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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 Crockett and Ricardo Tubbs - who first meet when Tubbs

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Season 1

  • Evan
    8.6/10839 votes

    Evan

    Season 1 Episode 21 - Aired 5/3/1985

    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.

    Director: Rob Cohen

    Writer: Edward di Lorenzo

  • Calderone's Return: The Hit List (1)
    8.5/101,071 votes

    Calderone's Return: The Hit List (1)

    Season 1 Episode 4 - Aired 10/19/1984

    The team moves to protect Crockett and his family from an assassin, hired by Calderone to re-empty the void he left behind.

    Director: Richard A. Colla

    Writer: Joel Surnow

  • Smuggler's Blues
    8.4/10895 votes

    Smuggler's Blues

    Season 1 Episode 15 - Aired 2/1/1985

    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.

    Director: Paul Michael Glaser

    Writer: Miguel Piñero

  • Brother's Keeper
    8.3/102,668 votes

    Brother's Keeper

    Season 1 Episode 1 - Aired 9/16/1984

    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.

    Director: Thomas Carter

    Writer: Anthony Yerkovich

  • Calderone's Return: Calderone's Demise (2)
    8.2/101,025 votes

    Calderone's Return: Calderone's Demise (2)

    Season 1 Episode 5 - Aired 10/26/1984

    While on the trail of Calderone in Bimini, Tubbs falls in love with a woman who forces him to consider his loyalties.

    Director: Paul Michael Glaser

    Writer: Joel Surnow, Alfonse Ruggiero

  • The Home Invaders
    8.2/10778 votes

    The Home Invaders

    Season 1 Episode 19 - Aired 3/15/1985

    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.

    Director: Abel Ferrara

    Writer: Chuck Adamson

  • Lombard
    8.2/10715 votes

    Lombard

    Season 1 Episode 22 - Aired 5/10/1985

    Crockett and Tubbs must protect a reluctant witness from his prior employers -- the Mafia family that wants to silence him.

    Director: John Nicolella

    Writer: Unknown

  • No Exit
    8.1/10974 votes

    No Exit

    Season 1 Episode 7 - Aired 11/9/1984

    Crockett and Tubbs reluctantly help government agents in their pursuit of a dangerous arms dealer.

    Director: David Soul

    Writer: Unknown

  • Golden Triangle (1)
    8.1/10779 votes

    Golden Triangle (1)

    Season 1 Episode 13 - Aired 1/11/1985

    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.

    Director: Georg Stanford Brown

    Writer: Joseph Gunn

  • Golden Triangle (2)
    8.1/10760 votes

    Golden Triangle (2)

    Season 1 Episode 14 - Aired 1/18/1985

    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.

    Director: David Anspaugh

    Writer: Michael Mann, Maurice Hurley

  • Rites of Passage
    8.0/10752 votes

    Rites of Passage

    Season 1 Episode 16 - Aired 2/8/1985

    Sparks fly between Tubbs and an old flame who has come to Miami to rescue her sister from a life of prostitution.

    Director: David Anspaugh

    Writer: Daniel Pyne

  • Heart of Darkness
    7.9/101,138 votes

    Heart of Darkness

    Season 1 Episode 2 - Aired 9/28/1984

    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!

    Director: John Llewellyn Moxey

    Writer: Daniel Pyne

  • Milk Run
    7.9/10773 votes

    Milk Run

    Season 1 Episode 12 - Aired 1/4/1985

    Crockett and Tubbs encounter two naive young men smuggling cocaine-filled statues for a murderous criminal.

    Director: John Nicolella

    Writer: Allison Hock

  • Give a Little, Take a Little
    7.8/10781 votes

    Give a Little, Take a Little

    Season 1 Episode 10 - Aired 12/7/1984

    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.

    Director: Bobby Roth

    Writer: Chuck Adamson

  • One Eyed Jack
    7.7/10853 votes

    One Eyed Jack

    Season 1 Episode 6 - Aired 11/2/1984

    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.

    Director: Lee H. Katzin

    Writer: Alfonse Ruggiero

  • The Great McCarthy
    7.4/10832 votes

    The Great McCarthy

    Season 1 Episode 8 - Aired 11/16/1984

    Crockett and Tubbs get involved in the world of offshore power boat racing and drug smuggling.

    Director: Georg Stanford Brown

    Writer: Joel Surnow, Philip Reed

  • Nobody Lives Forever
    7.4/10685 votes

    Nobody Lives Forever

    Season 1 Episode 20 - Aired 3/29/1985

    A passionate romance distracts Crockett to the point that it nearly derails the pursuit of three thugs on a rampage.

    Director: Jim Johnston

    Writer: Edward di Lorenzo

  • Cool Runnin'
    7.3/10946 votes

    Cool Runnin'

    Season 1 Episode 3 - Aired 10/5/1984

    Crockett and Tubbs must enlist the help of an unreliable petty thief to bust a drug operation run by a trio of homicidal Jamaicans.

    Director: Lee H. Katzin

    Writer: Joel Surnow

  • Glades
    7.3/10803 votes

    Glades

    Season 1 Episode 9 - Aired 11/30/1984

    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.

    Director: Stan Lathan

    Writer: Rex Weiner, Allan Weisbecker

  • The Maze
    7.3/10700 votes

    The Maze

    Season 1 Episode 17 - Aired 2/22/1985

    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.

    Director: Tim Zinnemann

    Writer: Michael Eric Stein

  • Little Prince
    7.1/10750 votes

    Little Prince

    Season 1 Episode 11 - Aired 12/14/1984

    Crockett thinks that a wealthy industrialist's son nailed in a heroin bust could lead them to bigger connections in the supply network.

    Director: Alan J. Levi

    Writer: Joel Surnow

  • Made for Each Other
    7.0/10727 votes

    Made for Each Other

    Season 1 Episode 18 - Aired 3/8/1985

    Switek and Zito use two of their favorite informants to set up a transaction with a stolen goods dealer.

    Director: Rob Cohen

    Writer: Allan Weisbecker