improvements in it. His first idea is to improve the V2 rocket to destroy Britain. Naturally, the hero stops him (after visiting the BadFuture where the Nazis won), and Hitler has the guy shot.

* InformedWrongness: The [[StrawLoser tech guy]] is portrayed this way. In one episode, he chronically suggests that they not time jump right away and let him tinker with the time machine to figure out why it's acting weird, and is always dismissed out of hand for not doing things "the police way". And then the time machine screws up ''again''. This happens several times.