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So, folks, I have searched around 250 movie theaters in Greater Miami, even the closed and demolished ones. No theater that fits. I found a few that were that size and closed around 1989 or later but could sort them out due to different factors (too big, too fancy, ...) This website was a great help as it lists information for each theater per section (Miami, Miami Beach, North Beach, Coral Gables, Coconut Grove, Pinecrest, ...) incl. number of seats, when it was opened/closed, pictures, etc. http://cinematreasures.org/theaters/united-states/florida/miami Bottom line: the location must have been the most unknown underground theater ever that it was not even listed on this specialist theater site.

He is walking from the west toward the east. He is walking from a dead end so that maybe what is confusing you. In real life it would make no sense.

This is great work airtommy - and it is interesting going northbound the opposite direction to “Down for the Count” (Part 2). I took this on Sunday it’s the exact view you mention airtommy which we see just before the chase in DFTC as the Ferrari is headed southbound - shows perfectly also the building (right of picture) we see at the end of the clip in “Brothers Keeper”.

That is Crandon Park on Key Biscayne. I have walked that several times 20 years ago and the sign in the water marks a shoal and drop off. The wooden post use to be there as well.

Okay, I'm hooked. I will have to watch this episode again and see if I can come up with anything.

I already did searches through all shooting range pics but no find. Theaters the same: I only found one small movie theater pic with a similarly sized viewing room (100 pax) in Cinema Paradiso in Hollywood but it does not fit as the access corridor is in on the side wall and not in the middle as on the pic above. Issue with the movie theaters is also that a lot of these small ones have closed over the years. The theater in the ep looks very basic and run down like it did not exist very long after filming. by the way: I don’t get the purpose of the hanging net in that theater pic. These nets are where you‘d expect the movie screen to be and it seems that there is a lowered stage area instead that has room enough for a long net (backlight indicates at least another 10 meters!). But maybe the other room is no projection room as we originally thought and this is a normal theater and not used for movies? the whole look of the theater tells me this was an old run down underground theater with its own little bar with a glass brick window that is long closed. P.S. the color scheme on the right of the audience room somewhat reminds me of the Paris Theater (Borrasca - see pic 1), but I assume the Paris was not it (2 stories and too large, not run down enough? and the entrance corridor was also on the side and not in the middle as can be seen in this old picture 2 I found from the Paris).

These pajamas in “Whatever Works”. Pretty sure they’re the same ones from “Rites of Passage” when Diane is listening to the headphones in bed. She’s wearing the top, and David is wearing the bottoms.

Congrats! I have an '85 Mondial and an '03 360 - nothing beats the real thing! I did end up purchasing this car so let's see how it turns out!

Don't we see a dentistry chair in one of Izzy's places? We see it here in "Miami Squeeze": Hank Weldon has one in "Out Where the Buses Don't Run". It looks different to me, but it's hard to tell.

Personally, I would have had an easier time buying Lombard having a second son who was involved in crime. It's really a stretch to connect the two as the same character. There really is a feeling of two different episodes shoved together here. There was a big opportunity to give Lombard a serious, poignant send-off if they would've just left out the whole HAVOC thing. Schiavelli was also famous for appearing on Taxi with Andy Kaufman.

Most of your picks are some of mine as well! Ironically, I love the 2-part Hit List & Calderone’s Demise (aka Calderone’s Return Pts 1&2 in syndication) best, but you have to have the Pilot to fully understand them, lol. Don’t get me wrong...I still do like Season 3 okay, by all means I don’t hate it. I just don’t feel it had the same impact and awesome plots Seasons 1-2 had. With different writers and sudden changes in the style, it didn’t go over as well as producers had most likely hoped it would. But, there are still some awesome episodes in 3!

Yes it was. Also in this link. https://miamiviceonline.com/index.php?/topic/1001-behind-the-scenes-photos/&do=findComment&comment=211960 Wow, this thread is from 2016. I joined 2015. How time has flown.

I ended up buying a real Ferrari instead a White Testarossa. Here is the link....please enjoy:

Original link is dead. Updated link: I had never heard of the Miami Device, but it has been discussed here: https://miamiviceonline.com/index.php?/topic/2911-anybody-heard-about-the-miami-device-by-wahl-clipper-corp/ Does this photo look like it was taken at the Universal Miami Vice Stunt Show?

Xander Berkeley was also the original Waingro in Mann's L.A. Takedown.

Charlie Glide rears his head again. Robbie C ought to appreciate this ep too

To me it was after season 2 ended. Sons and Lovers in hindsight may have been the perfect ending to that era of Vice and as a lead-in into a different Miami Vice moving forward. With the darker tones of season 3, Sonny’s new look and just the overall feeling of season 3, to me it signaled the end of what Miami Vice was in its first 2 seasons. Clearly the holdout did something to DJ and it was clearly reflected in his character whether by choice or not. A darker more guarded and cynical Crockett appeared and IMO it clashed with Tubbs, whereas season 1 & 2 they complemented each other like no 2 other partners from a cop TV show. Don’t get me wrong there were some excellent episodes moving forward, and at times that old spark was back, but it was too few and too far in between. The series moving forward lacked that overall panoramic picture that season 1 and 2 painted. One could point to just about any episode from season 3 and beyond and say, there, that’s where the show jumped the shark. However to me it wasn’t so much a particular point, but a slow burn downhill with some high points in between.

Great photos.

The windows are tinted but I was able to put my camera up to the glass and get a surprisingly good shot of the receptionist's desk. Amazingly, it's almost exactly the same after 30 years. Same desk, same ceiling lights and speaker, same wall fixtures.

I took this yesterday early evening an overview of the tailing Linus scene on Lincoln Rd Mall at Lennox and where Sonny and Rico walked with Linus and the hitman sat in front of the fountain. The Banana Republic building and theatre were also featured. The building you can see close in my photograph that I’m standing next too is the Suntrust building (which Sonny looked up).

Here you go guys, from Friday’s visit with my friend from Coldwell Banker to 119 Harbor Drive, Key Biscayne. All angles we see interior wise we see in the episode, the bedroom picture is where the hitman ran into and jumped out of but not seen interior wise on camera.

Although 4 has a couple of nearly unwatchable episodes, the complete absence of Jan Hammer, lots of ridiculous costumes, and tangent storylines that lead to the demise of the show make 5 a little inferior between the two, for me. Although, I think the finale is great! I would watch it more, but I always have to follow it with the pilot to keep from being sad, and I rarely have 3.5 consecutive hours available for watching MV. Heck, I can barely squeeze 2 hours in for working on the MV music I cover!

There are so many I could quote. However, since I want to see if anybody else mentions the same ones I love, I'm only to mention one right now: From "No Exit", when Tony Amato's guy, Gentle, says in reference to the stinger missile, "Any knucklehead with a GED can light one up."

"First a junkie, now a hooker. I think I've been in the business too long, I'm starting to fall for the players"

From Rites of Passage: Sonny - .....there's something scary about the concept of Switek and Zito doing roach removal. Like it's a conflict of interest or something.

I'm surprised nobody has mentioned Crockett's classic line from "Junk Love": "Secret to success, Rico, whether it's women or money, is knowing when to quit. I outta know. I'm divorced and broke."

"You must take me for a right wanker, son!" - Phil Mayhew to Izzy in Phil the Shill. I think I read somewhere that Phil Collins more or less ad-libbed that line, and that Martin Ferrero didn't know what the British slang word "wanker" or "right wanker" meant, but he just went with it anyway...

The location info about the cafe seems to be genuine as it was -if my memory serves me correctly- from someone who was involved with the production and the location management respectively.

According to CGlide's great site "This was filmed on location at the Wet Paint Cafe. 915 Lincoln Road Mall, Miami Beach." go to http://www.miamivicelocations4.org/page22.html

Yup, that's it! I had done numerous different Google searches for Silvio's in Miami and L.A. but I always came up empty. When Tom said confidently yesterday it was "for sure stock footage from LA" that inspired me to try again and I finally found it. I had to piece together information from several different articles, including these: http://articles.latimes.com/2003/jun/01/magazine/tm-silvio22 http://www.newtimesslo.com/food-wine/530/locally-grown-locally-made-/ http://articles.latimes.com/1987-09-13/entertainment/ca-7746_1_ma-maison I learned that it would be within blocks of 8360 Melrose, so I searched Streetview and found it. This article confirms the address is 8478 Melrose Avenue in West Hollywood, Los Angeles: http://articles.latimes.com/1987-01-25/entertainment/ca-5646_1_dan-tana-s Oddly enough, that article never came up in my Google searches. I only found it by Googling the exact address.

One more, and perhaps my last, entry into the question of where Pierce's campaign headquarters were. Below is a postcard I found while shopping in downtown Miami this morning. It shows South Pointe Park as it looked before the current remodeling and condo havoc.Here we can see the observation tower discussed in previous posts in this thread, as well as a high-rise on the left side of the picture. Assuming this high-rise existed at the time VOC was filmed, IMO it is the best candidate for Pierce's campaign headquarters.If it did not exist at the time VOC was filmed, then consider me stumped because I do not believe the Smith & Wollensky restaurant was the site of the campaign headquarters (I will stand happily corrected if anyone else here can prove otherwise.). S&W, seen under construction in "Duty And Honor," (It looks under construction to me anyway.) may not have been completely built at the time VOC was filmed.This aerial also can be used to match up the scene from "Love At First Sight" where Crockett drives up in the white Testarosa.Also, if you know where to look, you can see the Nemo hotel from the teaser of "Red Tape" in the picture below:NOTE: The barren area above South Pointe Park is, to the best of my knowledge, where the old dog track from Miami beach's early days used to stand. The grey, wedge-shaped area just before the beach is where there used to be a two-story parking garage that I remember parking at when I used to go to the beach down there. This property stood vacant for many years, until condomania hit the area.

Here's an aerial image showing South Pointe. Unfortunately, the ship's smoke stack covers the observation tower I have referred to in previous posts. Still, you should be able to compare details from the aerial with the screen capture above from LAFS:In the above picture, towards the front of the ship and above it, you can see Smith & Wollensky (S&W) restaurant in the center of the green area. Just above and to the left of S&W is the building that used to be a stage for outdoor concerts at South Pointe Park. This is the stage I referred to as where Pierce's press conferences might have been in VOC.Regrettably, South Pointe no longer looks like this. Copy "N Save these picks for future reference, folks, they are geting harder and harder to come by...NOTE: Click on this picture to view it SUPER-SIZED - it is incredible!

The teaser, as Jim mentioned, must have been filmed at the Gold Coast Railroad Museum (GCRM) in South Miami. We visited this site last June, as the result of it having appeared in a Burn Notice episode. None of us recalled this place having been used in MV at the time of our visit.Jim got a great picture of the engine car. The front had white trim paint in "Vote Of Confidence (VOC)," today it is painted all black.The "Silver Stag" car IMO is fictitious, perhaps another example of MV altering a real name to suit their purposes (Think "Anchor Hotel" turned "A hor hotel" in Little Miss Dangerous."). At the GCRM there is a car called the Silver Crescent. MV's prop masters must have made their own sign. Compare my photo of the Silver Crescent and its lettering to the Silver Stag from VOC (I couldn't get a capture of the Silver Stag because it is a rolling shot - watch the episode for this.):The "Silver Stag"The Silver Crescent is a sleeping car, which made it the prefect choice for the prostitute train car. When C&T board the car we see a girl and a guy (Who we soon discover is Congressman Pierce) run out of a room and down a hallway. Below is a screen capture of that hallway, as shown in VOC:Next is my picture of the same hallway, taken from C&T's position:C&T apprehend the girl and Pierce (In the cliche "with his pants down" - LOL!) at the other end of the car. Crockett exclaims, "By God, he's got my vote!" See this screen capture below, and compare it to my photo of the stares leading to the second floor of the car. The rails of the stairs may look familiar..."By God, he's got my vote!"Compare the stairs/rails behind Crockett to the picture below.(Hey, Cooper&Burnett, by any chance ya got one of these jackets?)I may have to revisit the GCRM with screen shots of this episode, to better replicate these scenes. If/when I get around to it, updates will be posted.OTHER LOCATIONS DEPARTMENT:I believe Pierce's campaign offices and the stage he delivered his speech from were at South Pointe Park on South Miami Beach. The stage and its dressing rooms, to the best of my knowledge, no longer exist. The facility was closed down because residents of the condo towers that were built near the park where the stage was complained about the noise from concerts and other events which were held there - at least this is what I have heard (I hereby extend my Raspberry Award to the developers who built the Portofino Towers - Brrrttt!). There is some sort of restaurant near the spot where the stage was today. A park is the only remnant of that area from back when.The bar where C&T meet with the reporter (Frasier?) must have been Penrod's, just a stone's throw from Pierce's campaign offices at South Pointe.RECYCLED FOOTAGE DEPARTMENT:The classic OCB exterior is shown in this episode.We see the Cadillac pull out onto Biscayne Boulevard at one point. This is the same footage from "Killshot" which was recently discussed elsewhere. I believe this marks the third use of this shot?