The first Game of Thrones (Season 1) had a budget of $6 million for an episode, while the House of the Dragon cost a staggering $20 million per episode. Just to put things into perspective, Miami Vice had a budget of about $1.3 million per episode that had to cover the salaries of the actors, soundtrack, costumes, and settings. Let's not forget that the budget for filming a TV series in the 1980s was far lower than now, so using Ferrari cars could prove an expensive endeavor. While product placement in movies and TV shows was a successful marketing strategy even back in the 1980s, no one wanted to risk trashing a real Ferrari while filming Miami Vice. The reason behind this move is understandable, considering how expensive Ferrari cars were, even back then. The crew hired McBurnie Coachcraft to fit the Corvette with Ferrari-shaped body panels. Information on when Elvis (and Presley) passed away is not available.Hard to believe, but initially production didn’t choose the white Testarossa, and they went with a replica 1972 Ferrari 365 GTS/4 built on the chassis of a Chevrolet Corvette (C3), according to Rosso Automobili. George Harwell, who owned and handled Elvis, then housed him at his nursery in Davie. The title character kept her pet in a kiddie pool.Įlvis is buried at Flamingo Gardens in Davie, Florida, which hosted the "Gator World" attraction that was his home until the latter was closed in 1990. In an homage to the original Elvis, the children's series Clarissa Explains It All (which debuted in 1991) featured a baby alligator by the same name. It is speculated that the character was retired due to budget cuts as a result of Vice's declining ratings, or to increase the more serious tone of Seasons 3-5. His status after Crockett left the Metro-Dade Police in 1989 remains unknown. The show's producers also rented another, called Presley, from the owner.īy 1986 Elvis was only seen occasionally and by 1988 was not seen at all. Apparently the cast and crew were frightened of him at first but came to consider him a regular. It described the big reptile (then about 8 1/2 feet long and weighing 300 pounds) and his duties on the show. The Sun-Sentinel (a South Florida newspaper headquartered in Fort Lauderdale) ran a feature on Elvis in October 1985. Elvis also had a voracious appetite, eating whole fish, bags of dog food, or anything else just lying around. Though he was supposedly a "watch-gator", Elvis would often sleep on the job, letting bad guys onto his boat-though when awake he would scare interlopers such as Maxwell Dierks, nearly making "dork-meat" out of him when he tried to take Crockett's Daytona with his snarling and hissing. Elvis is known to have separation anxiety, at least in his early days, as he would go (unexpectedly) visit Crockett's marina neighbors, eating food, dumping his "leavings", and trashing their boats while Crockett was working, even taking a bite out of his Buddy Holly record collection once. A former mascot for Crockett's alma mater University of Florida Gators (retired after biting a free safety from the University of Georgia), Crockett took him in as the "resident drug-sniffer and watch gator" of his boat, the St. Elvis is the pet alligator of Metro-Dade Detective James "Sonny" Crockett.
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