![]() He is also an actor and a member of the Screen Actors Guild (his character is the one giving Glaser Safety Slugs to William Petersen in the 1986 film Manhunter.) He also designed the custom 1911A1 used by Don Johnson in the series Nash Bridges. He can now be found competing on the Cowboy Action Shooting Circuit. The gun handling skills he displayed in the famous episode "The Hit List" from the first season of Miami Vice were real and not rehearsed. He was also an accomplished IPSC shooter in the seventies and eighties and was renowned for his speed and accuracy with an M1911A1. Jim Zubiena served as a firearms instructor on the television show Miami Vice. I'm a little more inclined to seek it out now.Jim Zubiena as the hired killer Ludovici Armstrong firing his Ruger AC556 in Miami Vice (1984). It's hard to miss that yellow! I didn't even know they had Tommy Chong and PMT on it. I think we were in the North Beach area when we saw them filming, but I'm not certain. We had things to do and, like i said, I wasn't familiar with the show at the time. I'm gonna move my home in a couple weeks, so I will try digging them up and post them here.Ĭool story! We didn't actually hang around the shoot very long. I probably still have more pics in the basement. The reunion eps with Tommy Chong and PMT were a blast. Beau Hightower: WWE Hall of Farmer KEVIN NASH gets RADICAL HAMMER THERAPY Kevin Nash - WWE Universe is aChiropractic Physician Dr. They were perfect for the SF setting and Don's advanced age. I liked the humor in the relationship between Nash and Joe and all the ex-wife and daughter stories. And the concept had some obvious similarities. It filled a big void for me seven years after Vice had ended. Resplendent with authentic 1980s music, fashion, and vibe, 'Miami Vice' follows two undercover detectives and their extended team through the mean streets of Miami, Florida. With Don Johnson, Philip Michael Thomas, Saundra Santiago, Olivia Brown. My girlfriend wanted to take a pic of me with Don, however he didn't want to, probably because he was with the girl who played his daughter in the show and I think it wasn't yet public that he was dating her. Miami Vice: Created by Anthony Yerkovich. Because it was so late, there were hardly any tourists around anymore, so basically no one noticed who he was. Then Don came out of the bar and exchanged a few words with the guy I was talking to and - also myself. Sometime after midnight, a crew member drove away the 'Cuda and a black Lincoln limo drove up. He told me a bit about the troubles he had to keep them running and how difficult it sometimes was to get them fixed after stunts. In the ’90s, he reunited with his Miami Vice co-star Don Johnson in the series Nash Bridges. During this time, he also dabbled in music and came out with an album called Living the Book of My Life. On being asked about rumors surrounding the revival of ‘Miami Vice’, Johnson said, You know, this started as a conversation on the last day of shooting in 89 or 90. While he had a few roles in the ’70s including the films Coonskin and Sparkle, his big break truly came when he got the role in Miami Vice. In the evening, Don and the crew were having a party inside the bar and I was standing outside, talking to the the guy who was responsible for taking care of the four 'Cuda's they used in the show. I think in this adaptation of ‘Nash Bridges’, he’s going to be actually selling weed, he added, taking a dig at the actor and comic’s long-time pro-marijuana activism. They were filming there basically all day in and out of the building for a scene that is about 30 seconds in the episode. Between takes, they were making jokes with the crowds. They were doing a scene where Don and Cheech pull up to the "Steelhead Brewery" in the 'Cuda, get out and run into the building. ![]() In my twenties, me and my girlfriend at the time went to SF, strolled along Fisherman's Wharf and found ourselves right in the middle of the filming of a thrird season episode. It was pretty much the same experience as yours. Is it streaming anywhere?īelow is a pic from my encounter with the Nashman. We've been there so many times together, and as a kid I had family there, that I can usually name the neighborhood they're filming in. I love the old series The Streets of San Francisco. I'm surprised I didn't start watching it back then. You cant lose when you get Don Johnson and Philip Michael Thomas back together again. It's a great town with so many unique little neighborhoods. I never really watched it, but I understand it ran longer than MV. I remember when we got home I looked up the show on this relatively new thing called the internet. It may even have been the first season, but either way I didn't know the show, but recognized DJ and Cheech Marin right away. I remember years ago, when we were newly married, my wife and I were in San Francisco when we stumbled across them filming Nash Bridges.
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