They’ve been kickin’ this around for several years now. I don’t know of anything that’s come to fruition yet regarding it though.

I loved the old MV series... Especially the one that had Willie Nelson on as a retired TX Ranger looking to avenge the death of his son from a druggie.. I have the whole series - just have to find time to watch 'em all...

I believe the video is a fan made one, nicely done though. The episode with WN is El Viejo. Ironically enough, I’m sitting on the couch watching season 2 right now.

We gunna see a Bren Ten on the set?

Or will they [bleep] it up an use a Glock

Today is my dad’d birthday

I will surprise him with this


Wonder if that lieutenant with the cratered-out ‘pizza face’ will be on there.

Looks like fans of the show are putting these teasers together.

Fugk yeah.

Don Johnson rules.

Unless that black guy didn't age a single day, I'd say those were old clips.

Don Johnson still looks great though, he's one cool mofo.

Man I hope this comes to fruition. I loved Miami Vice back in the 80s. Best synthesis of pop music and action sequences to this day.

His name is Tubbs.

You racist fugk.

The clips are from other movies and tv shows. There has been talk of a reboot for years though. The gals that play Gina and Trudy still look pretty good. My aunt and uncle went to high school with Edward James Olmos...

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I thought he was some sort of latino.

That white Testarossa is gay as hell.

I was just thinking, will that summbitch be all rusted out and beat to hell with Crocket @ "Rock Bottom" for the 1st episode? How big will Elvis the Alligator be now?

Both those guys are 71 now.

Enjoyed the first run and will welcome V2.0. Had an off set encounter with Don years ago...he’s a funny dude.

He's from around these parts. Had a reputation for being an asswhole. He was a guest on this old lady's local news show years ago in Joplin, MO. He was totally gentlemanly to her.

If anyone likes sci-fi he starred in "A Boy and His Dog" back in he mid-70's. Based on a Harlan Ellison story, great movie with a really good ending...

It was a good show, I liked it!

I remember that episode well......a Classic for sure especially the Colt Peacemaker carried by Willie Nelson.

I took my girlfriend to see that when we were in college.

She married me anyway.

Here all this time I thought Digital Dan was Crockett

Oh yeah, a truly excellent film!

I love Johnson in Tin Cup:

Will Izod shirts, mullets and Sperry Topsiders make it in 2021?


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most of the show was filmed in Miami when I was living there in the mid eighties. My restaurant, out on Kendall Ave, was a hangout for much of the crew. I met all of them, had drinks, swapped some girlfriends and stories. Most of the cast were good people.

The opening credits have to stay the same!

We all dug Miami Vice, but were really envious, 'cause "Houston Vice" was more like watching Blackhawk Down .

Frank Zappa, was on one, called Coke Weasel Dust!

That’s racist, if the weasel was black/brown

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Miami Vice overly-dramatized minor acts that were part of a bigger play that the show ignored, insomuch as it was intended to reflect the Miami culture in the 70's and early 80's. Miami was transformed by the Medellín Cartel of which the key players were Jorge Ochoa (not Pablo Escobar) in Columbia and Griselda Blanco in Miami. There were innumerable smugglers, but they were all either working for those two or trying to rip them off. The TV show makes it seem as though there was a whole panorama of drug-related crime without any unifying factor, but in fact it was driven almost entirely by one operation. Obviously the show is fictional and did not portend to be a documentary, but it still influenced a lot of American's understanding of what Miami was like while keeping them ignorant of some important facts. One of those facts is that the United State Government was for a long time content to look the other way. The Federal agencies that were primarily responsible, the DEA, what is now called CBP, and the Coast Guard were doing nothing at all about the massive amounts of cocaine coming into Miami. It was having the effect of multi-billion dollar stimulus on the city and there was no apparent reason to intervene because it appeared that everyone was benefiting. That was until Griselda Blanco began a violent murder spree. If that woman wasn't psychotic, she certainly had no regard for human life whatsoever. She was ordering hits one after another in a near continuous string, most of which were carried out without regard for collateral damage. It was only her reckless disregard for peace and human life that forced the US Government to intervene.

If the US Government was standing idly by as a stream of billions of ~1980 USD (about 4X the value of 2021 USD) was flowing to Columbia, you can bet they had some intention. Maybe to fund a war against FARC or maybe they would repatriate it as payment for Venezuelan debt. If Blanco forced them to crack down, it's amazing how she got away with it. How she got off the hook was a stunning story.

Right? In reality, I drove a '75 Firebird that somebody had stolen the T-tops from and the passenger door wouldn't secure unless it was locked. I had to put a tarp over it at night.

Fun times for a young man. Oh...I finally got a bag phone too. Then a "brick"!

That show sure made the mid-1980's a cool time to be a cop, even a small town one. Oh, man, was I wishing I could swap my S&W 586 for a Bren 10, but no doing!

I got my 4506 ready.....

At least the S&W worked!

I knew a guy who had a BrenTen with the box, extra mags, etc. he sold it for a pretty penny to, as he put it, “ some Miami Vice nerd”.

Sonny's Model 645 was replaced with the new Smith & Wesson Model 4506, also chambered in .45 ACP. Sonny's 4506 can be seen in the beginning of the episode "Victim of Circumstance" when he is sitting in a cafe, looking at it.

That little Mdl 37 was what turned me on...but I was always the shotgun man.

I got my hands on a Bren 10 when they came out, except they were not shipping magazines with them. Tried for about 6 months to get a mag and never got it done. Found some guy that thought is was cool and sold it to him and bought 2 deltas.

Michael Mann had some good advisers on the crew. There was some good gun stuff here and there on the show. This draw from concealment was the real deal, smoking fast.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=fXv8IepBVJQ

They would get DNA off those gloves today.

Back then when the actors would just dump a mag and not hunt it up afterwards, Bren Ten guys would descend on the area looking for the mags.

That's some interesting history.
I heard that violent crime was very high at that time .
Maybe that Griselda gal was why?

Read about her. She was hardcore man. Violent, mean bitch. Her youngest son was named Michael Corleone Blanco. For real.

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Wow Ethan,

How often does a classic series end up on the big screen or comeback series with the original cast after all those years? That's amazing.

If you think about it, remind me when you hear of it's release. I have family that went into law enforcement because of this series. I warned them ahead of time that it's not really glamorous and I doubt they'll be issued a cigar boat for commute. Lol.

Corleone?
That sounds familiar....
Wasn't that the king pin on the old Miami vice series, or am I thinking the Godfather?

Miami Vice was just a little before my time but I remember the craze well. I had the Don Johnson spiked haircut and really dug the intro with the uptempo music and quick cut scenes. Especially the woman in bikinis.

Michael Corleone was the youngest son in The Godfather.

I lived in key largo in 1992-1993ish. Smuggling was part of the pop culture. LEO was in cars, planes, boats, etc... you couldn’t go 5 miles on US1 without seeing blue lights. You could buy “seaweed” for $20/quarter. Scheit that hit the water not sealed tight and took on seawater. People chopping out lines on the bar at the Caribbean club, go fast boats docked up with rumbling motors shaking the windows at plantation yacht harbor marina where I worked. My roommate got stabbed in the parking lot of the paradise pub for hustling some Haitians playing pool.
Had a guy that used to come in and slap $100 bills in all our palms for anything we did. S.Florida in the early 90’s was the wild, Wild West.

It wasn't sexy here.

Although it wasn't a big part, Don Johnson was great in a recent movie with Mel Gibson and Vince Vaughn called Dragged Across Concrete.

Should have been here in the 70's.

“Out Where the Buses Don't Run” was my favorite episode. Last scene was as good as it gets.

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