The BEST episodes of Miami Vice season 3
Every episode of Miami Vice season 3, ranked from best to worst by thousands of votes from fans of the show. The best episodes of Miami Vice season 3!
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 - Down for the Count (1)
Season 3 - Episode 12 - Aired 1/9/1987
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.
#2 - By Hooker by Crook
Season 3 - Episode 20 - Aired 3/20/1987
Crockett & Tubbs seek a murder witness, unaware that she works for a madame who is Sonny's lover.
#3 - Forgive Us Our Debts
Season 3 - Episode 11 - Aired 12/12/1986
New leads persuade Crockett that a man he put on death row might be innocent, but a campaign-conscious DA is reluctant to help.
#4 - Theresa
Season 3 - Episode 16 - Aired 2/13/1987
Crockett's romantic entanglement with a heroin-addicted doctor jeopardizes his case against a dealer.
#5 - Red Tape
Season 3 - Episode 19 - Aired 3/13/1987
Tubbs searches desperately for the source of information leaks about future busts.
#6 - Duty and Honor (a.k.a. The Savage)
Season 3 - Episode 15 - Aired 2/6/1987
Castillo is not the only one to realize that a series of prostitute murders matches the M.O. of killings in Vietnam in the early 70s; the cops get help on the case from a man claiming to be a Vietnamese inspector.
#7 - Walk-Alone
Season 3 - Episode 4 - Aired 10/17/1986
Tubbs poses as a con to expose prison guards who are extorting drugs from inmates, and killing those who refuse.
#8 - The Good Collar
Season 3 - Episode 5 - Aired 10/24/1986
A star high school athlete, arrested for delivering heroin, agrees to help Crockett trap a 15-year-old drug lord; it turns ugly.
#9 - Streetwise
Season 3 - Episode 10 - Aired 12/5/1986
An undercover cop and his hooker lover help the detectives find the source of some pharmaceutical grade cocaine.
#10 - Down for the Count (2)
Season 3 - Episode 13 - Aired 1/16/1987
Switek is outraged by Internal Affairs' findings; Crockett and Tubbs' TV gambit may prove fatal when a mobster reclaims the action lost to Guzman.
#11 - Stone's War
Season 3 - Episode 2 - Aired 10/3/1986
Crockett's Vietnam journalist buddy, Ira Stone, is back--claiming to have footage of a secret U.S war in Nicaragua; the trail leads Stone, Crockett & Tubbs to Maynard a.k.a. the elusive Captain Real Estate.
#12 - Killshot
Season 3 - Episode 3 - Aired 10/10/1986
Crockett and Tubbs are fingered as cops by a Customs agent who's being blackmailed by the drug kingpin the detectives are trying to nail.
#13 - When Irish Eyes Are Crying
Season 3 - Episode 1 - Aired 9/26/1986
Gina falls for an Irish pacifist who believes there is no point fighting fire with fire anymore - or so she thinks.
#14 - Shadow in the Dark
Season 3 - Episode 6 - Aired 10/31/1986
Crockett tries to nail a psychotic murderer by thinking like his quarry, despite the fact that another cop using that tactic wound up in a psych ward.
#15 - El Viejo
Season 3 - Episode 7 - Aired 11/7/1986
Crockett & Tubbs keep tabs on a crusty old stranger who plans to cut a deal with a murderous Bolivian drug dealer.
#16 - Heroes of the Revolution
Season 3 - Episode 24 - Aired 5/8/1987
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.
#17 - Baby Blues
Season 3 - Episode 9 - Aired 11/21/1986
Unexpected contraband--babies and a stowaway mother seeking the child taken from her--puts the cops on the trail of an adoption ring.
#18 - Lend Me an Ear
Season 3 - Episode 18 - Aired 2/27/1987
The electronics whiz providing Crockett & Tubbs with surveillance devices also outfits their drug-dealing quarry.
#19 - Cuba Libre
Season 3 - Episode 14 - Aired 1/23/1987
Crockett & Tubbs stumble onto a plot by fanatical Cuban commandos to assassinate an important Cuban diplomat.
#20 - Knock, Knock...Who's There?
Season 3 - Episode 21 - Aired 3/27/1987
Crockett & Tubbs probe drug busts ruined by phony federal agents who disappear with the evidence.
#21 - Better Living Through Chemistry
Season 3 - Episode 8 - Aired 11/14/1986
Tubbs' former partner frames him when he abducts a chemist for some drug dealers.
#22 - Viking Bikers from Hell
Season 3 - Episode 22 - Aired 4/3/1987
A motorcycle gang seeks to avenge a drug-dealing comrade's death by killing off his former customers.
#23 - Everybody's in Show Biz
Season 3 - Episode 23 - Aired 5/1/1987
An actor/writer is in danger when he steals a drug dealer's briefcase and the vital information it contains.
#24 - The Afternoon Plane
Season 3 - Episode 17 - Aired 2/20/1987
Tubbs finds out that his "raffle prize" --- a week in the Caribbean --- is set up by a vengeful con and the Calderones to lure him out of his jurisdiction.