On the TV show "Miami Vice", what was the name of Crockett's pet alligator?

No one had more swagger in the 1980s than Don Johnson. As Sonny Crockett on the NBC show "Miami Vice", the undercover detective and professional stubble-cultivator lived on a houseboat with his pet alligator named Elvis. Crockett embodied masculine cool in the era of coke binges and Lamborghinis. The idea of having a real alligator as a pet played into the overall persona that Crockett had.

Detective James "Sonny" Crockett was a undercover officer of the Metro-Dade Police Department. He had been a University of Florida Gators football star. He sustained a knee fracture; this put an end to his sports career. He was drafted by the U.S. Army and served in the 1st Cavalry Division, Special Forces. He served two tours in Vietnam (Southeast Asia). In 1975 he became a Metro-Dade uniformed patrol officer. Later he went undercover in the vice unit. Crockett's alias was Sonny Burnett, a drug runner and middleman. His vehicles included a Ferrari Daytona Spyder and a Ferrari Testarossa, a "Scarab" offshore power-boat, and a sailboat where he lived. This role ended when the show went off the air in June 1989.

In his real life, Johnson married actress Melanie Griffith (twice), made a record selling soft-rock album Tom Petty and Ron Wood, and raced offshore powerboats with Chuck Norris and Kurt Russell on a professional team (Team USA). Melanie advised him that it would be good for their marriage if he quit. Johnson recalls that "somebody died in every 'damn' race he was in."