This Week In Miami Vice History

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March 17th - 24th:

**There was no Season 1 premere episode this week**
**There was no Season 2 premere episode this week**

"By Hooker By Crook", the 20th episode of the 3rd season, premiered on NBC on Friday, March 20th, 1987 at 9PM EST. Some notes on this episode (from Miami Vice Wiki):
* The character "Christine Von Marburg" was named for Producer Dick Wolf's then-wife, Christine Marburg, to whom he was married from 1983-2005 and had three children with and whose names he used for characters in his Law & Order franchise.
* In this episode, Crockett uses a Commodore Amiga computer when looking up Christine's information, which was a major PC player during the mid 1980s.
* There are some creative moments of direction in this episode, including the shot through the peephole of Izzy's apartment to see a distorted Crockett and Tubbs and the light-only on Crockett's eyes as Christine leaves the room to sleep with Togaru.
* Many episodes rely on Don Johnson's reaction shots to close the episode and this episode has an extended one, which allows him the opportunity to fully show Crockett's reaction.
* It is interesting to note that Tubbs has very few lines in this episode (none at all during the two scenes involving Izzy) and aside from the climactic gunfight, does nothing of any real importance.
* This episode originally had a longer sex scene between Crockett and Christine, but NBC deemed the sequence "too hot for television" and ordered it cut back when repeated. The uncut scene runs almost two minutes, while the revised version runs 1:12.
* After Christine shoots Togaru, the slide on Crockett's Smith & Wesson changes between shots, from staying back (indicating the gun is empty), to forward (indicating it's still loaded).

"Badge Of Dishonor", the 18th episode of the 4th season, premiered on NBC on Friday, March 18th, 1988 at 9PM EST. Some notes on this episode (from Miami Vice Wiki):
* The episode's title is a play on the phrase "badge of honor", which is regularly used to refer to the shield carried by police officers in the United States.
* Barbra Streisand made an uncredited walkby in the scene where Crockett & Tubbs pull up to Dominguez' yacht the first time.

**There was no Season 5 premiere episode this week**

Edited March 16, 2017 by mvnyc