Anthony Yerkovich

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.

Works

Miami Vice

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.

Release Date: 2006-07-27

Department: Production

Job: Executive Producer

Vote Count: 1828

Hollywood Confidential

A former LA cop runs a top-flight private detective agency that caters to spoiled Hollywood types.

Release Date: 1997-04-14

Department: Writing

Job: Writer

Character: Jack Hansen (uncredited)

Vote Count: 7

Miami Vice: Freefall

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.

Release Date: 1989-05-21

Department: Crew

Job: Creator

Vote Count: 2

Miami Vice: Brother's Keeper

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.

Release Date: 1984-09-16

Department: Crew

Job: Creator

Vote Count: 25

Untitled Miami Vice Film

Plot TBD. Based on the characters of the popular 80s show.

Department: Writing

Job: Original Series Creator

Private Eye

Private Eye is an American crime drama that aired from September 13, 1987 until January 8, 1988.

Release Date: 1987-09-13

Department: Writing

Job: Writer

Episode Count: 2

Vote Count: 4

Miami Vice: The Prodigal Son

Crockett and Tubbs head to New York to track down a Colombian drug family that is killing Federal agents, but find that they have enemies on both sides of the law.

Release Date: 1985-09-27

Department: Crew

Job: Creator

Vote Count: 1

Miami Vice

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.

Release Date: 1984-09-16

Department: Production

Job: Executive Producer

Episode Count: 111

Vote Count: 447

Hill Street Blues

A realistic glimpse into the daily lives of the officers and detectives at an urban police station.

Release Date: 1981-01-15

Department: Writing

Job: Writer

Episode Count: 32

Vote Count: 109

Hart to Hart

Wealthy couple Jonathan and Jennifer Hart, a self-made millionaire and his journalist wife, moonlight as amateur detectives.

Release Date: 1979-09-22

Department: Writing

Job: Writer

Episode Count: 1

Vote Count: 118

240-Robert

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.

Release Date: 1979-08-28

Department: Writing

Job: Writer

Episode Count: 1

Vote Count: 2

Starsky & Hutch

Streetwise Detective David Starsky partners up with a more intellectual partner, Kenneth 'Hutch' Hutchinson, to protect citizens and patrol the streets of Bay City.

Release Date: 1975-09-10

Department: Writing

Job: Writer

Episode Count: 2

Vote Count: 181