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Traumas and wanted to sound something brand-new. his idea was to combine a gritty cop show with a brd musical. a bunch of gang bangers started to sing. ♪ life in the hood ain't no piece of pie ♪ >> i said, wait a minute. >> i thought, this is as innovative as anything i'm going to do. >> you can see his face, guilty. he did the crime, and now he has
>> action! >> police, police! >> they were describing the show as a new wave cop show. how do you mean? >> it's a cop show for the '80s. we use a lot of mtv images and rock music to help describe the mood and feeling of our show. >> in a lot of ways you don't get "miami vice" without mtv because in a lot of ways "miami vice" was a long video. the music was such a big part of that show. ♪ >> there was an allure to using great music that everybody was listening to as opposed to the routine kind of tv scoring of that period. ♪ i can feel it coming in the air tonight ♪ >> it was only not afr...
"miami vice." it's a show with an old theme but a lot of new twists. described by one critic as containing flashes of brilliance nonetheless, shot entirely on location in south miami, the story centers around two undercover vice cops. >> i don't know how this is going to work, tubbs. i mean you're not exactly up my alley style and persona-wise. heaven knows i'm no box of candy. >> television very much was the small screen. it was interesting about tony's pilot screenplay for "miami vice," it was not that. very much the approach was, okay, they call this a television series. but we're going to ...
Successful creators trying to do things different than they had done five or ten years ago. sometimes that led to really challenging network television that was cool and fun to watch, and sometimes it just seemed to fall off the edge a little bit. ♪ let's be careful out there >> at the time steven bochco was a very successful producer of hour dramas and wanted to try something brand-new. >> this is the police! we have a warrant for your arrest. >> hit it. >> ten seconds. >> and so his idea was to combine a gritty cop show with a broadway musical. >> i saw one in which a bunch of gang bangers...
Was a very successful producer of hour dramas and wanted to try something brand-new. >> we're the police! we have a warrant for your arrest. >> so his idea was to combine a gritty cop show with a broadway musical. >> i saw one in which a bunch of gang bangers were in jail. and they began to sing. life in the hood ain't no pizza pie, everybody die when the bullets fly. ♪ life in the hood ain't no pizza pie, people die when bullets fly ♪ >> and i said wait a minute. i thought, well, this is it. this is going to be great. this is going to be as innovative as anything i have ever done. ♪ he ...