Season 1
Episode: S01 Special | Airdate: Sep 16, 1984 (90 min)
Sonny Crockett is an undercover Miami vice detective. As part of his cover as Sonny Burnett, he lives on a sailboat called St. Vitus' Dance, guarded by his pet alligator, Elvis and drives a black Ferrari. Ricardo Tubbs is a New York street cop who comes to Miami looking for the drug smuggler responsible for his brother's death. He poses as a Jamaican looking for cocaine. Tubbs and Crockett unwillingly become partners in their efforts to catch the same man, a Colombian smuggler named Calderone. When Calderone gets away after a judge releases him on bail, Tubbs decides to stay on in Miami as Crockett's new partner.
Episode: 1x01 | Airdate: Sep 28, 1984
Crockett and Tubbs are skeptical of rumors that an undercover FBI agent has betrayed an operation. Switek and Zito setup a burglary sting operation.
Episode: 1x02 | Airdate: Oct 5, 1984
Crockett and Tubbs must rely on a big-talking small-time hustler to help them solve a series of drug-related murders.
Episode: 1x03 | Airdate: Oct 19, 1984
A hired killer's hastily abandoned briefcase contains an eight-name list: the first six are dead drug dealers; the eighth is Sonny Crockett.
Episode: 1x04 | Airdate: Oct 26, 1984
The detectives trace drug kingpin Calderone to a Caribbean island, where the vengeful Tubbs gets caught up in a dangerous romance.
Episode: 1x05 | Airdate: Nov 2, 1984
Crockett gets set up to receive a "payoff" from a racketeer while trying to settle the gambling debt of an old friend.
Episode: 1x06 | Airdate: Nov 9, 1984
Crockett and Tubbs form an uneasy alliance with Federal agents in the pursuit of an arms dealer looking to move ground-to-air missiles.
Episode: 1x07 | Airdate: Nov 16, 1984
Crockett's entry fee---$25,000 provided by the department---is on the line in a speedboat competition that may be a cover for a drug pickup.
Episode: 1x08 | Airdate: Nov 30, 1984
Crockett and Tubbs wade through the Everglades after a witness who bolted from custody and must testify in 48 hours.
Episode: 1x09 | Airdate: Dec 7, 1984
In court, Crockett refuses to identify an informant and spends more time in jail than the drug dealer he's trying to bust. Meanwhile, Gina tries to nail a ruthless crime kingpin.
Episode: 1x10 | Airdate: Dec 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.
Episode: 1x11 | Airdate: Jan 4, 1985
Two naive New Yorkers hope for one big score running coke from Colombia to Miami.
Episode: 1x12 | Airdate: Jan 11, 1985
A series of busts leads Crockett and Tubbs to a drug-related hit that reveals a side of Castillo they've never seen before.
Episode: 1x13 | Airdate: Jan 18, 1985
A drug kingpin brings Castillo's wife---who was thought to be dead---to Miami as insurance against police interference.
Episode: 1x14 | Airdate: Feb 1, 1985
Crockett and Tubbs pose as drug smugglers to smoke out whoever has been killing drug dealers and their families.
Episode: 1x15 | Airdate: Feb 8, 1985
Tubbs is reunited with an old flame, an NYPD detective looking for her missing sister, while he and Crockett search for a call girl's killer.
Episode: 1x16 | Airdate: Feb 22, 1985
Tubbs is taken hostage by a gang in an abandoned hotel, thanks to the would-be heroics of a cop trying to avenge his partner's murder.
Episode: 1x17 | Airdate: Mar 8, 1985
By day, Switek and Zito supervise a pair of jive-talking master informants; by night, they're sharing quarters with Switek's girl friend---who's also Zito's ex.
Episode: 1x18 | Airdate: Mar 15, 1985
Castillo clashes with Crockett's former mentor, who's heading an investigation into a series of burglaries.
Episode: 1x19 | Airdate: Mar 29, 1985
When three drug-crazed teens go on a murderous rampage, Tubbs feels as if he's working alone---Crockett's mind is on his new love.
Episode: 1x20 | Airdate: May 3, 1985
An undercover Fed poses complications for a weapon sting and for Crockett, who bears a grudge for the man.
Episode: 1x21 | Airdate: May 10, 1985
Crockett and Tubbs are assigned to protect a crime boss subpoenaed to testify against a rival.
Season 2
Episode: 2x01 | Airdate: Sep 27, 1985 (90 min)
Crockett and Tubbs pose as big dealers in the Big Apple to smoke out Colombian drug lords responsible for the deaths of Federal agents.
Episode: 2x02 | Airdate: Oct 4, 1985
The ritual killings of two cops on the take lead to the priestess of a cult that deals in drugs.
Episode: 2x03 | Airdate: Oct 18, 1985
Crockett and Tubbs question the sanity of a retired vice cop who wants them to chase after a coke dealer long thought dead.
Episode: 2x04 | Airdate: Oct 25, 1985
Trudy is torn between love and duty when she learns that her lover's friend is connected to a big-time cocaine dealer.
Episode: 2x05 | Airdate: Nov 1, 1985
Crockett learns that an old friend is connected to organized crime---a tie that may block the cops' attempt to prevent the murder of a young mother and her baby.
Episode: 2x06 | Airdate: Nov 8, 1985
Crockett and Tubbs' connection to a major smuggler is a young woman who acts like his girl though she claims to hate him, and whose drug habit may blow the bust.
Episode: 2x07 | Airdate: Nov 15, 1985
Tubbs infiltrates a criminal voodoo cult whose leader has returned from Haiti---and apparently the grave---to collect an old debt.
Episode: 2x08 | Airdate: Nov 22, 1985
Castillo is contacted by a former associate who's on the run from both the CIA and the KGB.
Episode: 2x09 | Airdate: Nov 29, 1985
Gina is out to nail the man who raped her friend, but is frustrated by the suspect's wealth and connections---and by the victim's sudden recantation.
Episode: 2x10 | Airdate: Dec 6, 1985
A journalist that Crockett knew in Vietnam is ready to break a story about "The Sergeant," a shadowy legend thought to have shipped heroin stateside in body bags.
Episode: 2x11 | Airdate: Dec 13, 1985
Switek has to cool his vendetta against a shady game-show host who could lead the vice cops to an elusive coke dealer.
Episode: 2x12 | Airdate: Jan 10, 1986
Crockett falls for the wife of a murderous drug dealer; and the Feds want the vice cops to give up a protected witness to help bust a major distributor.
Episode: 2x13 | Airdate: Jan 17, 1986
Crockett and Tubbs engage a drug dealer in a game of wits, double-crosses and "let's make a deal" to snare bigger game.
Episode: 2x14 | Airdate: Jan 24, 1986
Efforts to convict a drug dealer who murdered a deputy DA are hampered by a lack of evidence and by a defense attorney Crockett doesn't get along with.
Episode: 2x15 | Airdate: Jan 31, 1986
A psychotic earns the sobriquet "crayon killer" for leaving behind childlike drawings at murder scenes.
Episode: 2x16 | Airdate: Feb 14, 1986
A Grand Prix driver has a lot on his mind: first-time fatherhood, a race against his legendary dad---and the fact that he's suspected of killing a teen prostitute.
Episode: 2x17 | Airdate: Feb 21, 1986
An Interpol agent arouses Crockett's interest---and Tubbs' suspicion.
Episode: 2x18 | Airdate: Mar 7, 1986
A judge with heavy gambling debts tries to persuade his college all-star son (Bernard King) to throw a game.
Episode: 2x19 | Airdate: Mar 14, 1986
A reclusive drug supplier thinks Crockett has the $3 million stolen by the dealer's former employee.
Episode: 2x20 | Airdate: Apr 4, 1986
Crockett and Tubbs have trouble keeping a rein on their charge, a recently freed Central American political prisoner who likes to party.
Episode: 2x21 | Airdate: May 2, 1986
Crockett and Tubbs prevail upon a pilot to stall his retirement from the contraband business long enough to connect them with a band of 20th-century pirates.
Episode: 2x22 | Airdate: May 9, 1986
The Calderones are back: Angelina reveals that Tubbs fathered her son; and her half-brother has put up a $1 million bounty to revenge her father's death.
Season 3
Episode: 3x01 | Airdate: Sep 26, 1986
Gina's smitten with an Irish revolutionary she thinks has renounced violence, but the authorities believe he's an IRA gunrunner.
Episode: 3x02 | Airdate: Oct 3, 1986
Crockett's journalist buddy Stone claims to have film of U.S. mercenaries fighting in Nicaragua---and leading them is Stone's nemesis Maynard.
Episode: 3x03 | Airdate: Oct 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.
Episode: 3x04 | Airdate: Oct 17, 1986
Tubbs poses as a con to expose prison guards who are extorting drugs from inmates, and killing those who refuse.
Episode: 3x05 | Airdate: Oct 24, 1986
Crockett tries to preserve the career of a high-school athlete who stumbled into a heroin ring, but the prosecution needs the kid to help nail a 15-year-old kingpin.
Episode: 3x06 | Airdate: Oct 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.
Episode: 3x07 | Airdate: Nov 7, 1986
Willie Nelson plays a former lawman who has a coke-filled briefcase that's crucial to Crockett and Tubbs' pursuit of a major Bolivian dealer.
Episode: 3x08 | Airdate: Nov 14, 1986
Tubbs' former partner---who has a grudge against Tubbs over his dismissal from the force---is involved with bikers dealing crack.
Episode: 3x09 | Airdate: Nov 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.
Episode: 3x10 | Airdate: Dec 5, 1986
A pharmaceutical grade of coke makes its way to a hooker involved with a married undercover cop.
Episode: 3x11 | Airdate: Dec 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.
Episode: 3x12 | Airdate: Jan 9, 1987
An uncomfortable Zito uses a boxer as bait to help the vice squad nail a former drug kingpin involved in bookmaking.
Episode: 3x13 | Airdate: Jan 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.
Episode: 3x14 | Airdate: Jan 23, 1987
When a drug dealer and cop are killed by men dressed as commandos, Crockett and Tubbs are stymied by an agent claiming they may imperil an international operation.
Episode: 3x15 | Airdate: Feb 6, 1987
Castillo is not the only one to realize that a series of prostitute murders matches the M.O. of killings in Vietnam years ago.
Episode: 3x16 | Airdate: Feb 13, 1987
Crockett's case on a heroin-addicted doctor jeopardizes his case against a dealer.
Episode: 3x17 | Airdate: Feb 20, 1987
Tubbs finds out that his "raffle prize"---a week in the Caribbean---is a setup by a vengeful con and the Calderones to lure him out of his jurisdiction.
Episode: 3x18 | Airdate: Feb 27, 1987
Crockett and Tubbs suspect that their difficulty in nailing a suspected smuggler is connected to an electronic-surveillance wizard they hired.
Episode: 3x19 | Airdate: Mar 13, 1987
A series of booby-trap cop killings drives Tubbs over the edge, and he quits the department in fear for his life.
Episode: 3x20 | Airdate: Mar 20, 1987
Crockett finds his personal life mixing with his professional life when his socialite girl friend figures into two drug-related murders.
Episode: 3x21 | Airdate: Mar 27, 1987
A covert DEA operation brings Crockett and Tubbs under Internal Affairs scrutiny after the Feds' intrusion on a bust results in the loss of $250,000.
Episode: 3x22 | Airdate: Apr 3, 1987
A biker returns from prison to revenge the death of a drug-dealer friend by targeting the last eight persons to do business with him, including Crockett.
Episode: 3x23 | Airdate: May 1, 1987
Crockett and Tubbs try to retrieve a crack dealer's attache case from a thief---a celebrated playwright turned petty criminal.
Episode: 3x24 | Airdate: May 8, 1987
The cops aren't the only ones following a Cuban drug dealer, and Gina finds that he has ties to her mother, who was killed when Gina was a baby.
Season 4
Episode: 4x01 | Airdate: Sep 25, 1987
The vice cops and the Feds prepare for a mob boss's attempts to orchestrate a mistrial, and Crockett goes to jail for refusing to name the informant whose revelations are the basis for the prosecution's case.
Episode: 4x02 | Airdate: Oct 2, 1987
After the squad traps a TV-evangelist's wife in a drug sting, Tubbs is set up for rape, pulling the vice cops into a rivalry between TV ministries.
Episode: 4x03 | Airdate: Oct 16, 1987
Crockett becomes obsessed with determining whether a famous director actually "snuffed" an actress in a film.
Episode: 4x04 | Airdate: Oct 23, 1987
Crockett and Tubbs stumble onto a cryogenically frozen Rastafarian and have to uncover who's entitled to the body---a mad scientist's assistant, his estranged wife, or Izzy.
Episode: 4x05 | Airdate: Oct 30, 1987
Crockett is devastated when he shoots a young boy during an investigation, and it spurs him to reconcile with his own son, whom he hasn't seen for years.
Episode: 4x06 | Airdate: Nov 6, 1987
Castillo wants to bring down a crime family, but complicating the probe is a mobster's son, a Wall Street whiz who's back in town.
Episode: 4x07 | Airdate: Nov 13, 1987
Trudy has a weird encounter with an R&B singer (James Brown), and has Vice checking out mysterious happenings, missing bodies and UFOs.
Episode: 4x08 | Airdate: Nov 20, 1987
A fading rock star begins to make beautiful music with Crockett, who's protecting her in a music-payola case.
Episode: 4x09 | Airdate: Dec 4, 1987
Castillo and the squad investigate a Japanese mob now in Miami, and the enigmatic private eye who followed the gang there.
Episode: 4x10 | Airdate: Jan 15, 1988
Crockett becomes bait for a killer who mutilates victims picked from a video-dating service.
Episode: 4x11 | Airdate: Jan 22, 1988
Caitlin and Crockett find that rock and roll on the road spins discord in a marriage as record execs plot to sic the media on Crockett's undercover drug-dealing.
Episode: 4x12 | Airdate: Feb 5, 1988
Izzy horns in on negotiations between an incensed Cuban, an off-the-farm agriculture agent and an enterprising rancher who are haggling over bull semen.
Episode: 4x13 | Airdate: Feb 12, 1988
Crockett and Tubbs catch a gubernatorial candidate with his pants down, exposing them to political dirty-dealing, blackmail and murder.
Episode: 4x14 | Airdate: Feb 19, 1988
A double murder has Crockett and Tubbs breathing down the neck of a Chilean police chief, who's in town to complete a weapons deal.
Episode: 4x15 | Airdate: Feb 26, 1988
Tubbs comes to admire a dedicated but violent Indian out to stop the corruption of his tribe by a coke dealer, who's being sought by an undercover Castillo.
Episode: 4x16 | Airdate: Mar 4, 1988
Drug kingpins go after the Doll Killer, a psychopath who injects his victims with cocaine before killing them.
Episode: 4x17 | Airdate: Mar 11, 1988
Trudy protects a frightened rape victim whose allegedly rehabilitated attacker wants to apologize to her in front of a media circus.
Episode: 4x18 | Airdate: Mar 18, 1988
Tubbs uncovers a cop with a big heart and bad judgment when the Vice squad tracks a group of renegade cops on a killing spree.
Episode: 4x19 | Airdate: Apr 1, 1988
Mosca is back and Gina's got him in her sights---and her heart---on an undercover assignment.
Episode: 4x20 | Airdate: Apr 15, 1988
Felled by a bullet, Crockett clings to life, triggering memories for his colleagues as they frantically track the shooter.
Episode: 4x21 | Airdate: Apr 29, 1988
Crockett dogs his former partner's killer, who's on a robbery-and-murder spree, while Caitlin's waiting to spring some important news.
Episode: 4x22 | Airdate: May 6, 1988
A blow to the head turns an emotionally wasted Crockett into his drug-dealing, murderous alter ego "Burnett," who hurtles toward a deadly showdown with Tubbs.
Season 5
Episode: 5x01 | Airdate: Nov 4, 1988
An amnesiac Crockett, believing he's the felonious Burnett, delights in playing the contentious members of a crime family against one another.
Episode: 5x02 | Airdate: Nov 11, 1988
As Crockett begins to remember fragments of his past, Burnett continues to build his drug-dealing empire.
Episode: 5x03 | Airdate: Nov 18, 1988
Castillo's former wife comes back looking for help and rekindles old passions as she and her husband are hunted down by killers.
Episode: 5x04 | Airdate: Dec 2, 1988
A vacationing Crockett, getting over his Burnett ordeal, runs afoul of escaped convicts on a rampage.
Episode: 5x05 | Airdate: Dec 9, 1988
Castillo and Tubbs battle a Latin counterrevolutionary group out to sell a shipload of drugs, but an agent with questionable government ties interferes with the setup.
Episode: 5x06 | Airdate: Dec 16, 1988
Crockett and Tubbs are assigned to protect a heavy-metal rocker who's set to testify against a drug kingpin.
Episode: 5x07 | Airdate: Jan 13, 1989
Trudy is used as bait for a killer who mutilates his victims, all prostitutes.
Episode: 5x08 | Airdate: Jan 20, 1989
As his gambling debts mount, Switek is "encouraged" by thugs to persuade a star quarterback to throw a big game.
Episode: 5x09 | Airdate: Feb 3, 1989
Crockett and Tubbs, out to nail a drug kingpin, find a case against his slick down-home lawyer, who looks to be as dirty as his client.
Episode: 5x10 | Airdate: Feb 10, 1989
Tubbs romances a drug lord's widow, while Crockett is away helping his son adjust to his mother's pregnancy.
Episode: 5x11 | Airdate: Feb 17, 1989
Crockett recruits a young cop to aid in the investigation of a British drug dealer and his mule---the son of an antidrug legislator.
Episode: 5x12 | Airdate: Mar 3, 1989
Crockett's cousin Jack, up to his neck in debt and knee-deep in trouble, involves Crockett in his shady dealings.
Episode: 5x13 | Airdate: Mar 10, 1989
Tubbs accepts a dinner invitation from a purportedly recovered sociopath and winds up as a prisoner in the man's private version of hell.
Episode: 5x14 | Airdate: Mar 17, 1989
Crockett and Tubbs team with a New York cop to nail a mob family dabbling in the highly profitable illegal art trade.
Episode: 5x15 | Airdate: Apr 28, 1989
Crockett and Tubbs walk a tightrope when they infiltrate a band of rogue cops who've fallen into vigilantism.
Episode: 5x16 | Airdate: May 5, 1989
Crockett and Switek infiltrate a white-supremacist group that may be linked to murders of concentration-camp survivors set to testify against a Nazi fugitive.
Episode: 5x17 | Airdate: May 21, 1989 (120 min)
Crockett and Tubbs embark on what could be a suicide mission: escorting a corrupt Latin American dictator out of his country.
Episode: 5x18 | Airdate: Jun 14, 1989
Pegged for dead by Vice, a retired gangster returns from the netherworld to find his son involved in the theft of a high-tech weapon.
Episode: 5x19 | Airdate: Jun 21, 1989
Miracle Man, a self-proclaimed superhero, trips over Switek and Tubbs on his way to rescuing Miami from the clutches of its evil drug dealers.
Episode: 5x20 | Airdate: Jun 28, 1989
Crockett persuades his protégé, Joey Hardin, to join a unit of hotshot cops formed to bring down a professor suspected of killing his students.
Episode: 5x21 | Airdate: Jan 25, 1990
Tubbs considers marrying a former love who is in Miami to help a drug-addicted friend, but then learns that she may be covering up a murder.