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The Best Episodes of Miami Vice Season 3

Every episode of Miami Vice Season 3 ranked from best to worst. Discover the Best Episodes of Miami Vice Season 3!

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.

Genres:CrimeDrama
Network:NBC

Season 3 Ratings Summary

The best episode of "Miami Vice" season 3 is "When Irish Eyes Are Crying", rated 7.8/10 from 552 user votes. It was directed by N/A and written by Dick Wolf. "When Irish Eyes Are Crying" aired on 9/26/1986 and is rated 0.2 point(s) higher than the second highest rated, "Stone's War".

  • When Irish Eyes Are Crying
    7.8/10 552 votes

    #1 - When Irish Eyes Are Crying

    Season 3 Episode 1 - Aired 9/26/1986

    Gina falls for an Irish pacifist who believes there is no point fighting fire with fire anymore - or so she thinks.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: Dick Wolf

  • Stone's War
    8.0/10 496 votes

    #2 - Stone's War

    Season 3 Episode 2 - Aired 10/3/1986

    Crockett's Vietnam journalist buddy, Ira Stone, is back--claiming to have footage of a secret U.S war in Nicaragua; the trail leads Stone, Crockett & Tubbs to Maynard a.k.a. the elusive Captain Real Estate.

    Director: David Jackson

    Writer: N/A

  • Killshot
    7.6/10 450 votes

    #3 - Killshot

    Season 3 Episode 3 - Aired 10/10/1986

    Crockett and Tubbs are fingered as cops by a Customs agent who's being blackmailed by the drug kingpin the detectives are trying to nail.

    Director: Leon Ichaso

    Writer: N/A

  • Walk Alone
    8.2/10 515 votes

    #4 - Walk Alone

    Season 3 Episode 4 - Aired 10/17/1986

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

    Director: David Jackson

    Writer: W.K. Scott Meyer

  • The Good Collar
    8.2/10 486 votes

    #5 - The Good Collar

    Season 3 Episode 5 - Aired 10/24/1986

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

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • Shadow in the Dark
    7.9/10 556 votes

    #6 - Shadow in the Dark

    Season 3 Episode 6 - Aired 10/31/1986

    Crockett tries to nail a psychotic murderer by thinking like his quarry, despite the fact that another cop using that tactic wound up in a psych ward.

    Director: Christopher Crowe

    Writer: N/A

  • El Viejo
    8.1/10 521 votes

    #7 - El Viejo

    Season 3 Episode 7 - Aired 11/7/1986

    Crockett & Tubbs keep tabs on a crusty old stranger who plans to cut a deal with a murderous Bolivian drug dealer.

    Director: Aaron Lipstadt

    Writer: N/A

  • Better Living Through Chemistry
    7.4/10 409 votes

    #8 - Better Living Through Chemistry

    Season 3 Episode 8 - Aired 11/14/1986

    Tubbs' former partner frames him when he abducts a chemist for some drug dealers.

    Director: Leon Ichaso

    Writer: Dick Wolf, Michael Duggan

  • Baby Blues
    7.5/10 408 votes

    #9 - Baby Blues

    Season 3 Episode 9 - Aired 11/21/1986

    Unexpected contraband--babies and a stowaway mother seeking the child taken from her--puts the cops on the trail of an adoption ring.

    Director: Dick Wolf

    Writer: Michael Duggan

  • Street Wise
    7.5/10 431 votes

    #10 - Street Wise

    Season 3 Episode 10 - Aired 12/5/1986

    An undercover cop and his hooker lover help the detectives find the source of some pharmaceutical grade cocaine.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • Forgive Us Our Debts
    8.5/10 505 votes

    #11 - Forgive Us Our Debts

    Season 3 Episode 11 - Aired 12/12/1986

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

    Director: Jan Eliasberg

    Writer: Gustave Reininger

  • Down for the Count (1)
    8.3/10 470 votes

    #12 - Down for the Count (1)

    Season 3 Episode 12 - Aired 1/9/1987

    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.

    Director: Richard Compton

    Writer: Dick Wolf, John Schulian

  • Down for the Count (2)
    8.2/10 435 votes

    #13 - Down for the Count (2)

    Season 3 Episode 13 - Aired 1/16/1987

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

    Director: Richard Compton

    Writer: Dick Wolf, John Schulian

  • Cuba Libre
    7.2/10 376 votes

    #14 - Cuba Libre

    Season 3 Episode 14 - Aired 1/23/1987

    Crockett & Tubbs stumble onto a plot by fanatical Cuban commandos to assassinate an important Cuban diplomat.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: Eric Estrin

  • Duty and Honor (a.k.a. The Savage)
    8.2/10 465 votes

    #15 - 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

  • Theresa
    7.6/10 442 votes

    #16 - Theresa

    Season 3 Episode 16 - Aired 2/13/1987

    Crockett's romantic entanglement with a heroin-addicted doctor jeopardizes his case against a dealer.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: Pamela Norris

  • The Afternoon Plane
    6.8/10 424 votes

    #17 - The Afternoon Plane

    Season 3 Episode 17 - Aired 2/20/1987

    Tubbs finds out that his ""raffle prize"" --- a week in the Caribbean --- is set up by a vengeful con and the Calderones to lure him out of his jurisdiction.

    Director: David Jackson

    Writer: N/A

  • Lend Me an Ear
    7.9/10 437 votes

    #18 - Lend Me an Ear

    Season 3 Episode 18 - Aired 2/27/1987

    The electronics whiz providing Crockett & Tubbs with surveillance devices also outfits their drug-dealing quarry.

    Director: David Jackson

    Writer: N/A

  • Red Tape
    8.1/10 491 votes

    #19 - Red Tape

    Season 3 Episode 19 - Aired 3/13/1987

    Tubbs searches desperately for the source of information leaks about future busts.

    Director: Gabrielle Beaumont, Dick Wolf

    Writer: Michael Duggan

  • By Hooker by Crook
    7.6/10 422 votes

    #20 - By Hooker by Crook

    Season 3 Episode 20 - Aired 3/20/1987

    Crockett's latest romance with a respected businesswoman (Melanie Griffith) turns sour when it is revealed that the woman is actually a high-class madam with connections to a notorious money launderer (George Takei).

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • Knock, Knock, Who's There?
    7.4/10 383 votes

    #21 - Knock, Knock, Who's There?

    Season 3 Episode 21 - Aired 3/27/1987

    Crockett & Tubbs probe drug busts ruined by phony federal agents who disappear with the evidence.

    Director: Gabrielle Beaumont

    Writer: N/A

  • Viking Bikers from Hell
    6.9/10 434 votes

    #22 - Viking Bikers from Hell

    Season 3 Episode 22 - Aired 4/3/1987

    A motorcycle gang seeks to avenge a drug-dealing comrade's death by killing off his former customers.

    Director: Tony Wharmby, Dick Wolf

    Writer: Dick Wolf, Michael Duggan

  • Everybody's in Show Biz
    6.6/10 354 votes

    #23 - Everybody's in Show Biz

    Season 3 Episode 23 - Aired 5/1/1987

    An actor/writer is in danger when he steals a drug dealer's briefcase and the vital information it contains.

    Director: Richard Compton

    Writer: Dick Wolf, Michael Duggan

  • Heroes of the Revolution
    7.5/10 375 votes

    #24 - Heroes of the Revolution

    Season 3 Episode 24 - Aired 5/8/1987

    An East German spy seeks to avenge the murder of Gina's mother in Cuba 26 years earlier, and uses her to lure the killer out.

    Director: Gabrielle Beaumont

    Writer: John Schulian