Miami Vice

The opening includes action shots of running flamingoes and a fierce-looking jai alai player. The show itself tracks the exciting lives of two smooth-talking, fashion-conscious and somewhat excitable detectives named Tubbs and Crockett. The setting: the drug- and violence-riddled urban jungle that was Miami in the 1980s. If you can find something -- anything -- unappealing about this show, please tell me because I can't.

I haven't seen it since it's original run but I suspect that it would serve as a self contained time capsule of the era.

I'm sure it would look pretty silly to anyone under 20 but if that's you, just wait until your kids discover that you bought all of Lady GaGa's albums when you were their age. All both of them.

It was a pretty stupid overally dramtic show. Never got why people got into it.

good show.... don johnson was hot!

Kinda lame. Don Johnson supposedly started the whole wearing a sports jacket with a regular shirt thing.

they were some smooth fuckers

A dreadful pleasure and certainly dated cheese now. . .also showed cops living in a style that would have cost at least four times their actual salary. . .

Never missed an episode

ahhh Tubbs and Rico, can't get better then this. Miami sucks, but the show was great. Didnt like the new one though

I was too young to appreciate? this one, if it was even worth watching in the first place, which I doubt.

Only watched it once. And that was the night our house burned down and we stayed with a neighbour.

its ok

WONDERFUL FASHIONS!!!! Forget the terrific pulsating pop and rock music, forget the cool, slick and excessively handsome (my one-and-only lifetime hero and idol) Don Johnson's too-quickly-over 1985 sex-symbol status, forget the flashy MTVideographic camera work--the ONLY reason I REALLY tuned into the show in the 1980's was because of Don Johnson's tropical-chic, casually elegant designer menswear ensembles--unconstructed sportjackets thrown over t-shirts and multipleated pants in pastel shades of pink, peach, aqua, lavender, fuschia and white. The show triggered a MAJOR fashion craze in menswear especially around 1985-86, and I was wowed over by the flocks of pastel sportjackets, short-sleeved button down campshirts and multipleated trousers in the department stores. I am a 40-year-old man who has always enjoyed wearing these styles, so when they fell out of fashion circa 1990, I went into a deep depression--solved only by teaching myself to sew my own pastel men's campshirts starting in 1993. I've since acquired (from exclusive menswear boutiques and from mail-order sources) some 60-plus pair of white triple-pleated pants just like the ones Don Johnson wore on Miami Vice, 11 fuschia wet-look velcro-closure sportshirts, 9 turquoise wet-look velcro-closure sportshirts; 22 pairs of pastel bubblegum-pink linen-blend triple-pleated pants, 30 hot-pink single-button lightweight big-shoulder-padded unlined and unconstructed sportcoats; 19 additional unconstructed Vice-like men's sportcoats in various shades of fuschia and pink and in fabrics other than linen; 26 unconstructed men's sportcoats in other hues--shades of white, pastel yellow, peach, teal, gold, plum and more; and over 30 printed woven short-sleeved pajama-collared shirts in bright and pastel splashy prints that I purchased one by one and that I DIDN'T create and sew up myself; and nowadays, in 2007, my typical daily ensemble consists of white triple-pleated pants, sockless white slip-on deck shoes, and pastel short-sleeved button-down straight-hemmed and spread-collared campshirts sewn myself--campshirts with printed paint-splashes, brushstrokes and splatters of vivid pastel Miami Vice color. I love the look, to me it will never go out of style. So what if no one else dresses like me anymore? I love being original, I love being an individual, and I love the self-confidence that Don Johnson's tropical-pastel Miami Vice look has always given me. I also love keeping alive what I consider a gorgeously stylish look, even if I'm the only one wearing it. To me the Miami Vice Look will always live!!!

Contrived, badly acted, badly scripted, and badly conceived.

Very good show. still watch the reruns from time to time.

I was too young for show.

Laughable at best....

was just average

Other than the fashion faux pas...what needs to be said?

Never really saw this one.

I LOVED Miami Vice - LOVED it.

Tubbs was hot

no man sould ever dress like dat!

A lot of people watched it but i didnt!! lol

NEVER INTO IT

gay

never even watched it really

noooo

Sexy.

I was so so on this as a kid but more so as an adult.

i freakin loved that show. i had the biggest crush on don johnson.

fuckin awsome, the movie sucked, the theme ruled, and Don Johnson set the bar

i always thought that was a dumb show, and the jackets they had were horrible, men in shoulder pads.....uGhhhhhhh

I admit...i was a fan!!

Never watched it

OH YA I HAD A DON JOHNSON POSTER (LIFESIZE ) BY HIS WHITE LAMBORGUINI LOL

I wasn't allowed to watch it, but I am told that it was a prime television viewing experience.

Watched it...

oh god....stupid

Don't care

The druggies won.

Didn't much care for the show but four stars for Jan Hammer and the great soundtrack!

boring

Terrific show for the era. Great cast, interesting stories. The show tapered off when Don Johnson became the show. Loved the music and the locale.

If there is one show that defines the fashions popular in the 80's this would be it. The clothing, the styles, the acting and the premise of this show revolved around the stara and fashion and much less on content. I do not think I watched one complete show. I couldn't take it.

I still love watching reruns of this show

Great detective show and great cast (especially Edward James Almos). The music and the fashion totally captured the eighties and is probably the T.V. show that is most associated with the decade. They also had so many future stars guest appear on it as well - Steve Buscemi, James Remar, John Leguizamo, Esai Morales, Brian Dennehy, Sheena Easton, Phil Collins, Liam Neeson, Gene Simmons and many, many more. This is definitely the best T.V. show from the eighties.

When mentioning the most prominent television shows of the 1980's, people most often bring up six shows: (1) The Cosby Show, (2) Cheers, (3) Family Ties, (4) Hill Street Blues, (5) Dallas, and (6) Miami Vice. And though all these shows are firmly embedded in the psyche of most Americans during this great decade, nothing is more synonymous to each other than Miami Vice and the 1980's. Television detectives Crockett and Tubbs driving around in a red Ferrari Testarossa convertible in their Miami beat chasing drug smugglers and car thieves, while wearing bright-colored t-shirts under cream colored sports jackets more than left an impression on those who remember 1980's television in terms of fashion and attitude. The show itself was fun and extravagant, with a great cast. This combination made Miami Vice one of the highest rated shows of its era- and arguably its most popular.

The last throw of the dice before political correctness swept this kid of show under the carpet. I thought it was great - flash cars, sun, sharp threads, foxy babes, drugs..

It was a cool show for the 80's. Not as good as Moonlighting though, but lightyears better than mamas family.