I'm talking about Miami Vice.
Suddenly 9mm's and short shotguns were cool in a big way. Bigger and cooler than any guns in TV or movie history. Tom Selleck in Magnum P.I. never wrapped his 1911 .45 in cool like Tubbs and Crocket did for their guns. Others tried: Starsky and Hutch, Clint Eastwood in Dirty Harry, Charles Bronson in Death Wish and Elizabeth Kaitan in Assault of the Killer Bimbos. They never made the gun into another character on screen like Miami Vice did.
The S&W 539 I bought as my first was a limited edition. It still holds up, after all these years. It still shoots like a dream even after thousands of rounds.
--My pastel green suit, not so much.
You're probably right. The irony of it is that "Crockett" carried a Bren Ten in the first season and a 645/4506 thereafter, and "Tubbs" carried a J-frame Bodyguard, either a Model 38 or a Model 49 (the stainless versions didn't exist yet). The supporting characters carried 9mms, most notably a Browning Hi-Power.
ReplyDeleteI also remember seeing a bullpup Mossberg shotgun.
Damn, I'm old.
That's a nice little pistol! :-)
ReplyDeleteI think you got lucky with yours. I seem to recall we had them in my agency and they kept falling apart.
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