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>> action. >> police. >> just describing the show as a new wave cop show. >> 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 feeling coming in the air ♪ >> it was only not afraid to let long scenes play out. it would ...

>> in 1991 there was not a lot of original programming for cable, but they were airing movies. so we needed to compete and i felt that if we didn't, we were going to kind of get swept out. so i came up with a notion of doing a cop show that was r rated. when abc's broadcast standards read our script, they went beserk. >> i was saying with a pad and a pencil drawing pictures of breasts to try to show them what we would show and what we wouldn't show. grown ups sitting in a room dodd bood doodling.

The following movie is rated r. >> in 1991 there was not a lot of original programming for cable, but they were airing movies. so we needed to compete and i felt that it we didn't, we were going to kind of get swept out. so i came up with a notion of doing a cop show that was r rated. when abc's broadcast standards read our script, they went beserk. >> i was saying with a pad and a pencil drawingicres of breasts to try to show them what we would show anden wouldn't show. grown ups sitting in a room dodd ling. >> we started in on the language. >> we heard it with the brains

>> 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 interesting about tony's pilot screen play for "miami vice." it was exactly not that. very much the approach was -- okay, they call this a television series, but we're going to make one-hour movies every single week. >> okay, here we go. stand by. >> action! >> police! >> just describing the show as a new wave cop show. >> yeah, it's a cop show for the '80s. we use a lot of mtv images and rock music to h...

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 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 make one-hour movies every single week. >> here we go. stand by. >> action. >> police. >> just describing the show as a new wave cop show. >> 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 d...