The 1988 animated series "C.O.P.S." -- not to be confused with the reality TV staple "Cops," which debuted on Fox in 1989 -- was subtitled "Fighting Crime in a Future Time." Of course, "a future time" covers a lot of ground. In fact, it is said in the show that the actual year is 2020.

But this is a 2020 as imagined in the year 1988 and for a kids cartoon, so the logic doesn't always work. Some of the characters have guns that shoot something like bullets, others use lasers. Some cars look remarkably futuristic, but the police squad cars look more or less like the boxy sedans that were standard police cars in the '80s. Also, most of the characters are dressed like they're in a Humphrey Bogart movie.

Though the series didn't last very long -- it debuted in 1988 and ended in 1989 -- it produced an impressive 65 episodes in that time, and those episodes got the full DVD boxed-set treatment, with special features and everything. It helped that the show was based on a line of Hasbro toys, so they had lots of material and backing to work with at the time.

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