Crime Story
Crime Story is a American TV play, created by Gustave Reininger and Chuck Adamson, that premiered in 1986 and ran for two seasons on NBC. The producer was Michael Mann, who'd abandoned his additional string Miami Vice direct the film Manhunter and to oversee Crime Story. The series premiered with a pilot a movie which had been shown also was watched by over 30 million audiences. It proceeded to draw a record number of audiences, also was scheduled to check out Miami Vice on Friday nights. NBC then proceeded the series to Tuesdays at 10 pm opposite ABC's Moonlighting, damaging its evaluations that its cancellation was ordered by NBC after just two seasons.
Place in early, pre-Beatles 1960s, the series depicted two men -- Lt. Mike Torello and also mobster Ray Luca -- with an obsessive drive to destroy one another. As Luca started with street crime in Chicago, was"left" at the Chicago Outfit and then delivered to nevada to monitor their casinos, Torello chased Luca as thoughts of a unique Organized Crime Strike Force. Torellohis friend Ted Kehoe, also Luca had developed in Chicago's"The Patch" neighborhood, also referred to as"Little Sicily" or"Little Italy" and the haunt of the fortytwo Gang. The series attracted both controversy and acclaim for the format, where there was an ongoing narrative told over an whole season, as opposed to being episodic, as was normal with shows during the moment.
Released: 1986-09-19
Duration: 60
min
Country:
United States of America