Future Cop is an American crime drama science fiction television series that starred Ernest Borgnine and Michael J. Shannon.
[1] A veteran street cop gets an experimental android that has been programmed by the police lab for his new partner.
Writers Harlan Ellison and Ben Bova filed a lawsuit against Paramount Television, ex-Paramount exec Terry Keegan, and ABC-TV, alleging that Future Cop was plagiarized from their own pitch for a TV series, which was based on their 1970 short story "Brillo.
[3][4] The story's title was allegedly a pun by Bova, as a robot policeman could be referred to as "metal fuzz", like Brillo soap pads.
[5] On March 1, 2016, Mill Creek Entertainment released the complete series on DVD in Region 1.