| "Out Where the Buses Don't Run" | |
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| Miami Vice episode | |
| Episode no. | Season 2 Episode 4 |
| Directed by | Jim Johnston |
| Story by | Joel Surnow Douglas Lloyd McIntosh |
| Teleplay by | Douglas Lloyd McIntosh John Mankiewicz |
| Original air date | October 18, 1985 |
| Guest appearances | |
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"Out Where the Buses Don't Run" is the third episode of the second season of the American crime drama television series Miami Vice, and the 27th episode overall. The episode first aired on NBC on October 18, 1985, and featured guest appearance by Bruce McGill as an eccentric retired police officer attempting to aid Metro-Dade detectives James "Sonny" Crockett and Ricardo Tubbs in the search for a missing drug lord.
The episode was the second of four in the series directed by Jim Johnston, and was written by John Mankiewicz and Douglas Lloyd McIntosh based on a story idea by McIntosh and Joel Surnow. "Out Where the Buses Don't Run" was well-received critically, earning a Primetime Emmy Award nomination for editor Robert A. Daniels, and appearing in TV Guide's 1997 list of the "100 Greatest TV Episodes of All Time".