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"Miami Vice" (1984)Original Air Date:
16 November 1984 (Season 1, Episode 8)Plot:
Crockett and Tubbs get involved in the world of offshore power boat racing and drug smuggling. | add synopsisUser Comments:
Escapist entertainment of the finest order more (2 total)Cast
(Episode Credited cast) | Don Johnson | ... | Detective James Crockett |
 | Philip Michael Thomas | ... | Detective Ricardo Tubbs |
 | Saundra Santiago | ... | Detective Gina Calabrese |
| Michael Talbott | ... | Detective Stan Switek |
| John Diehl | ... | Detective Larry Zito |
| Olivia Brown | ... | Detective Trudy Joplin |
 | Edward James Olmos | ... | Lieutenant Martin Castillo |
| Martin Ferrero | ... | Izzy Moreno |
| Maria McDonald | ... | Vanessa |
| Charles McCaughan | ... | Dale Gifford |
| William Gray Espy | ... | Louis McCarthy |
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Miami, Florida, USAFun Stuff
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Continuity: In the billiard game between Crockett & McCarthy the #1 ball (yellow) is pocketed three times. moreSoundtrack:
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"The Great McCarthy" is indeed a great episode of "Miami Vice". We are introduced to the off-the-wall Izzy Moreno in the fast-moving opening sequence, an eccentric character that was to prove to be a popular regular in the show.
With Steppenwolf's "Born To Be Wild" accompanying an exciting powerboat race, this is stirring stuff. You just don't get big-budget thrills like this on television these-days.
Possibly the only weak point to the episode is a seemingly endless love scene between Tubbs and his love-interest Vanessa, played by the beautiful Maria McDonald. Just when you think, "Surely this can't go on any longer? This must have been on for ages," the scene continues from another camera angle. It's almost like the episode had been completed and the director had been informed it was 60 seconds too short and he'd have to re-cut it.
William Gray Espy is a decent baddie in this tale, the great Mccarthy himself.
Superb. 9 out of 10.