The Best Episodes Directed By John Nicolella
Every TV Episode Directed by John Nicolella Ranked from Best to Worst by Thousands of Voters
John Nicolella Ratings Summary
The best episode directed by John Nicolella is "Lombard", rated 7.5/10 from 2 user votes. It was "written by N/A". "Lombard" aired on 5/10/1985 and is rated 0.8 point(s) higher than their second highest rated, "Tale of the Goat".
7.5/10 2 votes#1 - Lombard
Season 1 Episode 22 - Aired 5/10/1985
Crockett and Tubbs must protect a reluctant witness from his prior employers -- the Mafia family that wants to silence him.
Director: John Nicolella
Writer: N/A
6.7/10 3 votes#2 - Tale of the Goat
Season 2 Episode 8 - Aired 11/15/1985
Crockett and Tubbs escort a coffin containing a criminal to his final Miami resting place ... until its learned that he has risen from the dead and has a similar zombie fate scheduled for Tubbs.
Director: John Nicolella
Writer: N/A
6.0/10 3 votes#3 - Payback
Season 2 Episode 20 - Aired 3/14/1986
A reclusive drug supplier thinks Crockett has the $3 million stolen by the dealer's former employee.
Director: John Nicolella
Writer: Shel Willens
5.7/10 3 votes#4 - Milk Run
Season 1 Episode 12 - Aired 1/4/1985
Crockett and Tubbs encounter two naive young men smuggling cocaine-filled statues for a murderous criminal.
Director: John Nicolella
Writer: Allison Hock
5.5/10 2 votes#5 - Back in the World
Season 2 Episode 11 - Aired 12/6/1985
Crockett 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.
Director: John Nicolella
Writer: N/A
5.5/10 2 votes#6 - Sons and Lovers
Season 2 Episode 23 - Aired 5/9/1986
The son of Tubbs' arch-enemy Calderone oozes to the surface with a $1 million contract on Tubbs, while Calderone's sister Angelina says Tubbs is the father of her child.
Director: John Nicolella
Writer: N/A
5.3/10 3 votes#7 - Trust Fund Pirates
Season 2 Episode 22 - Aired 5/2/1986
A Bolivian cruise ship is attacked by pirates leading Crockett and Tubbs to enlist the help of a renegade pilot in the contraband business to solve the case.
Director: John Nicolella
Writer: Dennis Cooper
4.5/10 2 votes#8 - Bushido
Season 2 Episode 9 - Aired 11/22/1985
Castillo 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.
Director: John Nicolella
Writer: N/A
4.0/10 1 votes#9 - The Prodigal Son (2)
Season 2 Episode 2 - Aired 9/27/1985
Crockett and Tubbs go to Manhattan to find a group of Colombian drug dealers who are killing federal agents.
Director: John Nicolella
Writer: N/A
3.7/10 3 votes#10 - Little Miss Dangerous
Season 2 Episode 16 - Aired 1/31/1986
Crocket 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?
Director: John Nicolella
Writer: N/A
3.7/10 3 votes#11 - 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.
Director: John Nicolella
Writer: N/A