CSI: Miami Trivia

During the opening credits, the actors' names morph out of equations:

* 4y - 1 = 3b(Nh) becomes David Caruso
* 3a1 - X = (A9Xy) becomes Emily Procter
* 3b + N = 7bn1(6A) becomes Adam Rodriguez
* 2b + 4a = (7h)3XyNh becomes Khandi Alexander
* A1b + B2c = R4 becomes Kim Delaney
* (7b) = 6m + (3h) becomes Jonathan Togo

* Sela Ward was offered the role of Megan Donner but turned it down.

* The Miami-Dade Police Department's crime lab really is called Crime Scene Investigations.

* While all the fly-over shots, skylines and cityscapes really are of Miami, Florida, any beach scenes during the series were filmed at Manhattan Beach, a suburb of Los Angeles.

* "CSI: Crime Scene Investigation" (2000) star William L. Petersen was offered the chance to produce this show, but declined.

* Believing that CSI copycat shows were inevitable, CSI producers and CBS agreed to create this spin-off series in the hope of being the first to copy the original CSI series.

* The design of the autopsy theater was based on a misremembering of a set from The Andromeda Strain (1971).

* Horatio was named after the poet Horatio Alger.

* The title music is "Won't Get Fooled Again" by the British rock band The Who. The Who also provided music for the title sequences of CSI: Crime Scene Investigation ("Who Are You?") and CSI: NY ("Baba O'Riley").

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