Miracle Man

[Matt5]

Nice shot looking down Collins Avenue in Miami Beach (northbound) in this episode from 1st street . The buildings in the background start from 2nd street 

 

 

Edited March 27, 2017 by Matt5

[Matt5]

440 Espanola Way , Miami Beach seen in this episode ( this is a behind the scenes shot and did not feature in the episode) with my photo from last month .

Edited March 27, 2017 by Matt5

[C Glide]

That scene is in the ep. I am working on it now for my location site.

[Tom]

cGlide: I got the production notes of that ep. Location info in the glossary is based on my info and thus genuine.

 

[C Glide]

Great I will check out the glossary then but so far everything has been obvious.

[C Glide]

Thanks, I just checked out the glossary and there is at least one location missing. The commissioners office was filmed at the North Dade Justice Center, 15555 Biscayne Blvd. You will recognize the same spot from Line Of Fire. Unique design stands out and is instantly recognizable. 

[C Glide]

Another address I don't see listed is 1580 Washington Avenue, where Miracle Man finds himself after escaping the safe house.

[Matt5]

15 hours ago, C Glide said:

Thanks, I just checked out the glossary and there is at least one location missing. The commissioners office was filmed at the North Dade Justice Center, 15555 Biscayne Blvd. You will recognize the same spot from Line Of Fire. Unique design stands out and is instantly recognizable. 

Of course also featured extensively in "Line of Fire" and the opening credits of "Fruit of the Poison Tree"

[C Glide]

Just published this episode on my site. Cheers.

[Tom]

Great Job CGlide as always!

btw I am not convinced that the interior police department scenes were shot on location at North Dade Justice center. Not only there is no indication of that in the production notes, but they also have the looks of studio sets and appear in other eps like Asian cut, Too much too late and Freefall.

Edited June 2, 2017 by Tom

[C Glide]

Thanks. More research needed then. Trip seems in order. I pulled the blue prints on the second floor but they were not conclusive.

[Tom]

Long gone Les Violins club (final scene) interior and exterior pics. The club was at 1751 Biscayne Bvd and its facade (second picture) also briefly but prominently seen in the background of a Daytona car scene at the end of Cool Runnin´ (third picture).

 

Edited March 19, 2021 by Tom

[Tom]

Teaser location on Brickell Key: when I worked on the Indian War apartment match in Brickell One condo, I found out that the teaser location in Miracle Man was a bit west of what we originally thought and @C Glidestated on this website (not north of the Brickell Two at 540 Brickell Key Drive, but a bis west of that). The condemned building (also with "condemned note" behind Crockett and Tubbs) was already there in 1986 and it was west of the northside of Brickell Two which was completed in 1991. 

The building Miracle Man jumped off was the condemned building, as can easily be determined by the closeness of the diagonal Brickell One building in the background. Crockett and Tubbs were exactly placed between the condemned building and the westside of the new Brickell Two structure (easy to see with the diagonal shaped corner up front). See my pictures below.

 

[Tom]

Here is a rare 1985 picture (looking south) of Brickell Key from the area of the Miracle Man teaser. Only the Brickell One building stands (where the Menton apartment was in Golden Triangle), everything else is grassy. Brickell Two is under construction like also be seen in the teaser.

[Tom]

And another great rare 1987 aerial of Brickell Key, where we see exactly the Miracle Man teaser site with Brickell One, Brickell Two and the condemned concrete structure that Miracle Man jumped off. 

[Tom]

another great rare shot of Brickell Key in the mid-1980s (around the time in 1984 that Smuggler´s blues was filmed on the bridge. We can pinpoint the time of the picture because only Brickell One with the Menton condo in Golden Triangle stands, the Courvoisier center built in 1986 and used in Red Tape has not been built yet. 

[Tom]

There is an unknown establishing shot of the hospital or mental facility where the Miracle Man is being treated. 

This building was the Kaiser Permanente Hospital in Panorama City, CA. The building was at 13652 Cantara Street, Panorama City, but was razed in 2015. See the last Streetview pic of January 2015 below.

Interesting links with photos: http://www.jcesegroup.com/hea2.htm, https://waterandpower.org/museum/Early_Views_of_the_San_Fernando_Valley_Page_5.html

See photo comparison below (some older pics from different angles with description below). First pic is from the episode. Address confirmation is on the page of a company that did some construction work on the building in 2003. 

 

[airtommy]

Near the end, the Miracle Man meets Aguila in a park and Aguila ends up being shot and killed.  We know this park is in South Pointe next to Miami Beach Marina, but the park is gone and we've never seen a photo of it.  This aerial video catches a glimpse of it.  You can see the red pavement and green wall.

https://www.pond5.com/stock-footage/item/38866205-miami-beach-1980s-aerial-south-point-marine-harbour-meloy-ch

 

[Tom]

Production rundown of this episode, the first one filmed after (Over the line and) the series cancellation was decided. There was only scene filmed, but cut from this episode, but this one is a bombshell change and this dropped scene completely changes this episode. Read along what and why.

As I wrote in my book, DJ was not present at all in this episode that was filmed instead of "The Edge", an episode centered around Crockett and a politician friend who gets abducted. As the cancellation of the series was decided, DJ took some time off and they filmed this No- Crockett episode instead, where he only did one close up in the teaser which was filmed on the last day (27Feb89), otherwise absent via script or mostly doubled by Bobby Foxworth in his only teaser scene.

Location list - no changes from this to the final product and we knew all this. All the office and ward scenes are studio.

On 15 February they only filmed pick up scenes with DJ from other episodes. The final scene from Madonna at Pelican Harbor, the close up of Crockett in the hotel scene in Madonna (all other scenes in the hotel were filmed with Bobby Foxworth) and also some OCB Castillo office scenes for Freefall! (No clue what exactly they filmed 2 months ahead of the final episode there).

Day 1 Thu 16 Feb89 - filming 8:04 am until 10:04 pm at Perena´s house and at the Torres Apartment.  At Perena´s house they also filmed the TV studio scenes (Terry interviews Miracle Man) which is later seen on a TV screen throughout the episode.

Day 2 Fri 17 Feb89, filming 8:58am until 7:07 pm at Izzy´s place. The house belonged (and still belongs) to Dennis Jenkins who once owned/worked in the consulate building used in Rites of passage.

Day 3 Tue 21Feb89 (Mon 20 Feb was a holiday), filming 8:34am until 8:53 pm at Espanola Way and the Nemo htel (Safe house).

Day 4 Wed 22 Feb89, filming 9:27 am until 9:25 pm at South Pointe park and then at the studio.

Day 5, Thu 23 Feb89, filming 12:07 pm until 1:41 am the next day at Miami Beach Police and then at the Clevelander.

Day 6 Fri 24 Feb89, filming  3:07 pm until 11:50 pm at the studio (psychic ward, doctor´s office).

Day 7 Monday 27Feb89, filming at the Les Violins Club and then the teaser at Brickell Key from 8:15 am until 6:48 pm. Here is a bombshell: in the script Miracle man does not die. He is shot, mourned at by Izzy,but opens his eyes, stands up and walks away due to a bullet proof vest (Scene 77, see below). They cut this scene and stop the episode with Miracle Man dead. This ending completely changing the episode from a goofy episode to a very tragic one. I think given the manic depressive problem of Georgie this end is better and more logical, but of course very sad.

ENJOY the insights!

 

Edited November 12, 2023 by Tom

[airtommy]

16 hours ago, Tom said:

On 15 February they only filmed pick up scenes with DJ from other episodes. The final scene from Madonna at Pelican Harbor, the close up of Crockett in the hotel scene in Madonna (all other scenes in the hotel were filmed with Bobby Foxworth) and also some OCB Castillo office scenes for Freefall! (No clue what exactly they filmed 2 months ahead of the final episode there).

Did you mean the final scene from "Jack of All Trades"?

 

[Tom]

vor 4 Stunden schrieb airtommy:

Did you mean the final scene from "Jack of All Trades"?

 

Oh yes, sorry, Pelican Harbor final scene of JOAT and the Madonna close up in the Colonade Hotel. They shot all overdue DJ pick ups from prior episodes on that day.

[Tom]

Rare 1980s interior pic of Les Violins Supper Club used in this episode.