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On 2025-02-02 02:32:28 +0000, Jay said:

>> 
>> 35 years ago today, January 25, 1990,  the final original episode of
>> Miami Vice aired. The series ran for five seasons on NBC from 1984 to
>> January 25, 1990 The USA Network began airing reruns in 1988, and
>> broadcast an originally unaired episode during its syndication run of the
>> series on January 25, 1990.
>> 
>> Unlike standard police procedurals, the show drew heavily upon 1980s New
>> Wave culture and music. The show became noted for its integration of
>> music and visual effects. It is recognized as one of the most influential
>> television series of all time. People magazine stated that Miami Vice was
>> the "first show to look really new and different since color TV was
>> invented". Michael Mann directed a film adaptation of the series, which
>> was released on July 28, 2006.
>> 
>> The head of NBC's Entertainment Division, Brandon Tartikoff, wrote a
>> brainstorming memo that simply read "MTV cops", and later presented
>> it to series creator Anthony Yerkovich, formerly a writer and producer
>> for Hill Street Blues. Yerkovich, however, indicates that he devised the
>> concept after learning about asset forfeiture statutes that allowed law
>> enforcement agencies to confiscate the property of convicted drug dealers
>> for official use. The initial idea was for a movie about a pair of vice
>> cops in Miami. Yerkovich then turned out a script for a two-hour pilot,
>> titled Gold Coast, but later renamed Miami Vice. Yerkovich was
>> immediately drawn to South Florida as a setting for his new-style police
>> show. Miami Vice was one of the first American network television
>> programs to be broadcast in stereophonic sound. It was mixed in stereo
>> for its entire run, but not actually broadcast in stereo until 1985.
>> 
>> 
>> View the attachments for this post at:
>> http://www.jlaforums.com/viewtopic.php?p=682979971#682979971
> 
> Someone I know wrote a letter to the producers and the network complaining
> about the use of the Ferrari Testarossa, maintaing that it was substandard
> compared to previous models.   Kind of argumentable considering how the
> Daytona Spyder it replaced was a fucking KIT CAR!   I know someone who owned
> a Ferrari Testarossa circa 1989 and said he got pulled over all the time by
> curious cops just wanting to have a closer look.
> 
> The original Ferrari

The Testarossa was a big fat, rather ugly Ferrari, probably made for 
the American market (much like the cheaper, but equally fat and ugly, 
Nissan 300ZX).

The Ferrari 308 GTS, as driven in Magnum PI, was easily a far far 
better looking Ferrari.