COPS
Wheeling and Stealing
TV Flash files “Wheeling and Stealing” as hour 1052 of 1267 in the TV Flash guide — COPS (1989–present) on Fox, season 31, episode 13, aired 2019-01-07, 30 min.
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How this hour is filed
This leaf is S31E13: listed hour 1052 of 1267 in the COPS guide, hour 13 of 33 in season 31. It aired 2019-01-07 (30 min). The listed hour before it is “Slow and Low” (S31E12). Next is “Perfect Strangers” (S31E14). Broadcast log — titles and dates, not a plot bible.
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A driver subjects his wife to a high-speed chase when he decides he's had enough of the police. A paranoid man takes his anger out on his roommates' cars. It's one lie after another when cops catch up to a chatty shoplifter.
Viewer FAQ
Where does Wheeling and Stealing sit in the COPS guide?
S31E13 is listed hour 1052 of 1267 — hour 13 of 33 in season 31, season 31 episode 13.
When did COPS S31E13 air?
Wheeling and Stealing aired 2019-01-07 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.**