`Miami Vice' cop team meets Cheech & Chong

Competing against ABC's "20/20" (with Diane Sawyer interviewingEllen DeGeneres) and NBC's (STAR)(STAR)(STAR)(STAR) episode of"Homicide: Life on the Street," CBS will counter with TV nostalgiafrom 9 to 10 p.m. Friday on Channel 2.

A (STAR)(STAR) episode of "Nash Bridges" (classified TV-14 forviolence) reunites series star Don Johnson (as a police detective inthe title role) with his "Miami Vice" partner, actor Philip MichaelThomas. And "Nash" co-star Cheech Marin (as cop Joe Domiguez) sharessome scenes with Tommy Chong, his former Cheech & Chong comedyteammate.

Thomas plays Florida gambler Cedric Hawks, a former U.S. marshalwho lost a casino and $150,000 in a rigged poker game.Chong portrays Barry Chen, investment chief for the ChineseTriad mobsters in San Francisco. The detectives lean on Chen to helpHawks. Rock singer Meat Loaf appears as mob enforcer Charlie Pep.KURTIS ON PATROL: Executive producer Bill Kurtis hosts histwo-hour "Police" documentary from 7 to 9 p.m. Sunday on cable's A &E channel.The (STAR)(STAR)(STAR) program investigates crime-prevention inChicago, Los Angeles, San Diego, Philadelphia and Charleston, S.C.Cops and civilians praise the Chicago Alternative Policing Strategy.