History Series / RoboCopPrimeDirectives

* EvilIsHammy

* LawOfInverseFertility: John and Sara Cable tried several times to have a child, and when she finally did give birth, the baby was stillborn.

* OnlyKnownByTheirNickname: As is tradtion with the head of OCP, Tedde Moore's character's real name is never revealed, and much like Daniel O'Herlihy's character in the first two movies, is known as a derisive nickname; in her character's case, "the Old Woman".

* BroadStrokes: The series is deliberately set 10 years after the original film to avoid needing to tie into the previous sequels. Prime Directives lines up with RoboCop 3 in that Murphy's fourth directive preventing him from harming OCP personnel was erased, and Murphy is shown in Prime Directives to have only three directives. Reference is also made to the battle of Cadillac Heights in RoboCop 3. However, Prime Directives also contradicts Robocop 3: the film showed OCP destroyed and its plans to destroy Detroit and build Delta City over the ruins stopped. Prime Directives, however, shows that Delta City is complete and Old Detroit is the abandoned part of the old city. Prime Directives also contradicts Robocop 2 and 3 where Murphy's identity was known by most OCP staff and police officers, while in Prime Directives, Murphy's identity is a secret known only to Murphy's doctor and the highest levels of OCP. The writers deliberately made these contradictions, feeling that the previous installments showed police officers entirely too accepting of a dead cop being turned into a cyborg and that OCP was too important to leave destroyed.

* SmugSnake: OCP's top brass, Damian Lowe and Sara Cable. James Murphy starts out as this, but once he talks to his father and learns what really happened, he becomes incredibly helpful.

* ManlyTears: Robo sheds a few for Cable at the end of "Dark Justice" while looking [[ThousandYardStare utterly shell-shocked]].

* ManlyTears: Robo sheds a few for Cable at the end of "Dark Justice" while looking utterly shell-shocked.

In the intervening years after the events of the first film, Delta City has become fully owned and operated by OCP, while [=RoboCop=]/Alex Murphy (Fletcher) has remained in service for over a decade. Murphy's also showing his age, and is scheduled to be retired by OCP because his parts are out of warranty. In addition, his now-grown son James has become an OCP executive, and his old partner John Cable has returned to the city to become the company's new security commander. By the end of the first episode, Robo is forced to kill Cable, who is subsequently reborn as Robocable, the second prototype for the once-defunct [=RoboCop=] program. Murphy teams up with an anarchist group led by Ann R. Key ([[Series/TwentyFour Leslie Hope]]) to stop Cable, OCP (which are now hunting both Murphy and [=RoboCable=]) and David Kaydick, Ann's ex-husband and a disgraced OCP scientist who plans to use an organic virus to destroy everyone in Delta City.

'''''Franchise/RoboCop: Prime Directives''''' is a 2001 Canadian-made miniseries set in an AlternateContinuity thirteen years after the [[Film/RoboCop1987 original film]], starring Page Fletcher as the title cyborg police officer.

In the intervening years after the events of the first film, Delta City has become fully owned and operated by OCP, while [=RoboCop=]/Alex Murphy (Fletcher) has remained in service for over a decade. Murphy's also showing his age, and is scheduled to be retired by OCP because his parts are out of warranty. In addition, his now-grown son James has become an OCP executive, and his old partner John Cable has returned to the city to become the company's new security commander. By the end of the first episode, Robo is forced to kill Cable, who is subsequently reborn as Robocable, the second prototype for the once-defunct [=RoboCop=] program. Murphy teams up with an anarchist group led by Ann R. Key ([[Series/TwentyFour Leslie Hope]]) to stop Cable, OCP (which are now hunting both Murphy and Robo-Cable) and David Kaydick, Ann's ex-husband and a disgraced OCP scientist who plans to use an organic virus to destroy everyone in Delta City.

* BigDamnHeroes: In "Meltdown", Robocable arrives to save Murphy (who is badly injured and losing critical functions after being electrocuted by the OCP special unit), then Ann and her crew show up to save him in "Resurrection" after Cable creates a distraction to draw the unit away.

* EarnYourHappyEnding: Detroit is now stuck in total darkness (thanks to [[spoiler:Robo-Cable activating the EMP]]), and several people have died to stop the corrupted S.A.I.N.T. computer program from destroying the city, but Murphy does get to make up for lost time with his son, who spearheads the rebuilding with his own newly formed company, and continues in his role as a protector, free of his overriding directives.

* {{Fingore}}: The OCP special force commander's hand when Robo-Cable blows it to pieces with his gun.

* GunsAkimbo: Robocable, who wields two Auto-9's.

* IronicEcho: Robocable's comment to the OCP soldier who almost destroyed him earlier in the series: "Now '''I''' own your black ass."

* AIIsACrapshoot: Murphy has become quasi-suicidal and angsty in the intervening years between the first film and the miniseries, while Robocable gets a conscience twice during the series (once when he decides to assist Murphy in "Meltdown", and again in "Crash And Burn").

* [[HeyItsThatGuy Hey It's That Girl:]] This is likely the role that showed Leslie Hope is tough enough to be [[Series/TwentyFour Jack Bauer's]] wife.

** In "Meltdown", Murphy remembers a phrase Cable once told him, "[[TheDarkKnightReturns The world only makes sense when you force it to]]." The quote returns as the coda for the third episode, "Resurrection".

* ShoutOut: At the end of a an episode, [=RoboCop=] muses that "[[Comicbook/TheDarkKnightReturns the world only makes sense when you force it to]]".

* VillainousRescue: Kaydick shows up to rescue the injured Robocable in "Resurrection" after he's assaulted by the OCP special forces unit.

** In [[http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Series/RoboCopTheSeries Robocop: The Series]] Jimmy is studying to become an exec. Here, he joins OCP as a Junior Exec before starting his own business as its CEO.

* ContinuityNod: Bob Morton is namechecked when James digs into OCP's archives to learn more about the [=RoboCop=] Project. The "I'd buy that for a dollar!" catchphrase is also referenced in the first episode.

* EarnYourHappyEnding: Detroit is now stuck in total darkness (thanks to [[spoiler:Robo-Cable activating the EMP]]), and several people have died to stop the corrupted S.A.I.N.T. computer program from destroying the city, but Murphy does get to make up for lost time with his son and continue in his role as a protector, free of his overriding directives.

''Franchise/RoboCop: Prime Directives'' is a 2001 Canadian-made miniseries set in an AlternateContinuity thirteen years after the [[Film/RoboCop1987 original film]], starring Page Fletcher as the titular cyborg police officer.

In the intervening years after the events of the first film, Delta City has become fully owned and operated by OCP, while Robocop/Alex Murphy (Fletcher) has remained in service for over a decade. Murphy's also showing his age, and is scheduled to be retired by OCP because his parts are out of warranty. In addition, his now-grown son James has become an OCP executive, and his old partner John Cable has returned to the city to become the company's new security commander. By the end of the first episode, Robo is forced to kill Cable, who is subsequently reborn as Robocable, the second prototype for the once-defunct Robocop program. Murphy teams up with an anarchist group led by Ann R. Key ([[Series/TwentyFour Leslie Hope]]) to stop Cable, OCP (which are now hunting both Murphy and Robo-Cable) and David Kaydick, Ann's ex-husband and a disgraced OCP scientist who plans to use an organic virus to destroy everyone in Delta City.

The production was filmed and produced in [[CaliforniaDoubling Toronto, Canada]], and featured a number of well-known Canadian actors. Richard Eden (who played the title character on ''Series/RobocopTheSeries'') was asked to reprise his role, but backed out. The producers hired Page Fletcher instead, who devised his own movement system to reflect where the character was at that point in his life.

!!The series provides examples of:

* BoardToDeath: Damian spearheads the project for developing a fully-functional AI, called SAINT. After sending a team to destroy Robocop after the Old Woman had forbidden it, Damian gets fired and uses SAINT to kill the Old Woman and the Board.

* CallingTheOldManOut: Jimmy's motivation for trying to use the EMP on Robocop.

* ContinuityNod: Bob Morton is namechecked when James digs into OCP's archives to learn more about the Robocop Project. The "I'd buy that for a dollar!" catchphrase is also referenced in the first episode.

* KentBrockmanNews: The ''Media Break'' segments return from the original films, and go much farther with the satire, lampooning the lengths OCP will go to [[MerchandiseDriven make money]] off Robocop or act as shills for the OCP board's decisions.

* MeaningfulName: A prominent social and political commentator who is staunchly against Robocop goes by the name Archie Nemesis on his broadcasts.
** [[IncrediblyLamePun Ann R. Key]]

The production was filmed and produced in [[CaliforniaDoubling Toronto, Canada]], and featured a number of well-known Canadian actors. Richard Eden (who played the title character on ''RobocopTheSeries'') was asked to reprise his role, but backed out. The producers hired Page Fletcher instead, who devised his own movement system to reflect where the character was at that point in his life.

* CrapsackWorld

''RoboCop: Prime Directives'' is a 2001 Canadian-made miniseries set in an AlternateContinuity thirteen years after the [[Film/RoboCop1987 original film]], starring Page Fletcher as the titular cyborg police officer.

* TheOtherDarrin: Page Fletcher as Robocop/Murphy, who not only looks different from all three of his previous counterparts, but developed his own movement system to reflect where the character was emotionally and physically at.