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

Hollywood Confidential

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

Release Date1997-04-14

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Charactersd Jack Hansen (uncredited)

Vote Count8

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 Date1984-09-16

DepartmentProduction

JobExecutive Producer

Episode Count111

Vote Count467

Hill Street Blues

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

Release Date1981-01-15

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Episode Count32

Vote Count114

Hart to Hart

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

Release Date1979-09-22

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Episode Count1

Vote Count123

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 Date1975-09-10

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Episode Count2

Vote Count183

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 Date2006-07-27

DepartmentProduction

JobExecutive Producer

Vote Count1880

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 Date1979-08-28

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Episode Count1

Vote Count2

Miami Vice

Plot TBA. Will explore the glamour and corruption of mid-80’s Miami, inspired by the pilot episode and first season of the NBC television series

Release Date2027-08-05

DepartmentWriting

JobOriginal Series Creator

Private Eye

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

Release Date1987-09-13

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Episode Count2

Vote Count4

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 Date1984-09-16

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Vote Count27