Miami Vice Season Three Views

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Miami Vice is an American television series produced by Michael Mann for NBC. The show became noted for its heavy integration of music and visual effects to tell a story. The series starred Don Johnson and Philip Michael Thomas as two Metro-Dade Police Department detectives working undercover in Miami. It ran for five seasons on NBC from 1984–1989. The USA Network later began airing reruns the next year, in 1990, and actually broadcast an originally unaired episode during its syndication run of the series on January 25, 1990.

The choice of music and cinematography borrowed heavily from the emerging New Wave culture of the 1980s. As such, segments of Miami Vice would sometimes use music-based stanzas, a technique later featured in Baywatch. As Lee H. Katzin, one of the show's directors, remarked, The show is written for an MTV audience, which is more interested in images, emotions and energy than plot and character and words. [3] These elements made the series into an instant hit, and in its first season saw an unprecedented 15 Emmy Award nominations.[3][6] While the first few episodes contain elements of a standard police procedural, the producers soon abandoned them in favor of a more distinctive style. Of the many different production aspects of the show, no earth tones were allowed to be used.[3] A director of Miami Vice, Bobby Roth, recalled:

During the show's run, three official soundtrack albums with original music from the episodes were released. Hammer has released several albums with music from the series; among them are Escape from Television (1987), Snapshots (1989) and, after countless requests from fans, Miami Vice: The Complete Collection (2002).

Throughout the series, Sonny Crockett lived on an Endeavour 42 sailboat named the St. Vitus' Dance (priced at $120,000 in 1986),[44] while in the pilot episode, Crockett is seen on an Endeavor 40 sailboat.[44] The allure of the sailboats was such that the Endeavour 42 used for the 1986 season of Miami Vice was sold to a midwest couple, while the Endeavour 40, the pilot's sailboat, was sold to a chartering service in Fort Lauderdale. At the same time, Endeavour was building a new 42 for the 1987 season of Miami Vice.[44]