Anthony Yerkovich
Writing
Biography
Anthony Yerkovich is an American television producer and writer. He is best known for creating the 1980s cop show Miami Vice. He served as the show's executive producer along with Michael Mann before, after only six episodes, handing over full executive responsibilities to Mann. His other television credits include Starsky & Hutch (1977-1978), 240-Robert (1979) and Hart to Hart (1981) as writer, Hill Street Blues (1981-1983) as writer and supervising producer, Private Eye (1987-1988) as creator and executive producer, and Big Apple (2001) as writer and executive producer. He also wrote the made-for-TV film Hollywood Confidential (1997) starring Edward James Olmos. He reunited with Mann to executive produce the Miami Vice film, released in 2006. Description above from the Wikipedia article Anthony Yerkovich, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Known For
The story of the Miami Police Department's vice squad and its efforts to end drug trafficking and prostitution, centered on the unlikely partnership of Sonny Crockett and Ricardo Tubbs - who first meet when Tubbs is undercover in a drug cartel.
Miami Vice
A realistic glimpse into the daily lives of the officers and detectives at an urban police station.
Hill Street Blues
Streetwise Detective David Starsky partners up with a more intellectual partner, Kenneth 'Hutch' Hutchinson, to protect citizens and patrol the streets of Bay City.
Starsky & Hutch
Wealthy couple Jonathan and Jennifer Hart, a self-made millionaire and his journalist wife, moonlight as amateur detectives.
Hart to Hart
A case involving drug lords and murder in South Florida takes a personal turn for undercover detectives Sonny Crockett and Ricardo Tubbs. Unorthodox Crockett gets involved romantically with the Chinese-Cuban wife of a trafficker of arms and drugs, while Tubbs deals with an assault on those he loves.
Miami Vice
240-Robert is an American drama series that ran on ABC from 1979 to 1981. The series title is a reference to the call-sign designation for the Los Angeles Sheriff's Department's search and rescue/paramedic teams.
240-Robert
Private Eye is an American crime drama that aired from September 13, 1987 until January 8, 1988.
Private Eye
Explores the glamour and corruption of mid-'80s Miami inspired by the pilot episode and first season Miami Vice. Plot TBA.
Miami Vice '85
Miami detective Sonny Crockett reluctantly teams with New York City cop Rico Tubbs when both of them end up pursuing a drug dealer who killed their respective partners.
Miami Vice: Brother's Keeper
Big Apple is an American television drama series that was originally broadcast in the United States on CBS in 2001. The story centers on two New York City Police Department detectives Mooney and Trout working with the FBI to solve a murder with ties to organized crime. A subplot involves Mooney's sister who is receiving hospice care for Lou Gehrig's Disease. Big Apple was originally slated to compete with NBC's very popular medical drama series ER. Although 13 episodes were commissioned, only 8 aired before CBS canceled the show and replaced it with the newsmagazine 48 Hours in the 10pm Thursday time slot. In 2008, the series aired in syndication on Universal HD.
Big Apple
A former LA cop runs a top-flight private detective agency that caters to spoiled Hollywood types.
Hollywood Confidential
Crockett and Tubbs, figuring they're on their way out, are recruited by the government to help a dictator escape from his war-torn country - with double-crosses at every turn.