This brings back such great memories. My husband and I were newlyweds and we used to watch this every Friday night in our little apartment. 30 years later, we're still together in our house with our kids, but nothing beats that time in my life....aahh the memories.
I used to sneak trough the window of my girlfriends pal's window (she stayed on the bottom flat) when she stayed over and all I did was watch Miami vice, we are married now with two kids.
I loved your story about Friday nights...I was in my late teens and have my own Friday night memories, but we are all connected thru Vice...getting older, yes, but the fire still burns in us!
It wasn't the end of a show at all. It was farewell to the best decade a person could want to live thru. A farewell to a way of life that was just simply better. I'm in my mid 50s now...and looking back from 2024 to 1984, it takes my breath away at what was and what currently is. It's hard not to sound cynical or pessimistic about it. I will do my best to smile and be thankful I LIVED it.
I used to love watching Miami Vice,it was so original and cool. This beautiful music makes me feel like I'm falling into Eternity........into the arms of God.
Miss the 80s so much Miami Vice best show ever. Sad to see it end. Was very difficult to watch the ending. Very emotional Thank you for the wonderful memories
Even though I was not old enough to watch Miami Vice back in the day, my father did and he really enjoyed it. In fact he once let me watch part of two different episodes(I later saw many episodes on TV and even owned two episodes on VHS.) and later in life it quickly became one of my favorite television programs of all time. I own all five seasons now on DVD, along with many of the CD's covering music featured on the show. The ending scene of Freefall still makes me a little sad, since Crockett and Tubbs are going their separate ways after five years as partners on the police force.
Heyitzj0sh Very true, just look at the Pilot Episode "Brother's Keeper" and many of the first season episodes, and the turning points in season three and four. Heck I have mad respect for Crockett being a Vietnam War veteran with PTSD, and going into an equally stressful job as a Police Officer.
Stephen Leather Added to the fact that he's went through a divorce, lost Caitlin and his would-be child, saw countless wrongful deaths, yeah. I thought the last episode provided closure in the sense that Crockett and Tubbs really needed to get away from it all and start a new life... although I really wanted to see Baker go down, that would've be gratifying.
Exactly! in my imagination Crockett moved to a new town and started a fishing/ Scuba Diving/ Snorkeling charter service and eventually got together with Gina. Also he became closer with his son Billy and had a kid or two with Gina. Tubbs became a social worker and helped out a lot of inner city kids in The Bronx. Plus he was able to locate Ricardo Tubbs Jr.,his son from his tryst with Angelina. Stan Switek became a P.I. and got help for his gambling addiction. Trudy moved on to another career as well. Lt. Castillo as Edward James Olmos said in one interview a few years ago was tragically killed In The Line Of Duty by Dirty Cops ,or became a teacher at the Police Academy(I like happy endings can you tell?).
I know that climax scene when Crockett and Tubbs call it quits needed Baker but would have been nice had he been on the plane with Borbon. Nothing wrong with a 2fer.
I know there are numerous issues at play but in the recent Miami Vice movie, which I've yet to be able to watch, it would have been cool had Don Johnson and Philip Michael Thomas done cameos not as cops or players but as a couple of normal local guys, maybe running some kind of charter fishing or bar of some sort. Had the film not used the Crockett and Tubbs characters, the cameos could have been Crockett as the beach bum, Charter boat fisherman and Tubbs as bar and restaurant owner and they both remain close and good friends. That would have been a nice closure for fans of the one and only Miami Vice. Maybe Gina is married to Crockett and old Stan is hustling real estate or some such. Regardless of anything else, that show not only had a huge impact on TV and how TV shows are made but also an impact on the TV viewing audience of the 1980's. Looking back at the Sonny Crockett becomes Sonny Burnett arc, the handwriting was on the wall that the end was coming because Crockett and Tubbs were becoming burned out. They saw corruption over the years with hints of bigger such as the scene with Julian Beck in Prodigal Son Part 2. When they learned from Borbon's girlfriend that the real source of drugs was someone VERY high up in our own gov't, that Baker, Borbon, everyone was in on the whole racket and even the Chief of Miami Police was on the take, they knew then the whole gig was mere window dressing or as Sonny rightly said in that climatic scene in Freefall Part 2, Baker: "Borbon was going to give us names." Crockett: "But not THE NAME, right Baker? This whole damn mess was a setup from the get!" Baker: "What a couple of lightweights. What, do you think this is cops and robbers?" Crockett and Tubb both knew the score now and that the whole damn system was corrupt to the core. The irony that a few years after Miami Vice ended, a San Jose Mercury reporter in real life named Gary Webb blew the damn lid off the whole cocaine thing showing it was the CIA using the money for black ops, specifically in Central America. Google "Gary Webb Dark Alliance" Miami Vice was well ahead of the curve whether they understood that or not. I suspect they did.
Your write up is beautiful as is the music for this video. Don Johnson and PMT were born to play Crockett and Tubbs. They made TV history together and they should have been in the Miami Vice movie. I think Sonny Crockett should become Chief of Police in Miami and Rico Tubbs the Vice Lieutenant. Rico's son reappears and along with Sonny's son, Billy, they become Vice cops in Miami Vice The Next Generation ♥️
I was going back and listening to some old things. After Glen Frey's death it seems that so much of what could be good in audio and video has already happened. I ran across this link and hit it. Do any of you remember when it was so good, Hammer was gone, Truman was there and some of us wanted to hang on to that end of the 80's?
zr1blackedition that’s when the show started getting dark for me. Season 1-2 was all sunshine and light humor and then boom, they kill off a main character
I lived in Miami during the same time the series ran ......on Key Biscayne ...... that final episode scene, I watched at the airport, As I boarded a Plane for south america ...... " Somewhere there the weathers warm and the drinks are cold" .... thanks again for posting ...... Miami was never the same again as It was in the 80"s
Don was nominated for the first season as best actor I believe that was stolen because everybody said that he was going to be the winner of that night...I just remember the look on his face...he seemed to be extremely disappointed, plus it was a show that older people didn't understand and they were older voters..Philip was never nominated even though I think he should have been, Don won two Golden Globes though for his performance in the show. I think Philip did too..
We all miss it, the style, the colors, the cars, the music and the hippest show ever to be aired.....MV set the standards, if we want simpler things like the 80s, it’s time to reinvent it......
I really 😢 at this finale of miami vice didn't want it to go not it a classic show more about real friend ship and trying to stop drugs corruption and dealing with the the ups and downs of law in order this show that came for the eighties will be the best cop show ever next to Hill Street Blues well it's me I grew up in the eighties and I watch Miami Vice and it's still my best show part of pop culture in the 80s my opinion
Tim Truman's work for the 5th and final season is underrated. Surely you can't beat Jan Hammer but he made him a decent amount of justice. I bet it wouldn't sound so differently if Jan also produces the soundtracks for the ending season.😊
6 years old.. I'm not sure if it's six-year-old can still watch that today was pretty bold and had a lot of adult stuff in it I don't know if you can actually edit that maybe fast forward through it...
Truman wasn't Jan Hammer of course although this track I must say is a special one to me. Why isn't the complete scene (running) available anymore on UA-cam?
Miami was the Casablanca of the 80's. There was no crazier place to be a cop and get to be an extra on Miami Vice. It truly was a very special time and place, and unfortunately; extremely dangerous in real life.
After 5 great seasons of being absolutely on point with wardrobe, somehow MV made Crockett wear a logo t-shirt underneath the iconic jacket in the final scene of the series. WHY? Nothing against Kansas, but every other shirt Crockett wore in the series was solid, plain, and fashion perfect. Not even the bad guys wore ugly novelty T's!
damn the memories. the main thing this show brought was emotion. mainly because of the music and also short lived era of Miami that had fast start and also fast end. Miami Vice started when the whole era was at the beginning and made it's prime stronger, but around 5th season the whole era of Miami got dated, a lot of other good shows appeared, Miami Vice was not phenom anymore. and the most fascinating thing is that mostly stories of season 4 and 5 were terrible, it was really bad writing and just hard to watch, but it still had emotional moments and they were very strong.
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"we had a hell of a run didn't we partner", the end of a legendary series
Yes they did..glad we got to see it....
@@sandrasanders706 A true ending between two friends.
Still makes me cry...goodbye 80's and Two of TVs best cops.....EVER!!
WHY DO WE HAVE TO GET OLD? THOSE WERE THE DAYS.
"some place where the water is warm and the drinks are cold". Damn. Memories.
The water isn't warm in Miami?
Tim Suetens yeah, but in Miami he knows the names of the players
Watching this puts a tear in my eye. The 80s were the best Great Memories
This brings back such great memories. My husband and I were newlyweds and we used to watch this every Friday night in our little apartment. 30 years later, we're still together in our house with our kids, but nothing beats that time in my life....aahh the memories.
I used to sneak trough the window of my girlfriends pal's window (she stayed on the bottom flat) when she stayed over and all I did was watch Miami vice, we are married now with two kids.
good, all of us are getting old. not out, moving on.
I loved your story about Friday nights...I was in my late teens and have my own Friday night memories, but we are all connected thru Vice...getting older, yes, but the fire still burns in us!
MIAMI VICE IS ONE OF THE GREATEST AND MOST INFLUENTIAL TV SHOWS EVER!
To say the least,
😢 Best damn show ever produced! Definitely ahead of its time.
It wasn't the end of a show at all. It was farewell to the best decade a person could want to live thru. A farewell to a way of life that was just simply better. I'm in my mid 50s now...and looking back from 2024 to 1984, it takes my breath away at what was and what currently is. It's hard not to sound cynical or pessimistic about it. I will do my best to smile and be thankful I LIVED it.
"We had one hell of a run...didn't we partner?"
I come back here, to this video, every few years just to.........remember.
One of the best tv shows ever that never gets old, both Jan and Tim are one of the best musicians ever
such beautiful music in that show among many other things but will never forget the music
The end of vice. i had a tear in my eye while watching this scene.
So did I. Miss this show and the glorious 80s
simplemente gracias , que vivan los años 80 , que bonito que era todo por Dios . gracias eternas .
Por lo menos tuvimos la dicha de haber vivido los 80's no nolas contaron.
They don't make shows like this anymore.
I used to love watching Miami Vice,it was so original and cool.
This beautiful music makes me feel like I'm falling into Eternity........into the arms of God.
great comment
A little dramatic, maybe...
I have the box set
John..i love your comment..tim Truman's best....
I was sad when Miami Vice ended, I enjoyed this show with the older crowd
I remember this peace being used a few times in the last season. Probably what I remember the most of Truman's. Beautiful!!
Forever Miami Vice..hail Ja Hammer and Tim Truman . I love this!!
Just a great haunting melody ! Listen to it most nights,music is food for the soul well mine anyway
Sad way for Miami Vice series to end with the final farewell of Crockett and Tubbs. 😢
Beautiful, beautiful song!
Miss the 80s so much Miami Vice best show ever. Sad to see it end. Was very difficult to watch the ending. Very emotional
Thank you for the wonderful memories
It was a awesome TV show in the 80s
I cried at the end loved the show still do
Tears everyone.
Great time to grow up in.
I'm gonna miss you man.
21 May 1989... the end of an era.
Gonna miss u man.watched this in my teens.ending bought tears to my eyes.never beat Miami vice everything was cool
God I loved Miami Vice
Even though I was not old enough to watch Miami Vice back in the day, my father did and he really enjoyed it. In fact he once let me watch part of two different episodes(I later saw many episodes on TV and even owned two episodes on VHS.) and later in life it quickly became one of my favorite television programs of all time. I own all five seasons now on DVD, along with many of the CD's covering music featured on the show.
The ending scene of Freefall still makes me a little sad, since Crockett and Tubbs are going their separate ways after five years as partners on the police force.
Anyone would do the same. With that much corruption, no sense of moral conduct or justice, you get burned out.
Heyitzj0sh Very true, just look at the Pilot Episode "Brother's Keeper" and many of the first season episodes, and the turning points in season three and four. Heck I have mad respect for Crockett being a Vietnam War veteran with PTSD, and going into an equally stressful job as a Police Officer.
Stephen Leather Added to the fact that he's went through a divorce, lost Caitlin and his would-be child, saw countless wrongful deaths, yeah. I thought the last episode provided closure in the sense that Crockett and Tubbs really needed to get away from it all and start a new life... although I really wanted to see Baker go down, that would've be gratifying.
Exactly! in my imagination Crockett moved to a new town and started a fishing/ Scuba Diving/ Snorkeling charter service and eventually got together with Gina. Also he became closer with his son Billy and had a kid or two with Gina. Tubbs became a social worker and helped out a lot of inner city kids in The Bronx. Plus he was able to locate Ricardo Tubbs Jr.,his son from his tryst with Angelina. Stan Switek became a P.I. and got help for his gambling addiction. Trudy moved on to another career as well. Lt. Castillo as Edward James Olmos said in one interview a few years ago was tragically killed In The Line Of Duty by Dirty Cops ,or became a teacher at the Police Academy(I like happy endings can you tell?).
I know that climax scene when Crockett and Tubbs call it quits needed Baker but would have been nice had he been on the plane with Borbon. Nothing wrong with a 2fer.
Yeah this song made me want to hang on to the 80s
I always thought Hammer's stuff fit the show better but this is one incredible piece of music.
There was an old saying when Miami vice ended the 80s ended how true
The day the 80's died😢😢😢
Very well put together, video. Thank you.
Boa tarde!
Foi a melhor série de todos os tempos,infelizmente tudo que é bom dura pouco
I know there are numerous issues at play but in the recent Miami Vice movie, which I've yet to be able to watch, it would have been cool had Don Johnson and Philip Michael Thomas done cameos not as cops or players but as a couple of normal local guys, maybe running some kind of charter fishing or bar of some sort. Had the film not used the Crockett and Tubbs characters, the cameos could have been Crockett as the beach bum, Charter boat fisherman and Tubbs as bar and restaurant owner and they both remain close and good friends. That would have been a nice closure for fans of the one and only Miami Vice. Maybe Gina is married to Crockett and old Stan is hustling real estate or some such.
Regardless of anything else, that show not only had a huge impact on TV and how TV shows are made but also an impact on the TV viewing audience of the 1980's. Looking back at the Sonny Crockett becomes Sonny Burnett arc, the handwriting was on the wall that the end was coming because Crockett and Tubbs were becoming burned out. They saw corruption over the years with hints of bigger such as the scene with Julian Beck in Prodigal Son Part 2.
When they learned from Borbon's girlfriend that the real source of drugs was someone VERY high up in our own gov't, that Baker, Borbon, everyone was in on the whole racket and even the Chief of Miami Police was on the take, they knew then the whole gig was mere window dressing or as Sonny rightly said in that climatic scene in Freefall Part 2,
Baker: "Borbon was going to give us names."
Crockett: "But not THE NAME, right Baker? This whole damn mess was a setup from the get!"
Baker: "What a couple of lightweights. What, do you think this is cops and robbers?"
Crockett and Tubb both knew the score now and that the whole damn system was corrupt to the core. The irony that a few years after Miami Vice ended, a San Jose Mercury reporter in real life named Gary Webb blew the damn lid off the whole cocaine thing showing it was the CIA using the money for black ops, specifically in Central America. Google "Gary Webb Dark Alliance"
Miami Vice was well ahead of the curve whether they understood that or not. I suspect they did.
Your write up is beautiful as is the music for this video. Don Johnson and PMT were born to play Crockett and Tubbs. They made TV history together and they should have been in the Miami Vice movie. I think Sonny Crockett should become Chief of Police in Miami and Rico Tubbs the Vice Lieutenant. Rico's son reappears and along with Sonny's son, Billy, they become Vice cops in Miami Vice The Next Generation ♥️
para los que vimos esta serie trasmite mucha carga emotiva esta excelente !!!
Would love to hear more of Tim Truman's work. He did a terrific job with Season 5.
GRAT TIMES, GREAT SHOW
very emotional the end of an era miss it
I was going back and listening to some old things. After Glen Frey's death it seems that so much of what could be good in audio and video has already happened. I ran across this link and hit it. Do any of you remember when it was so good, Hammer was gone, Truman was there and some of us wanted to hang on to that end of the 80's?
bob larrance I remember
I was so shocked whan Zito was killed, so damn shocked for atleast three days after that episode.
zr1blackedition that’s when the show started getting dark for me. Season 1-2 was all sunshine and light humor and then boom, they kill off a main character
I know, right..?
Thank You for posting this…you don’t know what i means for me .
+Carlos Ziegenhirt Mendez Don't know if I do - just know I was gutted when it ended.
I lived in Miami during the same time the series ran ......on Key Biscayne ...... that final episode scene, I watched at the airport, As I boarded a Plane for south america ...... " Somewhere there the weathers warm and the drinks are cold" .... thanks again for posting ...... Miami was never the same again as It was in the 80"s
Miss this show
UA-cam is the greatest ever!! Love this sh!t!!!!
OMG MY EMOTIONS 💔
im gonna miss u man
Both deserve Emmy's
Don was nominated for the first season as best actor I believe that was stolen because everybody said that he was going to be the winner of that night...I just remember the look on his face...he seemed to be extremely disappointed, plus it was a show that older people didn't understand and they were older voters..Philip was never nominated even though I think he should have been, Don won two Golden Globes though for his performance in the show. I think Philip did too..
tell me tubbs' have you considered a career in southern law enforcement
YEAH, maybe....lol
We all miss it, the style, the colors, the cars, the music and the hippest show ever to be aired.....MV set the standards, if we want simpler things like the 80s, it’s time to reinvent it......
La mia serie televisiva preferita (y)
Life is all about time and experience and the journey
Spent last year watching this great show from the top, man its sickening when it all end's.
We need a 4k restoration.
Looking through your videos is like x-mas for me. Great work, I really mean it.
My pleasure and thank you for listening!
grande serie oltre che grandi loro be che dire miticiiiiiii
imprecionante los 80 Dios
I really 😢 at this finale of miami vice didn't want it to go not it a classic show more about real friend ship and trying to stop drugs corruption and dealing with the the ups and downs of law in order this show that came for the eighties will be the best cop show ever next to Hill Street Blues well it's me I grew up in the eighties and I watch Miami Vice and it's still my best show part of pop culture in the 80s my opinion
Tim Truman's work for the 5th and final season is underrated. Surely you can't beat Jan Hammer but he made him a decent amount of justice. I bet it wouldn't sound so differently if Jan also produces the soundtracks for the ending season.😊
All Tim's writing on season 5 were classic
I'm gonna miss you man
Amazing!!
👏👍 Bella musica
From 1984 to 1989 what are the years that were most memorable and I will talk about it because I love it
I miss the St. Vitus Dance.
my 6 yr old son now has the box ste of miami vice and just loves it. my wife say what have I gotten him into
6 years old.. I'm not sure if it's six-year-old can still watch that today was pretty bold and had a lot of adult stuff in it I don't know if you can actually edit that maybe fast forward through it...
This still it's a great song theme. Very dramatic, but at the end, appears a touch of hope.
Truman wasn't Jan Hammer of course although this track I must say is a special one to me. Why isn't the complete scene (running) available anymore on UA-cam?
"What are you doing here? I thought you'd be halfway to New York by now." Crockett asking Tubbs before he headed back to the Bronx
i hated that last day Miami Vice went off the air for good. Yet I purchased all the season box set episodes.
Miami was the Casablanca of the 80's.
There was no crazier place to be a cop and get to be an extra on Miami Vice.
It truly was a very special time and place, and unfortunately; extremely dangerous in real life.
naples forever miami vice
Naples fl? Right this song fits it well here
SOMEWHERE THE WATER IS WARM AND THE DRINKS ARE COLD, I'm on the way, Cuda 5150
This reminds me alot of "To Heal" by Underworld
the black brother with style say good bye too miami
After 5 great seasons of being absolutely on point with wardrobe, somehow MV made Crockett wear a logo t-shirt underneath the iconic jacket in the final scene of the series.
WHY? Nothing against Kansas, but every other shirt Crockett wore in the series was solid, plain, and fashion perfect. Not even the bad guys wore ugly novelty T's!
haha true, I guess maybe they were trying to show that he was leaving that life behind... the "real" Crockett maybe?
♥
Last Days I work law enforcement I’ve never seen it this bad it says in the Bible that in the last days lawlessness will be everywhere
80ies baby
Thank you Crockett for the reply Man Crockett and Tubbs Legends To the finish
Don Johnson and Philip M Thomas good in Miami vice. I miss show on TV it was good. music too show the clothes too
that shake of hands.
damn the memories. the main thing this show brought was emotion. mainly because of the music and also short lived era of Miami that had fast start and also fast end. Miami Vice started when the whole era was at the beginning and made it's prime stronger, but around 5th season the whole era of Miami got dated, a lot of other good shows appeared, Miami Vice was not phenom anymore.
and the most fascinating thing is that mostly stories of season 4 and 5 were terrible, it was really bad writing and just hard to watch, but it still had emotional moments and they were very strong.
How do we get this back......MV set the bar very high, we need to find a way to recreate this era.......
somewhere further south where the drinks are colder water warmer and I don't know the names of the players
It was the only way.
would like a ride in my stolen car
tiz
I love that line...!
The 80's were cool...unlike this crap today. (Gee, and to think...there were no smart phones or the Internet, either).
Just this episode is broken on my DVDs :(
zo good joop van buerink
the two should have hugged. then CROCKETT hands the keys to the FERRARI to TUBBS and both men drive off into the MIAMI sunset....
triste fin
😭😭😭😭😭😭
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facebook.com/MIAMI-VICE-stylemusic-1277189315708028/ Enjoy the page :)
One of the best tv shows ever that never gets old, both Jan and Tim are one of the best musicians ever
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