Real Stories of the Highway Patrol

The series revolved around the stories of highway patrol officers and state police from across the country, who would give commentary on a particularly difficult (or sometimes, comedic) arrest they made. At times, the officer's work caused them grievous injury and a subsequent commendation from their department. Each crime and subsequent arrest was adaptation for the viewing audiences, though some segments were shot in a traditional multiple-camera setup, rather than emulating the single-camera cinéma vérité style of COPS.

The series was hosted by Maury Hannigan, who at the time was Commissioner of the California Highway Patrol.

The first two seasons of episodes were last aired on the now-defunct Fox Reality Channel many times of the day. Reruns currently air on the Heroes & Icons subchannel network in the United States.

• The show was spoofed in a segment of the 2000 movie The Adventures of Rocky and Bullwinkle.
• A similarity of the show was a segment featured in the Beavis and Butt-Head episode "Dream On" called True Stories of the Highway Patrol.
• In 1994, Saturday Night Live parodied the show as Real Stories of the Arkansas Highway Patrol, and featuring John Goodman of Roseanne fame.
• In the first episode of King of the Hill, when it's revealed that Luanne will be staying with the Hills, she is in tears claiming that her mama's arrest was filmed on Real Stories of the Highway Patrol.
• In 1998, Ben Stiller parodied Real Stories of the Highway Patrol on Saturday Night Live. Darrell Hammond portrayed host Maury Hannigan, when he sported a mustache.
• In the 1998 Leslie Nielsen comedy Wrongfully Accused, host Hannigan appears in a cameo (along with America's Most Wanted host John Walsh) in which he asks Nielsen's character Ryan Harrison, who's trying to make a getaway, if he has any "Real Stories" he'd like to tell.

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• Real Stories of the Highway Patrol at IMDb
• Real Stories of the Highway Patrol show on aol.com