Miami Vice

The Ferrari Daytona Spyder convertible featured in the pilot episode and the first two seasons of Miami Vice was actually one of two replica kit cars, built on a 1980 Corvett chassis with Ferrari hardware by Tom McBurnie for auto importer Al Mardikian. Miami Vice's producers purchased the two replicas after Mardikian lost them to the IRS.

We learn that Sonny has a six-year-old son named Billy.

Noogie's full name is Nugart Neville Lamont. Ricardo says it at the end of the episode, when Noogman comes out of the hospital.

When Tubbs races through the streets of Miami to save Crockett and his ex-wife, the stock footage reveals Crockett behind the wheel of the car. It gives the impression that Crockett is racing to save his own life. Stock footage of both Ferraris would leave room for plenty of continuity glitches during the run of the series.

Check out the scene where Tubbs is on the bridge waiting to pay the ransom. Right before the boat arrives, he turns and walks away from the side of the bridge, then turns around and walks back. Pay particular attention to the lady with the fishing rod and what she does with the reel. The film is simply played in reverse when Tubbs walks back to the side of the bridge.

When Jimmy's plane is in the hangar, the engines have three propeller blades. On the runway in Colombia, the engines have two propeller blades.

After Tubbs gets rough with David Traynor and accuses him of murdering Diane Gordon, David's lawyer tells Tubbs he's opening himself to libel and assault. The lawyer is incorrect—libel is untruthful statements about someone that are either in writing or sent through the broadcast media. The lawyer should have said slander, which is spoken untruthful statments about someone.

In an almost entirely unused revision of Mr. Weisbecker's story by Paul Diamond (Evan, Phil the Shill), a parrot reads the bad guy his rights (mocking the TV shorthand... "You have the right to remain silent"... then fading and going to commercial -- "a parrot could do that!"). In the version as filmed, Zito holds the parrot and reads the Miranda warning in a parrot voice.

In the final scene, Tubbs and Crockett leave Trudy alone so she can speak with her boyfriend. As they turn and walk away, you can hear the sound of a man coughing on the soundtrack. This is likely supposed to be Crockett, who is still reacting to having a plate full of cocaine thrown into his face in the previous scene. However, even though Johnson's back is to the camera at this point, you can see by his body movement that he clearly isn't coughing.

Crockett, wearing a black shirt under his white jacket, is having an argument with his old army buddy, Robbie. At the height of the argument, Robbie tricks Crockett into leaving the room so he can sneak out another door. Realizing what has happened, Crockett pursues him in the Ferrari - now wearing a white shirt under his jacket! (This is due to previously-shot stock footage of Crockett madly driving the Ferrari through the streets.)

We learn that the official color of Crockett's Ferrari is Tuxedo Black -- because the writer, Mr. Diamond, was mildly offended by the use of a Corvette in Ferrari disguise. Tuxedo Black was a Chevrolet color.

The Drug Lord's mansion that Det. Crockett visits half way through the episode is the same one used as Frank Lopez's house in Scarface, a seminal 1980's film which heavily inspired elements of Miami Vice.

When Crockett hears his girlfriend screaming inside her house, he breaks the window of the front door so he can reach the inside lock to let himself in. When Crockett and Tubbs return to the girlfriend's house the following morning, the window of the front door is unbroken!

When Crockett drives his stewardess girlfriend to her house, we see him open the car door for her, then fold down the seat on the passenger side of the Ferrari to get at her suitcase behind the seat. The two walk to the house, chat briefly at the front door, and then Crockett leaves. When he gets back to the car, the passenger seat is back in the upright position.

Assassin Sagot uses a stolen boat to take a wild ride down the Miami River, in an effort to elude police. As he comes to the end of the line, Crockett is seen on a bridge above the boat, waiting to jump on and catch Sagot. When Crockett makes the jump, he is clearly headed for the back of the boat, but Crockett lands in front of Sagot, gun drawn, ready to arrest the hit man.

When the Ferrari is hit by the missile, there's no sign of the missile or its exhaust trail in the frame - the car just explodes.

It is unclear why Crockett is so skeptical of his friend, Stone--since Stone was right about Maynard and his heroin connections in "Back In The World".

Tubbs is viciously beaten several times through the episode by other prisoners and some guards, which leaves cuts and bruises all over his face. Also, his shirt is ripped and blood-stained. During a scene near the end of episode, Tubbs and some other prisoners are being led to the prison yard, but his face is not bruised or cut at all. And his shirt is nice and clean. Then in the next shot, Tubbs walks out into the yard, and his face is again bruised and cut, and his clothes are also bloodied and tattered once more.

When Crockett catches the cat burglar, they are in the same house Crockett's girlfriend lived in, in the episode, "Nobody Lives Forever."

We learn that one of Crockett's law enforcement influences as a child was the Texas Rangers.