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Crime Story is an American TV drama created by Gustave Reininger and Chuck Adamson. It started in 1986 and ran for two seasons on NBC. Michael Mann was the show's executive producer. He had left his other show, Miami Vice, to oversee Crime Story and direct the movie Manhunter. Over 30 million people watched the two-hour pilot of the show, which was a movie that had been shown in theaters. It was then scheduled to come on after Miami Vice on Friday nights, and a record number of people kept watching. Then, NBC moved the show to Tuesdays at 10 pm, opposite ABC's Moonlighting. This hurt its ratings so much that NBC decided to cancel it after only two seasons. Set in the early 1960s, before the Beatles, the show was about Lt. Mike Torello and mobster Ray Luca, who were obsessed with killing each other. As Luca started out doing street crime in Chicago, joined the Chicago Outfit, and was sent to Las Vegas to watch the casinos there, Torello went after him as the head of a special Organized Crime Strike Force. Torello, his friend Ted Kehoe, and Luca had all grown up in Chicago's "The Patch" neighborhood, which was also called "Little Sicily" or "Little Italy" and was a hangout for the "Forty-Two Gang." The show was both praised and criticized for the way it was put together. Instead of having separate episodes, it told one long story over the course of a whole season.