Real Stories of the Highway Patrol

I think this program was far superior to COPS for a number of reasons: There was a host (Maury Hannigan)that gave a narrative to what we were about to see on the screen. Being based on the Highway Patrol,normally pursuits and accidents are shown,normally from in car dash cams.COPS give you less motor vehicle coverage. At the end of a segment,they give you a follow up....the amount of jail time given,the fate of an injured person (for better or worse)....COPS has never done this...and leaves you hanging without closure. COPS a lot of the time focuses on dull activities....calls that really aren't "entertaining" or "attention getting".Yes its a part of police duty,but the show is only 20 minutes long in 3 segments.You cannot fill the 20 minutes with fluff and expect a happy TV viewer. Give me RSOTHP any day.....however,I am sure we have seen the last of it. (TRIVIA:Both Southpark and Beavis & Butthead have done parodies of this show).

An excellent real-life show featuring the real exploits of police officers. While most of the show focussed on highway chases and pullovers, there were also such features as police officers making drug busts and foiling robberies. At the end, the host would always provide a safety tip (for driving or otherwise).

I thought that this show was very good but not quite as exciting as COPS and this show deserves more recognition, it mainly focuses on pullovers and drug busts and there is a safety tip at the end of the show and if you loved COPS or America's Most Wanted, then you'll love Real Stories of the Highway Patrol and I hope that it comes back on television, I think the show lasted from 1993-97 and the final season wasn't that great compared to the earlier seasons.

I agree, this was a great show! I liked how they actually showed what happened to the people after they got busted. This was a sort of copycat show of COPS for a while, but I still really enjoyed it. It was on in South Florida for many years on WBFS 33. There was also a third show, I think in Jersey or New York somewhere that was in the same genre, it was pretty short lived though.

I am wondering why they don't come out with a DVD for these episodes, or at least make them cheap enough for some stations to pick these up. I would rather watch these than another re-run of Moesha or some crap like that.

Man i remember watching this when i was little every morning id be with my dad eating cup of noodles watching real stories of the highway patrol. it was the best show. Most people thing that a highway patrol job would be pretty boring for the most time, which for some it could very well be, but this shows the high points of the job. i guess it just pretty much hit home since my dad works for the highway patrol. The best part was seeing my dad on there twice! They shouldn't have canceled it, i mean it might not be as fast moving as cops but it sure was entertaining! you got to see what happened to the guys after they were arrested unlike in cops where all you see is them getting arrested and that about it you think they'd make a DVD of all the episodes?