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Crime Story is a 1986 American television drama developed by Gustave Reininger and Chuck Adamson that aired on NBC for two seasons. Michael Mann, who had left his earlier show Miami Vice to oversee Crime Story and helm the film Manhunter, was the executive producer. The show debuted with a two-hour pilot — a film that had previously been shown in theaters — and was watched by almost 30 million people. It was then scheduled to air on Friday nights after Miami Vice, and it continued to draw a record amount of viewers. NBC subsequently moved the show to Tuesdays at 10 p.m., opposite ABC's Moonlighting, which harmed its ratings so much that NBC cancelled it after only two seasons. The series, set in the early, pre-Beatles 1960s, portrayed two men — Lt. Mike Torello and mobster Ray Luca — who had an obsessive desire to destroy each other. Torello sought Luca as head of a special Organized Crime Strike Force since he started with street crime in Chicago, was "made" in the Chicago Outfit, and then sent to Las Vegas to supervise their casinos. Torello, his friend Ted Kehoe, and Luca grew up in Chicago's "The Patch," also known as "Little Sicily" or "Little Italy" and the home of the Forty-Two Gang. The show received both praise and criticism for its serialized structure, in which an ongoing tale was delivered across a whole season rather than episodically, as was common at the time.