Cocaine, cars and Crockett ‘n’ Tubbs: Did we always underestimate Miami Vice?
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Cocaine, cars and Crockett ‘n’ Tubbs: Did we always underestimate Miami Vice?

The Independent  

Sign up to our free IndyArts newsletter for all the latest entertainment news and reviews Sign up to our free IndyArts newsletter Sign up to our free IndyArts newsletter SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. When Miami Vice debuted in 1984, the show lived up to its initial pitch with a rock’n’roll soundtrack, fast cars and a flashy wardrobe provided by Armani, Versace and Hugo Boss. It may have been NBC’s Tartikoff who dreamed up the catchy “MTV cops” tag, but in truth the original idea for Miami Vice came from Anthony Yerkovich, an Emmy-winning screenwriter then working on gritty US cop show Hill Street Blues. “Miami has become a sort of Barbary Coast of free enterprise gone berserk.” The idea of Miami as America’s answer to the licentious port that provided the setting for 1942 movie classic Casablanca is planted from the very first line uttered by Eighties heartthrob Don Johnson as the show’s complicated hero James “Sonny” Crockett. A video was produced for Czech-American composer Jan Hammer’s “Miami Vice Theme”, starring Crockett and Tubbs ostensibly on the keytar-wielding Hammer’s trail.

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