NASH BRIDGES 🌟 THEN AND NOW 2020

[Music] [Music] don johnson will forever be known as sonny crockett the stylish star of miami vice but that was not his most successful television series if you're going by episode count in 1996 the actor and singer of the number five pop smash heartbeat struck small screen gold again with nash bridges this light-hearted body cop show paired him with cheech marin of chichen chang fame who played the straight man and ran for six seasons miami vice only lasted five he traded in former italian sports car for american muscle and hit the streets of san francisco to stump crime as always you're watching how they changed and let's take a closer look at this beloved 90s staple starting with its most fascinating facts nash bridges debuted on the 29th of march 1996 on the cbs television network the show starred don johnson as the eponymous nash bridges an inspector and later captain with the san francisco police department's elite special investigations unit as the show begins he's in his 40s twice divorced and dealing with a fisty teenage daughter cassidy joe deleon o'keefe nash convinces recently retired inspector joe dominguez to each marine to return to the force to partner with him nash and joe cruised the streets of san francisco in nash's curious yellow 1971 plymouth barracuda convertible a gift from nash's brother bobby just before bobby left for the vietnam war bobby bridges was reported as m.i.a but turns up in the season 3 episode revelations played by gen michael vincent [Music] nash's father nick james gammon suffers from mild dementia and has a habit of getting kicked out of nursing homes he eventually moves in with nash and is often involved in comic subplots aiding nash in his police work is the technically savvy harvey league jeff perry a middle-aged dead head a die-hard grateful dead fan and yarn hot-headed evan cortez jamie p gamers who has an often dawn stormy relationship with cassidy in later seasons other inspectors and supporting characters were added to and subtracted from the cast for the first 16 episodes the commander of the ciu was lieutenant aj shimamura kerry hiroyuki tagawa a character who was said to have returned to his native hawaii after failing to be promoted to captain shimamura's departure opened the door for bridges to be promoted to captain and given command of the cie hunter s thompson and don johnson came up with the idea yep that hunter s thompson the pioneer of gonzo journalism that both bill murray and johnny depp portrayed on the big screen thompson and don johnson were neighbors my neighbor and friend god dressed his soul hunter thompson and i were sitting around talking about television johnson later explained hunter and i came up with one idea and out of that idea it evolved and underwent a metamorphosis initially that idea as you might suspect was a touch darker the dorm of the nash character was a drug addicted cop dating a mob daughter the tone lightened by the time it hit network television it features a miami vice reunion and a chichen chan reunion in the same episode no less in season two's wild card lovers of 70s and 80s pop culture were treated to a double reunion as both philip michael thomas and tommy chon turned up oh and meatloaf is in there too as a bonus a speedboat chase is tossed in for good measure for full miami vice flashbacks cheating chan naturally have a back and forth about marijuana totally legal under prop 2015 as long as you have a valid medical excuse john's character notes his excuse i got really depressed when i'm not getting stoned stone cold steve austin turned down a spin-off in seasons four and five professional wrestling superstar stone cold steve austin guest stars a handful of times as detective jake cage notably in an episode titled get bananas where cage must go undercover in the siemens liberation group a group of radical animals rights activists looking to kidnap a celebrity chimp when jake cage first appears stone cold's in-ring wrestling theme music has played it was reported that austin was offered a spin-off but turned it down to focus on wrestling it might lead to something and there has been talk of a spin-off he said on regis and kathleen but i've been around this thing long enough that i never believe anything really till i see it or till it happens the show was shot on location in san francisco bridges made great use of the scenic bay area including its bridges locations like the embarcadero and piece 30 through 32 serve as a backdrop and much of the show was shot on treasure island the artificial island in san francisco bay the 71 plymouth barracuda was not really a 71 plymouth barracuda how could we overlook the non-human star of the series the curious yellow plymouth barracuda driven by nash hillary calls it his cuda on the show it is said the car is a 71 with the production actually modified for 1970 barracudas to look like 1971 barracudas that's television bubba there were three different theme songs in six seasons in six seasons nash bridges cycled through three different theme tunes the first and final seasons went with two different instrumentals seasons two through five used the more familiar song singing i got a friend in you to lead me out of the cold nash bridges had more episodes in its first round the don johnson's other hit tv show miami vice nash bridges ran for 122 episodes versus 111 episodes for miami vice in 2009 it was announced that nash bridges would return to tv with a two-hour movie followed by a new season of episodes the script that hunter s thompson and don johnson wrote and pitched to nbc was much darker than the series ended up and wasn't particularly suitable for prime time in it nash was a drug addict who was dating the daughter of a wanted san francisco california mafia figure according to the opening credits sequence of the first season nash was born on the 7th of december 1955. it also featured nash's and lisa's divorce document according to which his full name was nash nicholas bridges and hers was lisa crandall bridges lisa was the petitioner of their divorce and nash was the respondent [Music] don johnson shared a playful love-hate relationship with jasmine bleath caitlyn cross who played an internal affairs inspector trying to find corruption in the unit on miami vice 1984 johnson as james sonny crockett shared an edgier more intense one with pop star sheena easton caitlyn davies [Music] the sixth season of nash bridges would be its last however the show was obtaining fair ratings from nielsen following its friday night ratings battle which it was losing to nbc's law and order special victims unit the show was cancelled paramount network television which was produced in the show felt that its two million dollar per episode production cost was just too much cbs was hoping to get a seventh season out of nash bridges but that failed because paramount wasn't willing to pay even though at that time viacom had owned both cbs and paramount don was already exploring other opportunities doing a tv series five days a week for as long as he did is an exhausting task don was ready to move on elliot means don johnson's publicist another factor that led to the ending of the series was that don johnson wanted out johnson was getting tired and cbs and paramount had enough episodes to put the series into syndication and that's all for now don't forget to leave a like subscribe and share this video with friends take care

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Length: 10min 11sec (611 seconds)

Published: Sun Dec 20 2020