Miami Nice (Lost 1984 Promo Sketch)

Miami Nice was a lost TV promo made a NBC to promote Miami Vice that without knowing insprited the making of the hit show The Golden Girls. While the Sketch is described in many papers during the time The Golden Girtls began broadcasting not a single clip has been found

Background
The Sktech was part of a Vairtey Show that NBC did to promte the 1984 season, the sktech was to promote Miami Vice the Channel's latest action show. The Casting for the sketch used older actresses as the City of Miami is known as a reirement haven. The actress cast for it was Doris Roberts from Remington Steele and Selma Diamond from Night Court.

Description of Promo
From different accounts the idea of the sktech was this:

Roberts and Diamond appear and Roberts induces Miami Vice however Diamond mishears "Vice" for "Nice" remarking that it problbe is going to be very dull. However Doris trying to correct her ends upo arguing with Diamond and after a short montage of Miami Vice appears leaves both laadies suprised and Diamond still is confused.

After Effect
While the whole show is questionable if it was aired, the promo must have been broadcast as Brandon Tartikoff, president of NBC Entertainment, saw it as a idea for a sitcoim, he felt that older people espeically women were unable to be given staring roles. After pitching the idea to make a sitcom based on the Miami Nice concept after seversal failed pitches Susan Harris wrote the Pilot Script for the Golden Girls.

Status
Despite the importance of the clip and it's many descriptions in the press for the time, the original sketch is missing but if it was used during other commerical breaks it might be preserved on somebody's home videotape.