Highway (C.O.P.S.)

Highway is a cartoon character in the C.O.P.S. (Central Organization of Police Specialists) series from Hasbro which ran from 1988-1989.

Character Profile
Highway is the fastest of the C.O.P.S., a California highway patrol officer for the San Francisco police department. Wearing a state patrol uniform featuring a helmet with visors; he's known to drive his Bluestreak motorcycle extremely fast. In the toy series as well as in the comics, he is seen riding on an air scooter. With great skill, Highway is able to gain on the most fastest of criminals out on the roads and nab them before they make a huge getaway. Highway likes to hang around with the female members of C.O.P.S. and tries to impress them (which usually ends in disaster) in any way he knows how. In The Case of the Crook with A Thousand Faces, Highway tries to impress Mirage by helping her with a computer problem, but, unfortunately, that never worked out for him.

In one caper, Highway, who will never make an Iron Chef, shows to everyone how bad his cooking skills are when he twice offered to share a plate full of homemade cookies he made awhile back to his fellow C.O.P.S.. Unfortunately, no one appreciated his cookies since they are much too hard for them to eat and they never turned out right at all. Highway eventually "improved" his skills and offered a third plate of cookies to the team. Bulletproof decided to eat a cookie, commenting on how good the cookie tasted. That's because Highway bought a box of cookies from a store - replacing the previous two failed batches he made up at home. This time the team accepts his offer, preferring the store bought cookies than Highway's homemade flops. Blitz, on the other hand, ran out the door when he's offered a cookie, still not trusting Highway's dishes after the two previous offerings.

The Case of The Blur Bandits
Highway is very proud of his image. However, in this episode, Highway screwed up badly. When he tries to catch up with Berserko, who is dressed up in a special speed suit that allows him to go extremely fast. He failed to catch Berserko and winds up hydroplaning in the streets on his Bluestreak cycle. Ashamed over his failure, Highway calls it quits and turns in his badge. BulletProof tries to help him by giving about two days off to get over it, but Highway declines, saying he has embarrassed the whole organization with his big mouth. "Goodbye, sir." Highway said and left the precinct. Later on, he was captured by Turbo Tu-Tone, who hold him prisoner at his garage. Highway is able to break loose a large pipe and Turbo attacks. A fight erupted until Highway noticed a container full of ball bearings which he spills to the floor after breaking free of his bonds. Slipping on the bearings, Turbo was easily captured and brought back to the precinct where Highway is able to take possession of the speed suit, going on a fast-speeding, crook-busting spree where Highway is able to place all the crooks partaking in a huge crime-spree under arrest in record time. In the end, Whitney Morgan interviewed Highway, asking him how he did what he did. Speed? Skill? "They helped me do it! I'm part of the team." Highway replied while gesturing Whitney to look at his C.O.P.S. companions. Through this caper, Highway learned an important lesson on humility.

The Case of The Highway Robbery
In this episode, Highway was pressured into helping Mayor Davis get his limousine back - the alternative being that he will "park cars for a living!" as Mayor Davis puts it. Nightshade, one of Big Boss' crooks stole Mayor Davis' limousine as part of Big Boss' scheme to perform car thefts and changed the cars his crooks steals to look exactly like Big Boss' own personal limousine. So, Highway along with Hardtop went out to find Mayor Davis' limo. Along the way, Highway was able to apprehend Berserko and Turbo Tu-Tone, who was robbing a vehicle using a specialized van that poses as a bread truck to scoop up a vehicle inside the van and cover the car with the top part of it. As Whitney Morgan was reporting the news about Highway's latest bust, Big Boss noticed Highway's Bluestreak bike and orders Nightshade to steal it. So, Nightshade went out and poses as a woman who has trouble with her car. Highway went to assist only for Nightshade to trick him into allowing her to get into the Bluestreak and takes off with it. Highway tried to stop her but wound up holding on the the trailer part of the Bluesteak for dear life as Nightshade took him on a wild ride to the junkyard where he finds himself about to be flatten by a car crusher, no thanks to Squeeky Kleen who picked the trailer up with Highway with the magnet vehicle and drop him and the trailer inside it. Luckily for him, Hardtop, driving his Ironsides with Witney Morgan on top, who tagged along for the ride, was able to arrive right in the nick of time to stop the machine and save Highway's life - only to get berated by Mayor Davis for his failure to get his limo back, afterwards. Highway had to get the limousine back... or else! Eventually, Highway succeeds in getting both the Bluestreak and the limo back and Mayor Davis gives Highway a medal for a job well done.