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Smuggler´s blues, with "Captain Chaos" John Nicolella (middle).

"Lombard"´s son fraternizing with police

Trust fund pirates

from the deleted Iggy Pop scene in "Evan"

Currently going through the original (and the “real”) Magnum p.i., with Tom Selleck. I haven’t watched it in probably 10-12 years, and I recently acquired the Fabulous Films Blu-ray set…which is almost all, if not all, unedited original broadcast versions! Anyway, I’m in the 12th episode of Season 1, “Thicker Than Blood”, and who do I notice guest starring (have never noticed this before)…but ‘Shadow’ himself—Vincent Caristi (from the MV episode “Shadow In the Dark”)! He looks a little more ‘human’ in this…but, I think he’s supposed to be a junkie. So, maybe that’s what fried him out & he then headed to Miami. Just kidding! (Side-note: This episode of “Magnum” was the first one to feature the famous starting theme song. The 11 episodes before it originally had a different starting theme.) A couple pics of Caristi…one as ‘Shadow’, and one from the episode of “Magnum”. Sadly he died fairly young in 1990, but I don’t believe a cause of death was ever stated: Vincent Caristi as ‘Shadow’, in MV’s Season 3 episode “Shadow In the Dark” (1986). Vincent Caristi as ‘Joey’, in Magnum p.i.’s Season 1 episode “Thicker Than Blood” (1981).

to have and to hold

Today we wish a very Happy Birthday to one of the actors of our favorite show, Miami Vice, .................. John Diehl! He played Larry Zito. We enjoyed him in all the episodes with his partner, Switek! Have a great Birthday, John!

Typical English Lit major behavior Also stole one of Crockett’s jackets

That´s a good possibility and very close vibe wise. The 1986 aerial is inconclusive whether Palapa was there at that time already. But there is a potential squared pointed roof (in red) on the 86 aerial that is not there today. The layout of buildings and trees from the episode do not match up though. Needs further investigation, but definitely worth a closer look.

Prop car was reused in my garage. 1982-1983 Dodge 400 (or possibly 1984-1985 Dodge 600). Mine is a 1982. It’s hard to tell, but this one on MV could be a coupe or sedan. I believe Gina drove a 400 sedan in an episode.

Without seeing your sketch of the venue configuration it's hard to scan the aerials, but a thing I will say is I get strong vibes of one place in Miami today, if it was mapped into that time - Palapa at Upper Buena Vista. 1. It's a small concert venue with plenty of dancing and drinking space 2. Lots of vegetation throughout including large mature trees 3. It is close to the predominantly black areas of Miami, which fits with the band/music in the scene 4. It's not far from the following in the sheet driving scene I can't tell from the aerials if this area would be feasible for that build in the 1980s, and I certainly don't claim this is the location, but vibe-wise it's very close to me, just food for thought. Assuming of course that the venue in the episode was used per its real-life purpose and the band actually played there, not made up by the crew. Also, anybody knows what this flag on the wall is, on the left? The rainbow flag on the right could be irrelevant to the location finding, but if the flag on the left is something unique, say ethnic/geographic, maybe googling relevant cultural-historical congregation places in Miami in the 80s could yeild a lead.

Interesting catch! Back to the Future and Miami Vice are both Universal too. That episode would have been filmed just a few months after Back to the Future came out.

Could be, but they all look virtually the same. On that note, in Tale of the Goat when Bobby Profile is filming one of his ads, you can hear his voice (off screen) say something like “I don’t know if it will take you back to the future…”, which suggests he’s trying to sell a Delorean, but I don’t remember ever seeing one on his lot. Anyone else ever catch that?

Yes Dennis Farina was sublime as Lombard . He did two episodes in Season 1 and one at the end of Season 5. Farina was a good and charismatic actor as well as busy — so I think we were lucky to get him for three episodes. All the episodes he was in he was the main star having as many scenes as Don Johnson and Philip Michael Thomas.

Dark content but an excellent episode. Dennis Farina stole the show as Lombard. 10 out of 10.

LAST UNKNOWN LOCATION: Rockhouse Club (and Dive bar). As we have the daily call sheet (without location addresses though for whatever reason) we know that both scenes were filmed the same day. They started filming at 5pm on Fri 27 July 84 with the day scenes at the dive bar and then (sunset in Miami in July around 8pm) they continued with the night scenes at the Raeggae club. There is no "company move" on the sheet, which could mean (maybe not and it was only forgotten) that both locations are the same or next to each other. When Crockett&Tubbs leave the rockhouse club, we can briefly see the interior of a building that resembles a bit the dive bar interior. Also the scene with Noogie dancing shows the style of building behind him with a similar vibe than the dive bar (brown wooden door, ..). When I started to reopen this unsolved case last week, it flashed on me that the area behind Crockett and Tubbs sitting with the wooden white half open fence around is rather a big rectangular shaped one than several small "booths". AND: the whole big rectangular roofed area seems to have ONE pointed roof with 6 or 8 triangle shaped segments. THAT should be quite unique and stand out on historic aerials from any building around. Further thinking that the car drive C&T (sc.80F....when they listen to the tape) was filmed the same night AFTER the rockhouse club as seen on the location call sheet, I thought I could find it near the drive location (Biscayne Blvd southbound around 33-29 Street), but nothing. I extended my search for other parts of Miami but no luck either. I made a handmade sketch of the buildings and roofs visible, It looks like a whole ensemble of buildings with extended roofs, repeatingly used white fences and a huge tree next to it. Vibe-wise this says it is NOT on the beach and not in downtown, rather in a less inhabited area or near a park. I used the 1986 aerial. Maybe the location was razed between 1984 and 1986? The 1984 aerial is blurry like hell. Maybe we will find it faster with more eyes trying .... @Paul Veres?

The four times Jan played guitar on MV (all “chugging distorted rhythm” except for one): - MV Theme - teaser of No Exit - lead guitar at the beginning of Noogie’s wedding on Made for Each Other (also actual bass guitar on that one!) - Buddies Am I missing any @Crockettt?

If I was a size 40, not only would I buy that right now, but I'd drive there to pick it up (Sebring is maybe 3 hours away from me). Anyway, I got a new jacket but it looks/fits kinda weird. It says it's 100% linen but the way it both looks and feels reminds me more of a robe, lol. Wasn't expensive and it does fit me well, plus it's super light, but it's very casual looking (Which I guess is good if I wanna rock it with a t-shirt and slacks). Any idea how to get this thing looking sharp? Somehow I think ironing/pressing it like a traditional suit is not an option, lol. Also, I have another jacket coming in, hopefully tomorrow, that's also 100% linen, but it looks nothing like this one regarding the material. I'll report on that later.

@MichaelAce your jacket is AMAZING! MiamiVibe is right about the shoulder pad part, but if you did want to try for the look in the photo below, I’m sure you could find some removable shoulder pads with Velcro (or something non-damaging). My mom had those in the 80s

The Great McCarthy

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Above the Law, Hard to Kill, and Out for Justice were all pretty good.

Yeah I really liked that part when Seagal was disappered from the movie. Unexpected and gave excitement as well for me too. One of the kinda big name starring actor is being killed that early showed that producers are brave so other unexpected things can happen later also. Yeah quite exciting movie to watch through, just not my genre. But actors are good in it, I think direction and script was also spot on. Seagal movies : yeah they are most of the times are on level with Chuck Norris straight to Home TV feature films but the really early ones are watchable especially if someone likes 80s aesthetics and some funnier action scenes. At least the aesthetics are there - Nico is not that bad with Sharon Stone I believe that came out in 1988. - Hard to Kill - 1990 - Kelly LeBrock is the main reason I had to watch it -Mark of Death - there is a good chase in it. But a strong 10/5 maybe in its on genre 10/6 I am not really into these Actually the Score is fantastic and love this scene where Seagal wore the RB Shooter shades ! @Paul Veres I am going to watch The Thing(1982) and Big Trouble in Little China(1986)

To compliment the above post - I was in Coconut Grove yesterday and I took the below at 2800 Emathla Street, Coconut Grove featured in “ Duty and Honor “ aka The Savage. The 10 out of 10 episode from early 1987 directed by John Nicollela. John Nicollela was the producer of Miami Vice in Seasons 1 and 2 who directed two Season 1 episodes and 6 Season 2 episodes. Duty and Honor was his last directed episode. John Nicollela was also a showrunner and Executive Producer alongside Don Johnson in 1996 for the fine first Season of “ Nash Bridges “.

The best thing about Executive decision is that Steven Seagal was killed off in the first third of the movie Honestly, it´s exciting until the end with many unexpected turns, with some MV guest stars (Oliver Platt, John Leguizamo). John mentioned in a recent interview that Seagal was the worst person he ever worked with, including physical threats at the set.

filming Out where the buses don´t run

I’ve never seen Dexter, but that photo is not from the LA area or even California. Wood piles are not used for docks on the west coast because the tidal bore is too large. Concrete piles with floating docks going up and down along them are the standard. The tidal range can be as high as 6-7 feet at times and the wood piles with docks fixed to them just wouldn’t work.

40 regular, $40: https://www.ebay.com/itm/315336327967?mkcid=16&mkevt=1&mkrid=711-127632-2357-0&ssspo=Wa__QBpARPS&sssrc=4429486&ssuid=pubP6yz6RwS&var=&widget_ver=artemis&media=COPY

My girlfriend and I were out and about yesterday and decided to drop by the new Porsche Driving Center in Carson (just south of Los Angeles) and see what it was about. They have a precious few Porsches on display. The main purpose is that there is a test track you can pay to drive a selected Porsche on which sounds fun. BUT! The main event was looking behind a glass wall into a repair shop/display area and seeing what I am positive is the exact same Porsche driven by Danny Sullivan (I think I remember this right) in the episode "Florence Italy." If you look at the episode and the pic here, you will see only a couple minor logo/paint alterations. But the car is there. I highly doubt they made more than a few of these. What do you think? I also posted this on my instagram with a side by side (pcnordy).

Just watched, a really good one indeed. Ray Liotta is a natural playing creepy scumbags

By Hooker by Crook

Dang it. Yeah the brunch scene.

Today we wish a very Happy birthday to ................. RedDragon86! Enjoy your Special Day!

Agreed! I’ve always thought that they should have taken “World of Trouble”, tweaked it (aka get rid of the “havoc” thing at the beginning), elongated it out, and used it as the series finale! The show (along with Calderone) started with Lombard…it could have ended with him.

Amen!! They really should have had Lombard in a few more episodes.

Above the Law is probably his best. I am convinced that the character Kurt Zagon is based on Maynard. Out for Justice is decent as well.

Chuck Norris was able to starr in 10/2 movies just like Seagal and was famous for action scenes where he beats the shit out of the opponents, that is why I compared to him. I don't remember Chuck starring/as main character/ ever in good movies, but I remember how bad was the Walker - Texas Ranger series For example this. It is one of the trashest movie(Forest Warrior - 1996) I have ever seen even if it was produced for children. Scenes like grabbing the chainsaw and it stops are just insane

Theatre of Magic (1993) featured on the video version of Jan Hammer’s fine “ Beyond the Mind’s Eye” LP was not the version released on the album —that was “ Magic Theatre” . It is extended and more upbeat. I love it - I also give the album 10 out of 10. Jan Hammer also released a jazz version of this theme on 2020s “ Sketches in Jazz “ also just great.

That's right, it is Kendall Square, and you're right it's expensive - I talked to some passerby and he said a 1 bedroom goes for about $2,200. You can probably still get a 1bd in Brickell for $2,200 (in some older building). This place is 50-min drive from Brickell! By the way the guy was Venezuelan and another thing I learned from him was that Doral is locally known as Doralzuela because of so many immigrants from that country. I knew Venezuelans flock there but haven't heard the nickname before. Certainly true as I just found several online articles using it. To be clear Kendall Square is not unique in how nice it is. Here is Casa Vera just next door: Apartments start at over $2,200 for 1 bedroom. Camden in Doral: About $2,300 for one bedroom. Amli in Doral: $2,300. In fact Amli has several in South Florida, here is a beaut in Davie: South Florida is beautiful. Especially if you can fork out for a nice place!

El Viejo

The exterior shot of the Miami Metro Police department is a high rise condo in Miami, the Venetia Condo.

Thanks! no wonder it doesn't feel and look like Miami at times. I am still waiting to see the Cape Florida Light, there was scene where Dexter was going to meet a serial killer there but they cancelled. So annoying

I’d have made more than croissants for her! Louis…not so much. I thought we had a puking Elvis emoji on here?

Happy B-Day RedDragon86!

Love it, but $50?

After the Santa Monica location seen in “ Free Verse “ and “ Asian Cut “ — I went to the Los Angeles neighborhood area of Burbank on Friday and to 2901 West Alameda Avenue. Did the best I could inside the small studio complex. We see this set up shot in Season 3s “ Stone’ s War “. This came from another 1980s show and I think was used in “ Dynasty “ and “ Murder She Wrote”. from “ Stone’s War “ —- My shots 19th April, 2024– Burbank

That would be the infamous "ditto" machine. Nasty things. Regular copiers normally appeared between them and printers, though. Dot matrix wasn't exactly ideal for course materials, especially when they were still using the oversized paper with the removable perforated edges on the sides to feed them through the printers....

My office desk at work is like this. You might think I searched to find one, but believe it or not, it actually came with the office!

This is one of the best of the MV 'message' episodes, right up there with God's Work (although I still put God's Work above it). There was a lot of unexplored potential with this episode in terms of character development in subsequent episodes, so it also marks a bit of a missed opportunity.

Was hoping to find a thread like this! Am listening to Lazerhawk; Redline right now. Cant get enough of this at the moment... Love Rocky IV by the way, and that track. Driving round in a Lambo reminiscing of Apollo on the beach in his crop top. Training Montage is another quality track from the film.