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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 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...

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  1. Background image for El Viejo
    7.5/10(2 votes)

    #1 - El Viejo

    S3:E7

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

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    Writer:N/A
  2. Background image for Down for the Count (2)
    7.5/10(2 votes)

    #2 - 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.

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  3. Background image for Cuba Libre
    7.5/10(2 votes)

    #3 - Cuba Libre

    S3:E14

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

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    7.5/10(2 votes)

    #4 - Everybody's in Show Biz

    S3:E23

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

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    Writer:N/A
  5. Background image for Shadow in the Dark
    6.5/10(2 votes)

    #5 - Shadow in the Dark

    S3:E6

    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.

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    Writer:N/A
  6. Background image for Better Living Through Chemistry
    6.3/10(3 votes)

    #6 - Better Living Through Chemistry

    S3:E8

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

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  8. Background image for Viking Bikers from Hell
    6.0/10(2 votes)

    #7 - Viking Bikers from Hell

    S3:E22

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

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  9. Background image for Baby Blues
    5.5/10(2 votes)

    #8 - Baby Blues

    S3:E9

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

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  10. Background image for Red Tape
    5.5/10(4 votes)

    #9 - Red Tape

    S3:E19

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

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  11. Background image for When Irish Eyes Are Crying
    5.3/10(3 votes)

    #10 - When Irish Eyes Are Crying

    S3:E1

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

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    Director:Mario DiLeo
    Writer:Dick Wolf
  12. Background image for Forgive Us Our Debts
    5.3/10(3 votes)

    #11 - 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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  13. Background image for Heroes of the Revolution
    5.3/10(3 votes)

    #12 - Heroes of the Revolution

    S3:E24

    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.

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  14. Background image for The Afternoon Plane
    5.2/10(4 votes)

    #13 - The Afternoon Plane

    S3:E17

    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.

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    Director:David Jackson
    Writer:N/A
  15. Background image for Stone's War
    5.0/10(2 votes)

    #14 - Stone's War

    S3:E2

    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.

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    Director:David Jackson
    Writer:N/A
  16. Background image for Down for the Count (1)
    5.0/10(2 votes)

    #15 - 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.

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  17. Background image for The Good Collar
    4.5/10(2 votes)

    #16 - 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.

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    Director:Mario DiLeo
    Writer:N/A
  18. Background image for Street Wise
    4.5/10(2 votes)

    #17 - Street Wise

    S3:E10

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

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    Director:Fred Walton
    Writer:N/A
  19. Background image for Lend Me an Ear
    4.5/10(2 votes)

    #18 - Lend Me an Ear

    S3:E18

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

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    Director:James Quinn
    Writer:N/A
  20. Background image for Knock, Knock, Who's There?
    4.5/10(2 votes)

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

    S3:E21

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

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    Director:Tony Wharmby
    Writer:N/A
  21. Background image for Killshot
    4.0/10(4 votes)

    #20 - Killshot

    S3:E3

    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.

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    Director:Leon Ichaso
    Writer:N/A
  22. Background image for Walk Alone
    3.7/10(3 votes)

    #21 - 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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  23. Background image for Duty and Honor (a.k.a. The Savage)
    3.7/10(3 votes)

    #22 - 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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    Writer:N/A
  24. Background image for Theresa
    3.7/10(3 votes)

    #23 - Theresa

    S3:E16

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

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    3.7/10(3 votes)

    #24 - By Hooker by Crook

    S3:E20

    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).

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    Director:Don Johnson
    Writer:N/A

Season 3 Ratings Summary

"El Viejo" is the best rated episode of "Miami Vice" season 3. It scored 7.5/10 based on 2 votes. Directed by Aaron Lipstadt and written by N/A, it aired on 11/7/1986. This episode is rated 0.0 points higher than the second-best, "Down for the Count (2)".