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The Best Episodes of Miami Vice Season 1

Genres:CrimeDrama
Network:NBC

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...
Episodes
22
Avg. Rating
7.8
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  • Evan
    8.6/10(775)
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    #1 - 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: Jim Johnston, Rob Cohen

    Writer: Edward di Lorenzo

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  • Calderone's Return: The Hit List - Part 1
    8.5/10(985)
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    #2 - 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

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  • Smuggler's Blues
    8.4/10(833)
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    #3 - 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

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  • Brother's Keeper
    8.3/10(2,492)
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    #4 - 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

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  • Calderone's Return: Calderone's Demise - Part 2
    8.2/10(940)
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    #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

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  • No Exit
    8.1/10(894)
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    #6 - 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

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  • Golden Triangle - Part 1
    8.1/10(726)
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    #7 - 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

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  • Golden Triangle - Part 2
    8.1/10(706)
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    #8 - 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: Maurice Hurley, Michael Mann

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  • The Home Invaders
    8.1/10(712)
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    #9 - 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: Abel Ferrara, Joel Surnow, Rob Cohen

    Writer: Chuck Adamson

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  • Lombard
    8.1/10(658)
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    #10 - 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

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  • Rites of Passage
    8.0/10(699)
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    #11 - 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

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  • Heart of Darkness
    7.9/10(1,030)
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    #12 - 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

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  • Milk Run
    7.9/10(715)
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    #13 - 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

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  • Give a Little, Take a Little
    7.8/10(725)
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    #14 - 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

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  • One Eyed Jack
    7.7/10(780)
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    #15 - 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

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  • The Great McCarthy
    7.4/10(766)
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    #16 - 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

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  • Nobody Lives Forever
    7.4/10(636)
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    #17 - 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

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  • Cool Runnin'
    7.3/10(861)
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    #18 - 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: Lee H. Katzin, John Llewellyn Moxey

    Writer: Joel Surnow

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  • Glades
    7.3/10(746)
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    #19 - 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

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  • The Maze
    7.3/10(648)
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    #20 - 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

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  • Little Prince
    7.1/10(696)
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    #21 - 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

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  • Made for Each Other
    7.0/10(667)
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    #22 - 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

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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 775 votes. Directed by Jim Johnston, 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 - Part 1".