The Best Episodes of Miami Vice Season 1
Every episode of Miami Vice Season 1 ranked from best to worst. Discover the Best Episodes of Miami Vice Season 1!
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 Crockett and Ricardo Tubbs - who first meet when Tubbs is undercover in a drug cartel.
Season 1 Ratings Summary
The best episode of "Miami Vice" season 1 is "Brother's Keeper", rated 8.3/10 from 2432 user votes. It was directed by Thomas Carter and written by Anthony Yerkovich. "Brother's Keeper" aired on 9/16/1984 and is rated 0.4 point(s) higher than the second highest rated, "Heart of Darkness".
8.3/10 2,432 votes#1 - Brother's Keeper
Season 1 Episode 1 - Aired 9/16/1984
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.
Director: Thomas Carter
Writer: Anthony Yerkovich
7.9/10 997 votes#2 - Heart of Darkness
Season 1 Episode 2 - Aired 9/28/1984
Investigating a porn baron, Crockett and Tubbs become involved with an undercover FBI agent who may have gone native and become a criminal, and may have murdered an underage porn starlet. Meanwhile, Zito and Switek pose as fences, and Elvis the crocodile feels unloved!
Director: John Llewellyn Moxey
Writer: Daniel Pyne
7.3/10 832 votes#3 - 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.
Director: John Llewellyn Moxey, Lee H. Katzin
Writer: Joel Surnow
8.5/10 951 votes#4 - Calderone's Return: The Hit List - Part 1
Season 1 Episode 4 - Aired 10/19/1984
The team moves to protect Crockett and his family from an assassin, hired by Calderone to re-empty the void he left behind.
Director: Richard A. Colla
Writer: Joel Surnow
8.2/10 909 votes#5 - Calderone's Return: Calderone's Demise - Part 2
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.
Director: Paul Michael Glaser
Writer: Joel Surnow, Alfonse Ruggiero
7.7/10 758 votes#6 - 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.
Director: Lee H. Katzin
Writer: Alfonse Ruggiero
8.1/10 867 votes#7 - No Exit
Season 1 Episode 7 - Aired 11/9/1984
Crockett and Tubbs reluctantly help government agents in their pursuit of a dangerous arms dealer.
Director: David Soul
Writer: Maurice Hurley
7.5/10 742 votes#8 - The Great McCarthy
Season 1 Episode 8 - Aired 11/16/1984
Crockett and Tubbs get involved in the world of offshore power boat racing and drug smuggling.
Director: Georg Stanford Brown
Writer: Joel Surnow, Philip Reed
7.3/10 719 votes#9 - Glades
Season 1 Episode 9 - Aired 11/30/1984
Crockett & Tubbs have to recover a witness in a major drug dealer's trial, who has ran off to the Everglades and must testify in 48 hours.
Director: Stan Lathan
Writer: Rex Weiner, Allan Weisbecker
7.8/10 705 votes#10 - 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.
Director: Bobby Roth
Writer: Chuck Adamson
7.1/10 674 votes#11 - 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.
Director: Bobby Roth
Writer: Joel Surnow
7.9/10 689 votes#12 - 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
8.1/10 701 votes#13 - Golden Triangle - Part 1
Season 1 Episode 13 - Aired 1/11/1985
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.
Director: Georg Stanford Brown
Writer: Joseph Gunn
8.1/10 681 votes#14 - Golden Triangle - Part 2
Season 1 Episode 14 - Aired 1/18/1985
Lt. Castillo must bring down his old enemy, who has passed his organization to his grandsons. They have kidnapped Castillo's long-lost wife to ensure their escape from prosecution.
Director: David Anspaugh
Writer: Michael Mann, Maurice Hurley
8.4/10 802 votes#15 - Smuggler's Blues
Season 1 Episode 15 - Aired 2/1/1985
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.
Director: Paul Michael Glaser
Writer: Miguel Piñero
8.0/10 677 votes#16 - Rites of Passage
Season 1 Episode 16 - Aired 2/8/1985
Sparks fly between Tubbs and an old flame who has come to Miami to rescue her sister from a life of prostitution.
Director: Paul Michael Glaser
Writer: Daniel Pyne
7.3/10 626 votes#17 - The Maze
Season 1 Episode 17 - Aired 2/22/1985
A group of young punks kill a cop and then take hostages - including an undercover Tubbs - while negotiators try to end the situation without more bloodshed and a SWAT team closes in.
Director: Tim Zinnemann
Writer: Michael Eric Stein
7.1/10 645 votes#18 - Made for Each Other
Season 1 Episode 18 - Aired 3/8/1985
Switek and Zito use two of their favorite informants to set up a transaction with a stolen goods dealer.
Director: Rob Cohen
Writer: Allan Weisbecker
8.1/10 690 votes#19 - The Home Invaders
Season 1 Episode 19 - Aired 3/15/1985
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.
Director: Rob Cohen, Abel Ferrara, Joel Surnow
Writer: Chuck Adamson
7.4/10 616 votes#20 - Nobody Lives Forever
Season 1 Episode 20 - Aired 3/29/1985
A passionate romance distracts Crockett to the point that it nearly derails the pursuit of three thugs on a rampage.
Director: Jim Johnston
Writer: Edward di Lorenzo
8.5/10 753 votes#21 - Evan
Season 1 Episode 21 - Aired 5/3/1985
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.
Director: Rob Cohen, Jim Johnston
Writer: Edward di Lorenzo
8.1/10 635 votes#22 - 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