On this day in 1989, the hit reality-based television show COPS premiered
on the Fox television network with it’s distinctive theme song, Inner
Circle’s “Bad Boys,” for the very first time. Created by the producing
team of John Langley and Malcolm Barbour, COPS is one of the longest-
running television programs in the United States. The show places cameras
and production crews in the car with real patrol officers around the country.

CAMILLE BOHANNON
           

Camille Bohannon

This Is Your Life is a Reality documentary series broadcast on NBC
television from 1952 to 1961. It was originally hosted by its producer
Ralph Edwards. The show initially began on NBC radio in 1948.

Ralph Livingstone Edwards (June 13, 1913 – November 16, 2005)

Allen Albert Funt (September 16, 1914 – September 5, 1999)

Candid Camera was originally called The Candid Microphone and was first heard
on ABC radio June 28, 1947. Creator Allen Funt brought his program to ABC -TV
using the Candid Microphone title of the radio series, and then switched to NBC in
the fall of 1949 (for Philip Morris, with Ken Roberts as his announcer), at which
point its name was changed to Candid Camera.