The ABC Monday Night Movie - "Future Cop" (Complete Broadcast, 7/12/1976) 📺 🤖 👮

[@TheRealPynkPanther]

I absolutely LOVE the intro to the ABC Monday Night Movie. You can tell it was played by a real orchestra and sounds so majestic and lively that it's one of my favorite movie of the week intros. I do know them all by heart. There was something about those beautiful orchestral themes, intros, and outros that made me want to watch the movies more. My childhood was certainly rich because of 70s television. ❤❤❤❤👍🏽👍🏽👍🏽👍🏽

[@olddisneylandtickets]

I just saw the first minute and that intro is so nostalgic.

[@John-oj5vx]

Agree! I would grade the movie itself a "C", but with the ABC intros, promos, news breaks, etc , and original commercials, the overall experience was a "B+".

[@pdizbon]

@@olddisneylandtickets The song's title is "Nikki", written by Burt Bacharach. It was named for his daughter Nikki Dickinson who suffered from Asperger's syndrome. Her mother was Angie Dickinson.

[@RedDevilMoto]

I miss those prime-time movie intro's every station had. It made you feel like you were about to watch a blockbuster movie!!...Now, sadly, there isnt any intro's like that any more, that are made to get you into that 'we're gonna watch a movie!!" Mode...

[@deborahduthie4519]

Absolutely agree.. even orchestras playing scores meant for the visuals, instead of modern CD’s releases. the cheapest way of putting in a musical background. Movie business can’t be going so bad that they scrimp on an orchestral benefit .

[@46GarageUSA]

70's was soooo much better than today, wish we could go back

[@DLTrekker]

The 70s and 80s. Ahhhh. please come back, we miss you

[@littlestevey4172]

Wow original commercials too from 76!? Love this old gem!

[@lookingforahookup]

The title doesn’t say commercial, yet it’s airing commercials

[@davestewart2067]

Colonel Sanders was still alive when this aired. Believe he died in 1980 as a 90 year old.

[@erinmeggik391]

Times were simpler growing up. I miss this era of 📺. Now everything is bombastic crap.

[@erinmeggik391]

@@davestewart2067 they used a different chicken 🐔 recipe back then and it was better.

[@robroy6374]

@@davestewart2067 Yes, on December 16, 1980.

[@judydavenport9636]

I never saw this movie back in the day but I do remember some of those commercials. I thoroughly enjoyed both commercials and the movie. Ty for the showing.

[@laurietijerina3816]

I was thinking that this movie was first before Robocop. 😅

[@judydavenport9636]

@@laurietijerina3816 it was first. Robocop came out in 87.. this showed in 76.

[@lisathomas3082]

I'm here for the " intro" and the commercials! Brings back memories 😁

[@martyfly8619]

When you hear that siren blaring, just close your eyes. You could be watching streets of San Francisco, The Rookies, Police Story, Swat or any show produced by Quinn Martin. Oh, the 70's cop shows. Brings me back.

[@kengeorgejones6855]

Thanks. Ernest Borgnine managed to bring such dignity to parts like these. It was actually a decent pilot.

[@davestewart2067]

Possible inspiration for the later “robocop” (1987).

[@scottjeune154]

Total agree. He carried whole show

[@eeddieedwards3890]

Hi license plate read BORG9.

[@roxyabrooks864]

I love this channel so much! I enjoy the feeling of nostalgia I get here that I cannot find on any other channel! Thank you!! ✨

[@wilsonbobcatservice4151]

Used to be another channel that had over 200 of abc and nbc movies with commercials. Went private in Nov.

[@roxyabrooks864]

@@wilsonbobcatservice4151 Aw! That's too bad. I bet it was a fun channel to watch.

[@scott1434]

I remember this movie..." Holmes and Yoyo" was very similar

[@Dragongod462]

I don't think i ever saw this. I was a kid back then playing outside all the time. Even at night time.

[@caseyisadore7952]

I'll agree with you a hell ya!😅

[@ChrisJones-ij3xp]

Yeah I hear ya, I was 7 in '76, and that's exactly how it was.

[@darthsimmons6957]

You were playing outside after the street lights came on?😧

[@iracordem]

in the summer we might check in at home on wednesday

[@davidbranch1077]

@@ChrisJones-ij3xp me too, and to think this is the template for Robo Cop.

[@dpf2122]

Love made for TV movie of the week features like this: my family used to watch the ABC Saturday night one religiously. Sad that networks don't produce them anymore.

[@budb.8560]

Oh yes! The Friday/Saturday/Sunday night movies were a big thing at our house when I was growing up too. I remember the networks saved the most popular movies for the weekends. Ah the memories...popcorn, pizza and root beer.😊

[@relentlessrescue260]

Watching this entire video without skipping one minute literally felt like time travel

[@Sammydx1]

Agreed. I watched the the whole thing on my 12" tablet to get the feeling of a small tv

[@Suddenlyits1960]

There sure were lots of good shows in the 1970’s. It was fun seeing this with all the original commercials intact,especially the one with Claude Akins in it. He had just finished starting in “Movin On”.

[@davidpanetta6400]

I loved Movin' On !

[@ivelissediaz9583]

Id Kolchak the night stalker and the norliss tapes.

[@wendyhermes]

The addition of commercials make the experience even better. Even though I am moving to Reno after 50 of my 57 years in Cook Co, I will always watch & support this channel and your mission, Rick. "Thanks for the memories".

[@FuzzyMemoriesTV]

Thank you Wendy! We’ll help you hold on to the memories here! 😊

[@eeddieedwards3890]

Look, that's Vivian "Ethel Mertz" Vance of "I Love Lucy" fame hawking Maxwell House Instant Coffee"! I met Vivian Vance in the summer of 1977 at the Cherry County Playhouse in Traverse City Michigan where she was starring in the play "HARVEY" - early one evening I saw Vivian Vance heading toward the playhouse parking lot and she was carrying a huge WHITE STUFFED RABBIT to her Ford Granada. I approached as she was struggling to hold the huge rabbit and get the keys from her purse and I said, "Hello" and I told her that I was a big fan and she smiled and said, "Honey, I'm so tired" and I offered to hold the giant rabbit while she got out her keys and opened the door, took the rabbit from me and smiled at me & said "Come see the show, Honey" in that "Ethel Mertz/Vivian Bagley" kind of way. She was much shorter in person and her hair was "snow white" but she just oozed charisma. I never got to see the show but I did get to exchange a few words with one of the all time greats. And that was the last time anyone ever called me "Honey".

[@davidpanetta6400]

How the heck did I miss this movie? I use to watch the ABC _____ Night Movies almost all the time. Sunday nights usually shown the "Blockbuster Movies."

[@davidpanetta6400]

@Issan Cali Reject LOL

[@davidpanetta6400]

@Issan Cali Reject I remember Karl Malden advertising for the American Express Travelers Checks......Never leave home without it.

[@Fred-gi4uz]

The memories your channel brings back are great considering that this show and these commercials is what was on tv when I was 12 thank you

[@iracordem]

the KFC was actually not too bad back then & was actually affordable

[@leroylowe5921]

@@iracordem I seem to be under that impression as well. I was wondering if I remembered right.

[@pootle5096]

Well this Brit enjoyed watching that. AND the adverts at the start! THANKS :-)

[@erinmeggik391]

This is such a nostalgic post. As a teen in 70s I fondly remember a simpler time and the shows were wholesome. The intro was Such a great 🎶 musical score 🎼 ABC !

[@erinmeggik391]

@Issan Cali Reject From shows like Scooby Doo, School 🏫 Rock on Saturday 🌅 TV to the Carol Burnett 📺 Show I still prefer that quality of TV to the goat 🐐 tripe offered today. 😂

[@kidmack3556]

​@@erinmeggik391 Ha ha! "Goat tripe"

[@Rnyargd]

The lady robbing the convenience store at the beginning has very strong Robocop vibes to it.

[@TowGunner]

The whole movie does.

[@l337pwnage]

Well, Hollywood never changes.

[@OdeeOz]

I miss them days of better entertainment, and times. Remember when this _Monday Night Movie_ 1st aired, and all those commercials too. 👍👍⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

[@terrik9510]

I love Ernest Borgnine.

[@Lotsacats]

Me too

[@mage189]

That was a fairly decent little film/tv pilot.

[@adamellis6785]

Nice seeing Erin Gray (Buck Rogers, Silver Spoons) at 32:17

[@roymonrreal9608]

At 41 stuff like this just makes me so nostalgic and appreciative of my childhood...as I get older in a age its things like this movie and the memory of watching it when I was a kid that almost have me in tears....all kinds of tears

[@spookybaba]

Nostalgia from before you were born??

[@roymonrreal9608]

@@spookybaba i didnt say i watched it when it premiered i said i watched it when i was a kid...

[@kidmack3556]

PLEASE take me back to 1976! Please...

[@darwinblinks]

Pretty much my favorite summer too.

[@kidmack3556]

@darwinblinks Just SO many GREAT things going on with the Bicentennial, the Summer Olympics, the great new movies TV series, and the new songs, the anticipation and excitement of getting a brand new President and Administration, two new NFL teams etc.etc.etc

[@nadinesawtell3267]

We didn’t get the American networks when I was growing up I always liked watching Borgnine

[@jacobsparry8525]

Boy does this bring back memories.

[@Rnyargd]

This reminds me of a show from a few years ago called “Almost Human”. It starred Karl Urban and Michael Ealy. Human cop with robot cop partner. Very good.

[@luisreyes1963]

There was also another Sci-Fi cop showback in the 90's, it was called Mann and Machine. The human cop was male & the android cop was female.

[@queenglamazona8789]

Anyone remember Holmes & Yoyo ?

[@zakofrx]

Great show but killed to early.. Probably because it wasn't woke and the Woke media push was starting around then..

[@davidreidy5750]

Oh man I miss these old shows, commercials and all,subbed big time!!♥️🤖📽️

[@jesusnodal8948]

Ooohhh the memories this brings!!!

[@RedSiegfried]

I never heard of this show until I saw some youtube clips of old 70s TV nostalgia, then I found a DVD set of it at a local home improvement store, of all places. And I haven't even watched it yet. Well, I know what I'm doing tonight.

[@turgityfarms3752]

Ernest used to hang out with seemingly random people he didn't necessarily know. I remember a road trip to San Diego from the valley with some acquaintance I met, tripping. The acquaintance said he knew some celebrities, made a call, and next thing I knew we were on our way. So surreal, but I have pictures. I got the feeling they were related, but never asked. I was silent the whole time for all intents. I never did get my head around the whole thing, as I said, so very surreal.

[@zakofrx]

Ernest was driving his luxury motor home around the country and living all over right near until his death not long ago.. Their is a KZbin video were some random people honked at him on the road and he pulled over and showed them around he van.. Showing he marble flooring.. Very nice guy and it seemed he liked to meet people..

[@robertloerwald3]

Wait, you hung out with Ernest Borgnine while tripping on acid?

[@caseyisadore7952]

Before robo cop was a idea.😮

[@JohnMartinelli-r5b]

I just got Cool Ray's and now have a date. Thanks Future Crap!

[@southerncross3638]

76 a great year. Happy birthday America 🇺🇸

[@v.dargain1678]

I believe 76 was an election year .

[@eeddieedwards3890]

Bi-Centennial! My high school graduating year! A fantastic year!!!

[@scutte2000]

Great memory, I was 13 years old when this premiered I'm now 60.

[@UQRXD]

Things were better back in 1976. Before social media. Today we have police robots both human and machine.

[@jeanroddenberry6433]

The commercials are worth it 😀

[@eeddieedwards3890]

Yes, it was amazing the places you could "FLICK YOUR BIC" lighter back then! And for the record, if one of the only things I ever came up with in my entire life was the saying "FLICK YOUR BIC" I could die happy. Someone made bank coming up with that one!

[@justaredfox5772]

I bet the mother of Terry Keegan is vary proud.

[@clydeferguson519]

What was nice was KZbin putting their commercials in with the vintage commercials!

[@tonyfelder1206]

I remember this was a short-lived series, but I didn't know or forget about this movie pilot. Thanks for uploading it-commercials in all.

[@UNKLP66]

Yessssss John Amos stayed busy post GOOD TIMES 🙌🏽

[@phyllysanantonio]

I never forget his nose. That profile. He was the perfect irritable Dad character!!

[@kidmack3556]

​@@phyllysanantonio That nose was a byproduct of his professional football playing days. Semi-pro in the States and professional in Canada for the B.C. Lions.

[@richardrykala925]

July 12, 1976 , I can about %85 say exactly where I was , what I was doing, just by looking at the Calendar and TV Guide, have all my 70s Calendar and have June and July TV Guide Detroit News.1976 my father was finishing up the basement with paneling etc and we had moved our 1967 RCA Color from the living room upstairs to the basement in June, we were watching the parade of Tall Ships on the 4th of July and my father was making barbecued spareribs, burgers on the patio and we brought it in the cool basement and set it on the antique Large Wooden Table with the Potato Salad our mother made.

[@kidmack3556]

That's great, and a great collection of nostalgia. We were traveling around that week somewhere on the Eastern Seaboard... We were at an backyard Italian barbecue. First time I had ever had Italian barbecue chicken. Right afterwards we loaded up and went to a Bicentennial concert at the Washington Monument. I saw Dizzy Gillespie perform. I know that we were in Washington when the Redskins played a pre season game that I watched with the family that we were visiting, and the huge tin can of Charles BBQ potato chips. It was also the first time that I had ever heard of and saw the legendary John Matuszak play. [Self Edit] I'm wrong... The commercial for the '76 Summer Games refreshed my memory. We weren't on the trip across the country until after the closing ceremony. So we didn't start our state hopping until August/September.

[@arthurwatt5162]

Ernest borgnine was pretty great.

[@queenglamazona8789]

I also used to like him on Airwolf.

[@FlavioGirl]

thank you for posting this.

[@Foxonian]

I remember this series. It was pretty good.

[@photodan555]

Loved it! Loved the Commercials too! And thank you for the data!

[@richardrykala925]

For me, one of the best car chase scenes in a movie was in the 70s, the 1973 movie """SEVEN UPS""" with Roy Scheider in downtown New York City , him driving that Pontiac Ventura and those bad guys driving a Pontiac Grandville

[@davidpanetta6400]

Another great movie I saw on ABC.

[@darthsimmons6957]

Check out car chase scene on KZbin from a 1990 comedy movie called "Short time" starring Dabney Coleman as a cop trying to get killed "in the line if duty" so his family will receive his FULL pension because a mix-up at the hospital says he has Cancer & that disqualifies him.

[@kidmack3556]

​@@darthsimmons6957 I can't stand Dabney Coleman... Does his character succeed in getting killed in the film?! (I inquire hopefully)

[@kidmack3556]

My favorite car chase sequence is also from the '70's "The Driver" (1978) With Ryan O'Neal

[@eeddieedwards3890]

@@kidmack3556 The late Verne Troyer was going to do a reboot called "Mini Driver".

[@Christian_Ada1]

My god this seems like another life or timeline but I remember this. Brittany Morgan in that commercial too

[@wmbrown6]

You mean Morgan Brittany, don'tcha? Brittany Morgan was an "adult"[sic] film actress.

[@clydeferguson519]

Also in the Diet Pepsi commercial the actress who played Hooks in the Police Academy movies.

[@eeddieedwards3890]

@@wmbrown6 I think you're right but isn't BRITTANY MORGAN an even better name! Brittany Morgan - I love it! Someone copyright that before the ghost of Aaron Spelling gets wind of it!

[@tinymetaltrees]

This was absolutely terrible. I loved every minute of it!

[@laurabeane8862]

John Amos and Ernest Borgnine😆👍

[@randybarnett2308]

Earnest Borgnine runs like Steven Seagal!!🏃‍♂️😀😀😀

[@1sirgrandmastermrkingrober216]

Great point. No matter what the crime scene looks like, no matter what staging & fraud & phony evidence there is, the Cops don’t fall for it, & our Eternal Universal Defense & Eternal Universal Justice always, regardless of all always, is guaranteed & established.

[@robmclaughjr]

In the future, new technology functions perfectly and impresses universally!

[@paullittle9187]

That old lady with the gun was one of the funniest things I've ever seen.

[@phyllysanantonio]

The “pa-ping” of the shooting was hysterical!!🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@Flagg1991]

My favorite cop paired with a sci-fi character, right behind Yuppie and the Alien

[@Knife_Collector]

What makes me sad, is looking at all those classic cars in the junk yard. Some of those even in that condition would be worth 10s of thousands today.

[@zxccxz164]

there is something special watching rare shows as broadcast !

[@kramalerav]

1976 must have been a breakout year for Tony Burton; this pilot, Assault on Precinct 13 and his role in Rocky.

[@gilvogt4440]

Borgnine was one of my favorite actors, although I doubt anyone ever said Future Cop is my favorite movie of all time....

[@shawnmichaelduncan5951]

Wish they would still have movie of the week

[@Tom_Space]

awesome stuff

[@BradTheProducer]

"Mom, can we get Robocop?" "No, sweetie, we have Robocop at home." Robocop at home:

[@laurabeane8862]

Batteries Not Included tho😆

[@jimmyl324]

That intro brought me back like in a time warp...lol

[@jimmyl324]

Haven’t heard that in a million years .

[@edwinkirkland8856]

Im 65 thank you soon soo much for this

[@chrisw6164]

They turned this into a tv series too.

[@michaelmchugh3987]

I absolutely love the commercials.

[@v.dargain1678]

Same . The "Flick your Bic" commercial is my favorite ,

[@kidmack3556]

​@@v.dargain1678 So far "The Breck Girls" shampoo is mine. We were sure a hairful bunch back then... Men and women, boys and girls.

[@reyluna9332]

I'd love to stream this to my TV on Friday night with a bowl of popcorn commercials and all.

[@richardrykala925]

That was when there was great stuff to watch on television , including Commercials, better than our programs we got now, also Kentucky Fried Chicken tasted better back than,all greasy and nasty these days specially for the price they are now .

[@PhotonTheta]

I remember there was a three hour wait when extra crispy first came out... take that popeyes and your chicken sammich

[@tinymetaltrees]

It just hasn’t been the same since they got rid of the entucky ried hicken.

[@pdizbon]

Saw this when it first aired

[@cartoonpete407]

Ha! The good old days! It was "quartz crystal time" back then... not "digital" 😆

[@THX-kw2jh]

TV Version of Robocop, called Robocrap

[@richardrykala925]

That was when Kentucky Fried Chicken tasted great, not greasy oily stale chicken taste like these days. Dam commercials were better made than any shows we have on television now.

[@darthsimmons6957]

WOW! Thank you for posting this 1976 presentation of FUTURE COP. I THOROUGHLY ENJOYED IT FROM BEGINNING TO END! WHAT A TIME CAPSULE! I was born in 1974 California & never new about this! A little "West World™", with some inspiration for "Knight Rider™", & "ROBOCOP™". DELIGHTFUL! I REALLY APPRECIATE WHAT YOUR DOING WITH THE PRESERVATION OF THIS & OTHERS. GREAT IDEA! I RECORDED A LOT OF THINGS THAT INTERESTED ME OFF OF T.V. From the late 1980's Thru 2015 onto 300 VHS tapes I still have. I think everything I recorded, other people did also. I don't think I have anything that can't be found on KZbin. One thing that comes to mind though, is. . . . I had 3 brand new blank VHS tapes ready to record on Sept. 11th 2001. As soon as I heard on my clock radio that a 2nd plane hit the twin towers, I leapt out of bed & popped the 1st of 3 VHS tapes in, & pressed record set on 6 hr mode as I turned the channel to CNN. I stayed home from work that day. I was afraid to leave the house for 3 days. I didn't know if there was going to be widespread panic, looting, toilet paper hoarding, "Sleeper Cells", "Manchurian Candidates" or if that event was going to "trigger" people that were already "on edge" or what. I just kept recording & flipping channels thru every NEWS station until those 3 tapes were full! The Spanish channels actually showed people jumping out the windows of the towers to escape the fire before the calapsing started. I also recorded building #5 calapsing around 5pm. Like a perfect demolition. (That's the 7 story office building that contained all the files of financial records that wasn't hit by a plane or anything). . . . (That was weird). I don't know If any of these tapes will still play after being in a metal storage facility for over 20 years in California weather. 🌞🔥🌞115°🌞🔥in summer & 32°🥶 in the winter.

[@eeddieedwards3890]

Ernie ("Ghoulardi") Anderson, the magnificent voice of ABC at this time was the father of filmmaker Paul Thomas Anderson.

[@StudioZ7]

Sure looks and sounds like Bob Denver at 32:33 in the Fritos commercial.

[@edgard3659]

The second original Cyborg TERMINATOR the first was the Six Million Dollar Man. 1973

[@tvtimetravel]

Family Feud premiered on ABC earlier that day.

[@scottjeune154]

Erin grey in a breck commercial

[@v.dargain1678]

Breck used to be my favorite shampoo before they changed the formula .

[@BDiaz-np8fn]

Some pro driving for that 911..👌

[@deborahduthie4519]

That was great. Fantastic.👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼🇦🇺🧡📽

[@michaelscheel9533]

Some time back I bought the DVD for this series which I had not see since first broadcast. I got home and found the case had two of the second disk. So I got my money back since they didn't have another. Interesting thing about this authors (Harlan Ellison and Ben Bova) of Brillo sued ABC and Studio because they claimed it was based on their story "Brillo". They won.

[@bmasters1981]

I have Mill Creek's all-in-one DVD release of the Future Cop series, comprising this pilot picture, the 1977 ABC series (short as it was), and the 1978 Cops and Robin NBC reboot try; it's a good show, but at times was somewhat silly.

[@rashton5730]

Lol, McHale figures out he has the robots gun loaded with blanks, and instead of reloading with live ammo, hides in a junker and gets tossed in the crusher :D Smooth move McHale

[@stephenwitherington879]

'Android cops accepted on the street in fifty years'. Made in 1976, & we have now arrived at late 2023. Hence, in a little over two years we'll be there!

[@billgreen4003]

Yeah yoyo

[@mikefarrell9163]

The Listermint commercial guy looks like he could be Ben Affleck's Dad or older brother . Lol

[@davidj5910]

I saw a different one a few years ago and was hoping to see more. This was great. Plus....A BRAND NEW CAR FOR $3500???? 😳

[@donaldcrabtree6259]

Intro was cool. Movie kinda silly. Glad I was going to the Disco Monday nights.

[@ChrisLawton66]

This is the kind of cop we need on the streets. Unbiased.

[@jairoparra3682]

That is where they got Robocop movies from this 70's movie...lol

[@Thompson-xp1mk]

Robo Cop seems to have resulted from this movie

[@1locust1]

Science fiction writers Harlan Ellison and Ben Bova sued Paramount studio claiming it had used an idea pitched by them which was based on their short story "Brillo".

[@garrettdavis6500]

I grew up on these movies. You can see the way I turned out. BURP.

[@wilsonbobcatservice4151]

Awesome upload.

[@musicman201047]

Wasn't this the pilot for Holmes and Yo-Yo with Ernest Bornine and John Schuck?

[@salty6pence672]

Sweet Swiss Army knife. Yea I stole it from that Borgnine guy.

[@Clock_70]

THIS WAS AWESOME

[@billgreen4003]

Ernest bornien in a dinasuar movie and super fuzz movie