Cover of "The Best of the 80s: Miami Vice" DVD
The Best of the 80s: Miami Vice was a DVD released by Universal Home Video in 2011 as part of a series on classic 1980s TV shows.
Background
Universal Home Video released several DVDs in the "Best of the 80s" series to allow consumers to purchase a small sample of some of the classic TV shows of the 1980s for a reduced price vs. having to pay a larger amount for entire seasons. Other shows besides Vice included in this series were Magnum P.I., The A-Team, and Knight Rider.
This DVD can usually be found in stores and on online retail sites such as Amazon or eBay, usually in the $6-$15 range.
Episodes
Four episodes are from Season 1, with one each from the remaining four seasons.
The episodes on this release included:
- "Brother's Keeper"
- "Calderone's Return (Part I)"
- "Calderone's Return (Part II)"
- "Smuggler's Blues"
- "Out Where the Buses Don't Run"
- "Forgive Us Our Debts"
- "Mirror Image"†
- "Freefall"
†The release of "Mirror Image" but not "Hostile Takeover" or "Redemption In Blood" is strange, as "Mirror Image" is a cliffhanger episode portraying Crockett's transformation into Sonny Burnett. The omission of the concluding episodes would leave the casual viewer "hanging" as to what happened next. Similarly, "Mirror Image" directly references Caitlin Davies, whose marriage to Crockett and subsequent murder are not included in any of the released tapes; in fact, her character doesn't appear at all in any of the other episodes.
Music
The original music is intact in this release, just like on the Vice DVD Releases.