Miami Vice
Miami Vice is an American television crime drama series created by Anthony Yerkovich and produced by Michael Mann for NBC. The series starred Don Johnson as James "Sonny" Crockett and Philip Michael Thomas as Ricardo "Rico" Tubbs, two Metro-Dade Police Department detectives working undercover in Miami. The series ran for five seasons on NBC from 1984 to 1989. The USA Network later began airing reruns the next year, in 1990, and broadcast an originally unaired episode during its syndication run of the series on January 25, 1990.
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| Country of origin | United States
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| Original language | English
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| No. of seasons | 5
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| No. of episodes | 112 (list of episodes)
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| Executive producer | Michael Mann
Anthony Yerkovich (exec: S1) George Geiger (Co-exec: S4) Dick Wolf (Co-exec: S4) Robert Ward (Co-exec: S5) Richard Brams (Co-exec: S5) |
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| Running time | 48 minutes, plus three 96-minute episodes (excluding commercials)
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| Production company | Michael Mann Productions
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| Original release | September 16, 1984 –
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Det. Stan Switek: I haven't seen him like this since 1983 when he chased a guy who stole a hubcap from the bug van.
Izzy Moreno: Have we already had the scene where I ask what this is all about and you say, "Shut up, we ask the questions".
Det. Stan Switek: I don't know, did we, Lar?
- Sonny Crockett's pet alligator on the show is named Elvis; Don Johnson played Elvis Presley a few years earlier in the made-for-TV movie Elvis and the Beauty Queen.
- According to Sonny Crockett's character history he volunteered for military service in Vietnam in the early seventies. This is based on the real actions of Don Johnson who attempted to join the United States Marine Corps around that time. However, unlike Crockett who served a combat tour in Vietnam, Don Johnson was rejected by the marines due to a criminal conviction for drug possession.
- Sonny Crockett's alligator 'Elvis' is the mascot of the Florida college football team he was supposed to have played for.
- Don Johnson was ready to leave the show at the end of its second season, and the studio lined up Mark Harmon to take over the role of 'Sonny Crockett'. The only one not happy with this solution was executive producer Michael Mann, who convinced Johnson to stay on. As a result, Johnson became the best paid actor in the history of television series. Johnson subsequently had to turn down roles in quite a few movies, such as the leads in both Die Hard and The Untouchables.
- During pre-production, Don Johnson wanted Sonny Crockett to be "more of a cowboy", and suggested "a lot of denim, V-neck sweaters and cowboy boots". He was really unsure about how the heavy use of pastel and bright colors would fit the macho, no-nonsense persona of his character, but producer Michael Mann and costume designer Jodie Lynn Tillen managed to convince him. They saw Crockett more in the lines of a beach bum. Johnson relented and as a result became one of the biggest fashion symbols of the 1980s.
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