The BEST Episodes of Miami Vice
Every episode ever - ranked by fan votes!
Last Updated: Jan 15, 2020
Network: NBC
Miami Vice centers around the unlikely partnership of Sonny Crockett (Don Johnson) and Ricardo Tubbs (Philip Michael Thomas), two undercover detectives from the Miami Police Department’s vice squad battling against drug trafficking and prostitution in the city’s seamy underworld. Its use of New Wave music and colorful Italian men’s fashion was groundbreaking and the series had a defining influence on the popular culture of the 1980s.
#1 - Mirror Image (2)
Season 4 - Episode 22 - Aired May 6, 1988
A concussion leaves Crockett thinking he is his drug dealer alter-ego Burnett and goes to work for a Colombian crime boss.
9.63 
#2 - Deliver Us from Evil (1)
Season 4 - Episode 21 - Aired Apr 29, 1988
A murder case that hits close to home reunites Crockett with the man who used him to trick his way off Death Row.
9.52 
#3 - A Bullet for Crockett
Season 4 - Episode 20 - Aired Apr 15, 1988
Sonny and Rico work undercover with a big dealer, Ricque "Loco" Mendez. During the police intervention, Sonny shot Loco, and the girlfriend of Loco shot Sonny. Members of the vice squad reminisce while Crockett lies close to death from the gunshot wound. We see why the other policemen love Sonny. At the end, we understand why Sonny is a cop.
9.43 
#4 - Honor Among Thieves?
Season 4 - Episode 16 - Aired Mar 4, 1988
Crockett & Tubbs want to bring in a serial killer, but fear that it may blow their covers to break too soon.
8.65 
#5 - Redemption in Blood (4)
Season 5 - Episode 2 - Aired Nov 11, 1988
As now drug-lord Crockett's memory returns, Tubbs feels his partner has gone bad and must be destroyed.
8.58 
#6 - Miami Squeeze
Season 5 - Episode 11 - Aired Feb 17, 1989
The irresponsible son of a fierce, anti-drug-minded Congresswoman jeopardizes his mother's political career when he incurs the wrath of a British drug lord by stealing his shipment of drugs.
8.50 
#7 - Hard Knocks
Season 5 - Episode 8 - Aired Jan 20, 1989
Switek sinks into drinking and gambling when thugs convince him to talk a friend's son, a major college quarterback, into throwing a game.
8.49 
#8 - Lend Me an Ear
Season 3 - Episode 18 - Aired Feb 27, 1987
The electronics whiz providing Crockett & Tubbs with surveillance devices also outfits their drug-dealing quarry.
8.48 
#9 - Line of Fire
Season 5 - Episode 6 - Aired Dec 16, 1988
Crockett & Tubbs reluctantly comply with an FBI request to guard their key witness in a drug overlord's trial.
8.47 
#10 - Asian Cut
Season 5 - Episode 7 - Aired Jan 13, 1989
Crockett & Tubbs use Trudy as a decoy to lure a sadistic serial killer who preys on call girls.
8.43 
#11 - The Lost Madonna
Season 5 - Episode 14 - Aired Mar 17, 1989
Crockett & Tubbs help an NYPD detective retrieve a stolen 15th century Madonna statue in the possession of a mob family.
8.42 
#12 - Amen...Send Money
Season 4 - Episode 2 - Aired Oct 2, 1987
The fury of feuding TV evangelists hits Tubbs when he is accused raping a parishoner.
8.40 
#13 - Over the Line
Season 5 - Episode 15 - Aired Apr 28, 1989
In the midst of working an undercover assignment, Crockett and Tubbs come across a clandestine vigilante group of frustrated law enforcement officers working within the department. Aware of Sonny and Rico's own frustration with how easily the bad guys seem to circumvent the law, the vigilante organization offers them an opportunity to join in. Lieutenant Castillo encourages them to accept the offer and work undercover in ferreting out the identities of everyone involved and to make sure that no one gets hurt. Unfortunately, that is too tall an order for his detectives to accomplish successfully.
8.40 
#14 - Victim of Circumstance
Season 5 - Episode 16 - Aired May 5, 1989
Holocaust survivors are being murdered in Miami. Crockett and Switek infiltrate a White-supremacist group that might be responsible.
8.40 
#15 - Down for the Count (1)
Season 3 - Episode 12 - Aired Jan 9, 1987
Zito reluctantly uses a boxer as bait to help the vice squad nail a former drug kingpin involved in bookmaking; it ends in tragedy and the loss of a comrade for the vice cops.
8.38 
#16 - The Cell Within
Season 5 - Episode 13 - Aired Mar 10, 1989
A dark, chilling episode in which Tubbs is held prisoner - along with a drug dealer, a young prostitute and a prison psychologist - in the personal dungeon (complete with electric chair) of a supposedly reformed, freed killer who he once put behind bars. One of the highlights of Season 5.
8.38 
#17 - Lombard
Season 1 - Episode 23 - Aired May 10, 1985
After crime boss Al Lombard is subpeonaed to testify against the Family, Crockett & Tubbs are assigned to provide his protective custody.
8.30 
#18 - Baseballs of Death
Season 4 - Episode 14 - Aired Feb 19, 1988
Crockett & Tubbs suspect a Chilean police chief in a double murder.
8.26 
#19 - Child's Play
Season 4 - Episode 5 - Aired Oct 30, 1987
Crockett agonizes about shooting a child during a weapons investigation.
8.21 
#20 - Walk Alone
Season 3 - Episode 4 - Aired Oct 17, 1986
Tubbs poses as a con to expose prison guards who are extorting drugs from inmates, and killing those who refuse.
8.19 
#21 - Out Where the Buses Don't Run
Season 2 - Episode 4 - Aired Oct 18, 1985
Crockett and Tubbs question the sanity of a retired vice cop who wants them to chase after a coke dealer thought to be dead.
8.17 
#22 - Freefall
Season 5 - Episode 17 - Aired May 21, 1989
Crockett & Tubbs embark on what they see as a suicide mission. They are recruited by a Special Drug Taskforce to escort the corrupt dictator of Costa Morada, a fictional Revolution ravaged Latin American country. Gen. Manuel Borbon has promised to reveal the members of the most powerful South American drug cartel. Crockett & Tubbs are faced with what might be their final showdown.
8.16 
#23 - Red Tape
Season 3 - Episode 19 - Aired Mar 13, 1987
Tubbs searches desperately for the source of information leaks about future busts.
8.14 
#24 - Love at First Sight
Season 4 - Episode 10 - Aired Jan 15, 1988
Newlywed Caitlin fears Crockett's latest undercover assignment as bait for a killer at a dating service will make her a widow.
8.14 
#25 - Heroes of the Revolution
Season 3 - Episode 24 - Aired May 8, 1987
An East German spy seeks to avenge the murder of Gina's mother in Cuba 26 years earlier, and uses her to lure the killer out.
8.11