This Week In Miami Vice History


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October 7th - October 13th:

***There was no Season 1 premiere episode this week***

***There was no Season 2 premiere episode this week***

"Killshot", the 3rd episode of the 3rd season, premiered on NBC on Friday, October 10th at 9PM EDT. Some notes on this episode (from Miami Vice Wiki):

* John Diehl (Zito) does not appear at all in this episode.

* Jai-alai is still played at the same venue where the scenes for this episode were filmed. The facility became known as "Casino Miami Jai-Alai" in 2014 and the frontage was finally updated after several decades of neglect.

* The term "killshot" refers to a hard or well-placed shot in jai-alai designed to make the opponent miss.

* The pelota or ball used in jai-alai can be thrown at speeds in excess of 150 miles per hour. The ball that kills Tico is reported on the news broadcast to have been travelling at a speed close to this.

* This episode was characteristic of the later seasons, as it ends in a very nihilistic way.

* The title and opening credits for this episode appear in the middle of the screen, as they did for the start of season 1 and would do permanently from "Forgive Us Our Debts" onwards. This could be a sign that the studio changed the running order of the episodes and that "Killshot" was originally intended to air later in the season, from which point episode titles were moved to the middle of the screen as standard.

* As seen five previous times in the series, a "good" character, Arriola, committs murder out of revenge or fear right in front of Crockett, thus throwing away their own life.

* When Crockett leaves the fast food stand after attacking Sylvio, Sylvio suddenly has ice all over the back of his head, even though we never saw how it got there.

* After Tico is hit on the head by the pelota, the attending medic can be seen with his hand on Tico's helmet, rolling his head to one side. In the case of a head injury, trained medical personnel would never attempt to move the victim's head.

***There was no Season 4 premiere episode this week***

***There was no Season 5 premiere episode this week due to a writer’s strike***

 

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23 hours ago, mvnyc said:

John Diehl (Zito) does not appear at all in this episode

I've been curious about, how many episodes the main cast actually appeared in, as it obviously isn't all 111 episodes as stated on IMDb. 

Don, Philip, Saundra and Olivia are credited for being in all 111 episodes and Talbott 110 with the exception of one episode. I might do some counting of the characters appearance on the show, when I get the Blu-ray set. ;) :)

And thanks for posting mvnyc!  :thumbsup:

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3 hours ago, summer84 said:

I've been curious about, how many episodes the main cast actually appeared in, as it obviously isn't all 111 episodes as stated on IMDb. 

Don, Philip, Saundra and Olivia are credited for being in all 111 episodes and Talbott 110 with the exception of one episode. I might do some counting of the characters appearance on the show, when I get the Blu-ray set. ;) :)

And thanks for posting mvnyc!  :thumbsup:

A good question...I'd be curious to see the tally of how many episodes the main cast actually appeared in.  

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I liked the episode "Killshot". It was kind of very dark, but we had plenty of that in the first two seasons as well.

One of the better season three episodes.

 

Am 7.10.2016 um 22:24 schrieb mvnyc:

* After Tico is hit on the head by the pelota, the attending medic can be seen with his hand on Tico's helmet, rolling his head to one side. In the case of a head injury, trained medical personnel would never attempt to move the victim's head.

 

That's true. In first aid class, for example, they teach you a special two-person technique for removing an accident victim's motorcycle helmet, which tries to keep the head and neck in a fixed position while the helmet is carefully being pulled off.

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