Music was such an important part of MIAMI VICE that you simply couldn’t release that series without the music. It’s an integral part of the show. They certainly paid for the rights to that music and those songs.

The same did not happen with KNIGHT RIDER which also featured popular songs of the day in many of its episodes. When the DVDs started coming out they simply replaced the original songs with cover songs performed by someone else. It’s a shame because those songs were a big part of KR as well. But I guess they didn’t think it was as integral as in the case of MIAMI VICE. Truth be told a few of the cover songs sound pretty close to the originals so I can’t complain. But whoever was singing “Every Breath You Take” certainly didn’t sound like The Police. Shame because I really like that song.