Miami Vice - "In the Air Tonight" by Phil Collins

Jul 26, 2025 3:17 AM

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Original air date September 16, 1984

Children... Phone booth – Small glass room with 40-pound phone, bolted to a post, no screen, required dimes to operate.

The Americans pays homage to it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jQ91TC2WJnU

8 months ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

I watched this as a kid but didn't understand it. Just thought the music and the cars were cool. I still do, but I did back then too.

8 months ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

oh my god you're gonna make me drum

8 months ago | Likes 6 Dislikes 0

Its such a random scene for such a monumental song.

8 months ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

My favorite lasagna cat episode

8 months ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

'84 required quarters.

8 months ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Aahhh those reflection off the bonnet... Man... Early version of Electroma before Daft Punk came along..

8 months ago | Likes 11 Dislikes 0

Good clip, but I like this one better: https://youtu.be/wFOEubKzyQA?si=007_9utC57nuElyf

8 months ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

Fun fact: this Ferrari Daytona was a reproduction. Fiberglass body on a Corvette chassis. When Ferrari realized they were using a reproduction for their show they were pissed. They made a deal they would provide real Ferraris (the white Ferrari Testarossa) on the condition that it would not be destroyed, never be depicted as breaking down, and the fake Daytona was destroyed on screen. That’s why they had a drug dealer blow it up with a rocket launcher.

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8 months ago | Likes 37 Dislikes 0

this should be so much higher

8 months ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 0

Epic

7 months ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

No edits cut to the drums? How?

8 months ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

god dammit those "mood establishing" shots...back when cinematographers were allowed to "waste" budget on filming them, and producers actually allowed "wasting" airtime to show them...nowadays you gotta go watch a tarantino movie to experience something like that, back then it was television...fuck, im getting old...

8 months ago | Likes 10 Dislikes 0

This aired at a time when music videos were nearly 100% of MTV’s programming. It was very smart for Miami Vice to tie into that coolness.

8 months ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 0

“Tubbs, you got your tactical neon green windbreaker? I got my tactical crème pleated business non-casual chinos, let’s roll!”

8 months ago | Likes 14 Dislikes 0

I was 8 years old when this first aired. Almost 41 years later, I'm still nowhere near as cool as this is.

8 months ago | Likes 27 Dislikes 0

That shot of the tire looking back at the car …. https://media4.giphy.com/media/v1.Y2lkPTY1YjkxZmJlNGFjMHVoNm14ajRzdTA1ajloMG81ZGdzZ2FiM2JkN3lxODRrd2NlbyZlcD12MV9naWZzX3NlYXJjaCZjdD1n/MPtLqPiT3whGGBaUBo/200w.mp4

8 months ago | Likes 51 Dislikes 1

Yeah, not every episode of this show was this good, but man, the cinematography of this one was outstanding. You gotta remember how revolutionary this was for TV too. Everything else at the time was basically a soap opera or a sit-com. Then Vice comes along and blows everyone's minds

8 months ago | Likes 13 Dislikes 0

It works because they took their time. It's really rare for anything high-budget to use time in that way these days, there's always some producer breathing down your neck afraid audiences will tune out over a few seconds of breathing room.

8 months ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 1

The ability to afix a FILM camera to a stable mount to get that shot. Go Pro on a stick is 2 lbs. this thing was probably 30 and rock solid.

8 months ago | Likes 8 Dislikes 1

That's a great point. Doing this today is no sweat. A GoPro, a suction mount and some gaff tape to make sure it doesn't fall off. Back then, the car had to be modified to hold the camera with special brackets attached to the vehicle.

8 months ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 1

I actually remember seeing this on TV. It was magical. And I am not that old, it aired in Finland in early 90s.. not 1984.. Everything had delay back then, so they could censor all the things they didn't like.

8 months ago | Likes 9 Dislikes 0

8 months ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

For the kids: coming out of phone booth to go into action is the equivalent to using a burner phone and then jump into action today

8 months ago | Likes 8 Dislikes 0

8 months ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

One of the best scenes ever shown on TV imo. Fun fact: it was not a real Ferrari Daytona Spyder but a replica based on a Corvette chassis.

8 months ago | Likes 14 Dislikes 0

Ferrari sued the replica company, got the producers to blow up the car on screen, and then gave them the iconic Testarossa replacement.

8 months ago | Likes 9 Dislikes 0

It wasn't a real Testarossa they usually used on screen though - it also was a fibreglass body on a cheaper car. Real Ferrari's cost too much to risk or run (and it wasn't really a good car at all). But I loved the scene it was introduced in; "Absolutely essential for any serious police work".

8 months ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 0

Probably closer to a quarter.

8 months ago | Likes 5 Dislikes 1

Yep… “dropping dimes” was a ‘70s thing. Local calls were a quarter from at least 1981 ‘til end of pay phones useful life.

8 months ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 0

The last dime phone I saw was in Boston around 1997. And it was shocking even then. I was born in the mid 70s and by the time I could even use a payphone most were quarters.

8 months ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Did you HAVE to pay in cash or could you also use your iphone?

8 months ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 0

8 months ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

GIFs that end too soon

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8 months ago | Likes 68 Dislikes 1

ICWYDT with Teller!

8 months ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

What a roster of actors

8 months ago | Likes 13 Dislikes 1

I seem to recall Glenn Frey doing a cameo in one as well.

8 months ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 0

The future of Hollywood born in Miami

8 months ago | Likes 13 Dislikes 0

And so many of them with so much more hair

8 months ago | Likes 7 Dislikes 0

Miami Vice had lots of other so very cool scenes and soundtracks, like S03E02 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Out_Where_the_Buses_Don%27t_Run
used Dire
Straits' Brothers in Arms to wonderful effect. https://youtu.be/qSARDlHh-Mg

8 months ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

This, and the music, are two of the many reasons why I consider Miami Vice as the best cop show.

8 months ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

I recently binged ER. Lots of future stars in that show also.

8 months ago | Likes 5 Dislikes 0

I think they could have done more with Phil Collins's character then just a lowly two-bit hustler. He could have been somebody that was equally smart and dedicated to just being a drug dealer that Sonny was dedicated to being a law officer

8 months ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

'Old up, Frank Zappa??

8 months ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

that casting department for those side-character-of-the-week roles did an insanely good job at spotting talent...a few years back i binged the whole show because i was too young to watch it in the 80s and only ever heard adults talk about it...had an absolute blast spotting all those now much older but also famour actors in those parts...also, just a damn good show...

8 months ago | Likes 12 Dislikes 0

In "Hancock's Half Hour", there is a TONNE of actors who at the time were no-names and also went on to become big hits. Leslie Nielsen is a main character in an episode and William Shatner stars and narrates one too.

8 months ago | Likes 5 Dislikes 0

I'd never noticed that they run a red light before...

8 months ago | Likes 10 Dislikes 0

Just blow through it! No lights, no sirens.

8 months ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

I think the assumption is that they have sirens on but we can't hear them because there's no sound but the music. The ambient sound comes back in when they are running under the plane.

8 months ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0