COPS
Kansas City, Missouri; Kansas City, Kansas 22
TV Flash files “Kansas City, Missouri; Kansas City, Kansas 22” as hour 368 of 1267 in the TV Flash guide — COPS (1989–present) on Fox, season 10, episode 22, aired 1998-02-28, 30 min.
From the desk
How this hour is filed
This leaf is S10E22: listed hour 368 of 1267 in the COPS guide, hour 22 of 36 in season 10. It aired 1998-02-28 (30 min). The listed hour before it is “Houston, TX 10” (S10E21). Next is “Kansas City, Missouri; Kansas City, Kansas 23” (S10E23). Broadcast log — titles and dates, not a plot bible.
Catalog log
Broadcast listing — not a TV Flash recap.
Officers pursue a suspect allegedly driving at high speeds; and respond to a domestic dispute involving a man, his girlfriend and her mother, who claims he's abusive. Also: a man with a hot-water heater is questioned.
Viewer FAQ
Where does Kansas City, Missouri; Kansas City, Kansas 22 sit in the COPS guide?
S10E22 is listed hour 368 of 1267 — hour 22 of 36 in season 10, season 10 episode 22.
When did COPS S10E22 air?
Kansas City, Missouri; Kansas City, Kansas 22 aired 1998-02-28 and is listed at 30 minutes.
Is there a host or a script?
Ride-along vérité: handheld cameras, minimal narration, chaos scored to "Bad Boys." The format is the author.
In the series
Why this series still plays
Handheld ride-alongs set to a reggae hook: policing as weekly spectacle, no narrator required. The format that taught reality TV how to chase, cuff, and cut. Controversial by design — vérité as entertainment, neighborhoods as set, and a chorus that still follows every squad-car clip. View it as craft and as argument; it was always both.
Visual first: handheld grain, a reggae hook, neighborhoods framed as set, no narrator to soften the silhouette. John Langley and Malcolm Barbour's Fox series premiered in 1989 and became a syndication staple through the 1990s. *Ride-along vérité as weekly spectacle.* Inner Circle's *Bad Boys* is inseparable from the brand — the chorus that still follows every squad-car clip. **This was not a procedural costume; this was policing photographed as entertainment.**