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rogers: we ve had 29-year-olds making $1 million a year, expecting to make $2 million the year after that. diana ferry: but if you ve got plastic money, there s nothing holding you back. history will prove the bakkers were honest people. reporter: insider trading could become wall street s watergate. pauley: what do we call greed the day before an indictment? i m afraid recently, we ve called it success.
graham: mtv starts to get pressure from cbs records, which was michael jackson s label. rock and roll in itself really was the thing that broke a lot of rules. and when you re very successful, you try to make your own rules occasionally. graham: as the story goes, cbs essentially said, we will pull every other artist we have on mtv if you don t play this. they had to be essentially blackmailed into doing it. it doesn t matter who s wrong or right just beat it he was the artist that mtv really needed. they didn t know they needed him, but boy, when we started to see the michael jackson videos, it was just unbelievable. and no one s going to. questlove: then there s the domino effect. suddenly you see prince videos from warner brothers do the same thing. so tonight i m going to party like it s 1999 pauley: prince wasn t just materializing out of nowhere. where was he before this video was done? prince was a huge star on black radio stations.
on every part of the tv culture that came next. -freeze! -freeze! miami vice. pauley: friday nights on nbc are different this season, thanks to miami vice. it s a show with an old theme, but a lot of new twists. described by one critic as containing flashes of brilliance, nonetheless. shot entirely on location in south miami, the story centers around two undercover vice cops. i don t know how this is gonna work tubbs. i mean, you re not exactly up my alley style- and persona- wise. heaven knows i m no box of candy. michael mann: television very much was the small screen. what was interesting about tony yerkovich s pilot screenplay for miami vice is that it was exactly not that. very much the approach was, okay they call this a television series, but we re gonna make one-hour movies every single week. okay, here we go. standby. action! police! police! pauley: you were just describing the show
long island, a span of really five days, five bites, essentially. so tell me exactly how you see this and they may be on pace to break last year s record eight bites. how concerned should swimmers be? and every time you go to the ocean be careful. sharks are one thing, but riptides and other things are a lot more dangerous, you need to pay attention to the lifeguards and the ocean around you to play it safe. so, yeah, if you see big schools of fish, really turpid waters, those would look at happening. as long as there aren t warning signs, get out and enjoy the ocean. griff: you re looking at a video of me swimming with sharks. i m glad you mentioned the school of fish. in pauley s island in south carolina, i ve been taking my