Don Johnson Talks What’s Next on ‘Doctor Odyssey’ & ‘Miami Vice’ Memories

Don Johnson first hit TV screens in 1984 as Sonny Crockett, the yacht-dwelling, alligator-owning Metro-Dade Police detective on Miami Vice. 40 years later, Johnson has moved past those bold pastel suits and tossed aside the badge, but he is once again on a boat, playing the captain of a luxury cruise ship on ABC’s Doctor Odyssey, which returns from its midseason hiatus with new episodes beginning Thursday, March 6 — a role he finds very relatable, being a boat captain himself.

He recently sat down with us to discuss what makes his new character relatable, how he feels about Miami Vice‘s influence in fashion, and what it was actually like to act opposite an alligator.