RoboCop: Prime Directives

Alex J. Murphy

John Terrence Cable

Sara Cable (4 episodes, 2001)

James Murphy

Damian Lowe (4 episodes, 2001)

Ed Hobley (4 episodes, 2001)

David Kaydick

Ann R. Key (3 episodes, 2001)

Jordan (3 episodes, 2001)

Abby Normal (2 episodes, 2001)

Lexx Icon (2 episodes, 2001)

Albert Bixler / ... (2 episodes, 2001)

The Old Woman (CEO) (2 episodes, 2001)

The name Kaydick is a homage to sci-fi writer Philip K. Dick.

Page Fletcher was originally offered the role of 'Alex J. Murphy/RoboCop' in RoboCop (1994) but turned it down due to a recent falling out with television producers in previous series and other TV work.

This mini-series exists outside the continuity established in the RoboCop (1987) films. One of the main differences being that while many characters in the film franchise know that Alex Murphy was transformed into RoboCop, in the mini-series, this is a closely guarded secret. Another example of the divergence in continuity would be that in the mini-series, Murphy is not killed on his first day of active duty in Detroit.

At the end of the second part, Meltdown, this quote is given: "The danger of the past was that men became slaves. The danger of the future is that man may become robots." The film credits it to Thoreau, which is impossible, as the word "robot" did not enter the English language until more than sixty years after Thoreau's death. This quote is actually from Erich Fromm.

RoboCable: [to Robocop] You have been recalled.

John Cable: What?

RoboCable: What are you prepared to do?