<I>Cops</I> Producer Busted For DUI

The producer of the TV show Cops was arrested on drunken driving charges while in Atlanta to meet with police and set up filming of an episode of the reality series.

An officer stopped Murray Jordan, 64, for making an illegal left turn in Atlanta's Buckhead section Monday night, police said.

The officer smelled alcohol on Jordan's breath, according to police.

Police said Jordan tried and failed three times to recite the alphabet, could not hold his leg up for more than a second and did not follow directions when officers asked him to walk heel-to-toe.

Jordan told officers he had four glasses of wine with dinner, police said.

His blood-alcohol level was measured at .136 percent. The legal limit in Georgia is .08.

Cops, which has been on television since 1989, has become famous and often parodied for following actual police officers as they work a beat, arresting drunks and others.

Jordan works for Langley Productions, which produces Cops for the Fox network. He lives in Tarzana, Calif.

Police spokesman John Quigley said Jordan was in Atlanta to meet with police about filming an episode of the show there. "At this point, we're still planning to meet with him," Quigley said.

Jordan was freed on $1,000 bail Tuesday. A call to Langley Productions was not immediately returned.

Jordan visited the city in 1998 to film an episode of Cops and told Mayor Bill Campbell that he was impressed by its safe streets.