Miami Vice Awards
Miami Vice Year 1: 1984-85
Intro the Vice Squad...we meet Sonny Crockett, his friends on the squad,
and his original partner, Eddie Rivera, and newcomer Ricardo Tubbs. We find
out about his family, his cover, his yacht, and his beloved car, the Ferrari
Daytona Spyder.
- Miami Vice
- Miami police detective Sonny Crockett reluctantly teams with New York
bred newcomer Ricardo Tubbs to stop an Colombian drug lord
- Heart of Darkness
- Crockett & Tubbs are skeptical of rumors that an undercover FBI
agent has gone bad and betrayed their operation
- Cool Runnin'
- Crockett & Tubbs must enlist the help of an unreliable petty thief
to bust a drug operation run by a trio of homicidal Jamaicans
- Hit List (pt 1)
- Tubbs fights to save Crockett and his family from becoming the next
victims of an Argentinian assassin hired by Calderon
- Calderon's Demise (pt 2)
- While on the trail of Calderon in Bimini, Tubbs falls in love with a
woman, and is forced to consider his loyalties
- One-Eyed Jack
- While Crockett tries to help an old flame free herself from a racketeer,
he is framed for taking bribes; Castillo becomes new Lieutenant
- No Exit
- Federal agents join Crockett & Tubbs in trying to stop a dealer
from selling Stinger missiles
- The Great McCarthy
- Crockett's renovated cigarette boat is used to stop a man who
uses his speedboat racing hobby as a cover for drug smuggling
- Glades
- Crockett & Tubbs enter the Florida marshes to find a smuggler
who's daughter has abducted to prevent him from testifying
- Give A Little, Take A Little
- When Crockett goes to jail for refusing to name an informant tied to
a crime boss, Gina risks everything to nab the mobster
- Little Prince
- The detectives arrest a drug dealer's son, hoping the young
man will reveal information about his father's operations
- Milk Run
- Two college students find trouble while trying to make quick cash by
smuggling cocaine-filled statues into the country for a gangster
- Score (pt 1)
- Posing as hotel security, Crockett & Tubbs enlist a prostitute to
help them capture a pair of safecrackers
- Golden Triangle (pt 2)
- Castillo asks Crockett & Tubbs to help him find an old adversary,
a drug smuggler who has kidnapped his former wife
- Smuggler's Blues
- A bush pilot agrees to fly Crockett & Tubbs to Colombia so they
can search for the people responsible for hijacking drug smugglers
- Rites of Passage
- Tubbs tries to help a former girlfriend convince her drug-addicted
sister to get out of prostitution and away from her dangerous pimp
- The Maze
- Tubbs is trapped during an undercover assignment by gangs in their
heavily guarded and beseiged apartment building
- Made For Each Other
- Zito temporarily moves in with Switek and his girfriend, but their
personal conflicts endanger a plan to trap an ambitious fence
- The Home Invaders
- Crockett resents Castillo's attack on his mentor during an investigation
into a series of brutal burlgaries in wealthy neighborhoods
- Nobody Lives Forever
- Crockett's latest love affair could cost him his life after he and
Tubbs team up with the homicide squad to catch a trio of drug-crazed teens
on a rampage
- Evan
- Crockett asks to be taken off a case after he learns the identity of
the undercover agent trying to nab an arms supplier
- Lombard
- Crockett & Tubbs protect a crime kingpin whose testimony could
convict a mob chieftan
Miami Vice Year 2: 1985-86
The excitement continues on its same fast pace. More stories involving
the rest of the squad as primaries develops the relationship of the team,
not just the top pair.
- The Prodigal Son
- Crockett & Tubbs go to Manhattan to search for Colombian drug
dealers who are methodically killing federal agents
- Whatever Works
- Crockett, Tubbs & Castillo contact a Santerian priestess to find a
link between ritualistic killings of officers and traffickers; Crockett
wheels & deals to get his city-repossessed Ferrari back
- Out Where the Buses Don't Run
- Crockett & Tubbs play a dangerous game with a deranged former
detective who's help they need in tracking a long-missing mobster
- The Dutch Oven
- After a job-related tragedy, Trudy finds comfort with an old lover until
she puts the pressure on his close friend's business with a cocaine dealer
- Buddies
- Crockett discovers that an old Army buddy may be involved with the
contract out on a young mother's life
- Junk Love
- A drug dealer's obsessive passion for a beautiful addict who despises
him gives Crockett & Tubbs a risky edge in a deadly game
- Tale of the Goat
- A Haitian crime boss thought to be dead returns to retrieve $500,000
from a former associate
- Bushido
- Hide and seek turns deadly when Castillo, Tubbs & Crockett attempt
to protect a renegade CIA agent's Soviet wife and child
- Bought And Paid For
- Gina seeks Crockett's help in convinving a victim to press rape
charges against a Bolivian banker's playboy son
- Back In The World
- Memories of Vietnam haunt Crockett when a former war correspondent
shows up raving about an officer who smuggled heroin during the war,
and is dealing again in South Florida
- Phil The Shill
- A clever con artist plays a deadly game with a ring of cocaine
dealers who are being shadowed by Crockett & Tubbs
- Definitely Miami
- Castillo attempts to arrange the surrender of a crime boss; a
mysterious woman with a dangerous boyfriend leads Crockett on
- Yankee Dollar
- When Crockett learns the cause of his girlfriend's sudden death, he
& Tubbs appropriate confiscated cocaine to lure the dealers responsible
- One Way Ticket
- An anonymous phone call from a crime boss' lawyer leads Crockett &
Tubbs to the hitman who assassinated a popular deputy DA
- Little Miss Dangerous
- Crockett & Tubbs examine crayon scrawled drawings left at various
murder sites, unaware they are the work of a psychotic teenager
- Florence Italy
- Crockett & Tubbs investigate a grand prix race driver suspected of
murdering a prostitute
- French Twist
- Tubbs worries about Crockett's obsession with a lovely French Interpol agent
- The Fix
- Crockett tries to expose a judge whose gambling debts have forced
him to ask his basketball star son to throw a game
- Payback
- Crockett is set up while he and Tubbs work with a government agent to
track down a reclusive drug dealer
- Free Verse
- Would-be assasins kidnap the daughter of a Latin American author
preparing to address Congress
- Trust Fund Pirates
- A smuggler helps Crockett & Tubbs find the foolhardy pirates who
commandeer contraband-laden vessels
- Sons and Lovers
- Angelina Calderon returns to warn Tubbs of a price put on his
head by her vengeful brother
Miami Vice Year 3: 1986-87
A darker, grittier Vice. The Daytona is history, replaced by a
Testarossa. The clothes and the attitude are darker, and the music takes
on a harder edge.
- When Irish Eyes Are Crying
- Gina is skeptical after a zealous Scotland Yard inspector informs her
that her new love is a soldier for the IRA
- Stone's War
- A journalist returns to Miami seeking Sonny's protection because of
his videotapes of Colonel Maynard's paramilitary unit in action in Nicaragua
- Kill Shot
- Drug dealers try to blackmail a US agent using a tape of his jai-alai
star brother commiting a murder
- Walk-Alone
- Tubbs goes undercover inside a prison to break a ring of guards who
use their dealer inmates to bring in cocaine
- The Good Collar
- A star high school athlete arrested for delivering heroin agrees to
help Crockett trap a 15-yr-old druglord
- Shadow In The Dark
- Castillo & Tubbs worry about Crockett's growing obsession with a
cat burglar who leaves bizarre clues in his victims homes
- El Viejo
- Crockett & Tubbs keep tabs on a crusty stranger who plans to cut
a deal with a murderous Bolivian dealer
- Better Living Through Chemistry
- Tubbs' former partner abducts a chemist for drug dealers, framing
Rico for the crime
- Baby Blues
- A young Colombian mother helps Crockett and Tubbs trap a black-marketeer
selling kidnapped Colombian infants in the US
- Streetwise
- An undercover cop and his hooker lover help the detectives find
the source of some pharmaceutical cocaine
- Forgive Us Our Debts
- Crockett races to save a death-row inmate he helped incarcerate
when new evidence in the 8-yr-old murder case is uncovered
- Down For The Count (part 1)
- Zito angers a mobster when he takes over as the trainer for a
promising young boxer after his manager is killed
- Down For The Count (part 2)
- Zito's death sends a stricken Switek and an outraged Crockett and
Tubbs after the drug kingpin responsible
- Cuba Libre
- Crockett & Tubbs stumble onto a plot by fanatical Cuban commandos
to assassinate an important Cuban diplomat
- The Savage
- Castillo helps a former detective friend from Vietnam track down a
vicious hitman before a Latin American leader's crucial speech
- Theresa
- Authorities investigate Crockett after they link his physician
girlfriend to a drug kingpin
- The Afternoon Plane
- While vacationing on a remote Caribbean island, an unarmed Tubbs
becomes the target of vengeful drug king Orlando Calderon
- Lend Me An Ear
- The electronics whiz supplying Crockett & Tubbs with surveillance
devices also outfits their drug-dealing quarry
- Red Tape
- Tubbs searches desperately for the source of information leaks about
future drug busts
- By Hooker By Crook
- Crockett & Tubbs search for a murder witness, unaware that she
works for Sonny's lover, a madame
- Knock Knock...Who's There?
- Crockett & Tubbs probe drug busts ruined by phony federal agents
who disappear with the drugs and cash
- Viking Bikers From Hell
- A motorcycle gang seeks to avenge a drug-dealing comrade's death
by killing his former customers
- Everybody's In Showbiz
- An actor/writer life is in danger after he steals a drug dealer's
briefcase because of the vital information it contains
- Heroes of the Revolution
- An East German spy needs Gina's help to exact revenge for the
murder of Gina's mother in Cuba 26 years earlier
Miami Vice Year 4: 1987-88
A Strange Ride. A season that in some ways both lost its direction, and
took a look at new ones at the same time. A mid-season change in Sonny's
personal life begins an arc that leaves us with a season-ending cliffhanger.
- Contempt Of Court
- By scaring the jury into mistrial, a mobster hopes to buy the time he
needs to find the witness Crockett is protecting
- Amen...Send Money
- The full fury of feuding TV evangelists hits Tubbs during his
investigation of them when he is accused of raping a parishoner
- Death & The Lady
- An actress' on-screen murder propels Crockett & Tubbs to investigate
the film's flaky director
- The Big Thaw
- Two factions fight for possession of dead reggae superstar's body
- Child's Play
- Crockett agonizes over his shooting of a child during weapons investigation
- God's Work
- The return home of a kingpin's financial wizard son sets off speculation
as to why in the Miami underworld
- Missing Hours
- A man's body disappeas from the morgue; Trudy has an encounter with UFOs
- Like A Hurricane
- Crockett reluctantly agrees to guard a recording star who is a key witness
in a payola scandal, and they end up falling in love
- The Rising Sun of Death
- The murder of an executive alerts Castillo to Yakuza presence in Miami,
and the arrival of a Japanese investigator is no help
- Love at First Sight
- Newlywed Caitlin fears Sonny's new undercover assignment at a dating
service will make her a widow
- Rock And A Hard Place
- Two music executives try to ruin Caitlin's comeback by exposing
Sonny as a drug kingpin
- The Cows of October
- A cowboy's larcenous attempt to improve his cattle attracts attention
from the US government, Cuban Communists, and Izzy
- Vote of Confidence
- A prominent senatorial candidate is arrested during a raid of a
mobile whorehouse
- Baseballs of Death
- Crockett & Tubbs suspect a Chilean police chief in a double murder
- Indian Wars
- Tubbs empathizes with American Indian zealots trying save their homeland
- Honor Among Thieves?
- Crockett & Tubbs discover the identity of a serial killer, but fear
that trying to bring him in will blow their covers in a separate operation
- Hell Hath No Fury
- The highly publicized release of a convicted rapist causes Trudy to
fear that the man's victim may have revenge on her mind
- Badge of Dishonor
- When a string of murders is linked to a rival unit, Crockett & Tubbs
believe an undercover officer may be the killer
- Blood & Roses
- The mobster who killed Sonny's friend is freed from prison
- A Bullet for Crockett
- Members of the vice squad reminisce and hope for the best as Sonny
lies near death from a gunshot wound
- Deliver Us From Evil
- A murder that hits close to home reunites Sonny with the man who used
him to trick his way off Death Row
- Mirror Image
- A concussion from an accident while undercover during leaves Crockett
believing he is drug-dealer Sonny Burnett, and he goes to work for a
Colombian crime boss
Miami Vice Year 5: 1988-89
Resurrection and Redemption. The first several episodes conclude the arc
begun halfway through last season. Some of the old focus is back in many of
the episodes, but the overall feel has been altered dramatically from the
earlier seasons with the departure of musician Jan Hammer and the arrival of
musician Tim Truman. The way is paved for potential pilots, and an end to
the run.
- Hostile Takeover
- While still believing that he is really Sonny Burnett, Crockett starts
a war between the crime family he has joined and their rival clan
- Redemption In Blood
- After rising to power as a drug lord, Crockett's memory slowly begins
to return, but Tubbs believes his partner has gone bad and must be destroyed
- Heart Of Night
- Castillo fights to protect his ex-wife and her current husband from a
from a drug kingpin who's trying to kill them, but wrestles with the
feelings he still has for her
- Bad Timing
- Crockett is ordered to take time off to recuperate from his ordeal, but
his vacation plans change after he is kidnapped by 3 homicidal prison escapees
- Borrasca
- Tubbs & Castillo attempt to intervene in a drug deal in which
government agents want no police interference
- Line of Fire
- Crockett & Tubbs reluctantly comply with an FBI request to guard
the troublesome key witness in a drug overlord's trial
- Asian Cut
- Crockett & Tubbs use Trudy as a decoy to catch a sadistic serial
killer who preys on call girls
- Hard Knocks
- Switek sinks into drinking and gambling when thugs force him to talk
his friend's son, a major college quarterback, into throwing a game
- Fruit of the Poison Tree
- Crockett & Tubbs investigate an attorney who defends drug dealers,
then steals and resells their drugs
- To Have and To Hold
- Crockett counsels his troubled son, and Tubbs falls for the vengeful
widow of a drug kingpin while undercover
- Miami Squeeze
- Crockett defends Castillo after a mobster coerces a congresswoman
into implicating him as a drug dealer
- Jack Of All Trades
- Crockett's scheming cousin Jack gets him into trouble him with mobsters
- The Cell Within
- An author Tubbs once sent to prison invites him to a party after his
release, takes him prisoner and demonstrates his new views on justice
- The Lost Madonna
- Crockett & Tubbs pose as art fences to search for the stolen main
section of a 15th century painting worth millions
- Over The Line
- Crockett & Tubbs infiltrate a vigilante police group that endangers
innocent lives to dispense their form of justice
- Victims Of Circumstance
- A string of murders befalls Holocaust survivors who are planning to
bring in a former Nazi to stand trial
- World Of Trouble
- A mob boss believed to be dead reappears, and he must avoid a drug
kingpin who has vowed to kill him
- Miracle Man
- A man in superhero garb ruins Tubbs and Switek's drug busts while
making himself the target of hustlers, reporters, and hitmen
- Leap of Faith
- Crockett, his protege, and an old friend investigate a college
professor for a series of drug-related student deaths
- Freefall (Series Finale)
- Crockett & Tubbs must bring back a Latin American despot so he
can testify against a South American drug cartel
- Too Much, Too Late
- Tubbs ignores old love Valerie's involvement in the coverup of a
friend's murder
