i don't what ya'll say, Miami Vice was a hell of good TV show.

[KG]

been watching reruns on HULU. :hi:

[OmahaBlueDog]

1. The first two seasons were really good

Michel Mann was one of the first to bring motion picture production values to TV; he also filmed on location in SoFla, which was fresh in the mid 80s.

Added bittersweet bonus: Mann set several scenes of one of the early episodes at the Senator. The Senator was a n art deco Miami Beach gem, and was later torn down to make way for a parking garage. But in losing that battle, preservationists won the war and saved most of the other art deco buildings in SoBe.

[madinmaryland]

2. Hawaii 5-0 was better.

:hi:

[newmajority]

3. From the Miami Vice soundtrack

The unlikely pairing of Duran Duran's Andy Taylor and Sex Pistol Steve Jones.....
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MIX3DLQiH7s

[newmajority]

11. Shit!.... let's try that again.

Somehow the wrong link ended up in there...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ONoLo68Xi6g

[newmajority]

4. More Steve Jones from Miami Vice

This time doing his best Billy Idol impersonation (they are old friends after all, so what the Hell)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JEUVxdwSa3Y

[AlCzervik]

5. The dead guy buried in the wall, i remember that episode and i remember one with Glen Frey

and that's about it.

[OmahaBlueDog]

6. "Out Where the Busses Don't Run"

That's the dead guy in wall episode -- it's one of the best

My favorite was the one I mentioned with the scenes at the Senator. Alexis Arguello, the boxer, was in that episode. The plot was two HS kids think they can smuggle a couple of kilos into the US and make easy money.

[leeroysphitz]

7. Miami Vice set the pace. n/t

[pokerfan]

8. I remember it from its original run

They really paid close attention to the ways firearms were portrayed. More realistic than standard tv fare.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Firearms_in_Miami_Vice

[grannylib]

9. I used to watch that religiously...I agree, it was a great one. I loved

all the great guest stars. Zappa had one of the greatest lines ever: 'You stole three million of my favorite dollars.'

[Aristus]

10. I knew Chris De Burgh had really arrived in the U.S. when they played his song "The Leader"

as a montage going into the final scenes of an episode.

[av8rdave]

12. The scenery in the opening credits was awesome

[GermanDem]

13. It was sooo cool!

It became really hip to wear white blazers with candy-colored t-shirts underneath, just like Don Johnson. The series made Miami very popular here in Germany, suddendly everybody went to Miami Beach on vacation...

[SammyWinstonJack]

14. Love it!

[ScreamingMeemie]

15. Great Clothing...

[Blue_Tires]

16. total agreement

i have great memories of watching it when i was a kid...it was significant for its time

[DS1]

17. I watched it pretty religiously during it's first run

I was one of those people who went to another house to watch the 2 hour special because a hurricane had knocked out a LOT of television access in the North East.

[Wetzelbill]

18. It's awesome, I watched every episode on dvd in the last year

Put them in my Blockbuster Queue and knocked them all off. I was around 10-11 when it came out. Very well done. It jumped the shark with the alien episode, and it gets weird when Crockett gets amnesia and turns into a psycho bad guy, but even after it was past it's prime the show was still entertaining. The first two seasons are epic though. That first episode when "In The Air Tonight" by Phil Collins plays is one the finest moments in television history. Groundbreaking. You just didn't see that sort of thing until then. Hip, cool, badass, thought provoking but still goofy. It blew most concepts of television out of the water.