Despite the fact that Robocop was a very dark film, full of graphic violence that got it an R-Rating, CTV decided to make a television version of the futuristic thriller that would cater more to the child/young teenager market. Hard to see where they went wrong on that one. The show was released in early 1994, only a few months after Robocop 3 hit theaters, a film that saw Robocop played by a different actor and was by all metrics a critical and box office failure. Just like that film, the show was unable to get Peter Wellers to play Robocop, and it suffered accordingly. Adding to its woes was a certain sense of sanitized violence which flew in the face of the original film, and the addition of a nine-year-old leading character named Gadget, which lowered the age of the target audience even further. The show ran for several months in 1994, with 21 episodes and a 2-hour pilot, which was put together from a discarded script originally meant for the film version.