Miami Vice American television series Actions Share Share Share to social media Facebook X URL https://www.britannica.com/topic/Miami-Vice-American-television-series Share Share Share to social media Facebook X URL https://www.britannica.com/topic/Miami-Vice-American-television-series Written by René Ostberg René Ostberg is an associate editor at Encyclopaedia Britannica. René Ostberg Fact-checked by The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica Encyclopaedia Britannica's editors oversee subject areas in which they have extensive knowledge, whether from years of experience gained by working on that content or via study for an advanced degree. They write new content and verify and edit content received from contributors. The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica Last Updated: Aug 27, 2024 • Article History Table of Contents Miami Vice debuted on television on NBC in September 1984 and ran for five seasons, ending in 1989. Filmed on location in Miami, the series follows two hard-boiled yet effortlessly chic detectives, James (“Sonny”) Crockett (Don Johnson) and Ricardo (“Rico”) Tubbs (Philip Michael Thomas), as they work undercover to bust drug cartels, sex traffickers, arms dealers, and other criminal players in South Florida’s underbelly. Notoriously mythologized in TV history as a show about “MTV cops,” Miami Vice came to represent the excesses of the 1980s. Yet the series was truly groundbreaking. Created by Anthony Yerkovich and helmed by Michael Mann ...(100 of 1362 words)

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