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A RecycledInSpace PoliceProcedural, created and produced by Creator/GerryAnderson, that ran from 1994 to 1995. The series has 24 episodes, 8 of which were directed by Creator/JohnGlen.

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A RecycledInSpace PoliceProcedural, [[RecycledInSpace Recycled In]] SpacePolice [[PoliceProcedural Procedural]], created and produced by Creator/GerryAnderson, that ran from 1994 to 1995. The series has 24 episodes, 8 of which were directed by Creator/JohnGlen.
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* FilmAtEleven: In every episode, right after the opening credits, there's a "This Episode" montage of the big action and special effects shots from, well, this episode, to encourage you to keep watching the show you are already watching.
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* EveryoneCanSeeIt: When Jack [[spoiler: is killed in the line of duty]], a grief-stricken Jane remarks "I always thought we'd end up together." Brogan just smirks that he thought the same. (Thankfully, [[spoiler: this entire timeline is erased so Jake lives)]].

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* EveryoneCanSeeIt: When Jack [[spoiler: is killed in the line of duty]], a grief-stricken Jane remarks "I always thought we'd end up together." Brogan just smirks that he thought the same. (Thankfully, [[spoiler: this entire timeline is erased so Jake Jack lives)]].
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* EveryoneCanSeeIt: When Jack [[spoiler: is killed in the line of duty]], a grief-stricken Jane remarks "I always thought we'd end up together." Brogan just smirks that he thought the same. (Thankfully, [[spoiler: this entire timeline is erased so Jake lives)]].


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* ResetButtonSuicideMission: "Time To Kill" has a murderous cyborg killing almost the entire main cast aside from Brogan. Brogan is able to go back in time and prevent the moment that created the cyborg. He and a previous version of the cyborg slowly fade from existence just as Past!Brogan comes into an alley, confused as to what he just saw.


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* TomatoInTheMirror: Brogan discovers a body lost on a spaceship for twenty years. The investigation leads to Alden Humes, a one-time top industrialist until he became a hermit who never leaves his apartment. Humes is confused when Brogan shows up to explain that the body has just been identified as...Alden Humes. He then waves a hand right through Humes, revealing he's nothing but a highly sophisticated hologram. Humes' assistant, worried his boss' partying ways would ruin the company, killed him and programmed the A.I. hologram to believe it was Humes, now an eccentric hermit. The realization of what he is allows the hologram to be able to take a more physical form while utilizing computer systems and electrical powers to gain revenge.

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A RecycledInSpace PoliceProcedural, created and produced by Creator/GerryAnderson, that ran from 1994 to 1995. Set in the year 2040, the series followed Lt Patrick Brogan (Ted Shackelford), originally a UsefulNotes/{{New York City Cop|s}}, who transfers to Demeter City, on the planet Altor.

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A RecycledInSpace PoliceProcedural, created and produced by Creator/GerryAnderson, that ran from 1994 to 1995. The series has 24 episodes, 8 of which were directed by Creator/JohnGlen.

Set in the year 2040, the series followed Lt Patrick Brogan (Ted Shackelford), originally a UsefulNotes/{{New York City Cop|s}}, who transfers to Demeter City, on the planet Altor.
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* NoNewFashionsInTheFuture: Played with. From a distance, the police officers' uniforms look like present-day dress shirts with ties, but up close you can see that they're band collared shirts with a colored vertical stripe in the front.

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A RecycledInSpace PoliceProcedural, created and produced by Creator/GerryAnderson that ran from 1994 to 1995. Set in the year 2040, the series followed Lt Patrick Brogan (Ted Shackelford) originally a New York cop, who transfers to Demeter City, on the planet Altor.

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A RecycledInSpace PoliceProcedural, created and produced by Creator/GerryAnderson Creator/GerryAnderson, that ran from 1994 to 1995. Set in the year 2040, the series followed Lt Patrick Brogan (Ted Shackelford) Shackelford), originally a New UsefulNotes/{{New York cop, City Cop|s}}, who transfers to Demeter City, on the planet Altor.

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* WoobieDestroyerOfWorlds: A little girl separated from her parents... and with the power to induce heart attack.
* AWorldHalfFull: For all the cyberpunk stylings and generally grim state of the city, the majority of cops are always shown to be competent, honest and dedicated to their jobs.

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* WoobieDestroyerOfWorlds: A little girl separated from her parents... and with the power to induce heart attack.
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* AWorldHalfFull: For all the cyberpunk {{cyberpunk}} stylings and generally grim state of the city, the majority of cops are always shown to be competent, honest and dedicated to their jobs.jobs.
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* AmbulanceChaser: One episode has a boy pretending to be hit by a car and demanding compensation. Then, a person explains to the driver that the boy is known to play such tricks... he's the boy's accomplice, and uses the opportunity to pick the driver's pockets. [[spoiler:The driver doesn't care, being busy scanning the alien for suitability for his OrganTheft ring.]]

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* AmbulanceChaser: One episode has a boy pretending to be hit by a car and demanding compensation. Then, a person explains to the driver that the boy is known to play such tricks... he's the boy's accomplice, and uses the opportunity to pick the driver's pockets. [[spoiler:The driver doesn't care, [[GambitPileup being busy scanning the alien for suitability for his his]] OrganTheft ring.]]

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A RecycledInSpace PoliceProcedural, created and produced by GerryAnderson that ran from 1994 to 1995. Set in the year 2040, the series followed Lt Patrick Brogan (Ted Shackleford) originally a New York cop, who transfers to Demeter City, on the planet Altor.

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A RecycledInSpace PoliceProcedural, created and produced by GerryAnderson Creator/GerryAnderson that ran from 1994 to 1995. Set in the year 2040, the series followed Lt Patrick Brogan (Ted Shackleford) Shackelford) originally a New York cop, who transfers to Demeter City, on the planet Altor.

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* CasanovaWannabe: Haldane's spectacularly poor luck with women, which is practically a RunningGag, does little to convince him he might not be as suave as he thinks he is.



* InconvenientlyVanishingExoneratingEvidence: One episode has Brogan and Haldane suspended after an officer-involved shooting. The witnesses have been hypnotized into claiming it was unprovoked, and a robot who recorded everything is broken down.

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* InconvenientlyVanishingExoneratingEvidence: One episode has Brogan and Haldane suspended being investigated by InternalAffairs after an a fatal officer-involved shooting. The witnesses have been hypnotized into claiming it was unprovoked, and a robot who recorded everything is broken down.



* ReallyRoyaltyReveal: One episode had a B-plot in which an amnesiac bag-lady suddenly started claiming to be the queen of a distant planet... so distant there was considerable debate about the quite expensive long distance call. [[spoiler: To everyone's considerable surprise, it turned out she actually ''was'' the queen of said distant planet, and they sent a ship much larger than the station to bring her home.]]

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* ReallyRoyaltyReveal: One episode had a B-plot in which an amnesiac bag-lady suddenly started claiming to be the queen of a distant planet... so distant there was considerable debate about whether they could justify placing the quite expensive long distance call. [[spoiler: To everyone's considerable surprise, it turned out she actually ''was'' the queen of said distant planet, and they sent a ship much larger than the station to bring her home.]]
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*LikeADuckTakesToWater: A key backstory element is that humans did not develop FasterThanLightTravel on their own, a haphazard coalition of interstellar civilizations sought them out to solve a very specific problem; crime. Every other intelligent race [[TheComplainerIsAlwaysWrong follows rules as a manner of etiquette]], to the point of [[PlanetOfHats near-homogenization]] -- until they discovered other races with ''different'' forms of etiquette, which led to them re-discovering crime. As Humanity was still primitive enough to ''need'' to practice criminal investigation, they were contacted and brought into interstellar civilization specifically to act as SpacePolice, which it turns out they're pretty darn good at.

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* CyberPunkWithAChanceOfRain: It doesn't actually ''rain'' much, but Demeter City rarely ever seems to have clear blue skies.



* InconvenientlyVanishingExoneratingEvidence: One episode has the cops accused of shooting down a criminal's car during a chase. The witnesses have been hypnotized into claiming it was unprovoked, and a robot who recorded everything is broken down.

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* GoodCopBadCop: Unusually for this trope, OlderAndWiser family man Pat Brogan is usually the one to lose his cool and start shaking an uncooperative person-of-interest by the lapels and has to be called out on it by his younger and usually more hot-headed partner Jack Haldane.
* InconvenientlyVanishingExoneratingEvidence: One episode has the cops accused of shooting down a criminal's car during a chase. Brogan and Haldane suspended after an officer-involved shooting. The witnesses have been hypnotized into claiming it was unprovoked, and a robot who recorded everything is broken down.down.
* OddlySmallOrganisation: We never do find out exactly how large an area the 88th Precinct covers, but they seem to have exactly six beat cops and a sergeant to cover all of it. No wonder Demeter City is such a dump.



* ReallyRoyaltyReveal: One woman rescued from slavers claimed to be the queen of a distant planet... so distant there was considerable debate about the quite expensive long distance call.
* WoobieDestroyerOfWorlds: A little girl separated from her parents... and with the power to induce heart attack.

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* ReallyRoyaltyReveal: One woman rescued from slavers claimed episode had a B-plot in which an amnesiac bag-lady suddenly started claiming to be the queen of a distant planet... so distant there was considerable debate about the quite expensive long distance call.
call. [[spoiler: To everyone's considerable surprise, it turned out she actually ''was'' the queen of said distant planet, and they sent a ship much larger than the station to bring her home.]]
* SpaceJews: Right down to the Yiddish accents.
* WoobieDestroyerOfWorlds: A little girl separated from her parents... and with the power to induce heart attack.attack.
* AWorldHalfFull: For all the cyberpunk stylings and generally grim state of the city, the majority of cops are always shown to be competent, honest and dedicated to their jobs.

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* AmbulanceChaser: One episode has a boy pretending to be hit by a car and demanding compensation. Then, a person explains to the driver that the boy is known to play such tricks... he's the boy's accomplice, and uses the opportunity to pick the driver's pockets. [[spoiler:The driver doesn't care, being busy scanning the alien for suitability for his OrganTheft ring.]]



* OfficerOHara: Brogan has the ancestry, Podly had the accent (despite being an alien).

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* InconvenientlyVanishingExoneratingEvidence: One episode has the cops accused of shooting down a criminal's car during a chase. The witnesses have been hypnotized into claiming it was unprovoked, and a robot who recorded everything is broken down.
* OfficerOHara: Brogan has the ancestry, Podly had the accent (despite being an alien).alien).
* OrganTheft: And not one that leaves donors alive.
* ReallyRoyaltyReveal: One woman rescued from slavers claimed to be the queen of a distant planet... so distant there was considerable debate about the quite expensive long distance call.
* WoobieDestroyerOfWorlds: A little girl separated from her parents... and with the power to induce heart attack.
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A RecycledInSpace PoliceProcedural, created and produced by GerryAnderson that ran from 1994 to 1995. Set in the year 2040, the series followed Lt Patrick Brogan (Ted Shackleford) originally a New York cop, who transfers to Demeter City, on the planet Altor.

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* DaChief: Captain Podly.
* OfficerOHara: Brogan has the ancestry, Podly had the accent (despite being an alien).

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