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List Price: $59.98 | | Label: National Broadcasting Company (NBC)
Salesrank: 6963
Released: February 8, 2005 |
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Media: DVD |
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Editorial Review:
The cops. The cars. The clothes. From executive producer Michael Mann (Heat, Collateral) comes the first season of the explosive, groundbreaking detective show that redefined the word "cool." Set against the seamy and steamy Miami underworld, ride shotgun with suave Vice cops Sonny Crockett (Golden Globe winner Don Johnson) and Rico Tubbs (Phillip Michael Thomas) as they battle a never-ending gallery of criminals, drug dealers and lowlifes. Set to Jan Hammer's electrifying score and featuring a soundtrack of rock legends exploding in 5.1 sound, including Glenn Frey, Phil Collins, U2 and Peter Gabriel, every episode crackles with excitement and stylish flair. Also starring Emmy(r) and Golden Globe winner Edward James Olmos and a powerhouse roster of guest stars including Ving Rhames, Jimmy Smits and Bruce WIllis. See why Time magazine called Miami Vice "TV's hottest and hippest cop show." Includes all 22 first season episodes.
Description of Miami Vice - Season One:
To hear the opening beats of Jan Hammer's percussive, propulsive Miami Vice theme is to be instantly transported back to 1984. But this groundbreaking series, with its cinematic sensibility, cool clothes, and killer soundtrack is no mere blast from the past. It still rocks. This three-disc set would be worthless if it didn't. Music was an integral part of Miami Vice's hip vibe. The soundtrack propelled the stories and established the mood like no series before it. So the first thing you want to know is: Have the music rights been secured for this DVD release? In the pilot episode, does Phil Collins's "In the Air Tonight" still play ominously as vice undercover cops Crockett and Tubbs speed toward a bust? Does Eric Clapton's "Wonderful Tonight" serenade Sonny and Gina on his boat in the episode "One-Eyed Jack?" And what would the benchmark episode, "Smuggler's Blues" be without Glenn Frey's instant classic? From the Rolling Stones on a boombox to Elvis Presley singing "Rubberneckin'" on a TV, Vice's cutting-edge soundtrack has been preserved and honed in 5.1 surround sound glory.
Miami Vice made stars out of Don Johnson, Philip Michael Thomas, and Edward James Olmos, who won an Emmy as the intense, taciturn Lt. Castillo (watching him bust some martial arts moves in "Golden Triangle" is like Yoda cutting lose in Attack of the Clones), but the first season also offers time-capsule glimpses of actors on the cusp of stardom, including a pre-L.A. Law Jimmy Smits in the pilot, a pre-Crime Story Dennis Farina in "One-Eyed Jack," and a pre-Moonlighting Bruce Willis in "No Exit." Miami Vice put a neon sheen on cop-show convention. Its fashion sense (pastel suits, no belt, no socks), and the brilliantly employed freeze frames are still arresting. Miami Vice was a TV watershed, and this DVD set does it full justice. --Donald Liebenson
Miami Vice - Season One Reviews:
All Flash and no Substance 
2009-11-25 - Enuff said! I didn't want to give this show any stars, but they wouldn't let me!!!! It's silly and childish and the two leads were not very good actors. All I ask is what was the fuss about? I answer: NOTHING!
Not Nostaligia for me, just a great show 
2009-09-18 - It's interesting that a majority of the reviews for this show are based on people who grew up with it, or have a fondness for seeing it when it originally aired. I don't have that as the show aired when I was too young to watch. But given the things I've heard, I gave it a try. I'm glad I did. This show stands the test of time better than most shows. The action is top notch, and I can't help but love the characters. The soundtrack is pretty awesome too. Now don't get me wrong, there is some serious 80s cheese on the show. I don't blame the show, as I'd guess this show defined the stereotypes of the 80s rather than followed them. But this show has plenty of episodes that transcend time. For instance, I think Evan is a suprisingly good episode, tackling subjects such as homosexuality as well as redemption. Lombard is also a great episode, where a symphathetic mobster has to decide whether to testify against his mob friends, or betray his code. These episodes aren't just good for the 80s, but just good television. I think their a misconception that Miami Vice is a great 80s show, but their wrong, its just a great show. I loved it, and am looking forward to watching the next season.
A Miami Vice essential
2009-08-02 - Vice Season One, of course, started it all. A wonderful dimension to Season One is the pleasure of watching those episodes filmed when the spectacular success of program was being realized and experienced in real time by the cast. The terrific acting that Crockett and Tubbs bring to Vice takes on an added measure of easygoing and very shining confidence. So too do the parties that are incorporated in those episodes. There is an energy to them that is very special, hinting of newly discovered greatness in the air. Vice Season One is the inauguration of an extraordinary storyline that, from my view now into Season Three, brings excellent elements along the way, much like fine yet varied selections of choice wine.
The season that made Don Johnson a star & a sex symbol 
2008-12-29 - This 1984-85 Season of Miami Vice is the season that started it all and the season that made Don Johnson(Crockett) a superstar and a sex symbol when Miami Vice made its debut on NBC in September of 1984, which reminds me that it just so happens that Don Johnson had also auditioned for the role of Michael Knight on KNIGHT RIDER in 1982, but Don Johnson obviously didn't get the part, since it was given to David Hasselhoff.
Fortunately, when Don Johnson got hired for the role of Sonny Crockett on MIAMI VICE and this show became an instant hit in the Fall of 1984, Don Johnson became like the new sex symbol of the 1980's and joined Tom Selleck, David Hasselhoff, and Pierce Brosnan as part of the sexiest actors of the mid 80's.
Miami Vice's 1st Season also takes me all the way back to memory lane when NBC's motto was "Let's All Be There" and when MIAMI VICE was on NBC every Friday night at 10PM after HUNTER at 9PM.
In addition to what's so awesome about this Miami Vice DVD; it doesn't have any of the episodes with all those deleted scenes and added commercials in between like they were on USA, FX, TNN, and TV Land; they were all shown complete and uncut just like they were shown on their original air dates on NBC with the exception of no commercials of course.
As a matter of fact, I like the way Universal had shown a brief summary of each episode with their original air dates on this MIAMI VICE-SEASON 1 DVD, just like Universal did with KNIGHT RIDER-SEASONs 1,2,3; MAGNUM, P.I.-SEASONS 1,2,3; THE A-TEAM-SEASONS 1,2,3; AIRWOLF-SEASON 1 DVD, but for some reason Universal had decided to stop showing a brief summary of each episode with their original air-dates all of the sudden in the Spring of 2006, just like they did with MIAMI VICE-SEASON 4, KNIGHT RIDER-SEASON 4, MAGNUM-SEASON 4, and THE A-TEAM-SEASON 4.
The only problem I have with this DVD box set is each disc seems to have a problem with freezing up and skipping which is perhaps what has prompted Universal to make and release the MIAMI VICE-The Complete Series DVD box set recently in order to make up or compensate all the flaws and discrepancies that Universal had with the first few DVD season box sets of MIAMI VICE despite the fact that Universal has decided to make a complete series DVD box set of MIAMI VICE in todays faltering economy.
Good quality
2008-12-16 - The item was in very good condition and I was very pleased with the way it came promptly.
