S.FL84 Posted March 28, 2019 Report Share Posted March 28, 2019 I did a search and found no results & was thinking a neat thread would be to weekly or maybe months feature that week's or month's noteable episode in MV history. For example this week on March 29th "NOBODY LIVES FOREVER" was broadcast. The band THE CHURCH is currently on tour and their career I'm sure was greatly boosted by being featured on MV as well as numerous other bands starting out. 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Robbie C. Posted March 28, 2019 Report Share Posted March 28, 2019 Nice idea. "Nobody Lives Forever" also featured Frank Military, who's gone on to be a producer of note and wrote some Vice episodes as well. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mjcmmv Posted March 28, 2019 Report Share Posted March 28, 2019 I like it! Here's one of my favorite facts from this episode. I know some of you know it because I saw it somewhere on here before, but it's still worth mentioning: Kim Griest starred as Sonny's love interest, Brenda and "Nobody Lives Forever" was her television debut. She also starred in Michael Mann's classic, "Manhunter". Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
summer84 Posted March 28, 2019 Report Share Posted March 28, 2019 Good idea. Michael Carmine, who played one of the punks in this episode 2 years later was featured in another MV episode as Mikey in "Everybody in Showbiz." At first I didn't recognize it was the same guy. Also starred in Hill Street Blues and Crime Story. Was featured in the movie Batteries Included, the one I believe Saundra Santiago was supposed to appear, but didn't get the permission by Michael Mann. He sadly died very young at age 30 in 1989. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Matt5 Posted March 28, 2019 Report Share Posted March 28, 2019 1 hour ago, S.FL84 said: I did a search and found no results & was thinking a neat thread would be to weekly or maybe months feature that week's or month's noteable episode in MV history. For example this week on March 29th "NOBODY LIVES FOREVER" was broadcast. The band THE CHURCH is currently on tour and their career I'm sure was greatly boosted by being featured on MV as well as numerous other bands starting out. I agree I think it’s a great idea. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dadrian Posted March 28, 2019 Report Share Posted March 28, 2019 @mvnyc used to do a weekly post like this, and we all seemed to enjoy it, but it was a new thread every week. Here’s an example: 4 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
S.FL84 Posted April 6, 2019 Author Report Share Posted April 6, 2019 Ok here goes: https://miamivice.fandom.com/wiki/The_Great_McCarthy Today in MV history is THE GREAT MCCARTHY an truly iconic ep. due primarily to the reason its plot was based on actual Miami fact. Mickey Munday who was at the very core of exploding cocaine world which MV was based staged several fake races which actually were VERY public cocaine delivery runs from offshore dropoffs. <That took kohonas the size of an elephant IMO. https://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/cocaine-cowboys-built-empire-inspired-miami-vice-article-1.3052383 ^ Just another mind blowing incredible daily event in the amazing world that one of the, if not THE best television programs was truly based on. It must've been incredible to have worked on that show. I remember how boring daily life was in the early 1980's.... then you'd see a news story of something so utterly shockingly fascinating like ^ this you'd be simply dumbfounded. 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
S.FL84 Posted April 6, 2019 Author Report Share Posted April 6, 2019 I made a slight error. THE GREAT MCCARTHY was originally run on November 16, 1984 then re-run on April 5, 1985. Irregardless its stands as not only a great ep. by itself but when you consider the fact it was based real events makes it even more incredible. No one I mean NO ONE in the entire cocaine cartel then or now comes close to the utter genius of Micheal "Mickey" Munday. ^ Mickey actually put over $100,000 in cash on the floor of his airplane hanger and spayed it w/ a couple kilos dissolved in water then spent all of it all over Broward County nullifying the use of K9 dogs. He'd also drive around a lunch looking then finding a K9 unit stopped for lunch and then he'd spray the entire car and all the cars in surrounding parking lot making that dog useless. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
S.FL84 Posted April 23, 2019 Author Report Share Posted April 23, 2019 (edited) This is MV history was a great ep. "Nobody Lives Forever" which broke new ground exposing American audiences to a level of violence it had NEVER seen before and NBC caught hell from the censors for it. The next two weeks are arguably two of THE best MV eps. ever shown. "Lombard" and "Evan". Excuse my language but HOLY SH#@ < those are two eps. that could have been stand alone movies of the week IMO. There was plenty of meat still left on the bone in both of those plots to make a few more eps. out of which they did w/ the Lombard character. Jeez those were some damn good day weren't they? I mean hell Jan Hammer even recorded the classic MV soundtrack song "Evan" just for this one ep. Simply incredible! Edited April 23, 2019 by S.FL84 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mjcmmv Posted April 23, 2019 Report Share Posted April 23, 2019 30 minutes ago, S.FL84 said: This is MV history was a great ep. "Nobody Lives Forever" which broke new ground exposing American audiences to a level of violence it had NEVER seen before and NBC caught hell from the censors for it. The next two weeks are arguably two of THE best MV eps. ever shown. "Lombard" and "Evan". Excuse my language but HOLY SH#@ < those are two eps. that could have been stand alone movies of the week IMO. There was plenty of meat still left on the bone in both of those plots to make a few more eps. out of which they did w/ the Lombard character. Jeez those were some damn good day weren't they? I mean hell Jan Hammer even recorded the classic MV soundtrack song "Evan" just for this one ep. Simply incredible! I absolutely agree. Two of my all-time favorites. And the actors, Farina and William Russ, were stars in their own right! These two episodes were classic. Thanks for the music! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
S.FL84 Posted April 23, 2019 Author Report Share Posted April 23, 2019 (edited) Its too bad we don't all live in or near the same city, we could have a weekly MV party as they did for THE ANDY GRIFFITH SHOW in my old hometown. 1 - 2x a month on Thursday night for years a local bar would show 3-4 eps. of T.A.G.S. and everyone would laugh themselves silly. I still watch it almost nightly on MeTV. Edited April 23, 2019 by S.FL84 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dadrian Posted April 23, 2019 Report Share Posted April 23, 2019 7 minutes ago, S.FL84 said: Its too bad we don't all live in or near the same city, we could have a weekly MV party as they did for THE ANDY GRIFFITH SHOW in my old hometown. 1 - 2x a month on Thursday night for years a local bar would show 3-4 eps. of T.A.G.S. and everyone would laugh themselves silly. I still watch it almost nightly on MeTV. I can quote most of the black and white episodes. The other greatest show ever. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mjcmmv Posted April 23, 2019 Report Share Posted April 23, 2019 31 minutes ago, S.FL84 said: Its too bad we don't all live in or near the same city, we could have a weekly MV party as they did for THE ANDY GRIFFITH SHOW in my old hometown. 1 - 2x a month on Thursday night for years a local bar would show 3-4 eps. of T.A.G.S. and everyone would laugh themselves silly. I still watch it almost nightly on MeTV. That would be great! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
S.FL84 Posted April 23, 2019 Author Report Share Posted April 23, 2019 It doesn't get much funnier than this > 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dadrian Posted April 24, 2019 Report Share Posted April 24, 2019 4 hours ago, S.FL84 said: It doesn't get much funnier than this > Absolutely! Wow. Talk about two worlds colliding for me here. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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