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Unknown location solved? The movie theater where Crockett & Billy watch the Frankenstein flick. The walk scene Crockett & Billy before was filmed on 600 block of Lincoln Road Mall, as also confirmed by CGlide on his location page. http://www.miamivicelocations5.org/page21.html The Movie theater afterwards is still unknown, but it is very likely that this was the Colony Theater at 1040 Lincoln Road. http://cinematreasures.org/theaters/3085/photos/215097 Of course, it is hard to prove that, since the scenes with Crockett&Billy show only seat rows and no decisive clues from the surrounding or the entrance. But there is a short establishing shot with Billy sitting in the theater at first (see picture below) and this picture matches with the overall size and approximate seat pattern of the Colony (second pic below), even if the theater has been renovated since then and looks more modern now. In the episode it looks very aged. Crockett& son sit in row 6 with 13 seats in total, 11 rows visible in this shot. There are two main aisles with another two blocks of seats of the same size (would add up to 429 seats in these three blocks in total assuming three identical blocks, which nearly exactly matches the historic seat capacity given with 465). The theater seats are ascending which is not the case in all other old movie theaters. In my current picture the rows are also ascending, but there are 11 seats per middle row, but the seats look broader and the aisles too. A second picture of the current state is here to confirm which shows 374 seats total capacity in 17 rows and 3 blocks with the outer blocks being smaller and only 6 seats per row). I am 90% convinced by the layout and the location logistics argument in this case (they rather filmed the walk at Lincoln Road because of the theater location and not vice versa). What do you think? P.S. of course I checked other theaters too but they disqualify. The Lincoln Theater that was at 541 Lincoln Road and therefore exactly next the filming location of the walk in this episode, was closed between the early 80s and 1990 when it was renovated for 1+m USD., so it could not have been used for filming in Dec 1988. Another fact speaking in favor of the Colony is the 465 seats total stated which matches approximately what we see in the episode (bear in mind that the 465 relate to the time when it was a movie theater. It was restored afterwards and rebuild into a performing arts theater with stage). The Lincoln had 750 seats.

Man the Castillo pics are difficult! He always looks the same.

This is a nice modern home I´ve checked days ago. Unfortunately, It has no similarity with Cook´s house we see in the episode. Neither the pool, nor the building structure. It qualifies only for the distant location in the moddle of a wooden area.

decent candidate: https://www.bing.com/maps?osid=b011d3e8-fa8a-44b5-b736-617cdeea31c8&cp=25.620009~-80.312175&lvl=21&dir=90&style=g&v=2&sV=2&form=S00027

Golden Triangle Part 1, Down for the Count and Over The Line. Turnberry North Tower, Aventura.

You're first guess is correct

Then in reverse fashion, the cover band at the party in “The McCarthy” performs “Some Guys Have All the Luck”, then Crockett later quotes that song while standing in the burned warehouse in Lombard.

Wow you’re right! I’d totally forgotten that!

Whatever Works.

Just great @Robbie C.

Interesting you pinpoint this area Jim - I was walking one day to the Down for the Count house (Junk Love, Gods Work) on Sunset Islands 1 down North Bay Road which is one block behind your suggestion of Alton. I looked at Alton but the road is too big and not as quietly residential as North Bay. I thought North Bay Rd looked like a match for this house and area but couldn’t find the wall and there has been a lot of new properties built on that street since 1987.

One of my favourites out of the tracks done specially for the show.

Would have fitted the show well.

When I visited the 12th floor of The Atlantis I took these shots last year. We see this area in “Viking Bikers from Hell” and “Hit List”.