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I’ll probably regret this

…but does anyone have a BitTorrent link to the pilot episode of the ROBOCOP TV series? It’s not available on DVD and I’d really like to see it.

Stop laughing. Let me explain.

I love the first movie. Love it a lot. No shame in that — it’s a great movie, right? Fuckin’ A, it is. Everything after the first movie, however, sucked. Sucked hard. After ROBOCOP 3 (which I couldn’t even finish), I dropped the big guy altogether. Never watched the TV show or that miniseries on the Sci-Fi Channel. Never read the comics — not even the Frank Miller ones.

I just bought the DVD of the original movie, so I’ve got RoboCop on the brain right now. Last night, I IMDB’d it to see what else, if anything, the film’s writers may have done since then. Not much, it turns out — a lot of script-doctoring and rewriting, mostly. But one item caught my eye — Edward Neumeier and Michael Miner, the writers of the original film, actually wrote the two-hour pilot for the failed ROBOCOP TV series in 1994, although that was apparently the extent of their involvement with the show. A quick Googling revealed that the pilot script, titled “The Future of Law Enforcement,” was a cleaned-up-for-TV version of the screenplay they’d originally pitched for ROBOCOP 2 in 1989. Neumeier and Miner’s script was rejected by the studio because the producers, a) wanted to go in a “different direction,” and, b) had their hearts set on getting Frank Miller to write the sequel. When I read that the pilot “takes place three years after the events of the original ROBOCOP and completely ignores everything that happened in the sequels,” I decided I needed to see this thing.

So, yeah. If anybody has a torrent link for it, shoot me an email. It will probably suck and I will probably regret having given two hours of my life to it, but it’s worth a try, right?