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The Best Episodes of Miami Vice

Every episode of Miami Vice ranked from best to worst. Let's dive into the Best Episodes of Miami Vice!

The Best Episodes of Miami Vice

The story of the Miami Police Department's vice squad and its efforts to end drug trafficking and prostitution, centered on the unlikely partnership of Sonny...

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  1. Background image for Whatever Works
    8.8/10(1.0k votes)

    #1 - Whatever Works

    S2:E3

    Crockett, Tubbs & Castillo contact a Santerian priestess to help find the link between ritualistic killings of officers and a group of drug traffickers. Crockett and Izzy try to get the Ferrari back after a city accountant re-possesses it.

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  2. Background image for Phill the Shill
    8.7/10(2.2k votes)

    #2 - Phill the Shill

    S2:E12

    A British television personality who has dealings with a major cocaine dealer is targeted by Crockett and Tubbs.

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  3. Background image for Evan
    8.6/10(821 votes)

    #3 - Evan

    S1:E21

    Crockett 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.

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  4. Background image for Calderone's Return: The Hit List - Part 1
    8.5/10(1.0k votes)

    #4 - Calderone's Return: The Hit List - Part 1

    S1:E4

    The team moves to protect Crockett and his family from an assassin, hired by Calderone to re-empty the void he left behind.

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  5. Background image for Forgive Us Our Debts
    8.5/10(553 votes)

    #5 - Forgive Us Our Debts

    S3:E11

    New leads persuade Crockett that a man he put on death row might be innocent, but a campaign-conscious DA is reluctant to help.

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  6. Background image for Smuggler's Blues
    8.4/10(873 votes)

    #6 - Smuggler's Blues

    S1:E15

    Someone 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.

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  8. Background image for Trust Fund Pirates
    8.4/10(556 votes)

    #7 - Trust Fund Pirates

    S2:E22

    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.

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  9. Background image for Brother's Keeper
    8.3/10(2.6k votes)

    #8 - Brother's Keeper

    S1:E1

    Miami detective Sonny Crockett reluctantly teams with New York cop Rico Tubbs when both of them end up pursuing a drug dealer who killed their partners.

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  10. Background image for The Prodigal Son (1)
    8.3/10(887 votes)

    #9 - The Prodigal Son (1)

    S2:E1

    Crockett & Tubbs go to Manhattan to find a group of Colombian drug dealers who are killing federal agents.

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  11. Background image for One Way Ticket
    8.3/10(687 votes)

    #10 - One Way Ticket

    S2:E15

    A district attorney is killed at a wedding for getting too close to a French-Canadian drug lord that's operating in Miami. Since the victim was a close friend of the criminal's lawyer, Sonny tries to make the lawyer do something about it.

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  12. Background image for The Fix
    8.3/10(567 votes)

    #11 - The Fix

    S2:E19

    A judge with heavy gambling debts tries to persuade his college all-star son to throw a game. Crockett suspects the judge let a drug dealer go free because of his money troubles.

    Director:Dick Miller
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  13. Background image for Down for the Count (1)
    8.3/10(511 votes)

    #12 - Down for the Count (1)

    S3:E12

    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.

    Writer:Unknown
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  14. Background image for Calderone's Return: Calderone's Demise - Part 2
    8.2/10(989 votes)

    #13 - Calderone's Return: Calderone's Demise - Part 2

    S1:E5

    While on the trail of Calderone in Bimini, Tubbs falls in love with a woman who forces him to consider his loyalties.

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  15. Background image for Lombard
    8.2/10(699 votes)

    #14 - Lombard

    S1:E22

    Crockett and Tubbs must protect a reluctant witness from his prior employers -- the Mafia family that wants to silence him.

    Writer:Unknown
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  16. Background image for Tale of the Goat
    8.2/10(702 votes)

    #15 - Tale of the Goat

    S2:E8

    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.

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  17. Background image for Sons and Lovers
    8.2/10(5 votes)

    #16 - Sons and Lovers

    S2:E23

    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.

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  18. Background image for Walk Alone
    8.2/10(565 votes)

    #17 - Walk Alone

    S3:E4

    Tubbs poses as a con to expose prison guards who are extorting drugs from inmates, and killing those who refuse.

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  19. Background image for The Good Collar
    8.2/10(529 votes)

    #18 - The Good Collar

    S3:E5

    A star high school athlete, arrested for delivering heroin, agrees to help Crockett trap a 15-year-old drug lord; it turns ugly.

    Director:Mario DiLeo
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  20. Background image for Down for the Count (2)
    8.2/10(470 votes)

    #19 - Down for the Count (2)

    S3:E13

    Switek is outraged by Internal Affairs' findings; Crockett and Tubbs' TV gambit may prove fatal when a mobster reclaims the action lost to Guzman.

    Writer:Unknown
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  21. Background image for Duty and Honor (a.k.a. The Savage)
    8.2/10(499 votes)

    #20 - Duty and Honor (a.k.a. The Savage)

    S3:E15

    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.

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  22. Background image for Mirror Image (2)
    8.2/10(454 votes)

    #21 - Mirror Image (2)

    S4:E22

    A concussion leaves Crockett thinking he is his drug dealer alter-ego Burnett and goes to work for a Colombian crime boss.

    Writer:Unknown
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  23. Background image for Hostile Takeover (3)
    8.2/10(441 votes)

    #22 - Hostile Takeover (3)

    S5:E1

    Still thinking he is really Sonny Burnett, Crockett starts a war between the crime family he has joined and a rival clan.

    Director:Don Johnson
    Writer:Ken Solarz
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  24. Background image for No Exit
    8.1/10(940 votes)

    #23 - No Exit

    S1:E7

    Crockett and Tubbs reluctantly help government agents in their pursuit of a dangerous arms dealer.

    Director:David Soul
    Writer:Unknown
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  25. Background image for Golden Triangle - Part 1
    8.1/10(760 votes)

    #24 - Golden Triangle - Part 1

    S1:E13

    Crockett 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.

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  26. Background image for The Home Invaders
    8.1/10(759 votes)

    #25 - The Home Invaders

    S1:E19

    The 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.

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Best Episodes Summary

"Whatever Works" is the best rated episode of "Miami Vice". It scored 8.8/10 based on 1032 votes. Directed by John Nicolella and written by Maurice Hurley, it aired on 10/4/1985. This episode scored 0.1 points higher than the second highest rated, "Phill the Shill".