Miami Herald columnist Howard Cohen, who was an extra in one episode back in 1985, said Vice was the beginning of it all. Many credit Miami Vice for making Miami cool. "It's funny now I look around and watch TV now and go ,'It's so much more exciting in the 80s's.' I would like to think Miami Vice was a big part of the fashion and hipness of the 80s," she said. Now, at age 57 and living in New York, she reflects on that special time. She worked with Crockett and Tubbs on the vice squad. These two members of the Metro-Dade Police vice squad quickly became known for driving fast cars, wearing flashy pastel suits, all while taking down criminals, pimps, cokeheads and mob bosses.Īnd who can forget that Crockett also lived on a sailboat guarded by his pet alligator named Elvis.Īctress Saundra Santiago was 27 years old when she was cast as Detective Gina Calabrese. After temporarily teaming up with Crockett in the show's pilot episode, he became Crockett's permanent partner. Philip Michael Thomas played Ricardo "Rico" Tubbs, a former New York police detective with a personal vendetta with drug lord Esteban Calderone, who had ordered the death of his brother Rafael, a New York City police detective.
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