Trivia / RoboCop: The Series

• California Doubling: Due to the fact that it was a Canadian production, locations in Toronto and the surrounding area act as doubles for Detroit.
• Casting Gag: The late Martin Milner appears in "The Human Factor" and "Corporate Raiders" as Alex Murphy's father, Russell Murphy. Turns out it’s not the first time Martin Milner played a cop.
• Creator Backlash: This was the first special effects job of Colin Cunningham, co-host of the No Such Thing as a Bad Movie podcast and regular guest on RedLetterMedia videos. Whenever he brings it up, he has nothing good to say about it.
• Cut Song: Or rather a cut version of a song, as according to series producer Kevin Gillis, the show's end theme "A Future to This Life" was originally recorded with Stevie Nicks duetting with Joe Walsh, but this version ultimately wasn't used or released due to management issues and Lita Ford was brought in to sing on it instead.
• Defictionalization:
  • GPS that provides driving directions and real time updating of traffic conditions via the Internet and accepted voice commands? Nowadays, we have something similar called Waze. What the show portrayed was pretty much Rule of Cool back in the 90s when the best most real-life GPS devices could do was provide the user with a coordinate in numeric form and a rudimentary compass function, and you had to use a paper map with it to figure out where you are^note only in Japan do they have a GPS system that showed a map on the screen at that time, but even then the maps came on CD-ROM and the thing didn't do speech recognition, instead you had to use a resistive touchscreen to enter your destination. And they were built right into the car.
  • The idea of the car's dash occasionally showing an ad in the same episode feels like a satirical Take That! to capitalism when the episode was made in the 90s. Now it surfaced that Ford had actually patented a tech to do just that in 2016, and it was finally granted in 2021. Suddenly, the future looks much scarier.
  • One episode mentions the sale of Beluga Caviar imported from Russia is illegal. In 2005, the U.S. did make it illegal due to the Beluga Sturgeon being an endangered species.
• Hey, It's That Place!: The R. C. Harris Water Treatment Plant was used for the Henry Ford Centre for the Criminally Insane (the prison holding Pudface and Mallardo).
• Playing Against Type: Barring brainwashing and an instance of police bruatlity, Tim Malloy isn't really like a lot of Kim Coates's other characters. That said... yeah... he does suffer the same fate as a lot of them.

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