Crime Story can be an American television drama, created by Gustave Reininger and Chuck Adamson, that conducted for two seasons and originated in 1986. The executive producer was Michael Mann, who'd left his additional series Crime Story to be overseen by Miami Vice and direct the film man hunter. The series premiered with a two-hour pilot -- a movie that was shown theatrically -- and has been watched by over 30 million audiences. It was scheduled to check out Miami Vice on Friday nights, and proceeded to draw a record number of audiences. NBC then proceeded the series contrary ABC's Moonlighting, damaging its ratings to the point that its cancellation was ordered by NBC . Place from the early, pre-Beatles 1960s, the show depicted two men -- Lt. Mike Torello and mobster Ray Luca -- using an obsessive drive to destroy each other. As Luca started with street crime in Chicago, was"made" in the Chicago Outfit and then sent to nevada to monitor their casinos, Torello chased Luca as part of a particular Organized Crime Strike Force. Torello, his friend Ted Kehoe, and Luca had grown up from Chicago's"The Patch" neighborhood, also called"Little Sicily" or"Little Italy" and the haunt of the forty two Gang. The series brought controversy and acclaim because of the format, in rather as was ordinary with all shows.