When a man's body mysteriously disappears from a morgue, Trudy decides to investigate-and claims she sees a U.F.O in the process. James Brown guest stars.
Review: Olivia Brown (Trudy) has gone on record claiming that, when she read the script for this episode, she knew that something was seriously wrong with Miami Vice. I couldn't agree more. Missing Hours is pure CRAP, and probably the worst episode of the whole series. Forget about the writer's missing the boat, they were totally in the wrong ocean!
Don Johnson is barely in this episode. His "diva like" behavior at times on the set is definitely excusable here if it was his choice not to participate. Edward James Olmos (who thought the scripts were awful to begin with) is also noticeably absent as well. While it was once cool for Miami Vice to have interesting guest stars, James Brown has no place whatsoever acting in this show. You can't understand anything he says (look at his lips, the crew definitely had to overdub some of his lines) and as offbeat as he really was, he STILL seems out of place here! It's a shame for Trudy to finally get a story line and have it be THIS bad. U.F.O's have no place in Miami Vice. The ending is almost a direct copy of the excellent "Shadow in the Dark" from season three. However, this is anything but excellent.
0 out of 5 stars
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I'm having a great time watching my boxed set of all the seasons after getting hooked on hulu.com's first 2 seasons (they hold up to repeated viewings quite well) but when I got to this one I wondered if this was a writers attempt at a Halloween episdoe run amok or what. It got back on the rails - but woof. Very low tide.
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