Miami Vice [SEP] creator
Miami Vice
Miami Vice is an American television crime drama series created by Anthony Yerkovich and executive produced by Michael Mann for NBC. The series starred Don Johnson as James "Sonny" Crockett and Philip Michael Thomas as Ricardo "Rico" Tubbs, two Metro-Dade Police Department detectives working undercover in Miami. The series ran for five seasons on NBC from 1984 to 1989. The USA Network began airing reruns in 1988, and broadcast an originally unaired episode during its syndication run of the series on January 25, 1990.
", followed its lead in breaking the genre's mold; Dick Wolf, creator and executive producer of the "Law & Order" franchise, was a writer and later executive producer of "Miami Vice". Parodies and pastiches of it have continued decades after it aired, such as "Moonbeam City" (2015).
The show has been so influential that the style of "Miami Vice" has often been borrowed or alluded to by much of contemporary pop culture in order to indicate or emphasize the 1980s decade