I’m going through some old VHS tapes and I found this show. It was part of the CBS Summer Playhouse (1987-89). It stars Peter Scolari who encounters galactic police officers who have travelled to Earth while chasing some bad guy. Unfortunately, when they arrive, they are microscopic.
I cannot for the life of me figure out why I recorded it. It’s bad. Really bad. MST3K bad.
Interestingly, ILM did the “special effects”.
OTTOMH without cheating by googling or any other method-
The villain is a lunatic with an insane giggle. When he uses his microspaceship to take over a human body, the body also giggles.
Bidra, the female cop uses some hologram device to project a human size image of herself from Scolari’s eye. She explains that he must be careful to prevent the image from being blocked and says “Let nothing come between us.” Scolari’s girlfriend hears this and draws the wrong conclusion.
Scolari is working on a compound which will harmlessly dissolve oil spills. He can’t get it to work. The microcops perfect it.
The final credits had the MGM lion giving an insane giggle.
The important question is why I can remember a bad movie I saw when I was thirteen, but not what I did last week?
That is exactly it. Other than its inherent badness, I wonder why it doesn’t show up on the IMDB? Or anywhere else on the 'net?
It was technically an rejected pilot- it aired on a show that was really just a excuse to air a bunch of rejected pilots. If you can remember the name of that show, you might find it. “CBS summer cavalcade” or some such. On the same topic, anyone remember a short lived series that consisted of actors doing the scrips from unmade pilots in a theatrical manner (really bad set construction and only one camera?) I presumed that it existed only to get some use out of scripts that has already been paid for, and actors already under contract.