-Resplendent with authentic 1980s music, fashion, and vibe, "Miami Vice" follows two undercover detectives and their extended team through the mean streets of Miami, Florida.
-James "Sonny" Crockett and Ricardo "Rico" Tubbs are undercover Miami police detectives. Their world is the sordid yet distinctly high-flying and glamorous world of drug dealers. To fit in they need to look and act the part: flashy cars, trendy clothes, glamorous women.—grantss
-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.—Ed Stephan <stephan@cc.wwu.edu>
-Detective James "Sonny" Crockett and detective Ricardo "Rico" Tubbs, of the Miami-Dade police department's organized crime bureau vice unit, work deep undercover as seedy criminals to infiltrate and bring down the various criminal enterprises of southern Florida.—gorb