Miami Vice - 35 years old on January 25, 2025

35 years ago today, January 25, 1990,  the final original episode of Miami
Vice aired. The series ran for five seasons on NBC from 1984 to January 25,
1990 The USA Network began airing reruns in 1988, and broadcast an originally
unaired episode during its syndication run of the series on January 25, 1990.
Unlike standard police procedurals, the show drew heavily upon 1980s New Wave
culture and music. The show became noted for its integration of music and
visual effects. It is recognized as one of the most influential television
series of all time. People magazine stated that Miami Vice was the "first
show to look really new and different since color TV was invented".
Michael Mann directed a film adaptation of the series, which was released on
July 28, 2006.
The head of NBC's Entertainment Division, Brandon Tartikoff, wrote a
brainstorming memo that simply read "MTV cops", and later presented
it to series creator Anthony Yerkovich, formerly a writer and producer for
Hill Street Blues. Yerkovich, however, indicates that he devised the concept
after learning about asset forfeiture statutes that allowed law enforcement
agencies to confiscate the property of convicted drug dealers for official
use. The initial idea was for a movie about a pair of vice cops in Miami.
Yerkovich then turned out a script for a two-hour pilot, titled Gold Coast,
but later renamed Miami Vice. Yerkovich was immediately drawn to South Florida
as a setting for his new-style police show. Miami Vice was one of the first
American network television programs to be broadcast in stereophonic sound. It
was mixed in stereo for its entire run, but not actually broadcast in stereo
until 1985.
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