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Eugene

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Sat Sep 14, 2024, 05:30 PM Sep 14

Actors and fans celebrate the 'Miami Vice' television series' 40th anniversary in Miami Beach

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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Read more: https://apnews.com/article/miami-vice-anniversary-florida-b1f342bfe61a81761f475fd98afdb8b8

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Actors and fans celebrate the 'Miami Vice' television series' 40th anniversary in Miami Beach (Original Post) Eugene Sep 14 OP
Not long after singer Chris de Burgh achieved mainstream success with "The Lady In Red", Aristus Sep 14 #1
Such a great show... highplainsdem Sep 14 #2

Aristus

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1. Not long after singer Chris de Burgh achieved mainstream success with "The Lady In Red",
Sat Sep 14, 2024, 06:02 PM
Sep 14
Miami Vice featured a moody song from the same album as TLIR, "The Leader"; perfect for a show about a society that had come unmoored from its foundations.

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.
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