Miami Vice (Season 1)
Starring: Don Johnson, Philip Michael Thomas
Director: Various
The series: Once in a while, American primetime television throws up a little gem. And so it was back in the 1980s when - suddenly - men all over the world started wearing T-shirts under their suit jackets. And slip-on white shoes with no socks was inexplicably de rigueur. The reason? The phenomenon that was Miami Vice.
For the MTV generation, prime time never got looked any better. It was fast, brash and bright (in a pastel sort of way). And utterly and totally cool.
If you find yourself in HMV this weekend, you can nab six episodes for $188 - a bargain by anyone's standards.
The star of the show was an impossibly young-looking Don Johnson. As Sonny Crockett, he rules the streets of Miami, cruising around in classic cars with big fins, trying to work things out with his missus, and cocking an eye at authority whenever it stands in the way of him doing his job. And taking his shirt off at each and every opportunity.