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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!

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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

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  1. #1 Fan Favorite
    Miami Vice Season 1 Episode 21 - Evan
    8.6/10(902 votes)

    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.

    Director:Rob Cohen
    Writer:Edward di Lorenzo

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  2. Miami Vice Season 1 Episode 4 - Calderone's Return: The Hit List (1)
    8.5/10(1174 votes)

    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.

    Director:Richard A. Colla
    Writer:Joel Surnow

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  3. Miami Vice Season 1 Episode 15 - Smuggler's Blues
    8.4/10(981 votes)

    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.

    Director:Paul Michael Glaser
    Writer:Miguel Piñero

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  4. Miami Vice Season 1 Episode 1 - Brother's Keeper
    8.3/10(2896 votes)

    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.

    Director:Thomas Carter
    Writer:Anthony Yerkovich

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  5. Miami Vice Season 1 Episode 5 - Calderone's Return: Calderone's Demise (2)
    8.2/10(1127 votes)

    S1:E5

    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
    Writers:Joel Surnow, Alfonse Ruggiero

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  6. Miami Vice Season 1 Episode 19 - The Home Invaders
    8.2/10(848 votes)

    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.

    Director:Abel Ferrara
    Writer:Chuck Adamson

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  7. Miami Vice Season 1 Episode 22 - Lombard
    8.2/10(773 votes)

    S1:E22

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

    Director:John Nicolella
    Writer:Unknown

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  8. Miami Vice Season 1 Episode 7 - No Exit
    8.1/10(1069 votes)

    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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  9. Miami Vice Season 1 Episode 13 - Golden Triangle (1)
    8.1/10(855 votes)

    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.

    Director:Georg Stanford Brown
    Writer:Joseph Gunn

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  10. Miami Vice Season 1 Episode 14 - Golden Triangle (2)
    8.1/10(838 votes)

    S1:E14

    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
    Writers:Maurice Hurley, Michael Mann

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  11. Miami Vice Season 1 Episode 16 - Rites of Passage
    8.0/10(838 votes)

    S1:E16

    Sparks fly between Tubbs and an old flame who has come to Miami to rescue her sister from a life of prostitution.

    Director:David Anspaugh
    Writer:Daniel Pyne

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  12. Miami Vice Season 1 Episode 2 - Heart of Darkness
    7.9/10(1272 votes)

    S1:E2

    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

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  13. Miami Vice Season 1 Episode 12 - Milk Run
    7.9/10(849 votes)

    S1:E12

    Crockett and Tubbs encounter two naive young men smuggling cocaine-filled statues for a murderous criminal.

    Director:John Nicolella
    Writer:Allison Hock

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  14. Miami Vice Season 1 Episode 10 - Give a Little, Take a Little
    7.8/10(857 votes)

    S1:E10

    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

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  15. Miami Vice Season 1 Episode 6 - One Eyed Jack
    7.7/10(947 votes)

    S1:E6

    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

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  16. Miami Vice Season 1 Episode 20 - Nobody Lives Forever
    7.5/10(754 votes)

    S1:E20

    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

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  17. Miami Vice Season 1 Episode 8 - The Great McCarthy
    7.4/10(924 votes)

    S1:E8

    Crockett and Tubbs get involved in the world of offshore power boat racing and drug smuggling.

    Director:Georg Stanford Brown
    Writers:Joel Surnow, Philip Reed

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  18. Miami Vice Season 1 Episode 3 - Cool Runnin'
    7.3/10(1067 votes)

    S1:E3

    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:Lee H. Katzin
    Writer:Joel Surnow

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  19. Miami Vice Season 1 Episode 9 - Glades
    7.3/10(884 votes)

    S1:E9

    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
    Writers:Allan Weisbecker, Rex Weiner

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  20. Miami Vice Season 1 Episode 17 - The Maze
    7.3/10(770 votes)

    S1:E17

    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

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  21. Miami Vice Season 1 Episode 11 - Little Prince
    7.1/10(829 votes)

    S1:E11

    Crockett thinks that a wealthy industrialist's son nailed in a heroin bust could lead them to bigger connections in the supply network.

    Director:Alan J. Levi
    Writer:Joel Surnow

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  22. Miami Vice Season 1 Episode 18 - Made for Each Other
    7.0/10(800 votes)

    S1:E18

    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

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Season 1 Ratings Summary

"Evan" is the best rated episode of "Miami Vice" season 1. It scored 8.6/10 based on 902 votes. Directed by Rob Cohen and written by Edward di Lorenzo, it aired on 5/3/1985. This episode is rated 0.1 points higher than the second-best, "Calderone's Return: The Hit List (1)".