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The Miami Vice intertitle (color scheme as per season three) The following is an episode list for the 1980s American undercover cop television series Miami Vice. In the United States, the show was broadcast on NBC. The first episode of the series premiered on September 16, 1984, with the series concluding on June 28, 1989, after five seasons.
While other television shows used made-for-TV music, Miami Vice would spend $10,000 or more per episode to buy the rights to original recordings. [4] Getting a song played on Miami Vice was a boost to record labels and artists. [23] Some newspapers, such as USA Today, would let readers know the songs that would be featured each week. [24]
The 1986 FBI Miami shootout occurred on April 11, 1986, in Miami-Dade County, Florida, U.S. (the specific area was incorporated as Pinecrest in 1996), when a small group of field agents for the FBI attempted to apprehend William Russell Matix and Michael Lee Platt, who were suspected of committing a series of violent crimes in and around the Miami metropolitan area.
Hawkins initially took a job as an intelligence analyst in the Miami-Dade police department, in a time period where female officers were still exceptionally rare.
"By the end of Miami Vice I was just done," he told British talk show host Jonathan Ross, in 2008. "Basically, I'd been fairly drunk or high since I was 14. I was very drunk and high for 16 years ...
A shootout at Dadeland Mall on July 11, 1979, started the drug war. [8] Two members of a Colombian drug gang entered a liquor store and shot two men in broad daylight. [3] The murderers were quickly dubbed "Cocaine Cowboys" by a police officer. [8] [9] Due to ensuing turf wars between drug lords, Miami soon became known as the "Drug Capital of ...
It’s been 40 years since “Miami Vice” first took custody of our TV sets, but Don Johnson remembers starring in the iconic show like it was yesterday. Mostly, he remembers the fans.
The Bren Ten was originally manufactured as a two-tone weapon: the carbon steel slide was black oxide and frame was stainless steel. The model used in Miami Vice had a hard-chromed matte finished slide so that it showed up better during night shots. The pistol used in the show was chambered in .45 ACP, as 10mm Auto blanks were simply not available.