Top 5 Best & Worst Episodes | Miami Vice

[@randwick619]

Masterpieces of the 80's. Cheers to Crockett and Tubbs 🥂

[@marcelmischeaux7256]

And Jan Hammer - with respect (from 976-CREOLEMAN)!

[@aleksandar316]

"Little Miss Dangerous" is one of the best and should have been on the list in my opinion.

[@kristinakellogg1732]

Absolutely!!!

[@100domathon]

i don't like that episode

[@m1lst3r]

Ne, I hate that episode.

[@alexrossi4464]

Little miss dangerous/ Fiona!❤❤❤

[@tendraftsdeep]

Own the entire series on blu ray and DVD. Nice rankings, but I'd put Definitely Miami at the top, and Phil the Shil in the list for best as well. Miami Vice, best show ever created!

[@Deborahtunes]

I just bought the entire series on DVD a few weeks ago. Haven't had a chance to watch them yet...

[@Reque92]

Missing Hours is hard to look at

[@Deborahtunes]

@Mommy tracey Ls ~ I couldn't see it being remade. With today's extreme political correctness, the spirit of the show would be lost...

[@nighthawkarts]

Agreed

[@m1lst3r]

​@@Deborahtuneswell original series weren't quite female friendly. And often ethnical minorities are rightfully shown as criminals.

[@3randgruppen-in-einer-person]

Unfortunately the three classic "real" Vice episodes are missing: "Death and the lady", "Evan" and "Shadow in the dark". All other episodes have unforgettable world famous moments in TV history but these 3 episodes are perfect from the first to the last minute. For me, the most important sentence of all time comes from Guzman in "Evan", when he said: "What is this country goin´ to when you even can´t trust the police to be honest !" Greetings from Berlin, Germany.

[@marcelmischeaux7256]

Death And The Lady my #1 episode of MV (from 976-CREOLEMAN)!

[@redsabreanakin]

Are you kidding me? I've never found fans of Death and the lady like me. Especially a season 4 episode. I think that episode is just brilliant. 👍

[@marcelmischeaux7256]

@@redsabreanakin The writing was excellent, every character was on the money and the one thing I know what was awsome was Jan Hammer's score for this episode. Dark and very moody. The man had class (from 976-CREOLEMAN)!

[@genXer3]

For me, the best top 5 are: #1 Smugglers' Blues, #2 Definitely Miami, #3 Shadow in the Dark, #4 Evan, #5 Prodigal Son. And honorable mentions: Heart of Darkness, Milk Run, Bought and Paid For (because I like El DeBarge music and Lamborghini Countach).

[@richardstevens8839]

Red Tape, Theresa and Lend me an Ear - three classic episodes from Season 3

[@DryRoastedAreBest]

Aww I was hoping for the ending of Out Where The Buses Don't Run as the clip that is shown. Still, good choices all round!

[@Aidenwilliams007]

Honestly even the 5 "worst" episodes of Miami Vice weren't horrible in my opinion. It was just a great show all throughout.

[@BretuLauk]

Miracle Man, Leap of Faith and Missing Hours are pretty horrible. Leap of Faith is barely a Vice episode. The Cows of October is pretty fun though. Free Verse shouldn't even be on the worst list.

[@RC19786]

well said, what a time and show

[@C_AVATAR]

Yep

[@lakeeriesailor2852]

Miracle Man, Missing Hours, Viking and The Big Thaw were not very good although not horrible (except Trudy looked so hot in that blue dress!!). One episode though that is unwatchable is Jack of All Trades in Season 5.

[@johnaustin209]

Ignoramus..

[@Paris__]

"Little Miss Dangerous" is easily one of the best.....the plot, twists, acting and music!

[@clarissawestbrook2203]

Miami Vice is one of my favorite tv shows ever! I love the whole team, the city of Miami, the 1980s and crime detective shows. Nearly 40 years after its premiere the shows still stands the test of time and is iconic. I actually like "Free Verse" but all the other episodes you mention as the worst are pretty terrible episodes. I love al those episodes you mention as the top five best. My top five best are Brother's Keeper/Pilot, Calderone Returns Part 1 and 2. Milk Run, the Maze and Sons and Lovers. Some honorable mentions are Heart of Darkness, Glades, the Great McCarthy, the Home Invanders, Evan and the Prodigal Son.

[@davidknight2423]

I also like Free Verse! The background cameo of Suicidal Tendencies was a surprise to me when it first aired.

[@TheDoug625]

Not a bad list but I'd have to put "Shadow in the Dark" and "Stones War" as 2 of the best.

[@mareikapanhans2759]

Me too ❤️

[@missmokkori5558]

Stone's war is clearly underrated!

[@michaeldalpiaz540]

And "forgive us our debts" int the top 3 maybe

[@ShalomShalom-d5c]

Great show! My tan husband went as Crocket to our 10 yr reunion in 1986 in SoCal. He pulled it off. We've been vacationing in FLA ever since!

[@mrfrank-pz7uc]

For me deserve to be included on best 5 "PAYBACK" with Frank Zappa

[@BretuLauk]

I agree. Season 2 has majority of the best episodes. No Exit from Season 1 with Bruce Willis is great aswell.

[@markusparadise3687]

Very nice list. I would also put Evan into the top list.

[@ahhamartin]

That one episode won most of their Emmy nods as I recall.

[@B25gunship]

For what it's worth. Best tip 5: 1. Out Where the Busses Don't Run 2. Shadow in the Dark 3. Back in the World 4. Evan 5. Home Invaders Honorable mention: 1. Golden Triangle 2. Stones War 3. Great McCarthy tie with El Viejo 4. Irish Eyes 5. Bushido

[@baylee03]

I'm surprised Evan wasn't on the best list and Cow's of October wasn't on my the worst list, but your #5 best said The Prodigal Son and the.clip was from Yankee Dollar.

[@haychamowairan7250]

My childhood in 80's❤❤❤ Miami Vice a Masterpiece ❤❤❤

[@jg384]

Agree with the list, but a few others worth mentioning. 1. Bushido 2. Stones War 3. The Good Collar

[@RB2331]

I agree with that list. The one with James Brown was really bad the

[@kirk1701]

Great list. The 'superhero' episode and the James Brown/aliens episode definitely were the worst ones.

[@darrellspencer3934]

Loved this show, but Vice jumped the shark with "Missing Hours" and "The Cows of October." Among my favorites are "The Maze", "Red Tape", "Knock, Knock...Who's There?", "Smuggler's Blues" and "Little Miss Dangerous". "The Afternoon Plane" was a great "solo" Tubbs episode.

[@MarcusMathew]

Right at the beginning you have a flaw this episode is Yankee Dollar where Ned Eissenberg plays the character Charlie Glide episode Prodigal Son is a pilot film for the second season where Sonny and Rico went undercover to NEW YORK

[@wookienutsack5481]

First episode was Yankee Dollar, not Prodigal Son....

[@kimgarfunklee]

Sums it up completely, the official Miami vice channel can’t even get the correct info right. This is a KZbin channel run by some intern that works for NBC, not legit fan

[@wookienutsack5481]

@@kimgarfunklee Yeah, it really irritates me, this isnt the first time a mistake has been made, need to let an actual Vice fan run the channel or something.

[@BretuLauk]

@@kimgarfunklee the list was pretty average aswell. Looks like it was compiled by someone who skimmed through the show on occasion.

[@jonathanmyers2867]

9:39 "You're not Tony!" 😂😂😂😂🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@V8AmericanMuscleCar]

🤣🤣🤣

[@kellyweingart3692]

😂😂😂😂

[@kellyweingart3692]

it’s Blast Hardcheese from Space Mutiny 😂

[@marcelmischeaux7256]

It seems everyone forgot Little Miss Dangerous (from 976-CREOLEMAN).

[@kristinakellogg1732]

I loved that episode

[@hokie812]

Cool content. Thanks for making it. Good or bad I never get tired of watching.🤙

[@irisheyes0075]

Agree and disagree with your count down, but all in all....Miami Vice in general still proves to be one of if not the best show that was ever on tv! Miami Vice Forever!

[@Wenchework]

Have to say Bushido episode was best one on my account

[@kasandrapurplekitten]

Evan,Milk Run and Shadow in the Dark are missed here

[@asifkhan4822]

Couldn't really argue with the 5 worst list although I would have put in Season 4's The Cows of October. For the best I would add Season 2's Payback, One Way Ticket, Sons and Lovers along with Season 1's Milk Run and Smugglers Blues in the Top 5 best. By the Brothers Keeper (aka Pilot) is episode 1 of Season 1 not episode 2 and Heart of Darkness is the real episode 2 of Season 1 not Episode 3. Essentially most of the dud episodes appeared in Season 4 & 5, as there were very few occasional stinkers in the earlier seasons.

[@figment1988]

The funny thing is that while Heart of Darkness is the 2nd episode, some fans deem it as the 3rd episode since they tend to count the pilot as 2 episodes (since the syndicated versions of the show often split up the 2 hour episodes such as Brother's Keeper, The Prodigal Son and Freefall)

[@viceandeasypodcast]

Milk Run is one of my top five fave episodes too!

[@lakeeriesailor2852]

for worst of all has to be Jack of All Trades. Viking Bikers was a rare stinker from Season 3, and Buddies from Season 2 was also pretty lame.

[@kristinakellogg1732]

@@viceandeasypodcast Loved Milk Run. I'm trying to recall the episode with Pam Grier as guest star looking for her sister that gets hooked on drugs. The episodes with Pam Grier were good. Also any with Phil Collins.

[@johnhale2907]

Yes I can agree with the worst..but what about the milk run and evan..they were really good

[@ahhamartin]

THE best.

[@detonator2112]

Death and the Lady and Forgive Us Our Debts def. the two best episodes of Miami Vice.

[@votekyle3000]

00:10 this is Yankee Dollar

[@sherylm116]

The top 5 that was stated to be one of the best was 'Prodical Son' which was shown was ' Yankee Dollar'

[@BretuLauk]

Yankee Dollar is better anyway. Ned Eisenberg as Glide is incredibly good also his character lives in the same house as Frank Lopez/Robert Loggia in Scarface.

[@sherylm116]

I love both episodes

[@kelleym7792]

I miss this show. Never will be another one.

[@billswindle8311]

Best: Bad Timing, Child’s Play, Death and the Lady, Evan, and Shadow in the Dark.

[@davidjackson5818]

Best 5 1. Brothers keeper 2. Smugglers blues 3. Home invaders 4. Evan 5 out where the busses don't run 5 worse 1. Missing hours 2. Cows of October 3. The big thaw 4. Miracle man 5. Buddies

[@lakeeriesailor2852]

yes I forgot about buddies being one of the worst. Buddies and Jack of All Trades were horrible

[@sahpire75]

Thaw was so bad

[@johnaustin209]

You forgot Shadow in the dark and Stone's war. Bad list...

[@davidjackson5818]

I didn't think shadow in the dark was that bad. Stones war could have easily made the list.

[@johnaustin209]

@@davidjackson5818 It wasn't bad. One of the best.

[@corkydukeII5898]

Definitely true 'The Thaw' is one of the worst, but 'The Missing' is one I've always kinda liked

[@tperk]

Miracle Man? That story was a simple tragedy and they told it well despite the limited budget. Same with Free Verse.

[@charlesharding2243]

The scene from Prodigal Son was wrong. That was from Yankee dollar.

[@Osiris909]

Facts! That's the truth. Glad you brought the clarification. Yankee Dollar has the second best opening behind "Little Prince" IMHO.

[@kristinakellogg1732]

@@Osiris909 Little Prince was a good episode. Little Miss Dangerous one of my favorites. So many good ones .

[@josephland149]

I agree that "Missing Hours" and "The Big Thaw" were horrible. But The "Cows of November" episode was waay worse than Viking Bikers. Overall great show first 2ish seasons anyway.

[@DavyDredd14]

Top 5 Best Episodes : 5. One Way Ticket 4. Lombard 3. Payback 2. Evan 1. Out Where the Buses Don't Run

[@jeshkam]

I like "Lombard" a lot and the other one with Dennis Farina..."One Eyed Jack"? Excellent actor, altough not as good as the host of Unsolved Mysteries, Robert Stack was irreplaceable imo.

[@DavyDredd14]

@@jeshkam Yes, 'One Eyed Jack' is a memorable Episode with a great Acting performance by Dennis Farina !

[@BretuLauk]

@@DavyDredd14 also it gives a bit of a story arc for Season 1 with Lombard which makes it even better.

[@100domathon]

Baseballs of Death is one of my favorite episodes

[@davej.meister5421]

My Top 5 Best: 5. Brother's Keeper 4. Calderone's Return 3. Stone's War 2. Out Where The Buses Don't Run 1. Evan Hon. Mention: Buddies Lombard Back In The World Phil The Shill Prodigal Son Bushido My Top 5 Worst: 5. Amen, Send Money 4. Jack Of Trades 3. The Big Thaw 2. Missing Hours 1. The Cows Of October Hon. Mention: Leap Of Faith Miracle Man Indian Wars Love At First Sight Too Little Too Late Child's Play

[@wookienutsack5481]

Bushido is definitely one of the most underrated of the series, great score by Jan Hammer, great story.

[@LeonWick526]

My personal worst is "A Bullet for Crockett" and my favorite is "Fruit of the Poison Tree."

[@BretuLauk]

A Bullet for Crockett is basically a montage of the whole series to that point with a few scenes.

[@ahsenkhan5386]

why ?

[@LeonWick526]

@@ahsenkhan5386 A Bullet For Crockett is just a clip show and Fruit of the Poison Tree has everything I could want in a Vice episode.

[@orangejacket4551]

My favorite episode was “Shadow in the Dark”. The acting was really well done on Don Johnson’s part.

[@PB...]

FREEZE, MIAMI VICE ! : 0:40

[@GuardianofClevelandHeights]

you picked the right #1, thats for sure. Might have included Smuggler's Blues in the Top 5 though.

[@DJMarkCorneliusThaDon]

Free verse is a great episode

[@richardhart9204]

Missing Hours was my last episode of Vice; after that, I simply couldn't watch it anymore.

[@Deborahtunes]

Agree with a few of the "best" episodes. "Definitely Miami" & My Brothers Keeper" are in my top 5 as well. Also agree with the "Vikings" for one of the worst. 2 Questions: Was this list from what you comprised days ago with us? Or is it what someone from the series thinks?

[@rodrigogonzalez6606]

No se olviden de "las vacas de octubre"!!!! Don't forget "the cows of october"!!!!!!

[@OperativeD]

Can't justly agree with putting Space Mutiny's "Big McLarge Huge" Reb Brown on the worst list...

[@ayamahei1393]

Le pire pour moi c'est l'épisode du Rasta congelé 😁😁😁...

[@We_All_Seek_Truth]

The stuntman that went over the side (@6:00) of the cargo ship obviously hit his head for real. I think that was not scripted. Any background info on that. I think that the scene after that of Crocket getting out of the water with blood on the collar of his jacket might've been a last-minute rewrite because of that, and maybe the stunt double got a real scalp-scar because of it, so they took advantage of that and wrote it into the script after the fact. (Plus, his head & face looked more like Tubbs than Crocket!) Am I wrong about anything? I can't hardly buy food anymore, much less afford to buy the series on DVD or I would. Looking for free episodes on the Internet. You can try posting info about where to watch, but "they" will most likely delete your comment.)

[@Westlake72]

Made for Each Other (S1 E18 ) was absolutely horrendous Crockett and Tubbs we basically not even in it. Why??. Strangely Tubbs did not feature i the next episode either. Presumably there were either 'heath' issues involved or contractual disagreements at this time.

[@nagone11]

"Bikers from Hell"..I disagree..Sonny Landham and Reb Brown..nah..that was pure gangsta'..lol

[@larockeramenor]

My favorite episodes where the ones where Crockett loses his memory. There were 4 or 5 episodes in a row, between Seasons 4 and 5.

[@jogabhambra6606]

l would have included ‘Payback’ in the list of the best episodes.

[@100domathon]

The cows of october should be on this list as one of the worst episodes.

[@austinlawler3739]

For the top 5 Definitely Miami would be #1 for me, and I would put Little Miss Dangerous in the top 5. While Out Where the Buses Don't Run is a good episode overall, I found Hank to be by far the most annoying character. I know I'm in the minority, but I have always hated that over the top type character.

[@otisroseboro5613]

Happy 40th Anniversary, Miami Vice

[@ricksegal3065]

Nailed the 5 worst, but too many great episodes left out of top 5. Impossible to do a top 5, maybe a top 10, maybe.

[@lakeeriesailor2852]

how did Jack of All Trades not be in the worst, its worse than Free Verse for sure!

[@MarcusMathew]

Miami vice i adore my absolute favorite tv series amazing time fast cars beautiful women amazing atmospheric music by Jan Hammer and many other musical gems makes with this great show an icon who will forever remain thanks to great times and also daytona basically corvette c3 or Tesstarosa and Sonny's style of dress and overall appearance and sound Bren These are the things for which this series is worth watching and having liked the glory of MV and everything with it United 😎💯🌴

[@TheRedDevil_NC]

"Shadow in the Dark" is the best episode by far. Also " Florence Italy" also stands out. "Bad Timing" really gave me hopes for Season 5 but after that it was not special even if a bad episode is better than a good episode of most anything else that has been on TV.

[@pierresetvoyance8037]

Je cherche en streaming vous avez des liens les gars?

[@stevesmith8533]

The first clip is not prodigal son prodigal son is a two part episode from season 2 episode 1 and 2 or a full movie with both parts airing at the same time

[@ahsenkhan5386]

10:30 So thats where Fargo season 2 episode 10 got it from I seee now

[@danshadinger7182]

What was the one in the glades when Crockett tells the guy using a kid as a human shield mabey you won't even flinch then boom

[@jdoc1357b9g]

good list. but nothing from season 2 belongs in the "5 Worst". There's more than enough clunkers from seasons 4 and 5 to fill that up. heh. Free Verse isn't even that bad. Also, the first clip here was from Yankee Dollar, mislabelled as Prodigal Son. Prodigal Son definitely belongs in the 5 Best. Yankee Dollar was ok but probably not a 5 best.

[@LoneStarLawman]

Best episode is "Evan."

[@cultureguide3660]

For me Payback in 2 season was great episode.

[@clocksurfer]

Too bad "Unvle Ted" ended up being such a moronic whackadoo in real life. Broke my heart...

[@richardstevens8839]

Not ‘Evan’?

[@Holanduzo]

4:19 it was Episode 1

[@tonyfernando2698]

My list of the best (10 essential classic episodes) 🔥 10 - Forgive us our debts 09 - Cuba libre 08 - Shadow in the dark 07 - Out where the buses don' t run 06 - Calderone return' s part 1 and 2 05 - Evan 04 - Smuggler' s Blues 03 - The prodigal son 02 - Payback 01 - Definitely Miami Even tough season' s 4 and 5 had some good moment' s, i personaly think It was the lowest point of the series.

[@rolltide9547]

Definitely Miami is #1

[@TuNewCarTuNewCar]

Al Bundy works in Miami Vice 😮. Woooow ❤

[@jeshkam]

Personally I would replace "Definitely Miami" with "Shadow in the Dark", other than that seems ok. 😎👍

[@Holanduzo]

Funny thing the official channel states there were some bad episodes...

[@danrose2632]

The first episode shown in the video is not The Prodigal Son.

[@markmonroe652]

The show was better when he was driving that black Daytona Spider convertible.

[@johnenwright500]

The first two seasons of Miami Vice were gold. Show went down hill final 3 years

[@JohnDezern-de7iw]

I would love to live in the 80s again

[@leestannard3345]

‘Vikings’ was awful, definitely the worst by a long way imo. Agree with the top 5, no.1 for me would be ‘Out where the buses don’t run’ or ‘Stone’s War’. Great list.

[@PHXM]

My favourite episodes are "Definitely Miami", "Stone's War", "The Good Collar", "The Maze" and "The Great McCarthy".

[@MrHzi]

No one mentioning "No Exit" among the best episodes, with Bruce Willis and tragic 'Rita' ..?

[@richardhart9204]

The first one is not The Prodigal Son.

[@JonathanParkes-x3b]

I liked the fashion in the early episodes but later in a 1 or 2 episodes Crockett's and Tubb's style went a bit strange. But overall the suits were cool and inspiring even today.

[@100domathon]

Free Verse to me is not one of the top 5 worse. Neither is Viking Bikers. Missing Hours is very terrible and most agree with that

[@ahhamartin]

No Evan? That was the one that got all the Emmy nods. And Made for Each Other was ao popular NBC kept doing encore showings. Can't complain about Buses as #1 though.

[@annehechesliverdonation9624]

Brothers Keeper Season 1 Episode 2 lmfao

[@chrophechrophe9071]

Free verse is not among the worst episodes. One has to weigh in production design, music, casting everything. The 4th season...the episodes started dropping in quality and by the fifth it was unfortunately not as good as it used to be. But the first three seasons were very good. Great actors in them too.

[@rulinghabs]

Too Many to name for top shows.. No Exit, Milk Run, Evan, Prodigal SOn, Out where the Buses don't Run, Junk Love, Bushido, Phil the Shill, Yankee Dollar, Little Miss Dangerous, The Fix...

[@leestockton9367]

The ONLY one of the whole of Miami Vice I didn't like was the one about the UFO, it was ridiculous

[@alexrossi4464]

" little miss dangerous"( Fiona), should be among the top of thd list❤!

[@Jolar70]

It was a great show that sadly fell apart SO quickly. Too many cooks in the kitchen / campy pop star-mania, etc.? Season 1 is really the best distilled version, but there are great episodes throughout its run. Michael Mann jumped ship to work on what was my favorite 1980's show, Crime Story (a period mob show pre-dating The Sopranos), and I think Miami Vice just lost its way. I wouldn't argue with any of the WORST list, but I would add "Home Invaders" to the BEST, because it's actually still scary, and this was 1980's PG TV!!! It holds up incredibly well, and is also a solid police procedural for capturing the bad guys in the second act!

[@stephenkissane4268]

Viking bikers is awesome

[@Lynchfan88]

I forgot all about that ridic Miracle Man character, lol. Series was just about to end at that point anyway.

[@vinced5741]

someone hit his head badly in Viking Bikers ...

[@seangagnonProvidenceR.I.]

So many epic episodes but for me Shadow in the Dark is best .

[@Carver2]

Missing El Viejo…

[@ftdefiance1]

The darker the better. Humor and Miami Vice never seemed to mix for me.