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*** Zito [[{{Stripes}} also likes to go by the name of "Cruiser"]].

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*** Zito [[{{Stripes}} [[Film/{{Stripes}} also likes to go by the name of "Cruiser"]].
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* CastTheExpert: The TriggerHappy hitman in "The Hit List" was played by their technical advisor, marksman Jim Zubiena.
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* ScrewedByTheNetwork: The show was moved to air opposite ''{{Dallas}}'', then moved to Sundays.

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* ScrewedByTheNetwork: The show was moved to air opposite ''{{Dallas}}'', ''Series/{{Dallas}}'', then moved to Sundays.
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*** [[RebBrown Reb]] [[ScreamingWarrior "YAAAAAAAAAAAAHH!"]] [[RebBrown Brown]] of SpaceMutiny [[MysteryScienceTheater3000 infamy]] lead the titular villains in "Viking Bikers From Hell".

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*** [[RebBrown Reb]] [[ScreamingWarrior "YAAAAAAAAAAAAHH!"]] [[RebBrown Brown]] of SpaceMutiny [[MysteryScienceTheater3000 [[Series/MysteryScienceTheater3000 infamy]] lead the titular villains in "Viking Bikers From Hell".
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** Lt. Castillo later became famous as [[Series/BattlestarGalacticaReimagined Commander Adama]].

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** Lt. Castillo later became famous as [[Series/BattlestarGalacticaReimagined [[Series/BattlestarGalactica2003 Commander Adama]].



** Olmos was offered the chance to reprise his role as Castillo in the 2006 film, but was busy filming ''Series/BattlestarGalacticaReimagined'' at the time.

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** Olmos was offered the chance to reprise his role as Castillo in the 2006 film, but was busy filming ''Series/BattlestarGalacticaReimagined'' ''Series/BattlestarGalactica2003'' at the time.
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** Lt. Castillo later became famous as [[Series/BattlestarGalacticaReimagined Commander Adama]].
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** Olmos was offered the chance to reprise his role as Castillo in the 2006 film, but was busy filming ''Series/{{Battlestar Galactica|Reimagined}}'' at the time.

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** Olmos was offered the chance to reprise his role as Castillo in the 2006 film, but was busy filming ''Series/{{Battlestar Galactica|Reimagined}}'' ''Series/BattlestarGalacticaReimagined'' at the time.
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* RecycledSet: Several locations and buildings reappeared throughout the series' run. Notably, the house seen in "Nobody Lives Forever" (which is owned in the series by Brenda, the architect Crockett is dating) appears again as the location of the climactic cat-and-mouse scene between Crockett and The Shadow in the episode "Shadow in the Dark", two seasons later.
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* UnderAgeCasting: Creator/HelenaBonhamCarter was twenty when she played a doctor who was supposed to be about thirty. At the time, she looked like she was twelve.
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** Several episodes of the show "borrowed" plots from various movies, such as ''HighNoon'' or ''TheTroubleWithHarry''. Season 3's "Shadow in the Dark" was pretty much one giant allusion to ''Film/{{Manhunter}}'', which Michael Mann himself directed.
** In Season 2's "Out Where the Buses Don't Run", Weldon's computer is named after his ex-wife, Lorraine. It also happened to be the name of the Amiga prototype that appeared at the 1984 Consumer Electronics Show. The Amiga prototype took its name from the motherboard, which was named Lorraine, after the company president's wife.

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** Could be because of the money issues. See TroubledProduction, below.

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** * TheOtherDarrin: Castillo's former wife, May Ying, was played by Joan Chen in "Golden Triangle" and by Rosalind Chao in the season 5 episode "Heart of Night".
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** Could be because of the money issues. See TroubledProduction, below.


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* TroubledProduction: The 2006 film:
** Between when he was cast and the start of production, Jamie Foxx won an Oscar, greatly increasing his ego and his demands. He got way more money, so much that Farrell had to take a slight pay cut and causing a great deal of tension between the two (who, remember, are supposed to be playing partners). He then began refusing to fly commercial, making the studio pay for a private jet for him (sometimes flying him as far as Uruguay). Then he wouldn't do scenes on boats or planes.
** Not all the trouble was caused by human frailties. Shooting in and around the Caribbean during the now-legendary [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2005_Atlantic_hurricane_season 2005 hurricane season]] led to a week of delays by the end of production. This is blamed for driving the film's final budget over $100 million; exactly how much is disputed.
** A week, all told, may not have been as bad as a delay as what could have happened—since many crew members complained that Mann insisted on shooting in unsafe weather. And shooting in dangerous, crime-ridden areas. At one location it was so bad the police wouldn't go there, so the production hired local gang members as security.
** On top of all this Mann would often make major rewrites of the script without advance notice. Cast and crew had to scramble to keep up and adapt.
** All these things came to a head late in filming when, at one rough location in the Dominican Republic, shots, ''real'' shots, were exchanged on set. Foxx ''immediately'' went to his plane and flew back to the U.S. He told the studio he was not going to any more overseas locations for the production. Mann had to rewrite the ending as a result, reportedly making it less dramatic than he had wanted.
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*** Zito [[{{Stripes}} also likes to go by the name of "Cruiser"]].
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** After a shooting incident on the Dominican Republic set of the film, Jamie Foxx packed up and left, refusing to work outside the US. This forced a complete rewrite of the film's ending. While one crew member publicly stated that the revised ending was "much less dramatic", [[WordOfGod Mann]], who had written endings for both Miami and Paraguay considered it to be better because it "brought all the conflicting characters together in one arena".

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** After a shooting incident on the Dominican Republic set of the film, Jamie Foxx packed up and left, refusing to work outside the US. This forced a complete rewrite of the film's ending. While one crew member publicly stated that the revised ending was "much less dramatic", [[WordOfGod Mann]], who had written endings for both Miami and Paraguay considered it to be better because it "brought all the conflicting characters together in one arena".arena".
* The cool undercover cops of the previous decade ''StarskyAndHutch'', John Michael Glaser and David Soul individually directed several episodes.
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** Olmos was offered the chance to reprise his role as Castillo in the 2006 film, but was busy filming ''Series/{{Battlestar Galactica|Reimagined}}'' at the time.

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** Olmos was offered the chance to reprise his role as Castillo in the 2006 film, but was busy filming ''Series/{{Battlestar Galactica|Reimagined}}'' at the time.time.
** After a shooting incident on the Dominican Republic set of the film, Jamie Foxx packed up and left, refusing to work outside the US. This forced a complete rewrite of the film's ending. While one crew member publicly stated that the revised ending was "much less dramatic", [[WordOfGod Mann]], who had written endings for both Miami and Paraguay considered it to be better because it "brought all the conflicting characters together in one arena".

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* TheCharacterDiedWithHim: Julian Beck (who played the corrupt stock broker J.J. Johnston in "The Prodigal Son") passed away two weeks before the episode aired.



* ShoutOut: Several episodes of the show "borrowed" plots from various movies, such as ''HighNoon'' or ''TheTroubleWithHarry''. Season 3's "Shadow in the Dark" was pretty much one giant allusion to ''Film/{{Manhunter}}'', which Michael Mann himself directed.

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Several episodes of the show "borrowed" plots from various movies, such as ''HighNoon'' or ''TheTroubleWithHarry''. Season 3's "Shadow in the Dark" was pretty much one giant allusion to ''Film/{{Manhunter}}'', which Michael Mann himself directed.



* WhatCouldHaveBeen: Olmos was offered the chance to reprise his role as Castillo in the 2006 film, but was busy filming ''Series/{{Battlestar Galactica|Reimagined}}'' at the time.

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* WhatCouldHaveBeen: WhatCouldHaveBeen:
** Glenn Frey was originally set to reprise his role as Jimmy the pilot (from "Smuggler's Blues") in the episode "Trust Fund Pirates", but scheduling issues resulted in his character being replaced by a fellow pilot who had taken over Jimmy's hangar.
** The third-season opener ("When Irish Eyes Are Smiling") was intended to be a two-hour special, similar to the second-season premiere "The Prodigal Son", and would have had Crockett and Tubbs travel to Ireland to deal with a religious terrorist.
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Olmos was offered the chance to reprise his role as Castillo in the 2006 film, but was busy filming ''Series/{{Battlestar Galactica|Reimagined}}'' at the time.
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* ThrowItIn: Olmos has said in interviews that, in a deliberate effort to subvert the usual DaChief cliches, his very first line as Castillo was an ad-lib.
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*** [[RebBrown Reb]] [[ScreamingWarrior "YAAAAAAAAAAAAHH!"]] [[RebBrown Brown]] of SpaceMutiny [[MysteryScienceTheater3000 infamy]] lead the titular villains in "Viking Bikers From Hell".
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** In the TV show:
*** [[NypdBlue Bobby Simone]] was Crockett's partner for about thirty seconds in the pilot. [[spoiler:Then his car blew up.]]
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* OldShame: Colin Farrell admits that he doesn't like the film very much.
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** [[Film/{{Skyfall}} Eve Moneypenny]] is Detective Trudy Joplin.

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** [[Film/{{Skyfall}} Eve Moneypenny]] Moneypenny]]/[[Franchise/PiratesOfTheCaribbean Tia Dalma]] is Detective Trudy Joplin.
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** [[Film/{{Alexander}} Alexander the Great]] meets and works with [[Series/{{Rome}} Gaius Julius Caesar]]!
** Also, [[Film/InBruges Ray]] meets [[Film/{{Ray}} Ray.]]

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** [[Film/{{Alexander}} Alexander the Great]] meets and works with [[Series/{{Rome}} Gaius Julius Caesar]]!
** Also, [[Film/InBruges Ray]] meets is [[Film/{{Ray}} Ray.]]Ray]]'s partner.
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** [[Film/{{Alexander}} Alexander the Great meets and works with [[Series/{{Rome}} Gaius Julius Caesar]]!

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** [[Film/{{Alexander}} Alexander the Great Great]] meets and works with [[Series/{{Rome}} Gaius Julius Caesar]]!
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* HeyItsThatGuy: In the movie:
** [[Film/{{Alexander}} Alexander the Great meets and works with [[Series/{{Rome}} Gaius Julius Caesar]]!
** Also, [[Film/InBruges Ray]] meets [[Film/{{Ray}} Ray.]]
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* FollowTheLeader: Competing networks tried to start up their own flashy crime dramas. The only one to survive more than three episodes was ''[[TwentyOneJumpStreet 21 Jump Street]]''.

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* FollowTheLeader: Competing networks tried to start up their own flashy crime dramas. The only one to survive more than three episodes was ''[[TwentyOneJumpStreet 21 Jump Street]]''.''Series/TwentyOneJumpStreet''.
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* WhatCouldHaveBeen: Olmos was offered the chance to reprise his role as Castillo in the 2006 film, but was busy filming ''BattlestarGalactica'' at the time.

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* WhatCouldHaveBeen: Olmos was offered the chance to reprise his role as Castillo in the 2006 film, but was busy filming ''BattlestarGalactica'' ''Series/{{Battlestar Galactica|Reimagined}}'' at the time.

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* ShoutOut: In Season 2's "Out Where the Buses Don't Run", Weldon's computer is named after his ex-wife, Lorraine. It also happened to be the name of the Amiga prototype that appeared at the 1984 Consumer Electronics Show. The Amiga prototype took its name from the motherboard, which was named Lorraine, after the company president's wife.

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* ShoutOut: Several episodes of the show "borrowed" plots from various movies, such as ''HighNoon'' or ''TheTroubleWithHarry''. Season 3's "Shadow in the Dark" was pretty much one giant allusion to ''Film/{{Manhunter}}'', which Michael Mann himself directed.
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In Season 2's "Out Where the Buses Don't Run", Weldon's computer is named after his ex-wife, Lorraine. It also happened to be the name of the Amiga prototype that appeared at the 1984 Consumer Electronics Show. The Amiga prototype took its name from the motherboard, which was named Lorraine, after the company president's wife.
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* ShoutOut: In Season 2's "Out Where the Buses Don't Run", Weldon's computer is named after his ex-wife, Lorraine. It also happened to be the name of the Amiga prototype that appeared at the 1984 Consumer Electronics Show. The Amiga prototype took its name from the motherboard, which was named Lorraine, after the company president's wife.

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