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In the television series, Miami Vice, firearms took a key role. Episodes such as "Evan" [2] revolved around them, while the characters themselves also used several firearms during the series. Sonny Crockett (played by Don Johnson) was to have used a SIG Sauer P220, [1][3] but this was replaced by the then more modern Bren Ten. [1]
Miami Vice is the iconic 80's television crime drama that starred Don Johnson and Philip Michael Thomas as detectives in the Miami-Dade Police Department who work undercover to root out the criminal elements working throughout the city. The series broke new ground in television for its visual style as well as its innovative use of popular music ...
The following weapons were used in Season 1 of the television series Miami Vice: Contents. 1 Pistols. 1.1 SIG-Sauer P220. 1.2 Detonics Pocket 9. 1.3 Dornaus & Dixon Bren Ten. 1.4 Detonics Combatmaster. 1.5 Browning Hi-Power. 1.6 Beretta Cheetah. 1.7 Colt Challenger. 1.8 Colt M1911A1. 1.9 Colt Commander. 1.10 Heckler & Koch P9S.
Directed by Michael Mann (the co-creator and executive producer of the original series), the film stars Jamie Foxx as Ricardo Tubbs and Colin Farrell as Sonny Crockett, two Miami-Dade undercover detectives who find themselves working with the FBI on a case involving drug trafficking between white supremacists and the Colombian cartel.
Michael Mann produced Miami Vice, and Mann has long had an affinity for firearms — aiming to show realistic firearm use in his films and television shows. In Miami Vice , we saw the main characters utilize a variety of modern weapons, especially the lead character Sonny Crockett.
Crockett liked high-end, large-bore firearms. Tubbs like shotguns, and everything’s high-tech. Miami Vice in the 1980s is a little cheesy these days, but honestly, it’s still a fun show. You’ll see lots of Weaver stances and chicken wings, but these were a symptom of the era.
The series stars Don Johnson as James "Sonny" Crockett and Philip Michael Thomas as Ricardo "Rico" Tubbs, two Metro-Dade Police Department detectives working undercover in Miami. The series ran for five seasons on NBC from September 16, 1984 to June 28, 1989.
In the television series, Miami Vice, firearms took a key role. Episodes such as "Evan" revolved around them, while the characters themselves also used several firearms during the series. Sonny Crockett (played by Don Johnson) was to have used a SIG Sauer P220, but this was replaced by the then more modern Bren Ten.
In the beginning of the episode "Calderon's Return, Part 1", a hired assassin, supposedly one of the best in the world, is seen putting on surgical gloves to keep his fingerprints off the gun he is about to use. However, before he puts on the gloves, he moves the gun off of them by touching the gun butt with his fingertips.
Posted May 24, 2014 (edited) Not sure this was posted but here's a site that lists and shows pics of the guns used in the show.It is separated by each seasons and lots of pics and guns! Enjoy! http://www.imfdb.org/wiki/Miami_Vice_-_Season_1. http://www.imfdb.org/wiki/Miami_Vice_-_Season_2.