Podcasts about sonny crockett

This week on Miami Vice: A wedding is quickly followed by a funeral as a kingpin Luis Pedroza is gunned down on his wedding day, leaving his arranged bride and now widow to live with his son (Miguel Ferrer RIP), sister-in-law and son-in-law. Clearly, things will be super happy and cordial! The 80s did love a new mysterious woman moving into a huge mansion occupied with feuding family members. Things gets spicier when Tubbs catches feelings. Meanwhile, Crockett goes up to visit Billy, who is acting out due to the impending visit from the Stork. Crockett tries to make up for lost time, but it doesn't seem to be enough as Billy feels unwanted by both sides. Show Notes Gallery S5E10 (https://imgur.com/gallery/5x10-bqRP3Tz) For more Vice and Easy Tiktok: @viceandeasypodcast Instagram: @viceandeasypodcast (https://www.instagram.com/viceandeasypodcast/?hl=en) YouTube: Vice and Easy Podcast (https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCm2ci7Vb75Tgf1uGMOjfvNQ)

This week on Miami Vice: Gina is undercover with a big-time dealer, Enriquez, who is a big fan of white stuff whether it be cocaine or fabulous accessories. Vice is after him and their bust (at a metro station party...?) was by the book until Enriquez's lawyer gets him off thanks to Switek's typo in the warrant. The lawyer, Sam Boyle and his protegé, Lisa Madsen (Amanda Pummer) are working for Enriquez as Vice tries to get closer, and it takes a dead child to make Lisa questions her loyalty. Her world comes crashing down as Vice closes in on Enriquez and Boyle - whose world is also closing in around him as he's caught stealing from Frank Romano (Tony Sirico), while Enriquez keeps servings looks. Your host was a bit over-caffeinated so feel free to skip ahead at parts or listen along and check the show notes for any links - including other shady lawyers stealing from clients like Tom Girardi! Could Sam have been a husband on The Real Housewives of Miami if it was around in the 80s??? Show Notes Gallery S5E09 (https://imgur.com/gallery/vice-easy-podcast-gallery-miami-vice-s05-e09-fruit-of-poison-tree-N2RZaGc) For more Vice and Easy Tiktok: @viceandeasypodcast Instagram: @viceandeasypodcast (https://www.instagram.com/viceandeasypodcast/?hl=en) YouTube: Vice and Easy Podcast (https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCm2ci7Vb75Tgf1uGMOjfvNQ)

This week on Miami Vice: Switek's bets and debts catch up to him and he's not alone. A star Hurricanes quarterback named Kevin with an overbearing stage dad (an old friend of Stan's) and shady manager, is also facing gambling debts. Both of them will get caught up as Vice busts the gambling ring run by and then subsequent hit on Chi Chi Vasquez, and both of their debts rack up getting them and those around them into hot water. Switek is not alone as Crockett and Tubbs are there to try and help him through his issues that aren't really about his girlfriend, as he claims. Show Notes Gallery S5E08 (https://imgur.com/a/vice-easy-podcast-gallery-miami-vice-s05-e08-hard-knocks-NpjQh5Y) For more Vice and Easy Tiktok: @viceandeasypodcast Instagram: @viceandeasypodcast (https://www.instagram.com/viceandeasypodcast/?hl=en) YouTube: Vice and Easy Podcast (https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCm2ci7Vb75Tgf1uGMOjfvNQ)

This week on Miami Vice: Trudy goes under as a prostitute to catch a serial killer who is carving his mark into his victims. Could it be the eclectic artist with a penchant for violence and knives (Cory Tagawa is back)? Continuity be damned this episode as Castillo can't decipher whether these markings as Japanese or Thai (despite previously living there, speaking Thai in previous episodes and being married to a Thai woman...?) so Vice enlists the help of a professor of Asian studies to help them catch the killer. Trudy gets closer and closer and ultimately way too close for comfort in the search for the killer. TW: Sexual abuse, incest, torture Show Notes Gallery S5E07 (https://imgur.com/a/vice-easy-podcast-gallery-miami-vice-s05-e07-asian-cut-2Qxxmlm) For more Vice and Easy Tiktok: @viceandeasypodcast Instagram: @viceandeasypodcast (https://www.instagram.com/viceandeasypodcast/?hl=en) YouTube: Vice and Easy Podcast (https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCm2ci7Vb75Tgf1uGMOjfvNQ)

This week on Miami Vice: Vice is put in charge of a key witness in a trial against a drug kingpin named Quintero. The FBI thinks the witness will be safer with Vice, and Vice has their hands full when he tries to sneak out to hit the clubs. Crockett and Keith, the witness, butt heads but, the generation gap narrows as they get to know each other better. This episode might be dated in my 2024 (RIP Expos) but, some things, like bumping heads with your elders, never change. Show Notes Gallery S5E06 (https://imgur.com/gallery/vice-easy-podcast-gallery-miami-vice-s05-e06-line-of-fire-K1V2M6h) For more Vice and Easy Tiktok: @viceandeasypodcast Instagram: @viceandeasypodcast (https://www.instagram.com/viceandeasypodcast/?hl=en) YouTube: Vice and Easy Podcast (https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCm2ci7Vb75Tgf1uGMOjfvNQ)

Access this entire 50-minute episode (and additional monthly bonus shows) by becoming a Junk Filter patron for only $5.00 (US) a month! Over 30% of episodes are exclusively available to patrons of the show. ⁠⁠⁠⁠ https://www.patreon.com/posts/191-manhunter-2-117666207 James Majure and I continue our discussion of Michael Mann's Manhunter, first by exploring Mann's career-long interest in the 1975 non-fiction book The Home Invaders, a strange mid-series episode of Miami Vice that serves as a tv version of Manhunter with Sonny Crockett going inside the mind of a bizarre cat burglar, and how Dino DeLaurentiis churned out Hannibal material in the wake of success of The Silence of the Lambs (which he didn't produce) including an inferior Brett Rather version of Red Dragon (shot by the same cinematographer) with an all-star cast and Anthony Hopkins as Lecter, which makes one appreciate Mann's artistic achievement with Manhunter even more. The Home Invaders: Confessions of a Cat Burglar by Frank Hohimer (1975), a key text for the cinema of Michael Mann which has inspired many works including the forthcoming Heat 2, is available to read on Internet Archive. 1986 TV spot for Manhunter, 1986 Commercial for the network premiere of Manhunter on NBC, 1989 Trailer for Red Dragon (Brett Rather, 2002)

This week on Miami Vice: Vice minus Crockett (with a very clearly ADR'd-in excuse of testifying elsewhere) is trying to get in with Borrasca, who is part of a splinter cell group that uses drug money to fight communism in the made up country of Puerto Rubio. As Tubbs and Switek get closer, a very shadowy and overly-tanned figure warns them to back off and he goes way back with Castillo. Reese, may or may not be sanctioned by the government and Castillo is doing his best to see what side of the law he is while Vice tries to get closer to Borrasca through his connections: a retired detective (OOF RIP), a gorgeous nightclub owner and associated goons. Will Vice be able to get Borrasca to trial for his crimes without interference? Show Notes Gallery S5E05 (https://imgur.com/gallery/vice-easy-podcast-gallery-miami-vice-s05-e05-borrasca-W1TvvCm) For more Vice and Easy Tiktok: @viceandeasypodcast Instagram: @viceandeasypodcast (https://www.instagram.com/viceandeasypodcast/?hl=en) YouTube: Vice and Easy Podcast (https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCm2ci7Vb75Tgf1uGMOjfvNQ)

This week on Miami Vice: Crockett, per doctor's orders, takes a vacation down to the glades to get his mind off the IAD investigation into his Burnett behaviour. In true Crockett fashion, he doesn't get much rest when the bartender he was flirting with (Melissa Leo) gets taken hostages by a trio of ex-cons in search of their long-ago promised payday. Can this man catch a break? The answer is no. Show Notes Gallery S5E04 (https://imgur.com/gallery/vice-easy-podcast-gallery-miami-vice-s05-e04-bad-timing-9kWBTAN) For more Vice and Easy Tiktok: @viceandeasypodcast Instagram: @viceandeasypodcast (https://www.instagram.com/viceandeasypodcast/?hl=en) YouTube: Vice and Easy Podcast (https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCm2ci7Vb75Tgf1uGMOjfvNQ)

This week on Miami Vice: Castillo's ex-wife arrives in town - looking a bit different since it's a different actress (rosalind Chao) - to ask for help regarding her husband and his seemingly legit business dealings. Under the employ of an import/export impresario, a whole bunch of money went missing during a routine deliver to another kingpin named Rivas. May Ying proclaims her husband's innocence as Castillo vows to help her. Show Notes Gallery S5E03 (https://imgur.com/gallery/vice-easy-podcast-gallery-miami-vice-s05-e03-heart-of-night-M7GbFbS) For more Vice and Easy Tiktok: @viceandeasypodcast Instagram: @viceandeasypodcast (https://www.instagram.com/viceandeasypodcast/?hl=en) YouTube: Vice and Easy Podcast (https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCm2ci7Vb75Tgf1uGMOjfvNQ)

This week on Miami Vice: Burnett's Scarface-esque rise to power is facing some more snags: booze, Tubbs (yes, even after being shot), El Gato, and both Cliff and Celeste's betrayal. And also a large cat named Morris. The flashbacks continue as Burnett struggles and is blown up again.....!!!! This guy can't catch a break! Let's see what happens as Burnett's power wanes and Crockett's memories continue to flood back. Show Notes Gallery S5E05 (https://imgur.com/gallery/vice-easy-podcast-gallery-miami-vice-s05-e02-redemption-blood-O38bxrz) For more Vice and Easy Tiktok: @viceandeasypodcast Instagram: @viceandeasypodcast (https://www.instagram.com/viceandeasypodcast/?hl=en) YouTube: Vice and Easy Podcast (https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCm2ci7Vb75Tgf1uGMOjfvNQ)

Access this entire 86-minute episode (and additional monthly bonus shows) by becoming a Junk Filter patron for only $5.00 (US) a month! Over 30% of episodes are exclusively available to patrons of the show. https://www.patreon.com/posts/180-miami-vice-113085968 We celebrate the 40th anniversary of the premiere of NBC's crime drama Miami Vice with a new episode of Junk Filter's continuing series on the show. James Majure returns from Athens, Georgia to discuss the bizarre duelling vanity musical projects of stars Don Johnson and Philip Michael Thomas that appeared as the success of the show culturally peaked. Philip Michael Thomas struck first with a strange solo album for Atlantic Records in 1985, Living the Book of My Life, that came with a famously terrible music video for the single “Just The Way I Planned It”; for some reason PMT promoted this project by reissuing a forgotten anti-drug exploitation film he made in 1978 (co-starring The Gap Band), retitled Death Drug, where he plays a rising musical talent who tries PCP and immediately goes insane, which features ludicrous new sequences shot on a camcorder that make the project even more incoherent. Don Johnson on the other hand had a solo rock album for CBS Records the following year, Heartbeat, with full label support and an all-star cast of collaborators. It spawned a Top 5 hit with the title track and came with an expensive album-length music video project for HBO that feels like a lost Sonny Crockett episode of Miami Vice. We also discuss one of the most bizarre episodes of Vice that has this eighties psychedelic vanity production energy, Season 4's “Missing Hours”, featuring alien abductions, UFOs and (inexplicably) Chris Rock and James Brown. “Miami Vice at 40: You Can't Go Home Again” by Chaim Roth, for Miami New Times, September 24, 2024 Music video for Heartbeat (Don Johnson, 1986) Music video for Just The Way I Planned It (Philip Michael Thomas, 1985)

This week on Miami Vice: Sonny Burnett is back as we open Season Five. He's working for a new bigwig, Oscar Carrera, and is helping him with logistical issues until his son, Miguel and his wife, Celeste make things way more complicated. Tubbs goes under as Cooper to try and see if he can jog his memory as Carrera fights with his son and his rival, El Gato - the brother of the recently departed Manolo from Mirror Image. Everything is going to Burnett's plan until he and Cooper meet up and then boom - to be continued! Show Notes Gallery S5E01 (https://imgur.com/gallery/vice-easy-podcast-gallery-miami-vice-s05-e01-hostile-takeover-fB5uO2q) For more Vice and Easy Tiktok: @viceandeasypodcast Instagram: @viceandeasypodcast (https://www.instagram.com/viceandeasypodcast/?hl=en) YouTube: Vice and Easy Podcast (https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCm2ci7Vb75Tgf1uGMOjfvNQ)

This week on Miami Vice: Sonny goes back undercover to get closer to two bigwigs: Manolo and Gutierrez - against Tubb's wishes and ends up in an explosion. He survives (not to Vice's knowledge) but, has amnesia and now believes that he is his alter ego, Sonny Burnett. As he gets deeper into this new world, Tubbs is digging deeper into Manolo and Gutierrez (Antonio Fargas!) to figure out what really happened on that boat with help from the Ft. Lauderdale precinct. The same precinct that's trying to track down an internal leak to Gutierrez! What a season finale. Did I mentioned Julia Roberts? Also guest starring: Chris Cooper Show Notes Gallery S4E22 (https://imgur.com/gallery/vice-easy-podcast-gallery-miami-vice-s04-e22-mirror-image-BAD6o7D) For more Vice and Easy Tiktok: @viceandeasypodcast Instagram: @viceandeasypodcast (https://www.instagram.com/viceandeasypodcast/?hl=en) YouTube: Vice and Easy Podcast (https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCm2ci7Vb75Tgf1uGMOjfvNQ)

This week on Miami Vice: Evil is the theme of this week as Vice hears about home invasions gone wrong when a 15-year old girl is killed, and the style matches that of Frank Hackman... remember him? From "Forgive Us Our Debts"? He shot and killed Crockett's former partner, was on death row until Crockett helped get him out, believing he was innocent. Nope! And now Crockett is about to cross paths with Hackman again right as Caitlin comes home from tour with a secret in tow. And I finish the episode off with some Sheena Easton Viced Tea! Show Notes Gallery S4E21 (https://imgur.com/gallery/vice-easy-podcast-gallery-miami-vice-s04-e21-deliver-us-from-evil-JBjFg1w) For more Vice and Easy Tiktok: @viceandeasypodcast Instagram: @viceandeasypodcast (https://www.instagram.com/viceandeasypodcast/?hl=en) YouTube: Vice and Easy Podcast (https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCm2ci7Vb75Tgf1uGMOjfvNQ)

This week on Miami Vice: It's come to this - a clip show! Crockett is shot in a chase gone awry and we see flashbacks of his life through Sonny and the Vice team. Show Notes Gallery S4E20 (https://imgur.com/gallery/ElBFOBI) For more Vice and Easy Tiktok: @viceandeasypodcast Instagram: @viceandeasypodcast (https://www.instagram.com/viceandeasypodcast/?hl=en) YouTube: Vice and Easy Podcast (https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCm2ci7Vb75Tgf1uGMOjfvNQ)

This week on Miami Vice: Frank Mosca (Stanley Tucci) returns to Miami to check in on his legitimate businesses, including a pasta factory that double as a laundering front LOL. Gina and Mosca get chatting at a party, and she gets closer to him to help get more info pertaining to his businesses to help Vice and the Feds, who are still trying to nail him. Crockett appears concern (or is it jealousy? Bro, go focus on your wife!) as she gets deeper undercover with Mosca, who has taken a shine to her. But, Gina gets closer, and like Frank Stallone in this episode, a little too close to fire. Show Notes Gallery S4E19 (https://imgur.com/gallery/vice-easy-podcast-gallery-miami-vice-s04-e18-blood-roses-aYuA0Ag) For more Vice and Easy Tiktok: @viceandeasypodcast Instagram: @viceandeasypodcast (https://www.instagram.com/viceandeasypodcast/?hl=en) YouTube: Vice and Easy Podcast (https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCm2ci7Vb75Tgf1uGMOjfvNQ)

This week on Miami Vice: Tubbs almost gets killed in a deal gone bad when a group of men in police jackets blow most of them away, steal their drugs, money and jewelry. Something is already amiss when Tubbs spots a woman keeping watch at the deal and then at a related crime scene - she's also undercover, with Special Ops - and things get complicated from there as more coincidences pop up. Along with coincidences, this episode's them is déjà vu and the colour blue as we deal with another insider leak case, returning guest stars (Lester with plastics aka Julio Oscar Mechoso, Nick Cori, Michele Shay) and a snakeskin tanktop we have seen before. Show Notes Gallery S4E18 (https://imgur.com/gallery/ObdKPPe) For more Vice and Easy Tiktok: @viceandeasypodcast Instagram: @viceandeasypodcast (https://www.instagram.com/viceandeasypodcast/?hl=en) YouTube: Vice and Easy Podcast (https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCm2ci7Vb75Tgf1uGMOjfvNQ)

This week on Miami Vice: Trudy is protecting a woman who she helped through a rape and subsequent trial and conviction of her rapist - who is now claiming he is reformed after 20 months - as he embarks on a media tour for her forgiveness. Ellen (Carla Brothers) is at her wit's end from the constant media attention and his harassment at her home and work until she sees an answer in the form of "American Mercenaries" magazine and its classified section. Trudy and Vice try to help and keep an eye on her, but get themselves in hot water with Castillo. They see the cracks in the system and they how much it has failed her and how she could feel compelled to take justice into her own hands. TW: Rape, stalking, harassment Show Notes Gallery S4E17 (https://imgur.com/a/C4JoUjV) For more Vice and Easy Tiktok: @viceandeasypodcast Instagram: @viceandeasypodcast (https://www.instagram.com/viceandeasypodcast/?hl=en) YouTube: Vice and Easy Podcast (https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCm2ci7Vb75Tgf1uGMOjfvNQ)

Harvey Brownstone conducts an in-depth Interview with Music Superstar Sheena Easton About Harvey's guest: Today's guest, Sheena Easton, is an iconic and beloved, multi-gold and platinum singer, recording artist and actress who's been dazzling the world for over 4 decades, selling over 20 million records worldwide, winning 2 Grammy awards, a Billboard Music Award, 4 more Grammy Award nominations and an American Music Award nomination.   She was the first – and still the only – artist in Billboard history to have a top 5 hit on all five major Billboard charts: Pop, Adult Contemporary, Country, R&B and Dance.  She's recorded 15 studio albums containing 55 hit singles, and she's also been featured in 14 hit soundtrack albums.   She's brought us a string of mega hits including “Morning Train”, “We've Got Tonight”, “For Your Eyes Only”, “You Could Have Been With Me”, “Modern Girl”, “Telephone”, “Strut”, “Almost Over You”, “The Lover in Me”, and dozens more.   She's recorded hit single duets with Prince, Kenny Rogers, Luis Miguel, Barry Manilow, and she's worked with everyone from David Foster and L.A. Reid to Babyface and Nyle Rodgers.    Our guest is also a highly accomplished actress, having appeared in “Body Bags”, “Highlander”, “Brisco County”, “Outer Limits”, “Young Blades” and many more TV shows and movies.  And yes, she appeared in 5 episodes of “Miami Vice”, and she played “Caitlin Davies“, who ended up marrying “Sonny Crockett”, played by Don Johnson.    And if all of that weren't enough, our guest has starred on Broadway in “Man of La Mancha” and “Grease”, and in London's West End, she starred in “42nd Street”.    Over the years our guest has had numerous hugely successful Las Vegas residencies, and she was recently inducted into the Las Vegas Hall Of Fame.  She is currently on a concert tour, performing for sold out audiences throughout the world. For more interviews and podcasts go to: https://www.harveybrownstoneinterviews.com/ To learn more about Sheena Easton, go to:https://sheenaeaston.com/  #sheenaeaston    #harveybrownstoneinterviews

This week on Miami Vice: In a very creepy episode, Vice gets involved in an investigator over a serial killer and rapist of teenage girls once it's discovered the girls had 100% pure cocaine injected into their bloodstream, narrowing their circle of suspects to local drug kingpins. Crockett and Tubbs are undercover at another kingpin's house by the name of Palmo when this all goes down, which complicates matters, but also helps them use their expertise to get the serial killer in their midst. !!! TW: Sexual abuse, murder, pedophilia, drugging !!! Be warned, this episode is a rough one! Show Notes Gallery S4E16 (https://imgur.com/gallery/N7XjyMr) For more Vice and Easy Tiktok: @viceandeasypodcast Instagram: @viceandeasypodcast (https://www.instagram.com/viceandeasypodcast/?hl=en) YouTube: Vice and Easy Podcast (https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCm2ci7Vb75Tgf1uGMOjfvNQ)

This week on Miami Vice: Crockett is left in charge of OCB while Castillo is going undercover to get closer to a kingpin named Acosta, who works for a bigger wig named Levec. When their shipment gets intercepted right in front of them, they're able to track one of the perps back to the Miccosukee Reservation. Tubbs then goes undercover at the Reservation to get more intel and find out what is the connection between the tribe and who is interrupting the coke shipments. Show Notes Gallery S4E15 (https://imgur.com/a/4BtnDFI) For more Vice and Easy Tiktok: @viceandeasypodcast Instagram: @viceandeasypodcast (https://www.instagram.com/viceandeasypodcast/?hl=en) YouTube: Vice and Easy Podcast (https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCm2ci7Vb75Tgf1uGMOjfvNQ)

This week on Miami Vice: Crockett and Tubbs along with Vice get wrapped into an arms deal that is exposed when a visiting Chilean police commander (Tony Plana) kills a working girl and her pimp when they attempt to blackmail him. Then it turns out the DEA's Agent Brody (Mark Metcalf) is protecting him because they claim he's helping them with the Andean cartel. Vice digs deeper and deeper to find out the why and the what behind this arms purchase from a totally believable lol arms dealer Stiles (Oliver Platt), which includes CBUs - Compact Bombing Units - essentially landmines, and try and stop the shipment from leaving Miami. Show Notes Gallery S4E14 (https://imgur.com/a/YAZ1KhF) For more Vice and Easy Tiktok: @viceandeasypodcast Instagram: @viceandeasypodcast (https://www.instagram.com/viceandeasypodcast/?hl=en) YouTube: Vice and Easy Podcast (https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCm2ci7Vb75Tgf1uGMOjfvNQ)

This week on Miami Vice: Crockett and Tubbs bust a...hooker train...(??) and recognize one of the johns as a gubernatorial candidate they saw earlier that night on TV, Tom Pierce. Crockett cracks up until it becomes no joke when a few people involved are killed. How dirty are these politics? Other topics include: those funny white hats are definitely only an American thing, the most unrealistic gambling addiction portrayal I've ever seen, political wives and more! Show Notes Gallery S4E13 (https://imgur.com/a/brnhXwX) For more Vice and Easy Tiktok: @viceandeasypodcast Instagram: @viceandeasypodcast (https://www.instagram.com/viceandeasypodcast/?hl=en) YouTube: Vice and Easy Podcast (https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCm2ci7Vb75Tgf1uGMOjfvNQ)

This week on Miami Vice: Giddy up! Vice gets caught up in the middle of a Cold War battle of frozen bull semen between a cowboy, a bumbling fed (Harry Shearer) and Cuban spy in this ode to classic Westerns. Just stay with me here. It seems our beloved Izzy is quite the cowboy (in a redecorated apartment) who ends up getting involved trying to play all sides. Let's see how that turns out. Show Notes Gallery S4E12 (https://imgur.com/a/ArTeTj3) For more Vice and Easy Tiktok: @viceandeasypodcast Instagram: @viceandeasypodcast (https://www.instagram.com/viceandeasypodcast/?hl=en) YouTube: Vice and Easy Podcast (https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCm2ci7Vb75Tgf1uGMOjfvNQ)

This week on Miami Vice: Trouble in Tinseltown? Crockett joins Caitlin in Los Angeles (or Miami with LA B-roll) as she begins her press blitz. He's not impressed with her shoddy security detail, her team and the lack of humidity and hightails it back to Miami for work only to become wrapped up in a case that's a little too close to home. Remember Tommy and the record execs who blew him up? They're going to recoup some of their business losses if Caitlin can't go on tour - for whatever reason that could be...MESSAGE! Back to LA he goes, and back to Miami while their new marriage weathers its rocky start. Show Notes Gallery S4E11 (https://imgur.com/gallery/7F25XXb) For more Vice and Easy Tiktok: @viceandeasypodcast Instagram: @viceandeasypodcast (https://www.instagram.com/viceandeasypodcast/?hl=en) YouTube: Vice and Easy Podcast (https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCm2ci7Vb75Tgf1uGMOjfvNQ)

This week on Miami Vice: There's a serial killer on the loose that's infiltrated a video dating network and targeting men who look share a similar look with...guess who? Crockett! Crockett is used as bait, which doesn't help his brand new marriage to Caitlin (Sheena Easton) who is worried that he'll end up with his manhood chopped off too. This Don Johnson-directed episode has toys (how scandalous for 1987 prime time), a legit supermodel (Iman), a working girl with her own credit card imprinter and Crockett driving through the red light district (hey, isn't Gold Diggers in LA?!?!). CONTENT WARNING: Adult themes and subject matter TW: Sexual abuse Editor's note: Love and Rockets was formed by members of Bauhaus, don't yell too much at me when I forget at the end of the episode. Show Notes Gallery S4E10 (https://imgur.com/gallery/3d5Nkbj) For more Vice and Easy Tiktok: @viceandeasypodcast Instagram: @viceandeasypodcast (https://www.instagram.com/viceandeasypodcast/?hl=en) YouTube: Vice and Easy Podcast (https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCm2ci7Vb75Tgf1uGMOjfvNQ)

This week on Miami Vice: Tokyo Miami Vice...?...! Vice investigates the Yakuza when a local businessman ends up dead after a sushi dinner, a night at a hostess bar and hot tub but, the Head of Homicide really wants them to back off. This sets of a series of events including the involvement of a mysterious Japanese PI and his sweet Pontiac Firebird ( Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa) with ties to the Yakuza and a prominent Japanese businessman Tanaka (James Hong). Masked dancers, hot tub murders, a Samurai battle in the rain, assassin outfits, Billy Idol, what constitues a hostess bar and more in this episode of Vice & Easy! Show Notes Gallery S4E09 (https://imgur.com/a/UCYgs9Y) For more Vice and Easy Tiktok: @viceandeasypodcast Instagram: @viceandeasypodcast (https://www.instagram.com/viceandeasypodcast/?hl=en) YouTube: Vice and Easy Podcast (https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCm2ci7Vb75Tgf1uGMOjfvNQ)

This week on Miami Vice: Crockett falls in lovvvvvveeeee...again! With guest star Sheena Easton! In less than a week! And he sees Billy twice in one season, wow things are changing. Caitlin Davies (Sheena Easton) is a fading singer who is set to testify against a shady record label agent (Xander Berkeley) who screwed over her friends and worse and Crockett has been chosen to protect her since he'll fit in with the music crowd. They butt heads at first but, surprise, surprise, they end up falling in love...kind of? Or they just have similar hours and trauma bonding? Viced Tea: A Robert DeNiro connection! Is that actually Teller? Show Notes Gallery S4E08 (https://imgur.com/a/7g9Q9gC) For more Vice and Easy Tiktok: @viceandeasypodcast Instagram: @viceandeasypodcast (https://www.instagram.com/viceandeasypodcast/?hl=en) YouTube: Vice and Easy Podcast (https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCm2ci7Vb75Tgf1uGMOjfvNQ)

This week on Miami Vice: So is this really when Miami Vice jumped the shark? Did we not have a poignant and touching epsiode last time that was very progressive in its message? And then... aliens but, not really? And not in an X-Files way, which would have been amazing! Anywhoo, when investigating the freak death of a gentleman who jumps though a window when he sees Noogie and Izzy dressed up like aliens, Trudy sees things no one else believes. Mainly a date with famous singer, now alien-enthusiast talk show host (??) named Lou de Long (guest start the James Brown) until she meets him in person and exclaims that he's old LOL! While everybody thinks Trudy's gone off the deep end, one young buck at OCB (Chris Rock) recognizes her story and how she feels retelling it and , oh yeah, he believes. But, does the rest of Vice? Come for the aliens, stay for the Disney-adjacent fun fact in Viced Tea! Show Notes Gallery S4E01 (https://imgur.com/gallery/wRR0N1e) For more Vice and Easy Tiktok: @viceandeasypodcast Instagram: @viceandeasypodcast (https://www.instagram.com/viceandeasypodcast/?hl=en) YouTube: Vice and Easy Podcast (https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCm2ci7Vb75Tgf1uGMOjfvNQ)

This week on Miami Vice: A bigwig named Jorge Cruz' son Felipe has returned from New York City (Esai Morales) and Vice is trying to figure out what the game plan behind his surprise return is. His beloved uncle, also an old friend of Castillo's - a priest who is running an HIV/AIDS clinic, is killed in cold blood which further intensifies Vice's investigation into the Cruz family, as Felipe learns more about the darkness in his family as they learn more about him. Show Notes Gallery S4E06 (https://imgur.com/a/jcVo2pw) For more Vice and Easy Tiktok: @viceandeasypodcast Instagram: @viceandeasypodcast (https://www.instagram.com/viceandeasypodcast/?hl=en) YouTube: Vice and Easy Podcast (https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCm2ci7Vb75Tgf1uGMOjfvNQ)

This week on Miami Vice: Crockett accidentally shoots a child during a domestic violence call gone wrong and tries to reconnect with Billy as a result of his guilt. However, Crockett's been distant since they moved up north, how does Billy and his new stepfather feel about this? As Vice continues investigating the gun runners, led by Holiday (Isaac Hayes), they discover some interesting connections between them, the stepfather of the shot boy (played by a scary Ving Rhames), Belgian guns and Chicago. Guilt, redemption and fatherhood and more this week on Vice and Easy! TW: Domestic Violence Show Notes Gallery S4E05 (https://imgur.com/gallery/7Vpq0b5) For more Vice and Easy Tiktok: @viceandeasypodcast Instagram: @viceandeasypodcast (https://www.instagram.com/viceandeasypodcast/?hl=en) YouTube: Vice and Easy Podcast (https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCm2ci7Vb75Tgf1uGMOjfvNQ)

This week on Miami Vice: Vice goes to bust a suspected drug lab for it only to turn out to be a cryogenic lab.... with a frozen Reggae superstar...? Drama ensues when his estranged wife, her hot lawyer (Alfred Molina) and these cyrogenic bioloigists (Dr. Frobel and Dr. Poe) all hash it out over who gets to keep the body and what they want to do with it. Cash it in (wife) or bring back to life (cyrogenic biologists and ...Izzy?) It's a weird and wild episode, and lots of it has aged poorly. This has been said to have been where Miami Vice jumped the shark, do we agree? Show Notes Gallery S4E04 (https://imgur.com/gallery/R9kGQSh) For more Vice and Easy Tiktok: @viceandeasypodcast Instagram: @viceandeasypodcast (https://www.instagram.com/viceandeasypodcast/?hl=en) YouTube: Vice and Easy Podcast (https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCm2ci7Vb75Tgf1uGMOjfvNQ)

This week on Miami Vice: Vice gets involved in the adult film industry when a well-known artiste premiering his new snuff film, Death and the Lady, is accused of murder, not film magic. As they dig deeper, they wander through peep shows and art schools to get an answer... the beautiful blonde in the film turns up - twice! (Kelly Lynch) but, where is her lookalike? Crockett can tell by the eyes on screen, they're dead eyes, but the artiste, Glantz (CSI's Paul Guilfoyle) is too busy cosplaying as Willem DaFoe in To Live and Die in LA to have left any tracks. The DA (Miguel Ferrer RIP!) doesn't think a jury will convict with mostly circumstantial evidence, and Crockett refuses to ignore his intuition in this highly stylized episode. Happy news? A feline friends joins the Vice team. CONTENT WARNING: ADULT THEMES AND SITUATIONS! NOT FOR KIDS! Show Notes Gallery S4E03 (https://imgur.com/gallery/gRkteCq) For more Vice and Easy Tiktok: @viceandeasypodcast Instagram: @viceandeasypodcast (https://www.instagram.com/viceandeasypodcast/?hl=en) YouTube: Vice and Easy Podcast (https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCm2ci7Vb75Tgf1uGMOjfvNQ)

This week on Miami Vice: A big-time televangelist's wife gets busted by Vice which sets off a chain reaction of events: framing Tubbs, a rogue rival televangelist, an Act of God-caused explosion (how fitting!) and lots of crocodile tears and fundraising. This very ripped-from-the-headlines nod to Jim Bakker is rife with zealous acting and wild outfit choices. And the power of satellite in the 1980s vs cable. Guest star: Brian Dennehy, Ben Stiller Spicy language warning! Not an episode for the kiddos. Programming note: Thanksgiving week episode is not confirmed, so may be off next week! Show Notes Gallery S4E02 (https://imgur.com/a/NGAjHCE) For more Vice and Easy Tiktok: @viceandeasypodcast Instagram: @viceandeasypodcast (https://www.instagram.com/viceandeasypodcast/?hl=en) YouTube: Vice and Easy Podcast (https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCm2ci7Vb75Tgf1uGMOjfvNQ)

This week on Miami Vice: Crockett and Tubbs are tasked with protecting witnesses testifying in a RICO trial against a bigtime New Jersey mafioso named Frank Mosca (Stanley Tucci who came to play!). Despite all the precautions and obtaining an anonymous jury, witnesses still get whacked and they can't directly pin Mosca, and things get hairier when he goes after Crockett's informant. Crockett refuses to name his informant in a cross-examination in court and gets thrown in jail (again!) for not being a snitch, while his snitch ends up in jail on a shady drug charge... uh oh! Show Notes Gallery S4E01 (https://imgur.com/gallery/Dio5zW8) For more Vice and Easy Tiktok: @viceandeasypodcast Instagram: @viceandeasypodcast (https://www.instagram.com/viceandeasypodcast/?hl=en) YouTube: Vice and Easy Podcast (https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCm2ci7Vb75Tgf1uGMOjfvNQ)

This week on Miami Vice: Viced Tea special! We go through the turbulent romantic history of Don Johnson and Melanie Griffith and all the supporting players: Marjorie Wallace (feat. a scandal with Tom Jones), Steven Bauer, Antonio Banderas (and his first wife and Madonna), and more! For more Vice and Easy Tiktok: @viceandeasypodcast Instagram: @viceandeasypodcast (https://www.instagram.com/viceandeasypodcast/?hl=en) YouTube: Vice and Easy Podcast (https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCm2ci7Vb75Tgf1uGMOjfvNQ)

This week on Miami Vice: We close out Season 3 with a Gina-centric episode when her late mother's fiancé comes to Miami in the name of vengeance (we love Miami vengeance!) against a Cuban exile with ties to Castro who killed her mother in a fit of jealousy. We get to see Saundra Santiago sing her heart out with a lot of blue light as she learns more about her family's past through this fiancé, Klaus... who is wanted by the cops... and also a top East German Intelligence Officer. Gina can never win! Show Notes Gallery S3E24 (https://imgur.com/a/JOdQmyZ) For more Vice and Easy Tiktok: @viceandeasypodcast Instagram: @viceandeasypodcast (https://www.instagram.com/viceandeasypodcast/?hl=en) YouTube: Vice and Easy Podcast (https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCm2ci7Vb75Tgf1uGMOjfvNQ)

This week on Miami Vice: Tubbs is trying to make a deal with a bigwig crack dealer named Gallego when Gallego gets ripped off for cash and a suitcase that he almost gave up his life to protect... questions? What's in the suitcase? And why were the robbers wearing prosthetics and stage makeup? This leads back to a once reformed ex-con who runs a theatre for ex-cons called Mi Vida Loca (no relation to the movie) as a way to give them a safe form of expression. Crockett knows the talent Mikey has and can't understand why he gave up so much and burned so many bridges along the way, and now he's at risk of throwing his whole life away, and of those that love him, for Gallego's suitcase. Guest starring: Benecio Del Toro! Show Notes Gallery S3E23 (https://imgur.com/a/R5Vy5VG) For more Vice and Easy Tiktok: @viceandeasypodcast Instagram: @viceandeasypodcast (https://www.instagram.com/viceandeasypodcast/?hl=en) YouTube: Vice and Easy Podcast (https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCm2ci7Vb75Tgf1uGMOjfvNQ)

This week on Miami Vice: Crockett is indirectly responsible for the death of a biker gang member to prevent his cover from being blown, which set off a chain of events as one gang member, Reb (Reb Brown), is freshly out on parole and dedicated to avenging his fallen friend, which means killing as many as it takes. Reb tries doing right by his friend's sister, Victoria, who wants nothing to do with her brother's other life and believes he's doing the right thing on his way to Valhalla as Vice tries to stop him, as Tubbs becomes collateral damage. Guest stars include: John Matuszak and Kim Coates as biker gang member before Sons of Anarchy. Show Notes Gallery S3E22 (https://imgur.com/a/T9sAIGB) For more Vice and Easy Tiktok: @viceandeasypodcast Instagram: @viceandeasypodcast (https://www.instagram.com/viceandeasypodcast/?hl=en) YouTube: Vice and Easy Podcast (https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCm2ci7Vb75Tgf1uGMOjfvNQ)

This week on Miami Vice: Crockett and Tubbs get raided by the DEA while making a deal with Esteban Montaya (Ian McShane) and after they take the goods... they realize something's off. As they try to uncover unsavoury DEA involvement, Internal Affairs eye Crockett and Tubbs. They try to use old contacts to get more info, one of which is a DEA agent, a woman who is at the end of her rope with quite possibly the worst luck you can imagine. Editor's note: apologies for the sound quality being off, technical issues with my editing software I couldn't problem solve, will try and have it resolved by next episode! Show Notes Gallery S3E21 (https://imgur.com/a/ajTJMVJ) For more Vice and Easy Tiktok: @viceandeasypodcast Instagram: @viceandeasypodcast (https://www.instagram.com/viceandeasypodcast/?hl=en) YouTube: Vice and Easy Podcast (https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCm2ci7Vb75Tgf1uGMOjfvNQ)

This week on Miami Vice: Guest stars galore! Don Johnson directs his ex-wife - and at this time, future ex-wife again and mother of his child in this episode, as Melanie Griffith plays a secretive businesswoman who has a role to play in the death of a dirty businessman and a beautiful escort (Vanity) and who has a long-standing relationship with an even bigger businessman, played by George Takei. Crockett once again falls for someone out of his world, but this time, it's a lot more surprising when connections are made (and exposed in a live television interview). Was Christine von Marburg the original SHE-E-O/Girlboss? Or the inspiration for Heidi Fleiss? Maybe both? Other topics include: the first-world problem of jet lag, roulette wheels, messy breakups and interestingly timed pregnancies and more! Shoutout to Evelyn in CT for writing in about this epsiode a while back! Personal story time/editor's note: 0:00-4:18 Show Notes Gallery S3E20 (https://imgur.com/gallery/d8e1TCT) For more Vice and Easy Tiktok: @viceandeasypodcast Instagram: @viceandeasypodcast (https://www.instagram.com/viceandeasypodcast/?hl=en) YouTube: Vice and Easy Podcast (https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCm2ci7Vb75Tgf1uGMOjfvNQ)

This week on Miami Vice: Crockett and Tubbs assist rookie cops (Guest Stars: Lou Diamond Phillips and Viggo Mortensen) to execute a search warrant, which turns out to be a trap and it's becoming a pattern in South Florida. Tubbs is irate that no one seems to take the leak of private information and its deadly consequences seriously, and partners up with a Special Investigations Agent, with a girlfriend working the Dept of Justice (Annette Bening in her second role ever!) who has a plan for him to get his retirement money way quicker, after he gets arrested trying to get his money from the Credit Union. The surviving rookie cop, Bobby, is following Tubbs closely after the botched search warrant that killed his partner as Tubbs seems to alienate the rest of the Vice team that tries to help, like Switek and Crockett. Lou Diamond Phillips and Edward James Olmos on screen before they were getting into it over math in Highland Park. Show Notes Gallery S3E19 (https://imgur.com/a/JEwyUaF) For more Vice and Easy Tiktok: @viceandeasypodcast Instagram: @viceandeasypodcast (https://www.instagram.com/viceandeasypodcast/?hl=en) YouTube: Vice and Easy Podcast (https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCm2ci7Vb75Tgf1uGMOjfvNQ)

This week on Miami Vice: This week on Miami Vice: Crockett brings in a former cop and surveillance whiz named Duddy to assist in an investigation of a mysterious and rightfully paranoid dealer, as they try and figure out what exactly he's dealing. Add the dealer's extreme paranoid and vengeance to the mix and you've got a lot of bodies in the way, will Duddy - who tries to play both sides - be next? Other questions include: What would Duddy do and feel about the age we live in now? How ahead of the times was Miami Vice on issues of personal surveillance and technology working against us? Why I shouldn't have coffee and my adventure in American Credit Scores! Show Notes Gallery S3E18 (https://imgur.com/a/c52pDPB) For more Vice and Easy Tiktok: @viceandeasypodcast Instagram: @viceandeasypodcast (https://www.instagram.com/viceandeasypodcast/?hl=en) YouTube: Vice and Easy Podcast (https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCm2ci7Vb75Tgf1uGMOjfvNQ)

Access this entire 90 minute episode (and additional monthly bonus episodes, including the entire Miami Vice sidebar series) by becoming a Junk Filter patron! Over 30% of episodes are exclusively available to patrons of the show. https://www.patreon.com/posts/143-miami-vice-87557729 Friend of the show and Miami Vice head Matthew Kinkaid joins us from San Antonio, Texas for the sixth episode in our summer sidebar series. We discuss selected Vice episodes from Seasons 3 and 4; when Michael Mann departed from the production to work on Manhunter and Crime Story, Wolf took over as show runner and started to change the way Vice looked and felt, eschewing the pastel color scheme for harder neon lighting and a flatter visual look. The plots were now based on current events and tabloid fare, a new “ripped from the headlines” approach Wolf would soon bring to his next show Law & Order. Crockett wore a long mullet and Tubbs grew a beard. These changes, plus the newer earlier timeslot on Friday nights (up against Dallas) led to the slow decline of the popularity of the series. Matthew and I discuss three representative episodes of this period in the series, with Crockett and Tubbs up against a sleazy lawyer who is trafficking in stolen Colombian babies, crooked televangelists, and a scary porn director / artiste who may have made a snuff film, in a disturbing case that sets off the unravelling of Sonny Crockett throughout the rest of season 4. Currently most Miami Vice episodes are available for streaming in the US on Tubi. Episodes discussed on this show: Baby Blues - Season 3, Ep 9 Amen…Send Money - Season 4, Ep 2 Death and the Lady - Season 4, Ep 3 Follow Matthew Kinkaid on Twitter. Don Johnson and Philip Michael Thomas accepting the 1986 People's Choice Award for Miami Vice.

On the fifth episode of this podcast's summer sidebar series on NBC's crime drama Miami Vice, the writer and podcaster Jeb Lund joins me from Tampa, Florida for a look at the two-season story arc that pitted Bob Balaban against G. Gordon Liddy. Balaban's Ira Stone, an Army reporter who served with Sonny Crockett in Vietnam, shows up in Miami 10 years later tracking down his sworn enemy, the mysterious drug trafficker turned private militia financier “Captain Real Estate”, played by the Watergate burglar and convicted felon in his acting debut. Jeb wanted us to add a Season 4 episode to our agenda, The Rising Sun of Death, a sleazy one where Vice goes up against the Yakuza with the help of a Japanese PI who is after the murderous head of the Sumiroshi-gumi clan. This episode also features R. Lee Ermey as a dirty cop and a strip club that plays The Smiths. These three episodes offer sharp critiques from the left of the treatment of Vietnam Veterans and US military involvement in drug trafficking in Southeast Asia, America's intervention in Central America and willingness to work with fascists in the global fight against communism, and the political interference that renders law enforcement pointless. Episodes discussed on this show: Back in the World - Season 2, Ep 11 Stone's War - Season 3, Ep 2 The Rising Sun of Death - Season 4, Ep 9 Become a patron of the podcast to access to exclusive episodes every month, including this summer's entire Miami Vice sidebar series. Over 30% of Junk Filter episodes are exclusively available to patrons. To support this show directly please subscribe at ⁠⁠https://www.patreon.com/junkfilter Follow Jeb Lund on Twitter. Music video for Crockett's Theme - Jan Hammer, 1986

This week on Miami Vice: Tubbs wins an all-expense paid trip that turns into a nightmare once he realize the island was practically bought and funded with the late Esteban Calderone's drug money, which died along with him, and Orlando Calderone (John Leguizamo) is on his way to seek revenge on Tubbs yet again. Vincent D'Onofrio guest stars as a criminal who Tubbs helped lock up on a Murder One charge that magically got out, wonder who's side he's on? Michael Mann casting strikes hot with the gorgeous Alicia who was out favourite seductive wife in Season One's "The Great McCarthy", who stars as Alicia and who works together with one of Tubbs' exes from New York (not Valerie). Thank you for listening and I will see you all in September after taking August off :) Show Notes Gallery S3E17 (https://imgur.com/a/AwpSZfC) For more Vice and Easy Tiktok: @viceandeasypodcast Instagram: @viceandeasypodcast (https://www.instagram.com/viceandeasypodcast/?hl=en) YouTube: Vice and Easy Podcast (https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCm2ci7Vb75Tgf1uGMOjfvNQ)

This week on Miami Vice: Crockett's one-scene girlfriend from last week Theresa (Helena Bonham Carter) is hiding a drug habit from him that ends up with a decision to pass information along that destroys the evidence against a drug kingpin Wyatt (Brad Dourit, the voice of Chucky) and kills multiple people in the process. Crockett does all he can to help her, but she is facing the prospect of losing her medical license as a result of the arrest and treatment. Crockett has to do what's best for her while also clearing his name and reputation with Internal Affairs. Other topics include: it's time to be European and I'm taking August off (see video link below for inspiration lol), why Helena Bonham Carter sounds too posh to make this believable, but not too posh to wreck multiple homes in her real life, how doing what's best for someone else hurts you and more! Show Notes Gallery S3E16 (https://imgur.com/gallery/OqzujrZ) For more Vice and Easy Tiktok: @viceandeasypodcast Instagram: @viceandeasypodcast (https://www.instagram.com/viceandeasypodcast/?hl=en) YouTube: Vice and Easy Podcast (https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCm2ci7Vb75Tgf1uGMOjfvNQ)

This week on Miami Vice: Oscar Winner Haing S. Ngor guest stars as a investigator named Trahn who worked with Castillo in Vietnam to try and catch a serial killer targeting sex workers, and when similar murders start occurring in Miami, he comes to town to investigate. Crockett and Tubbs try and question fellow Vietnam veterans to get more info on who this serial killer could be and battle with the ethics at play while Castillo and Trahn dig deeper into a possible "company" connection. Crockett is dating the palest (naturally British) woman in Miami, be careful of who you trust, did Miami Vice start the leather duster to serial killer or vampire slayer trend? and more! Editor's note: that "computer" is a microfiche, thank you to the Imgur commented who pointed that out. Trigger Warning: this episode deals with a lot of heavy themes such as sexual abuse, genocide and murder. Show Notes Gallery S3E15 (https://imgur.com/gallery/blpVaVm) For more Vice and Easy Tiktok: @viceandeasypodcast Instagram: @viceandeasypodcast (https://www.instagram.com/viceandeasypodcast/?hl=en) YouTube: Vice and Easy Podcast (https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCm2ci7Vb75Tgf1uGMOjfvNQ)

This week on Miami Vice: Crockett and Tubbs get caught up in a paramilitary plot to assassinate a Cuban dignitary when a drug deal goes bust and the dealer and a fellow cop get shot. The feds get involved when Vice starts digging into Victor Vasquez, who did work for them after he defected from Cuba and throw a wrench in their plans. Things get hairier when a meet between Vasquez and Zamora with Tubbs posing undercover as Cooper escalate from just a rip-off to an off...period and Crockett is taken hostage in the thick, jungle-like forest. The paramilitary group known as the La Segunda Brigada are planning to assassinate the Cuban Deputy Commissioner of Prisons who is in town in Miami, who is definitely not keeping a low profile by riding a limo with a Cuban flag (and in a goof an American flag). Marina got a visit from the hat man earlier this week so forgive any mistakes or mispronounced words! Show Notes Gallery S3E14 (https://imgur.com/a/pRGCcpU) For more Vice and Easy Tiktok: @viceandeasypodcast Instagram: @viceandeasypodcast (https://www.instagram.com/viceandeasypodcast/?hl=en) YouTube: Vice and Easy Podcast (https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCm2ci7Vb75Tgf1uGMOjfvNQ)

Hemos titulado este podcast “Testarossa, ¿el Ferrari más feo o el más bonito?” Seguramente ni lo uno ni lo otro. Pero sin duda ha sido un Ferrari de alguna manera incomprendido y no demasiado valorado… hasta ahora. Y en todo esto su presencia en la famosa serie “Miami Vice” tiene algo que ver… ¿algo? ¿O mucho? Os lo vamos a contar todo del Testarossa, su historia, su técnica, sus secretos y el motivo de su presencia en la serie estadounidense Miami Vice y lo que supuso para este coche, para unos rayando en lo hortera y en el mal gusto, para otros una verdadera belleza y para todos un icono de su época. El Ferrari Testarossa venía a suceder nada más y nada menos que a uno de mis Ferrari favoritos de todos los tiempos: El Berlinetta Bóxer. Era el sucesor a su vez del Daytona, pero por primera vez Ferrari llevaba al motor al centro del coche. Se convirtió en un mito, pero incluso los mitos tienen que ser relevados… lo que no era tarea fácil. Os doy mi opinión: Presentar un nuevo Ferrari en un Night Club de los Campos Elíseos de París rodeado de luces de colores y “vedettes” ligeras de ropa, insisto, para mí, no fue un acierto. Fue el 2 de octubre de 1984 cuando se presentó el Testarossa. Te puede parecer hortera o elegante, pero todo el mundo, todos los periodistas, ahora y en su momento, en 1984 coincidimos y coincidieron en una cosa: Era un coche impresionante. En el diseño del Ferrari BB dominaban las curvas, pero en los primeros 80 más bien las líneas rectas. El Lotus Esprit diseño de Giugaro ya había mostrado el camino en 1976… ¿Rectas o curvas? ¿Cuál fue la apuesta de Pininfarina? Pues ambas, porque en la trasera y en sus branquias laterales, el rasgo más característico del coche, mandan las líneas rectas, pero en la parte delantera e incluso en las aletas traseras, las curvas. ¿Virtud o defecto? No sé, pero a mí me gustan los coches de diseño que “funciona siempre igual”. Para mi este rasgo, su presentación en un Night Club, su protagonismo en Miami Vice y luego los usuarios de estos coches cuando fueron viejos y no clásicos, han colaborado a una imagen del Testarossa que no se la merece… Porque, ¡es un cochazo…Vamos a verlo! Si alguien te ha dicho que el Testarossa lleva motor 12 cilindros bóxer, te ha engañado. SI te han dicho que lleva motor plano, no te lo ha dicho todo. Y si te dice lo que yo te voy a decir, que lleva un 12 cilindros en V a 180 grados, es la definición más precisa. El motor de casi 5 litros, por supuesto atmosférico, ofrecía inicialmente 390 CV a un moderado régimen de 6.300 rpm. Versiones posteriores sobrepasaron con holgura los 400 CV. No fue un coche ligero, sobrepasaba claramente la tonelada y media, que era mucho en los años 80 par aun superdeportivo de 4,5 metros de largo…. ¡y solo 1,1 m de alto! ¿Por qué Testarossa? Este nombre se utiliza por primera vez en un coche de competición, este sí que para mí es un diseño “redondo” con y sin comillas, aparecido en 1956. Ya sabéis, y si no os lo digo yo, que en italiana culata se dice “testa”, como cabeza. Esos coches llevaban la culata pintada de rojo… culata es “testa” y roja es “rossa” … juntas todo y “¡Voilà!”, ya tenemos “Testarossa”, culata roja. En España la serie se llamó “Corrupción en Miami”. Y el protagonista de la serie, Sonny Crockett, papel interpretado por Don Johnson iba en un Ferrari Daytona… ¡Sí! ¡No me he equivocado! Aparecía en una réplica muy burda de un Ferrari Daytona, tan burda que el mismísimo Enzo Ferrari entró en colera, denunció a la productora y a la empresa que hizo la réplica. Pero como no era tonto, vio una forma de conseguir buena publicidad en un país que era el mayor mercado de Ferrari, así que mandó para allá dos Testarossa auténticos que aparecían, de color blanco, en la serie. Pero los coches eran delicados de conducir y caros de mantener y ¿qué hicieron? Pues encargar a Robert Motors Co. una réplica sobre un De Tomaso Pantera para las escenas de riesgo y acción… si os fijáis bien, se ve la diferencia. A mí la serie me entretenía y la veía, pero seamos sinceros, ver a un policía norteamericano chuleta, con melenita “cuidadosamente descuidada”, con traje pero con camiseta, a bordo de un Testarossa, ¿era bueno para la imagen del coche? El Ferrari Testarossa fue y es un coche extraordinario, impresionante en su momento, innovador y rupturista. Tuvo un paso por el purgatorio demasiado prolongado, desde luego fue una buena oportunidad para comprarlo. Porque ahora ya está en el cielo de los Ferrari y de los coches excepcionales… como se merece… Aunque yo siga prefiriendo en Berlinetta Bóxer. Coche del día. Un Testarossa con una preparación “de calle”, el Ferrari Lotec TT1000, con motor potenciado hasta los … ¡1.000 CV! El coche es sencillamente impresionante, incluido su interior de rojo integral….