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Who's your top 5 favorite villians from Season One? If it's Bruce Willis as the gun running Tony Amato, Jim Zubiena as the Hit Man Argentinean assassin Ludovici Armstrong, or Burt Young as Paulie... er.. I mean Lupo Ramirez, rank your five favorites here: - - - My Top 5 Favorite villians from Season One: (Counting down from number five) 5. Afemo Omilami as Desmond Maxwell (Cool Runnin) Many will find this an odd choice considering how little screen time he had, but Afaemo showed so much screen presence and gravitas that I was left hungry for more Desmond Maxwell... sadly something we never got. But that stare of his still fills me with dread to this day! 4. John Turturro as David Traynor (Rites of Passage) I love John Turturro in almost everything he does, and he doesn't disappoint as the head of a modeling agency which is a front for a high class call-girl service. Traynor is way too smart and smooth to get caught by the law, and I love the sinister underlying to his sweet demeanor. 3. Al Israel as Guzman (Evan) Something about Al Israel's screen presense and line delivery exudes danger and betrayal in every scene he's in. Israel has this uncanny ability to make you feel like that in any moment, it can be your last. He expressed the same ability in "Scarface" and "Carlito's Way". Any character sitting across from Guzman just make me plain worry for that character... which is impressive because Al is certainly not an imposing man. 2. Dennis Farina as Albert Lombard (One Eyed Jack, Lombard) That's the price. - Anyone trying to resist that lovable Italian murderous gangster stereotype shouldn't watch Dennis Farina as Albert Lombard. Dennis is extremely likeable in this role, so much so I questioned myself - does Lombard really belong in a top 5 villian list? I must relent that, likeable or not, the extremely charismatic Farina does play a character responsible for enough numerous murders and crimes to make him eligible. And you got to love the old school gangster and his code, being pushed out by a new generation of honorless thugs. #1 Miguel Piñero as Esteban Calderone (Brother's Keeper, Calderone's Return - Part II) You can arrest me now! You're not gonna shoot me are ya? It's against the law. It's against the law! - Thanks to a wonderfully written character, the small statured yet big on presense actor Miguel Piñero plays the vilianous role of a lifetime - almost not a villian himself, but the representation, the face of a crooked system that will forever beat down the vice cops Crocket and Tubbs. Sonny and Rico are fighting a losing war... and Calderone is an embodiment of why. Bravo! - - - So that's my Top-5 Season One Villian list! 1. Calderone 2. Lombard 3. Guzman 4. Traynor 5. Maxwell

"Well if it ain't the man who hates bad F'n language"

After diverting my attention away long enough from the mermaid on Santa’s lap I can now see they are the four ambassadors

Update: I have placed Crockett into his car. Am working on Tubbs now don't worry.

Great selection. I'd agree with those for the same reasons you gave. I'd add Amato from No Exit as he was just all round scumbag with a degree of cunning and it was Bruce Willis too to make it even better. General Lao Li as he was such a great adversary for Castillo. And Esai Morales' character in Home Invaders as he too was a total immoral scumbag.

Prison Break episode "The Sunshine State" aired 22 December 2008, construction of 50 Biscayne was completed 2007, but it's very much absent in the scenery, with the Miami Tower clearly visible between City National Bank building and the New World Tower (100 Biscayne), so it has to be a backdrop.

Ok, so the MV Testarossa interior I pictured above has black carpeting. This photo I found is DJ getting out of it. Notice the sand/biegh/tan carpeting! I’m confused lol. I guess I’ll go w/ sand/beigh/tan color for carpeting.

Was this Zarbo, the Crocodile Dundee pimp, to Sonny and Rico in the Golden Triangle?

No idea I went there in 2005 and the end explosion scene from Season 4s “Baseballs of Death” must have been pretty much filmed from right outside there

I do believe you are right on both accounts! Great job.

Watched the season 5 finale of Mad Men last night. There's a scene in the theater where the music from Casino Royale 1967 plays and the ending is a montage with You Only Live Twice playing. Three minutes of bliss for this Bond geek.

I've never found any info on the history of the restaurant and the building. I know that you can see it in Caddyshack.

"...banana land..." Name the character and ep please

I'd like to announce that I have ported Crockett over to GTA San Andreas finally! With the exception of some minor bugs, this should be smooth sailing and I will put up a download link in a few days!

Venice Beach, Ocean boardwalk- another angle

That's Zabado from Yankee Dollar.

The payphone could have been a prop, as none visible in front of Barnett Bank in this shot:

This is what the 777 Brickell building has looked like prior to the remodelling:

Just updated this episode on my location site with new re-creation pictures from Virginia Key and Miami Beach.

@C Glide @miamijimf @airtommy This location from the teaser of “Rock and a Hard Place” was on Oceanfront Bvld on Venice Beach looking South to Santa Monica in Los Angeles

well personnally i didn't find the movie that bad. i actually liked it. interesting plot, good actors. maybe i love Michael Mann too much, lol. it's pretty dark, but i love it when it's dark. it gives realism to the thing

Prison Break, episode "The Sunshine State" from Season 4. Looks like Dodge Island.

A nice aerial on my twitter feed today of Bal Harbor looking south from Haulover Park. We see this area throughout the show in the opening credits and end credits.(and in Season 1s “Great McCarthy”), (the park at the bottom right of the picture was also seen in Season 4s “Rock and a Hard Place”)

Here's a photo, I think from the 70s. Santa's helpers are a little jealous of his new friend. About where on Biscayne Bay was Santa's boat located?

The St.Moritz featured in this late Season 2 episode - six years before Miami Vice filmed in this then empty hotel. This archive photo is from 1980.

This was the former location on South Fort Lauderdale Beach Bvld/Castillo in Fort Lauderdale as of Feb 2017 when I was there. Now a Ritz Carlton. I previously posted a slightly different angle of this former location.

Matt- It was probably empty during Vice filming and decades before that. Production companies like buildings that are for sale, empty, or pending destruction. They are easier to decorate, use pyrotechnics to simulate explosions etc. That's why some shows like Vice can be valuable historical records because they provide the best or the only views of long gone structures. For example the only views of the Dixie Lily Milling Plant I have ever seen are in Vice's Blood and Roses.

Crockett gets way too slap happy/violent in Season 4, it kinda works but he's way too pretty in this season - extra long bleached blonde hair, flashy clothes/shoulder pads... its like he's Joan Johnson...

Obviously some episodes were better than others but even the worst eps were better than most stuff on TV.

Music composed by Jan Hammer , performed by Dadrian Wilson

Ahhh, my favorite credit.

This last picture is pretty much how it appeared in the closing credits of the show - with the other random shots that appeared sometimes of Calder, Miami Zoo, Port of Miami and Haulover etc etc Jim and Jeremy should enjoy this shot

Since this is a family channel I won't elaborate on what he said.

When Tubbs was minimized to a background character, often just standing in the frame as Crockett recited every good line (or sometimes all the lines), followed by Tubbs just following Crockett out the door, I could tell the magic was ending and never would be the same again.