I'm currently rewatching every episode of Magnum, P.I. Miami Vice is next. You should see the number of guest stars in that show too. I'm up to season 6 now, and last night Magnum nabbed Alan Hale, Jr. (the skipper from Gilligan's Island). I'm actually an extra in several early
Magnum episodes. I grew up in Hawaii and my mom would take us to various extra calls when they needed a crowd of people

I wore a bright yellow jacket with linen pants and neon under shirt to my 8th grade prom because of Miami vice. I still want a damn Bren Ten

For me, when I hear "in the air tonight", I see tubbs in the boat and crocket jumping in and confronting him

Too unrealistic for me. I passed.....

Growing up in Miami, it was a staple in the house. One of my all-time favorites.

I liked the early shows, but they had some glaring nonsense in them. That silliness about having an alligator chained on the deck of the boat got old in a hurry. Also the portrayal of Switek and Zito as a couple of stumble bums who couldn't do anything right. At one point, Crockett refers to them as Tweedledum and Tweedledummer, IIRC. In the later shows, their characters were much better developed.

One thing about the first year or two: as shapely female detectives walked through the office, their progress was recorded by a "butt level" camera. Very interesting to the male eye.

One other note: I always wondered why Gregory Sierra left the show. IIRC, he left Barney Miller also. Just curious if he was difficult to work with or if he just found his TV roles too limiting.

Back in those days, it got to be easy spotting the Narcs on the street.

They dressed like Don Johnson.

n.c.i.s. miami did very well,
but I always wonder how it would have done w/o m.v.
before it

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Originally posted by signewt:
I never did develop a taste for it.

Me either, and I love most types of cheese.

Too much horrible, truly horrible 80s Miami fashion doesn't help.

Liked Little Miss Dangerous.

I enjoyed it way back then, and it was no more unrealistic than NCIS, which in real life has no super computers or techs to run them.

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Originally posted by cslinger:
Sooo many killer episodes that are every bit as good today. Sure the aesthetic is cartoonish but the stories hold up wonderfully.

El Viejo. Awesome
Smugglers Blues
Down For The Count
Heart of darkness
Glades. "Maybe you won't even twitch". Delivered perfectly. Awesome line.
Honestly way more good then bad. The music, the gray characters, the silence, the believable comraderie. Yes the aesthetic is cartoonish today but there are many first rate stories and I would argue Vice was the first of the well produced, well acted, well scripted TV shows.

I think my favorite was "Milk Run", about the two young guys who thought they could make a bundle off of one smuggling run.