RoboCop: Prime Directives is a Canadian TV miniseries released in 2001. It is a spin-off from the action film RoboCop franchise. The series, created by Fireworks Entertainment, consists of four feature-length episodes: Dark Justice, Meltdown, Resurrection, and Crash and Burn. All four episodes have been released on DVD. Page Fletcher stars as Officer Alex Murphy / RoboCop. Production Fireworks Entertainment stated that they wanted to make use of the TV rights to RoboCop before they expired and thus ordered that Prime Directives be made, selecting Julian Grant to direct. Grant had a reputation for finishing projects ahead of schedule and under budget. He, in turn, picked Joseph O'Brien and Brad Abraham to write the series. Richard Eden, who played the role of RoboCop during the 1994 television series, was approached to reprise the role for this series, but negotiations broke down for an unspecified reason. The previous incarnation of RoboCop was the family-friendly TV series from 1994. Grant had no interest in perpetuating this approach, and returned RoboCop to his dark, violent roots. Although Prime Directives takes place ten years after the original film, the production was not permitted to use clips from the feature films. MGM had licensed shots of Murphy's death scene from the original film for the television show to use. The creators of Prime Directives took the footage that the TV show used, recolored the shots blue, and used them in the third film in the series, Resurrection. Cast Page Fletcher as Officer Alex Murphy / RoboCop Maurice Dean Wint as Commander John T. Cable / RoboCable Maria Del Mar as OCP Executive Sara Cable Anthony Lemke as OCP Executive James Murphy Leslie Hope as Ann R. Key Geraint Wyn Davies as David Kaydick Kevin Jubinville as OCP Executive Damian Lowe Anthony J. Mifsud as Chuck Conflagration Eugene Clark as Carver RH Marni Thompson as Abby Normal Françoise Yip as Lexx Icon Prior to being cast, Fletcher had not seen the RoboCop feature films, and no effort was made to mimic Peter Weller's original movements. Fletcher instead worked out a RoboCop movement system for himself that he felt was appropriate for where the character was, physically and emotionally. Continuity Prime Directives takes place ten years after RoboCop. This series is largely considered an alternate reality to the films as major events of the second and third films and the television series are almost completely ignored. In