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I was going to post this in Miami Misc. but more relevant here - now the parking lot of the Mount Sinai Medical Centre off Alton Road as you enter Miami Beach and how it was in the latter part of 1987 in this Season 4 episode.

I just watched a Starsky and Hutch episode today called Murder Ward. It was written by Yerkovich and one of the orderlies at the mental institution was named Switek! He reused the character names Sonny Crockett and Rico from Hill Street Blues and now this. Apparently he wrote a second episode that had Philip Michael Thomas in the cast. Haven’t seen that one.

What is your opinion regarding the use of inter-episode/inter-season continuity in Miami Vice? Despite the instances of recurring characters and the story arcs that result from them, most episodes of Vice are one-offs with no direct references to any other episodes. I can see positives and negatives in this approach. Do you wish there had been a greater effort made to tie everything together?

The episodes "Knock, Knock, Who's There?" and "Badge of Dishonor" were based on the huge real life "Miami River Cops" scandal. I thought we had discussed this a lot, but I couldn't find any threads on the topic. @S.FL84 has mentioned it a few times. Discovery Channel ran a good documentary on the case. It's on Youtube broken into 5 parts: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Eylio-po41o https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LQuXEhx03Dg https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kGO_5T2Fc40 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=edC9O9yuqhs

Comeon Vicefan be Rambo, you can do anything you set your mind to.

I'd expect song rights issues. There were a lot of major groups from this era who were missed, honestly.

Love that film. Am lucky enough to have bagged the soundtrack on CD, they seems to fetch a premium now.

Current day Collins Avenue from around 5660 Collins looking south - we see a very similar view in the teaser of 1989s “Freefall” just slightly more south.

Under the 12th Avenue bridge and the Miami River at the Rmk Merrill- Stevens boatyard seen in the opening credits of this episode. 1989 And current day.

filmed in Matheson Hammock County Park

I just click the youtube link and copy and paste it into this. https://en.savefrom.net/1-youtube-video-downloader-1/

Almost at the end.

To download the video from Youtube use the „ss“ trick. Just insert „ss“ in the URL before the „youtube.com“ part and press enter. Then you can easily download the video. That works fine with all YT videos. Details here: https://www.legit.ng/amp/1138418-how-download-youtube-using-ss.html

The first video with Saundra arresting the guy at Viscaya is interesting and very entertaining. Especially the resurrection of El Viejo‘s stepson, the cop from San Antonio (or Broward?) who is accompanying her walking down the steps is a blast!

Well, here's another doozy. She makes a good observation for the prop re-use thread. Don't know if anybody caught that before. I don't know if I would've watched this show, and I am a Jump Street fan myself. Honestly, even if this show had been picked up, I can't see it going past one season.

So Glad they kept the Tower. I remember it from the Pilot and first seeing it in the background. It was in the back ground of several vice episodes as well as the movie- Tony Rome.

Happy Belated Birthday, @GinaFan! Sorry to hear you had the flu, hope you're doing better now!

Happy birthday - very best wishes

When I first got into the show, I thought there was going to be zero continuity between episodes so I was pleasantly surprised when Characters mentioned things that have happened like the speech between Gina and Sonny in Bought and Paid for, "You wasn't the one who was raped".."You've got one hell of a memory sonny". That was brilliant and great example of how to do it without it coming across heavy handed and forced. In Red Tape, Switek mentions that he could have rolled over when Zito died but he stayed focused on the job. Obviously the two parter with Zito's death where C&Ts goes to his house with the Goldfish Lombard showing up in two episodes of season 1 and he's mentioned in Nobody Lives Forever.(I just ignore the abysmal S5 ep) These details help MV create it's own little universe. It's pretty cool. The re-using of actors never bothered me though. What do you think of them re-using houses/apartments? Like Brenda's house re-used in Shadow in the Dark.

Ah, brevity. I can dig it. What would you like to change? For example, in "One Eyed Jack" I've always thought the football jersey Gina was wearing on Sonny's boat should have been University of Florida colors.

Deserving of special recognition, this site is remarkable for its completeness and the diligence of the research: http://www.miamivicelocations.org/ . It is a location guide for each Vice episode. The pages, screen captures, annotated maps, and current photos are arranged chronologically in sequence with the story line of each episode. Its dedicated author is working his way through the entire series, episode by episode. Locations used by other TV shows and movies are included.

I totally agree that a stricter adherence to a "show bible" would have been nice. Most TV shows have such a document so that, no matter who's writing the episode, they at least have some basic feeling of interconnectedness. Perhaps Vice's was just scant?It's probably also important to think about the era. Vice premiered just two years after "Police Squad!" was cancelled because network execs thought the audience didn't have the attention span to get all the jokes. In other words, it was a time when it was assumed the viewing audience wouldn't pick up on those touches anyway. Plus, a "self-contained" feel is always considered desirable for syndication purposes, when episodes might be shown out of order (although being self contained doesn't seemed to have helped Vice's syndication fortunes).Lastly, the current TV era is coming off the phenomenon of "Lost," which created belief in execs that viewers crave denser mythologies. Hence, you see more shows willing to do it that way now.

yeah that makes totally sense that with that proximity with Texas, these are located on the west coast. ty jim i have a bad news for you pals. i was testing Google earth, and it seems Castillo house is a .. ruin. i'm not sure about it, but it looks bad (see link). if a Miamian could investigate this, it would be a good thing. I'm not talking of invading a private property. just go there with a camera, see if there's any fence, and do 4 - 5 shots. a 2 - 3 minutes affair max https://earth.google.com/web/@25.7180944,-80.24581273,1.91966515a,46.04190711d,35y,-148.87240104h,61.32027563t,0r/data=ClUaUxJNCiUweDg4ZDliN2Q5YTFlY2YxZDk6MHgxMWU2NzE4ZGM1OGZmMTRiGQQ9L3DUtzlAIXwOhwC7D1TAKhIzMzUxIFBvaW5jaWFuYSBBdmUYASAB if for some reason the link doesn't work for you, 3351 Poinciana Ave, Miami FL 33133. I really loved that house in the series. mainly for its sobriety. and the serenity that emanated from it