Best Episodes of Miami Vice
The best TV episodes out of all the seasons of the 80s Vice!
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- DirectorThomas CarterStarsDon JohnsonPhilip Michael ThomasSaundra SantiagoMiami detective Sonny Crockett reluctantly teams with New York City cop Rico Tubbs when both of them end up pursuing a drug dealer who killed their respective partners.
- 1984–198949mTV-148.5 (925)TV EpisodeDirectorRichard A. CollaStarsDon JohnsonPhilip Michael ThomasSaundra SantiagoThe team moves to protect Crockett and his family from an assassin, hired by Calderone to re-empty the void he left behind.
- 1984–198949mTV-148.2 (883)TV EpisodeDirectorPaul Michael GlaserStarsDon JohnsonPhilip Michael ThomasSaundra SantiagoWhile on the trail of Calderone in Bimini, Tubbs falls in love with a woman who forces him to consider his loyalties.
- DirectorLee H. KatzinStarsDon JohnsonPhilip Michael ThomasSaundra SantiagoCrockett attempts to help an old flame free herself from a racketeer, then is framed for taking bribes. Martin Castillo becomes the squad's new lieutenant.
- DirectorDavid SoulStarsDon JohnsonPhilip Michael ThomasSaundra SantiagoCrockett and Tubbs reluctantly help government agents in their pursuit of a dangerous arms dealer.
- DirectorGeorg Stanford BrownStarsDon JohnsonPhilip Michael ThomasSaundra SantiagoCrockett and Tubbs work undercover in a hotel. They uncover criminals that are an old enemies of Lt. Castillo and have also kidnapped Castillo's long-lost wife.
- DirectorDavid AnspaughStarsDon JohnsonPhilip Michael ThomasSaundra SantiagoLt. Castillo must bring down his old enemy, who has passed his organization to his grandsons. They have kidnapped Castillo's long-lost wife to ensure their escape from prosecution.
- DirectorPaul Michael GlaserStarsDon JohnsonPhilip Michael ThomasSaundra SantiagoSomeone in law enforcement is murdering drug dealers and their families in cold blood. To find the culprit, Crockett and Tubbs go undercover and travel to Colombia with a laid-back pilot to pose as dealers.
- DirectorDavid AnspaughStarsDon JohnsonPhilip Michael ThomasSaundra SantiagoSparks fly between Tubbs and an old flame who has come to Miami to rescue her sister from a life of prostitution.
- DirectorAbel FerraraStarsDon JohnsonPhilip Michael ThomasSaundra SantiagoThe squad is assigned to assist Robbery with a string of brutal home invasions. Castillo is concerned the officer in charge - who was Crockett's mentor - is mishandling the investigation and the two clash, leaving Crockett torn between loyalty and a resolved case.
- DirectorRob CohenStarsDon JohnsonPhilip Michael ThomasSaundra SantiagoCrockett and Tubbs join forces with the Federal Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms ... including Crockett's old partner Evan Freed. Tubbs tries to understand their troubled relationship.
- DirectorJohn NicolellaStarsDon JohnsonPhilip Michael ThomasSaundra SantiagoCrockett and Tubbs must protect a reluctant witness from his prior employers -- the Mafia family that wants to silence him.
- DirectorPaul Michael GlaserStarsDon JohnsonPhilip Michael ThomasSaundra SantiagoCrockett and Tubbs travel to New York to take down a powerful Colombian cartel.
- DirectorJim JohnstonStarsDon JohnsonPhilip Michael ThomasSaundra SantiagoCrockett and Tubbs stake out a drug dealer, an investigation that is being helped along by an ex-cop that seems to know a bit too much about the case.
- DirectorEdward James OlmosStarsDon JohnsonPhilip Michael ThomasSaundra SantiagoCastillo is forced to choose between friendship and duty when Jack Gretsky, his best friend from his days in Vietnam with the CIA, reemerges from the criminal underground complete with a Russian wife who is being pursued by the KGB.
- DirectorJohn NicolellaStarsDon JohnsonPhilip Michael ThomasSaundra SantiagoGina's cleaning woman gets raped in Gina's home by the spoiled son of a wealthy man, who thinks he's above the law. Despite evidence being circumstantial, Gina wants to have the man arrested. Izzy steals Switek and Zito's bug van.
- DirectorDon JohnsonStarsDon JohnsonPhilip Michael ThomasSaundra SantiagoCrockett flashes to his role during the Saigon evacuation as he and a war correspondent uncover heroin smuggled in body bags. Ten years later in Miami the H resurfaces and so does the reporter looking for the CIA connection.
- DirectorRob CohenStarsDon JohnsonPhilip Michael ThomasSaundra SantiagoCrockett finds out first hand about Charlie Basset as a violent drug runner with an enticing wife that Sonny just can't get out of his mind.
- DirectorAaron LipstadtStarsDon JohnsonPhilip Michael ThomasSaundra SantiagoWhen Crockett sees his stewardess girlfriend die from smuggling balloons of cocaine into the country, he and Tubbs go undercover to expose the ring.
- DirectorLeon IchasoStarsDon JohnsonPhilip Michael ThomasSaundra SantiagoCrocket and Tubbs visit Miami's kinky Sex World parlor when a sailor shows up murdered. The trail leads to a mysterious underage dancer Tubbs tries to straighten out - but is this more than social work?
- DirectorAaron LipstadtStarsDon JohnsonPhilip Michael ThomasSaundra Santiago-Crockett goes undercover to take down Mario Fuente (Frank Zappa), a dealer of 'weasel dust'.
- DirectorJohn NicolellaStarsDon JohnsonPhilip Michael ThomasSaundra SantiagoThe son of Tubbs' arch-enemy Calderone oozes to the surface with a $1 million contract on Tubbs, while Calderone's sister Angelina says Tubbs he is the father of her child.
- DirectorDavid JacksonStarsDon JohnsonPhilip Michael ThomasSaundra SantiagoWhen Ira Stone films a video of American forces on illegal operations in South America, Crockett must protect him from their old nemesis Maynard, who will stop at nothing to silence Stone.
- DirectorMario DiLeoStarsDon JohnsonPhilip Michael ThomasSaundra SantiagoGina falls for an Irish pacifist who believes there is no point fighting fire with fire anymore - or so she thinks.
- DirectorLeon IchasoStarsDon JohnsonPhilip Michael ThomasSaundra SantiagoA major drug dealer that's being investigated and his ruthless partner, a brothel madam, frame a professional jai alai player for murder of a prostitute to blackmail the athlete's customs agent brother into selling Crockett and Tubbs out.
- DirectorMario DiLeoStarsDon JohnsonPhilip Michael ThomasSaundra SantiagoCrockett attempts to help a high-school football star achieve his dream, while others pressure him to help bring down a teenage drug lord.
- DirectorChristopher CroweStarsDon JohnsonPhilip Michael ThomasSaundra SantiagoCrockett risks his sanity to try and enter the mind of a creepy, bizarre serial home invader, who might change his exhibitionist m.o. to murder or worse unless he's stopped in time.
- DirectorAaron LipstadtStarsDon JohnsonPhilip Michael ThomasSaundra SantiagoCrockett and Tubbs have their hands full with an impatient old-timer (Willie Nelson) anxious to make a deal with a deadly Bolivian cocaine importer.
- DirectorDaniel AttiasStarsDon JohnsonPhilip Michael ThomasSaundra SantiagoThe team learns of a baby selling ring when one of the children's mother comes to Miami looking for her child. The trail leads them to a sleazy lawyer. When the lawyer manages to tie up any loose ends, they decide to use the mother to trap him.
- DirectorJan EliasbergStarsDon JohnsonPhilip Michael ThomasSaundra SantiagoNew evidence leads Crockett to fight against the execution of Frank Hackman, put on Death Row for murdering Crockett's old partner.
- DirectorJohn NicolellaStarsDon JohnsonPhilip Michael ThomasSaundra SantiagoWhen some prostitutes are being killed, Castillo recognizes the M.O. as similar to some killings he saw when he was in Vietnam and working with a Vietnamese investigator. And the investigator shows up in Miami.
- DirectorJames QuinnStarsDon JohnsonPhilip Michael ThomasSaundra SantiagoCrockett and Tubbs' investigation of a paranoid dealer is complicated by a surveillance expert who decides to play both sides against one another.
- DirectorGabrielle BeaumontStarsDon JohnsonPhilip Michael ThomasSaundra SantiagoCrockett and Tubbs along with a couple of other cops were about to make a bust but instead are ambushed and one of the cops is killed. It seems that this was not the first time this happened. It's evident that someone on the inside is giving dealers info on busts. Tubbs then loses it. Later he is approached by a cop who wants him to work with him. The partner of the cop who was killed is determined to find out what happened. And when he sees Tubbs with the cop, he follows him.
- DirectorDon JohnsonStarsDon JohnsonPhilip Michael ThomasSaundra SantiagoA call girl witnesses two henchmen take her client and ultimately murder him, causing her to go into hiding, confiding and staying with a friend, a woman Crockett falls for big time. Unknown to him, there is far more to her than he knows.
- DirectorVirgil W. VogelStarsDon JohnsonPhilip Michael ThomasSaundra SantiagoCrockett plans to marry his latest girlfriend, an ER doctor from the UK. However, she has a dark secret. A major drug dealer whom Sonny has recently busted uses it to both free himself and make Crockett look dirty.
- DirectorGabrielle BeaumontStarsDon JohnsonPhilip Michael ThomasSaundra SantiagoThe team is working on a Cuban named Pedroza. They discover another man keeping tabs on him. They learn that he's a Communist agent. He goes to see Gina and tells her that he knew her mother when she was still in Cuba and that she was murdered by a jealous ex-lover, Pedroza.
- DirectorJan EliasbergStarsDon JohnsonPhilip Michael ThomasSaundra SantiagoCrocket goes to jail to protect his source when he and Tubbs tackle organized crime.
- DirectorColin BuckseyStarsDon JohnsonPhilip Michael ThomasSaundra SantiagoCrockett attempts to prove that a murder in a snuff film was real.
- DirectorVern GillumStarsDon JohnsonPhilip Michael ThomasSaundra SantiagoTormented by his shooting a 13-year-old kid, Crockett tries to reconnect with his estranged son while attempting to take down a gun runner.
- DirectorColin BuckseyStarsDon JohnsonPhilip Michael ThomasSaundra SantiagoCrockett is assigned to bodyguard fading singing sensation and makes his displeasure known -- until he gets to know her a bit better.
- DirectorLeon IchasoStarsDon JohnsonPhilip Michael ThomasSaundra SantiagoCrockett and Tubbs take on the Yakuza - the Japanese mafia - as they try to control Miami. A corrupt detective and a Japanese assassin on the path of revenge against the Yakuza leader there complicate matters.
- DirectorDon JohnsonStarsDon JohnsonPhilip Michael ThomasSaundra SantiagoCrockett and new bride Caitlin trade barbs as he goes undercover in the singles scene looking for a serial killer.
- DirectorColin BuckseyStarsDon JohnsonPhilip Michael ThomasSaundra SantiagoNewly married Crockett gets entangled with Caitlin's record companies executives.
- DirectorBill DukeStarsDon JohnsonPhilip Michael ThomasSaundra SantiagoCrockett and Tubbs are investigating the murders of prostitutes which appears to be the work of a sadist. They discover that the killer is a Chilean police official. They try to arrest him but someone from the government gets him out. It's obvious that the government man and the Chilean have something going on. So they try to find out what it is.
- DirectorJim JohnstonStarsDon JohnsonPhilip Michael ThomasSaundra SantiagoA twisted serial killer with a fetish for mini dolls preys on underage girls. Since he uses pure cocaine to kill them, the police puts pressure on the cartels. "Burnett and Cooper" end up in the team the drug lords send to find him.
- DirectorRichard ComptonStarsDon JohnsonPhilip Michael ThomasSaundra SantiagoA group of crooked cops are robbing and murdering drug dealers. Sonny and Tubbs are on the case but their only lead is a homeless woman who's not what she seems.
- DirectorGeorge MendelukStarsDon JohnsonPhilip Michael ThomasSaundra SantiagoGina becomes a little too close to mobster Frank Mosca in an attempt to take him down.
- DirectorGeorge MendelukStarsDon JohnsonPhilip Michael ThomasSaundra SantiagoFrank Hackman returns to make life hell for Crockett - in the most devastating way possible.
- DirectorRichard ComptonStarsDon JohnsonPhilip Michael ThomasSaundra SantiagoHead trauma from a massive explosion causes Crockett to believe he is his alter-ego Sonny Burnett.
- DirectorDon JohnsonStarsDon JohnsonPhilip Michael ThomasSaundra SantiagoCrockett, as Burnett, murders and manipulates his way to the top of the crime organization he works for.
- DirectorPaul KrasnyStarsDon JohnsonPhilip Michael ThomasSaundra SantiagoBurnett begins to remember who he really is, as Tubbs and the rest of the squad decide he must be taken down.
- DirectorVern GillumStarsDon JohnsonPhilip Michael ThomasSaundra SantiagoTubbs and Switek go undercover and pose as drug dealing middlemen to take down Borrasca, a very dangerous counter revolutionary who uses drug money to fight the war against communism in his country.
- DirectorPaul KrasnyStarsDon JohnsonPhilip Michael ThomasSaundra SantiagoA conflicted Castillo protects his ex-wife from a drug lord who is trying to kill her and her new husband.
- DirectorJim JohnstonStarsDon JohnsonPhilip Michael ThomasSaundra SantiagoA passionate romance distracts Crockett to the point that it nearly derails the pursuit of three thugs on a rampage.
- DirectorVern GillumStarsDon JohnsonPhilip Michael ThomasSaundra SantiagoSwitek sinks into drunkenness and self-destructive behavior after a dangerous mobster forces him to talk his indebted quarterback buddy into throwing a game to pay off his own enormous gambling debts.
- DirectorMichelle ManningStarsDon JohnsonPhilip Michael ThomasSaundra SantiagoCrockett and Tubbs' efforts to bust a major drug dealer are repeatedly thwarted in court by a shady big-shot southern gentleman attorney and his loyal protege Lisa, whose father was a prosecutor murdered for crusading against drugs.
- DirectorEugene CorrStarsDon JohnsonPhilip Michael ThomasSaundra SantiagoCrockett goes on leave to spend some time with his young troubled son Billy, who can't adjust to the unexpected new situation in the household. Tubbs falls for the widow of an assassinated drug lord, whose family is now being targeted.
- DirectorAlan MyersonStarsDon JohnsonPhilip Michael ThomasSaundra SantiagoExperimental EMP railgun is stolen by the son of Al Lombard, Sonny's recurring frienemy and former mob underboss, who vanished after his boss Librizzi sent hitmen after him. When Al reappears to visit his kid, the hitmen find them.
- DirectorRuss MayberryStarsDon JohnsonPhilip Michael ThomasSaundra SantiagoWhen a routine bust goes bad, the team gets approached by a group of rogue cops who have their own vigilante justice in mind. Castillo approves Crockett and Tubbs decision to infiltrate the group, but when one good cop is killed, that decision comes into question.
- DirectorRuss MayberryStarsDon JohnsonPhilip Michael ThomasSaundra SantiagoCrockett and Tubbs, figuring they're on their way out, are recruited by the government to help a dictator escape from his war-torn country - with double-crosses at every turn.
- DirectorRichard ComptonStarsDon JohnsonPhilip Michael ThomasSaundra SantiagoValerie returns to Miami to help a friend turned junkie, whose teenage daughter is being preyed upon by her abusive drug dealer. She also hopes of possibly rekindling her romance with Tubbs. Meanwhile Stan returns to his gambling ways.