Re: 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.
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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.
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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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Someone I know wrote a letter to the producers and the network complaining
about the use of the Ferrari Testarossa, maintaing that it was substandard
compared to previous models.   Kind of argumentable considering how the
Daytona Spyder it replaced was a fucking KIT CAR!   I know someone who owned
a Ferrari Testarossa circa 1989 and said he got pulled over all the time by
curious cops just wanting to have a closer look.

The original Ferrari