The BEST episodes of Miami Vice season 1
Every episode of Miami Vice season 1, ranked from best to worst by thousands of votes from fans of the show. The best episodes of Miami Vice season 1!
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 - Evan
Season 1 - Episode 21 - Aired 5/3/1985
A former Vice member, Evan Freed, is now working undercover with ATF to bring down an arms dealer. Sonny and Evan have a mysterious past that Tubbs is determined to learn. They must reconcile long enough to calibrate efforts in the weapons sting.
#2 - Lombard
Season 1 - Episode 22 - Aired 5/10/1985
After crime boss Al Lombard is subpeonaed to testify against the Family, Crockett & Tubbs are assigned to provide his protective custody.
#3 - Calderone's Return (1) - The Hit List
Season 1 - Episode 4 - Aired 10/19/1984
Tubbs works to save Crockett and his family from falling victim to an Argentinean assassin hired by Calderon.
#4 - Brother's Keeper
Season 1 - Episode 1 - Aired 9/16/1984
Miami Vice Squad detective James 'Sonny' Crockett has just lost his partner, Eddie Rivera, in a car bombing. Crockett was investigating Esteban Calderone, a Colombian cocaine dealer, when he meets a New York City narcotics detective, Rafael Tubbs. Since they are having difficulties approaching Calderone, Crockett and Tubbs are forced to work together. Crockett later confronts "Rafael" and discovers that he is actually Ricardo, Rafael's younger brother and a New York detective, who is seeking revenge on Calderone for killing his brother. They agree to work together and Calderone is collared, but he pays $2 million bail and escapes. In the end, Crockett persuades Tubbs to enter a career in "Southern law enforcement." NOTE: This was originally a two-hour pilot movie, but in syndication it is shown as two separate episodes.
#5 - Smuggler's Blues
Season 1 - Episode 15 - Aired 2/1/1985
Crockett & Tubbs are recruited by DEA to pose as drug smugglers in an effort to expose someone in law enforcement who is murdering drug dealers and their families.
#6 - No Exit (a.k.a. Three-Eyed Turtle)
Season 1 - Episode 7 - Aired 11/9/1984
Federal agents join Crockett and Tubbs to stop an arms dealer from selling stolen Stingers.
#7 - The Maze
Season 1 - Episode 17 - Aired 2/22/1985
Tubbs is taken hostage by a gang in an abandoned hotel, thanks to the would-be heroics of a cop trying to avenge his partner's murder.
#8 - Golden Triangle (2)
Season 1 - Episode 14 - Aired 1/18/1985
Castillo asks Crockett & Tubbs to help him find an old adversary, a drug smuggler who has kidnapped his former wife.
#9 - Golden Triangle (1)
Season 1 - Episode 13 - Aired 1/11/1985
When Crockett & Tubbs masquerade as hotel security acting as pimps, they uncover an operation to rip-off the hotel vault.
#10 - Milk Run
Season 1 - Episode 12 - Aired 1/4/1985
Two naive New Yorkers hope for one big score running coke from Colombia to Miami.
#11 - Heart of Darkness
Season 1 - Episode 2 - Aired 9/28/1984
Crockett and Tubbs are skeptical of rumors that an undercover FBI agent has betrayed an operation. Switek and Zito setup a burglary sting operation.
#12 - Cool Runnin'
Season 1 - Episode 3 - Aired 10/5/1984
Crockett and Tubbs must enlist the help of an unreliable petty thief to bust a drug operation run by a trio of homicidal Jamaicans.
#13 - The Home Invaders
Season 1 - Episode 19 - Aired 3/15/1985
Crockett resents Castillo's attack on his mentor during an investigation of a string of brutal burglaries in wealthy neighborhoods.
#14 - Nobody Lives Forever
Season 1 - Episode 20 - Aired 3/29/1985
While three joyriding teenage boys embark on a murderous, drug induced rampage, Sonny is distracted by a new romance.
#15 - Calderone's Return (2) - Calderone's Demise
Season 1 - Episode 5 - Aired 10/26/1984
While on the trail of Calderone in Bimini, Tubbs falls in love with a woman who forces him to consider his loyalties.
#16 - Give a Little, Take a Little
Season 1 - Episode 10 - Aired 12/7/1984
In court, Crockett refuses to identify an informant and spends more time in jail than the drug dealer he is trying to bust. Gina and Trudy infiltrate a prostitution ring. Gina is placed in a compromising position when they are suspicious that she is not a hooker.
#17 - Little Prince
Season 1 - Episode 11 - Aired 12/14/1984
Crockett thinks that a wealthy industrialist's son nailed in a heroin bust could lead them to bigger connections in the supply network.
#18 - Rites of Passage
Season 1 - Episode 16 - Aired 2/8/1985
Tubbs is reunited with an old flame, an NYPD detective, looking for her missing sister. While he and Crockett are searching for a call girl's killer.
#19 - One Eyed Jack
Season 1 - Episode 6 - Aired 11/2/1984
Crockett 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.
#20 - The Great McCarthy
Season 1 - Episode 8 - Aired 11/16/1984
Crockett's renovated cigarette boat is used in an operation to stop a man who smuggles drugs using his speedboat racing hobby.
#21 - Made for Each Other
Season 1 - Episode 18 - Aired 3/8/1985
By day, Switek and Zito supervise a pair of jive-talking master informants; by night, they're sharing quarters with Switek's girlfriend --- who's also Zito's ex.
#22 - Glades
Season 1 - Episode 9 - Aired 11/30/1984
Crockett and Tubbs wade through the Everglades after a witness who bolted from custody and must testify in 48 hours.