miami vice

     

Crockett & Tubbs were always cruising trendy beach hotspots on this influential '80s TV series

Trivia about miami vice

  • Pastel jackets worn over T-shirts were all the rage in the '80s because of this Florida-set TV show
  • One book said this '80s NBC cop show "started a fashion trend for those into the macho/grubby look"
  • "You Belong to the City" was part of this television show's No. 1 album
  • In 1984 Philip Michael Thomas began playing Ricardo Tubbs on this TV show
  • Sheena Easton appeared as a rock singer who married detective Sonny Crockett on this series
  • On this '80s cop show, Det. Sonny Crockett shared his boat with a pet alligator named Elvis
  • Phil Collins, Ted Nugent & The Fat Boys hit the Sunshine State on this '80s cop show
  • Hope your salsa is up to snuff when you team with Det. Sonny Crockett's pet alligator, Elvis, from this show
  • Edward James Olmos was Lt. Castillo, the laconic boss of Crockett & Tubbs, on this Florida cop show
  • Hammer -- Jan, not M.C. -- hit No. 1 with the theme to this cop series
  • Philip Michael Thomas was the co-star of this cop series when he released his album "Somebody" in 1988
  • Philip Michael Thomas--Tubbs on this '80s cop show--voiced Lance Vance on "Grand Theft Auto: Vice City Stories"
  • "A Bullet for Crockett"
  • Jan Hammer had only one Top 40 hit, but it was a big one: the No. 1 theme from this police drama
  • Sheena Easton played Caitlin, Don Johnson's girlfriend on this '80s cop show
  • Colin Farrell & Jamie Foxx hit the streets as Crockett & Tubbs in the movie based on this '80s fave
  • Pull out your pastels; this show whose theme is heard here started to rock the house in 1984
  • 1985:"Smuggler's Blues"
  • In 1985 the theme to this hip cop drama was tops on the Billboard charts