COPS
Get Off My Roof
TV Flash files “Get Off My Roof” as hour 895 of 1267 in the TV Flash guide — COPS (1989–present) on Fox, season 26, episode 10, aired 2013-11-16, 30 min.
From the desk
How this hour is filed
This leaf is S26E10: listed hour 895 of 1267 in the COPS guide, hour 10 of 22 in season 26. It aired 2013-11-16 (30 min). The listed hour before it is “Guns, Hash, and Fire Hydrants” (S26E09). Next is “This Man Stabbed Me” (S26E11). Broadcast log — titles and dates, not a plot bible.
Catalog log
Broadcast listing — not a TV Flash recap.
The K-9 unit responds when a gunman takes to the rooftops. A drug exchange goes awry when the dealer tries to ditch his stash. A pickup-driving drunk tries to play it off when he smashes his neighbor's parked car.
Viewer FAQ
Where does Get Off My Roof sit in the COPS guide?
S26E10 is listed hour 895 of 1267 — hour 10 of 22 in season 26, season 26 episode 10.
When did COPS S26E10 air?
Get Off My Roof aired 2013-11-16 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.**