Miami Vice: Season 1

1984 · 22 episodes · ★ 7.3

What Season 1 of Miami Vice

Sonny Crockett and Ricardo Tubbs are detectives with the Metro-Dade Police Department who go undercover in Miami. Crockett poses as Sonny Burnett, a drug dealer who works as a middleman, while Tubbs arrives from New York with a score to settle with Calderone, the man responsible for his brother's death. Together they dive into the drug, prostitution and smuggling trade that rules the streets. Every operation forces them to win the trust of criminals who don't hesitate to use their guns, as they work to dismantle the networks that control the city.

22episodes

Sep 16, 1984premiered

May 10, 1985latest episode

17.7 hrtotal runtime

Season 1 Episodes

1x01 Brother's Keeper
Sep 16, 1984 · 97 min · ★ 8.4
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.
Directed by: Thomas Carter · Written by: Anthony Yerkovich · Starring: Jimmy Smits, Mykelti Williamson, Bill Smitrovich, Gregory Sierra
1x02 Heart of Darkness
Sep 28, 1984 · 46 min · ★ 7.8
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!
Directing: John Llewellyn Moxey · Writing: Daniel Pyne · Starring: Gregory Sierra, Ed O'Neill, Suzy Amis, Paul Hecht
1x03 Cool Runnin'
Oct 5, 1984 · 46 min · ★ 6.7
Crockett and Tubbs must enlist the help of an unreliable petty thief to bust a drug operation run by a trio of homicidal Jamaicans.
Directing: Lee H. Katzin · Writer: Joel Surnow · Starring: Gregory Sierra, Suzy Amis, Lionel Pina, Belinda Montgomery
1x04 Calderone's Return: The Hit List (1)
Oct 19, 1984 · 46 min · ★ 8.6
The team moves to protect Crockett and his family from an assassin, hired by Calderone to re-empty the void he left behind.
Directed by: Richard A. Colla · Written by: Joel Surnow · Starring: Gregory Sierra, Miguel Piñero, Belinda Montgomery, Jim Zubiena
1x05 Calderone's Return: Calderone's Demise (2)
Oct 26, 1984 · 45 min · ★ 6.9
While on the trail of Calderone in Bimini, Tubbs falls in love with a woman who forces him to consider his loyalties.
Directing: Paul Michael Glaser · Writing: Joel Surnow, Alfonse Ruggiero · Starring: Sam McMurray, Miguel Piñero, José Angel Santana, Tito Goya
1x06 One Eyed Jack
Nov 2, 1984 · 46 min · ★ 7.0
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.
Directed by: Lee H. Katzin · Written by: Alfonse Ruggiero · Starring: Joe Dallesandro, Dan Hedaya, Jimmie Ray Weeks, George Kyle
1x07 No Exit
Nov 9, 1984 · 46 min · ★ 8.0
Crockett and Tubbs reluctantly help government agents in their pursuit of a dangerous arms dealer.
Directed by: David Soul · Written by: Maurice Hurley · Starring: Bruce Willis, Norman Parker, Tom Mardirosian, Coati Mundi
1x08 The Great McCarthy
Nov 16, 1984 · 46 min · ★ 6.5
Crockett and Tubbs get involved in the world of offshore power boat racing and drug smuggling.
Directed by: Georg Stanford Brown · Written by: Joel Surnow, Philip Reed · Starring: William Gray Espy, Maria McDonald, Charles McCaughan, Martin Ferrero
1x09 Glades
Nov 30, 1984 · 45 min · ★ 6.8
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.
Directing: Stan Lathan · Writing: Allan Weisbecker, Rex Weiner · Starring: Margaret Whitton, Jay Patterson, Keith Szarabajka, John Pankow
1x10 Give a Little, Take a Little
Dec 7, 1984 · 46 min · ★ 7.7
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.
Directing: Bobby Roth · Writer: Chuck Adamson · Starring: Raymond Forchion, Lenny Von Dohlen, Michael Søren Madsen, Terry O'Quinn
1x11 Little Prince
Dec 14, 1984 · 46 min · ★ 5.9
Crockett thinks that a wealthy industrialist's son nailed in a heroin bust could lead them to bigger connections in the supply network.
Directed by: Alan J. Levi · Written by: Joel Surnow, Daniel Pyne · Starring: Paul Roebling, Maryann Plunkett, Giancarlo Esposito, Jorge Gil
1x12 Milk Run
Jan 4, 1985 · 46 min · ★ 7.8
Crockett and Tubbs encounter two naive young men smuggling cocaine-filled statues for a murderous criminal.
Directed by: John Nicolella · Written by: Allison Hock · Starring: Evan Handler, Al Shannon, John Kapelos, Rainbow Harvest
1x13 Golden Triangle (1)
Jan 11, 1985 · 46 min · ★ 7.6
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.
Directing: Georg Stanford Brown · Writing: Maurice Hurley, Joseph Gunn · Starring: John Snyder, Robin Johnson, Paul Austin, Gary Jellum
1x14 Golden Triangle (2)
Jan 18, 1985 · 46 min · ★ 6.5
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.
Directed by: David Anspaugh · Written by: Maurice Hurley, Michael Mann · Starring: Keye Luke, James Saito, Joan Chen, Glenn Kubota
1x15 Smuggler's Blues
Feb 1, 1985 · 46 min · ★ 8.5
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.
Directing: Paul Michael Glaser · Writer: Miguel Piñero · Starring: Richard Jenkins, Richard Edson, Glenn Frey, Coati Mundi
1x16 Rites of Passage
Feb 8, 1985 · 46 min · ★ 8.1
Sparks fly between Tubbs and an old flame who has come to Miami to rescue her sister from a life of prostitution.
Directed by: David Anspaugh · Written by: Daniel Pyne · Starring: Pam Grier, David Thornton, Tery Ferman, John Turturro
1x17 The Maze
Feb 22, 1985 · 46 min · ★ 6.3
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.
Directing: Tim Zinnemann · Writer: Michael Eric Stein · Starring: Joe Morton, Jay O. Sanders, Eddie Castrodad, Alex Paez
1x18 Made for Each Other
Mar 8, 1985 · 46 min · ★ 5.6
Switek and Zito use two of their favorite informants to set up a transaction with a stolen goods dealer.
Directed by: Rob Cohen · Written by: Allan Weisbecker, Dennis Cooper · Starring: Mark Linn-Baker, Nicholas Woodeson, Johnny Vatos Hernandez, Karla Tamburrelli
1x19 The Home Invaders
Mar 15, 1985 · 47 min · ★ 6.2
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.
Directed by: Abel Ferrara · Written by: Chuck Adamson · Starring: Jack Kehoe, Esai Morales, Brent Jennings, Steven Grant
1x20 Nobody Lives Forever
Mar 29, 1985 · 46 min · ★ 7.0
A passionate romance distracts Crockett to the point that it nearly derails the pursuit of three thugs on a rampage.
Directing: Jim Johnston · Writing: Edward di Lorenzo · Starring: Martin Ferrero, Peter Friedman, Giancarlo Esposito, Frank Military
1x21 Evan
May 3, 1985 · 46 min · ★ 8.3
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.
Directing: Rob Cohen · Writing: Edward di Lorenzo · Starring: William Russ, Christopher Murney, Al Israel
1x22 Lombard Season Finale
May 10, 1985 · 46 min · ★ 7.5
Crockett and Tubbs must protect a reluctant witness from his prior employers -- the Mafia family that wants to silence him.
Directing: John Nicolella · Writing: David Assael · Starring: Dennis Farina, John Santucci, Vyto Ruginis, Ned Eisenberg