Every Miami Vice Episode Ranked
This is a ranked list of every episode of the original Miami Vice television series that aired from 1984-1989 according to IMDb's Top 1000 voters.
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- DirectorJim JohnstonStarsDon JohnsonPhilip Michael ThomasSaundra SantiagoCrockett and Tubbs stake out a drug dealer, an investigation that is being helped along by an ex-cop that seems to know a bit too much about the case.(52) 7.9
- DirectorRob CohenStarsDon JohnsonPhilip Michael ThomasSaundra SantiagoCrockett finds out first hand about Charlie Basset as a violent drug runner with an enticing wife that Sonny just can't get out of his mind.(56) 7.5
- DirectorRob CohenStarsDon JohnsonPhilip Michael ThomasSaundra SantiagoCrockett 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.(58) 7.6
- 1984–198949mTV-148.5 (928)TV EpisodeDirectorRichard A. CollaStarsDon JohnsonPhilip Michael ThomasSaundra SantiagoThe team moves to protect Crockett and his family from an assassin, hired by Calderone to re-empty the void he left behind.(65) 7.9
- DirectorPaul Michael GlaserStarsDon JohnsonPhilip Michael ThomasSaundra SantiagoSomeone 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.(63) 7.7
- DirectorJan EliasbergStarsDon JohnsonPhilip Michael ThomasSaundra SantiagoNew evidence leads Crockett to fight against the execution of Frank Hackman, put on Death Row for murdering Crockett's old partner.(42) 7.6
- DirectorJohn NicolellaStarsDon JohnsonPhilip Michael ThomasSaundra SantiagoThe son of Tubbs' arch-enemy Calderone oozes to the surface with a $1 million contract on Tubbs, while Calderone's sister Angelina says Tubbs he is the father of her child.(44) 7.4
- DirectorDavid JacksonStarsDon JohnsonPhilip Michael ThomasSaundra SantiagoTubbs goes undercover in a penitentiary to try and smoke out a group of corrupt prison guards.(44) 7.6
- DirectorLeon IchasoStarsDon JohnsonPhilip Michael ThomasSaundra SantiagoCrocket and Tubbs visit Miami's kinky Sex World parlor when a sailor shows up murdered. The trail leads to a mysterious underage dancer Tubbs tries to straighten out - but is this more than social work?(45) 7.5
- DirectorAaron LipstadtStarsDon JohnsonPhilip Michael ThomasSaundra Santiago-Crockett goes undercover to take down Mario Fuente (Frank Zappa), a dealer of 'weasel dust'.(41) 7.5
- DirectorPaul Michael GlaserStarsDon JohnsonPhilip Michael ThomasSaundra SantiagoCrockett and Tubbs travel to New York to take down a powerful Colombian cartel.(47) 7.4
- DirectorRichard ComptonStarsDon JohnsonPhilip Michael ThomasSaundra SantiagoZito goes undercover as a boxing manager to take down a crooked bookie, but pays the ultimate price for it.(41) 7.1
- DirectorRichard ComptonStarsDon JohnsonPhilip Michael ThomasSaundra SantiagoHead trauma from a massive explosion causes Crockett to believe he is his alter-ego Sonny Burnett.(43) 7.1
- DirectorJohn NicolellaStarsDon JohnsonPhilip Michael ThomasSaundra SantiagoCrockett and Tubbs must protect a reluctant witness from his prior employers -- the Mafia family that wants to silence him.(55) 7.6
- 1984–198949mTV-148.2 (886)TV EpisodeDirectorPaul Michael GlaserStarsDon JohnsonPhilip Michael ThomasSaundra SantiagoWhile on the trail of Calderone in Bimini, Tubbs falls in love with a woman who forces him to consider his loyalties.(62) 7.6
- DirectorEdward James OlmosStarsDon JohnsonPhilip Michael ThomasSaundra SantiagoCastillo is forced to choose between friendship and duty when Jack Gretsky, his best friend from his days in Vietnam with the CIA, reemerges from the criminal underground complete with a Russian wife who is being pursued by the KGB.(49) 7.6
- DirectorAbel FerraraStarsDon JohnsonPhilip Michael ThomasSaundra SantiagoThe 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.(56) 7.6
- DirectorAaron LipstadtStarsDon JohnsonPhilip Michael ThomasSaundra SantiagoCrockett and Tubbs have their hands full with an impatient old-timer (Willie Nelson) anxious to make a deal with a deadly Bolivian cocaine importer.(45) 7.4
- DirectorThomas CarterStarsDon JohnsonPhilip Michael ThomasSaundra SantiagoMiami detective Sonny Crockett reluctantly teams with New York City cop Rico Tubbs when both of them end up pursuing a drug dealer who killed their respective partners.(104) 7.3
- DirectorMario DiLeoStarsDon JohnsonPhilip Michael ThomasSaundra SantiagoCrockett attempts to help a high-school football star achieve his dream, while others pressure him to help bring down a teenage drug lord.(46) 7.3
- DirectorJohn NicolellaStarsDon JohnsonPhilip Michael ThomasSaundra SantiagoWhen some prostitutes are being killed, Castillo recognizes the M.O. as similar to some killings he saw when he was in Vietnam and working with a Vietnamese investigator. And the investigator shows up in Miami.(43) 7.3
- DirectorRuss MayberryStarsDon JohnsonPhilip Michael ThomasSaundra SantiagoCrockett and Tubbs, figuring they're on their way out, are recruited by the government to help a dictator escape from his war-torn country - with double-crosses at every turn.(41) 7.2
- DirectorRichard ComptonStarsDon JohnsonPhilip Michael ThomasSaundra SantiagoShaken and angered by Zito's death, Switek and the squad pull out all the stops to take Guzman down.(40) 7.2
- DirectorGeorge MendelukStarsDon JohnsonPhilip Michael ThomasSaundra SantiagoFrank Hackman returns to make life hell for Crockett - in the most devastating way possible.(41) 7.2
- DirectorDon JohnsonStarsDon JohnsonPhilip Michael ThomasSaundra SantiagoCrockett, as Burnett, murders and manipulates his way to the top of the crime organization he works for.(41) 7.1