Miami Vice

Stubble-faced detective Crockett lived in a sailboat guarded by his alligator Elvis. His partner Tubbs was a black New York cop looking for his brother's killer. Together they took on the Florida drug world. The show influenced men's fashions toward Italo-casual and interior decor toward the Miami look. Very trendy music and unusual guest performers. Miami Vice  is an American  crime drama  television series created by  Anthony Yerkovich  and produced by  Michael Mann  for  NBC . The series stars  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. Unlike standard  police procedurals , the show drew heavily upon 1980s  New Wave  culture and is noted for its integration of contemporary pop and rock music and stylish or stylized visuals.  People  magazine states that  Miami Vice  was the "first show to look really new and different since color TV was invented"