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"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 screen play for "miami vice." it was not that. very much the approach was, okay, they call this a television series. but we're going to...

Rated-rr rated-r. >> in 1990, '91 there was not a lot of original programming for cable, but they are airing movies. so, we needed to compete. i felt if we didn't, we were going to kind of get swept out. so, i came up with the notion of doing a cop show that was r rated. when abc's broadcast standards read our script, they went berserk. ♪ >> i was sitting with a pad and a pencil drawing pictures of breasts to try to show them what we would show, what we wouldn't show. grown ups in a room, doodling. >> then we started on the language. >> we heard some reporter called the low life -- >> the pr...

♪ >> at the time, steven bochco was a very successful producer of our dramas, and wanted to try something brand new. >> this is a police, we have a warn for your arrest. >> and so, his idea was to combine a grid di cop show with a broadway musical. >> i saw one in which a bunch of gang bangers were in jail and they began to sing. ♪ live in the hood ain't no piece of pie ♪ ♪ everybody die when the bullets fl fly. and i said wait a minute. i thought, this is it. this is going to be great.

>> mtv had a giant impact. visually and musically on every part of the tv culture that came next. >> freeze, miami vice. ♪ >> friday nights on nbc are different this season thanks to "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, 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, 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...

It's a show with an old theme but a lot of new twists. described by one critic as containing flashes of brilliant 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, not exactly up my alley style and persona-wise. heaven knows i'm no box of candy. >> television very much was the small screen. what was interesting about tony jurkovic's pilot screenplay for "miami vice" was it was very much not that. very much the approach was, okay, they call this a television series but we're going t...