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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)

🎄It’s 1984, and Ebenezer Scrooge is threatening to raise his asking price for a warehouse full of corn.  

This Christmas Eve episode not only drops on a Scrooge Sunday, but it’s also the Advent Calendar House’s 150th episode. To celebrate, I let listeners vote for which “Christmas Carol” to cover, and the winner is the 1984 TV movie starring George S. Scott, along with original “Equalizer” Edward Woodward as a sassy Ghost of Christmas Present, and we even spotted our favorite Alfred Pennyworth, Michael Gough, as a not-so-portly gentleman.  

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🎙 Guests:  

Erin Evans (@mserinevans).  

Joey O. (Y-Not Radio, @imgonnadj24).  

Anthony Strand (ToughPigs.com, Movin’ Right Along, @durwoodclapper.bsky.social).  

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💬 Topics & Tangents:  

1. David Warner in “Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles II: The Secret of the Ooze.”  

2. George S. Scott in “Angus” and “Cartoon All-Stars to the Rescue.”  

3. “God Bless Us Everyone,” this movie’s theme music by Nick Bicât.  

4. Wikipedia and NO ONE ELSE names one Cratchit child “Michael,” played by Susannah York’s (Mrs. Cratchit) real-life son, Orlando Wells.  

5. Michael Carter (Ghost of Christmas Yet to Come) as Bib Fortuna in “Return of the Jedi.”  

6. “It’s Corn,” and My favorite “Futurama” joke.  

7. Scrooge’s grave, allegedly a real, reinscribed headstone, at St. Chad’s Church in Shrewsbury.  

8. Twelve Hundred Ghosts - A Christmas Carol in Supercut.  

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📼 Commercial Break:  

IBM Sponsored Commercial Break from the original airing of “A Christmas Carol.”  

George C. Scott “Read More About It” PSA.  

The Christmas Podcast Network All-Star Comedy Christmas Show!  

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“A Christmas Carol” © 1984 Travenol Laboratories Limited.  

In memory of Jason Gross (1976–2023).  

“Christmas in Your Heart” (from “A Garfield Christmas Special”) performed by Todd from Vista Blue/Second Saturday.  

Theme song by Bronwen’s Ghost.  
Full show notes and social links at adventcalendar.house.

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)

🎄It’s 1989, and a killer in a Santa suit is making it really hard to hide my dead husband’s body.  

You better watch out as we dig up the first filmed episode of “Tales From the Crypt,” a cozy Christmas nightmare directed by Robert Zemeckis and starring his then-wife and talented screamer, Mary Ellen Trainor, and the kid who gets her hoverboard stolen by Marty McFly.  

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🎙 Guests:  

Jamie Ray (Fave Five From Fans, Complete Disarray with Jamie Ray)  

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💬 Topics & Tangents:  

1. Mike on Fave Five From Fans with my Fave Five Christmas TV Specials (already covered them all here).  

2. Fave Five Christmas Horror Movies.  

3. The Vault of Horror No. 35, from 1954.  

4. “And All Through the House” segment of the 1972 “Tales from the Crypt” movie.  

5. HBO Feature Presentation opening, 1983.  

6. John Kassir (The Crypt-Keeper) in a commercial for The Legend of Zelda, 1987.  

7. Mary Ellen Trainor (Elizabeth) and Lyndsey Whitney Barry (Carrie Ann) in “Back to the Future Part II.”  

8. Today’s TV Trope: Tempting Fate.  

9. Elizabeth calls the operator because 9-1-1 was only available in about half the U.S. by 1989.  

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📼 Commercial Break:  

The Crypt-Keeper’s Ghoulish Guide to the Howlidays on Kids’ WB, 2001.  

Holidays After Dark, exploring the strange, unusual, and dark sides of the holidays.  

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“Tales From the Crypt” and “And All Through the House” © 1989 Tales From the Crypt Venture.  

Theme song by Bronwen’s Ghost.  
Full show notes and social links at adventcalendar.house.

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)