COPS
High Times Special Edition
TV Flash files “High Times Special Edition” as hour 630 of 1267 in the TV Flash guide — COPS (1989–present) on Fox, season 17, episode 23, aired 2005-04-09, 30 min.
From the desk
How this hour is filed
This leaf is S17E23: listed hour 630 of 1267 in the COPS guide, hour 23 of 36 in season 17. It aired 2005-04-09 (30 min). The listed hour before it is “Coast to Coast 73” (S17E22). Next is “Coast to Coast #74” (S17E24). Broadcast log — titles and dates, not a plot bible.
Catalog log
Broadcast listing — not a TV Flash recap.
The Norwood, OH, Police Department organizes a drug sting operation targeting a local drug dealer. When they close in on him, the dealer is suspected of eating the evidence - close to a quarter-ounce of crack cocaine. Other segments include a Pierce County, WA, deputy teaming with Lakewood, WA, police officers in a high-speed chase, and police officers in Fort Worth, TX, arriving on the scene where suspects are dismantling an "abandoned" truck.
Viewer FAQ
Where does High Times Special Edition sit in the COPS guide?
S17E23 is listed hour 630 of 1267 — hour 23 of 36 in season 17, season 17 episode 23.
When did COPS S17E23 air?
High Times Special Edition aired 2005-04-09 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.**