It's time to toss that Versace suit over a pastel t-shirt, put espadrilles on your feet (no socks of course) and hop in the white Ferrari as the 40th anniversary of the premiere of "Miami Vice" is being celebrated this month.

The hit TV show premiered on Sept. 16, 1984 with the episode "Brother's Keeper," which later won two Emmys and started a legacy still felt to this day. Getty Images

Audiences were introduced to James "Sonny" Crockett, played by Don Johnson, and Ricardo "Rico" Tubbs, played by Philip Michael Thomas, a pair of gritty Metro-Dade Police Department detectives working undercover in Miami in sports cars, cigarette boats and designer threads to take down drug dealers, pimps and anyone else who got in their way.

The show not only changed television, it played a major role

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