Miami Vice season 5 Hard Knocks - Metacritic

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TV-14
NBC
Jan 20, 1989
47 m

TV-14
NBC
Jan 20, 1989
47 m

Summary Miami Vice was one of the most innovative and powerful TV series of all time. Focusing on the Miami Metro-Dade Police "Vice" Department and it's continued battle against the illicit drug, prostitution, and firearms crime underworld of the city of Miami. It used fashion, color, and a varied musical selection in order to accentuate and amp...

Directed By: Vern Gillum

Written By: Scott Shepherd, Ken Solarz, Robert Ward, Anthony Yerkovich

TV-14
NBC
Jan 20, 1989
47 m

TV-14
NBC
Jan 20, 1989
47 m

S5 • Episode 8

Hard Knocks

Air Date: Jan 20, 1989

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Summary Miami Vice was one of the most innovative and powerful TV series of all time. Focusing on the Miami Metro-Dade Police "Vice" Department and it's continued battle against the illicit drug, prostitution, and firearms crime underworld of the city of Miami. It used fashion, color, and a varied musical selection in order to accentuate and amp...

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Episode 1 • Nov 4, 1988 • 47 m

Hostile Takeover

Crockett, as Burnett, murders and manipulates his way to the top of the crime organization he works for.

Episode 2 • Nov 11, 1988 • 47 m

Redemption in Blood

Burnett begins to remember who he really is, as Tubbs and the rest of the squad decide he must be taken down.

Episode 3 • Nov 18, 1988 • 47 m

A conflicted Castillo protects his ex-wife from a drug lord who is trying to kill her and her new husband.

Episode 4 • Dec 2, 1988 • 47 m

Trying to come to grips with himself after the trouble with Burnett, Crockett takes a vacation that becomes a pursuit with three escaped convicts and their hostage.

Episode 5 • Dec 9, 1988 • 47 m

Tubbs and Switek go undercover and pose as drug dealing middlemen to take down Borrasca, a very dangerous counter revolutionary who uses drug money to fight the war against communism in his country.

Episode 6 • Dec 16, 1988 • 47 m

A drug kingpin on trial for murder puts a million dollar contract out on a punk rocker who is the star witness for the prosecution. The FBI want Crockett and Tubbs to safe house the witness, but keeping him alive is going to be a challenge.

Episode 7 • Jan 13, 1989 • 47 m

Trudy poses as a prostitute to help Crockett and Tubbs catch a serial killer who they suspect is Asian because of the ritualistic way in which he mutilates his female victims.

Episode 8 • Jan 20, 1989 • 47 m

Switek sinks into drunkenness and self-destructive behavior after a dangerous mobster forces him to talk his indebted quarterback buddy into throwing a game to pay off his own enormous gambling debts.

Episode 9 • Feb 3, 1989 • 47 m

Fruit of the Poison Tree

Crockett and Tubbs' efforts to bust a major drug dealer are repeatedly thwarted in court by a shady big-shot southern gentleman attorney and his loyal protege Lisa, whose father was a prosecutor murdered for crusading against drugs.

Episode 10 • Feb 10, 1989 • 47 m

To Have and to Hold

Crockett goes on leave to spend some time with his young troubled son Billy, who can't adjust to the unexpected new situation in the household. Tubbs falls for the widow of an assassinated drug lord, whose family is now being targeted.

Episode 11 • Feb 17, 1989 • 47 m

Crockett recruits the young cop from the Line of Fire episode to assist in an investigation of a dandy British drug lord and his operation in Miami, which includes the son of an anti-drug legislator. Also, Sonny visits a shrink.

Episode 12 • Mar 3, 1989 • 47 m

Jack of All Trades

Crockett's estranged cousin Jack, the swindling but lovable black sheep of the family, needs Sonny's help after he unknowingly robs the underboss of a dangerous, flamboyant drug lord obsessed with Shakespeare to pay off a debt.

Episode 13 • Mar 10, 1989 • 47 m

The Cell Within

Tubbs is held prisoner by a "reformed" psycho he put away years ago, who is obsessed with eradicating crime through extreme methods.

Episode 14 • Mar 17, 1989 • 47 m

The Lost Madonna

When a drug bust nabs artwork instead of drugs, Crockett and Tubbs enter the underground art scene, but a cop from New York (Michael Chiklis) takes control of the operation to protect the artwork.

Episode 15 • Apr 28, 1989 • 47 m

Episode 16 • May 5, 1989 • 47 m

Victims of Circumstance

Sonny infiltrates a KKK-like hate group to catch the serial killer responsible for the death of several Holocaust survivors. However, he might be looking at the wrong place.

Episode 17 • May 21, 1989 • 1 h 36 m

Crockett and Tubbs, figuring they're on their way out, are recruited by the government to help a dictator escape from his war-torn country - with double-crosses at every turn.

Episode 18 • Jun 14, 1989 • 47 m

World of Trouble

Experimental EMP railgun is stolen by the son of Al Lombard, Sonny's recurring frienemy and former mob underboss, who vanished after his boss Librizzi sent hitmen after him. When Al reappears to visit his kid, the hitmen find them.

Episode 19 • Jun 21, 1989 • 47 m

The team has double trouble, first with a strung out vigilante (Miracle Man) messing up their busts, and second, a TV crew who wants to film it all for a reality TV show.

Episode 20 • Jun 28, 1989 • 47 m

The Young Victims Unit, a new squad of undercover officers, are put to the test when a new deadly drug begins to circulate on a college campus in Miami. They suspect a reputable but dangerous college professor.

Episode 21 • Sep 2, 1989 • 47 m

Too Much, Too Late

Valerie returns to Miami to help a friend turned junkie, whose teenage daughter is being preyed upon by her abusive drug dealer. She also hopes of possibly rekindling her romance with Tubbs. Meanwhile Stan returns to his gambling ways.

5 Seasons

Top Cast

Don Johnson

Detective James Crockett

Philip Michael Thomas

Detective Ricardo Tubbs

Saundra Santiago

Detective Gina Calabrese, Elena Obregon

Olivia Brown

Detective Trudy Joplin

Michael Talbott

Detective Stan Switek

Edward James Olmos

Lieutenant Martin Castillo

John Diehl

Det. Larry Zito

Rico Paisley

F.B.I. Agent Paul, Man in the Group

Martin Ferrero

Izzy Moreno, Trini DeSoto

Raphael Rey Gomez

Delgado Man, Drug Gang Member, Fuentes

Julio Oscar Mechoso

Lester Kosko, Coroner Examiner Tommy, Escobar, Lester

Charlie Barnett

Neville 'Noogie' Lamont, Nugart Neville 'Noogie' Lamont

Belinda Montgomery

Caroline Crockett, Caroline Ballard

Sheena Easton

Caitlin Davies

Parris Buckner

Bob Ballard, Alfred Clark, Prosecutor, S.W.A.T. Leader

Mario Ernesto Sánchez

Diplomat Roberto, Jimmy, Jorge, Morales, Paco the Limo Driver

Marc Macaulay

Brookings, Cuzko, Doc Jerry, Hit Driver, Johnny Cottman

Joe Hess

Javier Escobar, Full Bearded Amati Henchman, Full-Bearded Dealer - Shoots First, Full-Bearded Morgan Henchman

R. Emmett Fitzsimmons

FBI Agent, Perkins, Priest, Sergeant Taylor

Dfernando Zaremba

Street Person, Club Patron, Diner

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