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In the M.V. clip where Jim Zubiena draws so quickly and shoots the guy who has a gun pointed at him, Jim was that fast. I knew him then and he was a Master in the old Southwest Pistol League shooting IPSC in Los Angeles. I sure as hell was not as fast as Jim. Aside from acting, Jim also worked at B&B Gun Sales in North Hollywood. His wife was also a shooter.

Michael Mann was a shooter and attended Jeff Cooper's Gunsite School in Arizona. He was at Gunsite before I attended in April of 1981. I thought M.V. was a pretty good show, although I never pitched any stories to Mann. I knew absolutely nothing about Miami.

Johnson is 71 now.

L.W.

WOW. Loved Miami Vice! It was the most uber cool cop show ever! I have always wondered about the name of and the composer of the final song of the series. A great song and this final episode and scene was the only time I have ever heard it. It is not listed on the credits. Anyone know where to find it? Crocket says to Tubbs when asked where he is going: "somewhere where the water is warm and the drinks are cold". He ends up as Nash Bridges in San Francisco co-staring with Cheech.

"Benji, I know you're old and sore, but for old time's sake I beg of you, one last time: grab kilo bird, run like the wind, bury when no one's looking and mark spot then play dumb. I'm counting on you, pal!"

Wife's step-brother was a CSI in Dade County back during the "Miami Vice" drug period. He said real life it was a blood and guts gruesome time to be a CSI -- babies, kIds, women, elderly, innocent, guilty... didn't matter and it wasn't always via gunplay as typically portrayed on TV and in movies, either.

His best work was Kenny Powers dad in East Bound and Down.

I enjoyed the heck out of that series and I also have the entire series on DVD. We played against three softball teams during that timeframe in the Fraser Valley that all had matching mullets! Cracked me up!

I chuckled out loud at that, Pat.

Yes. That clip I posted has a lot of good gun handling going on there. And just blazing fast from concealment. Jeff Coopers Gunsite was THE place to train back in the day.

OK, that finally clears up something that has always puzzled me since the airing of the final episode. In that episode he is wearing a typical blue T-shirt under his trademark sport coat, but instead of being plain, it is a Kansas Jayhawker college football shirt. In the show, Sonny Crockett is supposed to be a former Florida State football star. I guess since he - Don Johnson, in real life, was originally from somewhere in eastern Kansas, he was wearing that as he was a fan and/or former student of Kansas?

I have also managed to track down the background music in the last episode of the series where Sonny is reminiscing the events of his and Rico's partnership, which was not shown in the credits. It was "Tell Me" by Terry Kath. For years I thought it was probably Ray Charles, but it didn't sound quite like Ray.

Well, it was a great show, but that was a lifetime ago and in many ways an end of an era. I did not know it then, but I now think it was a great time for life in this country. That is, overall speaking. I sure hope a remake is done again with as many of the original cast members as possible. Something for us old geezers to remember and talk about the days of our youth.

I was a huge fan of the show and would watch again if it had some of the original cast. I don’t care too much for the remakes where they put in new people as the same characters. An example would be the current Magnum PI or Especially Magiver. Don’t care for that one at all.

Remember Tubbs doing the psychic hotline commercials before they ditched him for Ms Cleo?

Kath was partying at Don Johnson’s house when he shot himself in 1978