Please help me remember the name of an animated futuristic cop show from the late 80s

Cafe Society
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Off to Cafe Society.

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Ah, Silverhawks. Or, as I always called it, ‘Falling In Space!’

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“Police Cops?”

Joe

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No kidding. Still what kid couldn’t love this?

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Huh. I’ve never seen that before, and yet I feel as though I have.

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I always make that mistake!

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Ha! I knew the answer as soon as I saw the thread title, and I never even saw the animated show - I collected the comic book, but was aware there was an animated version. It was early in my comic collecting career, which began in 1987. Comic books were still only $0.75 - $1.00, and I was still living with my parents and had cash to burn, so I was collecting almost every title on the shelf at the local comics shop.

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Good Lord, that looks awful. Like, Gobots bad.

“Alien galaxies from beyond space”?

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Actually, that’s just the American version, which is famously terrible - I only showed it because it’s the version viewers of my generation would be most familiar with. *Battle of the Planets *- AKA *Gatchaman *- is considered one of the classic early amine series.

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Heck, even on the main page:

Really? As opposed to 2020 in the distant future? Or maybe they didn’t want it to get mistaken for 2020 BC.

I loved the show, though. I can’t believe they managed to get it onto DVD.

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Man, I loved Silverhawks. That clip brought back memories… and showed me exactly how ridiculous those memories were. “Partly metal, partly real” ??? Metal isn’t real?
Wings in space? The Copper Kid: bionic space mime? Fighting evil with the power of guitar music? Sigh…

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This is why I love the SDMB, no one I know in real life remembers any of these shows.

C.O.P.S, Silverhawks, and Mask were my favorite shows as a kid.

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Anyone remember Galaxy Rangers? I first thought that’s what the OP was remembering.

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Here’s some Galaxy Rangersstuff for y’all.

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Galaxy Rangers seems familiar, but I don’t know if that is because I watched it or if I sold art from it at one point in time. (I worked at an animation art gallery for a number of years). I DO remember Bravestarrwhich is a similar sort of idea. There is Blackstartoo, but it’s a different thing entirely (and absolutely not to be confused with Blackstar)