Favorite episodes


What are your favorite episodes and why? Death of a Lady has to be on the top 5.
Mike

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The pilot will always be near and dear, followed by the common favorites (Smuggler's Blues, Evan, Definitely Miami, Out Where the Buses Don't Run).

I could go on plenty, there's a good top 5.

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Great list by Mr-Fusion. In addition to those, I would add:

Calderone's Return: Part 2 - Calderone's Demise (1984)
Milk Run (1985)
The Home Invaders (1985)
Shadow in the Dark (1986)
The Prodigal Son (1985)


I see the works of gifted hands that grace this strange and wondrous land

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I have direct TV and they do not show the "Evan" episode. Don't know why cause it was a very powerful episode.

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"El Viejo", the ep guest starring Willie Nelsong as an old Texas Ranger looking to take down a drug gang, that maybe had something to do with the murder of his old partner's son. So he had corralled a drug shipment or sample, and was playing a bad guy pretending to want to make a deal with the gang to return the shipment/sample. Sonny and Rico were in their undercovar bad guy identities. At the end, after a big shootout wherr the gang is wiped out, and Willie charactar is fatally wounded, Sonny turns aroundt to find Willie character slumped on the ground, pointing his gun at him. He says "Cop! I'm a cop!", Willie character says "I knew that all along.", his hand and gun fall to the ground, and he's dead. Very pahrful.

The othar ep that has stuck in memory is "Bushido", the only one in which Edward James Olmos' character was primary focus and Crockett and Tubbs incidental. Dean Stockwell guested as Castillo's old partner, dying of cancer, who sets Castillo up to kill him, by grabbing a money shipment Vice was using to trap some bad guys. By killing Stockwell character, Castillo has a debt of honor to make sure Stockwell character's wife and child will be safe. At the end, either Crockett or Tubbs makes some sort of remark about the stolen money. Castillo says the money will be returned to the bank first thing next business day & walks off. Tubbs says something like "Castillo doesn't bend at all, does he?" Crockett says, with great weariness, "He can't." Again, very pahrful ending.

The show was occasionally touched by magic.

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Sons and Lovers

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I was never a huge fan, so I can't remember episode titles, but I would say

The one with Willie Nelson
The one with Phil Collins
The one with Ted Nugent
The one with Kramer from Seinfeld playing a loan shark.

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