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Source: Associated Press
Actors and fans celebrate the Miami Vice television series 40th anniversary in Miami Beach
By DAVID FISCHER
Updated 7:39 PM EDT, September 13, 2024
MIAMI BEACH, Fla. (AP) Miami Beach residents and visitors can feel it coming in the air tonight and the rest of the weekend as Miami Vice cast and crew gather to celebrate the iconic television series 40th anniversary.
The show premiered on NBC on Sept. 16, 1984, and ran for five seasons. The cocaine cowboy-era crime drama, featuring Don Johnson and Philip Michael Thomas as undercover cops, was revolutionary in its use of pop culture, style and music and spawned a film reboot in 2006. And by filming the show primarily in South Florida, the series helped transform the image of Miami and Miami Beach in a way that would reverberate for decades.
Former cast members, including Edward James Olmos and Michael Madsen, met with fans Friday at the Royal Palm South Beach and were set to return Saturday. Also attending were Saundra Santiago, Olivia Brown, Bruce McGill, Joaquim De Almeida, Bill Smitrovich, Pepe Serna and Ismael East Carlo.
It was not Hill Street Blues. It was not Police Story, Olmos said on Friday. It was way different in artistic endeavor on all levels. The creativity, as far as music, writing, production value. The production value was so overwhelming. We spared nothing. I mean, these people were serious, and they spent a lot of time and money for each episode, and it shows.
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Aristus
(68,189 posts)I had been a CdeB fan for about five years by that point. Frustrated that he wasn't better known in the States, and by how difficult it was to get his recordings. I knew when he was featured on Miami Vice, he had hit the big time.