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Miami Vice: Season 3

Miami Vice

Miami Vice: Season 3

Universal Studios (1986)
DVD
NR (Not Rated)
025192883323
TV Series | Action | Adventure | Crime | Drama | Thriller
USA | English | Color | 17:40

Miami Vice: Season Three is all about guest stars and gun battles. Nearly every episode features a recognizable name, including Neeson, Jeff Fahey (The Lawnmower Man), Larry Fishburne (The Matrix), Ron Perlman (Hellboy), John Spencer (The West Wing), Charles S. Dutton (Alien 3), Steve Buscemi (Reservoir Dogs), Willie Nelson (Wag the Dog), Bill Paxton (Aliens), Wesley Snipes (Major League), Helena Bonham Carter (Fight Club), Vincent D'Onofrio (The Cell), Viggo Mortensen (A History of Violence), Annette Benning (Bugsy), Melanie Griffith (A Stranger Among Us), Ian Mc Shane (Deadwood), Benicio Del Toro (Traffic), and others. It's a steady parade of not-yet-famous faces that is fascinating to look back on, knowing where many of these actors ended up. (Others, like Captain Lou Albino, kind of reached their peak with the cameo).

And in stark contrast to today's cop dramas, which tend to feature the occasional foot chase but rarely show any bullets fly, the villains in Miami Vice tend to shoot first and ask questions later, immediately pulling out a fully automatic piece and letting hundreds of rounds rip before Sonny can shout, "Freeze, Miami Vice!" While not entirely believable, it sure is exciting, giving us the kind of action that the 80s knew best. And that Don Johnson sure knew how to do a barrel roll.

Miami Vice shows its age mostly in the comic relief segments, often involving the ever-changing career of informant Izzy. These sequences tend to stop the story dead and run on far too long, but must've been popular back in the day or they wouldn't have continued. Similarly, the exchanges between colleagues meant to show their friendship often comes across as stilted and forced, Tubbs and Crockett laughing as if their partner were Don Rickles no matter how cheesy the line was.


Episodes View details

1 When Irish Eyes Are Crying 48 min | Sep 26, 1986

Gina falls for an Irish pacifist who believes there is no point fighting fire with fire anymore - or so she thinks.

2 Stone's War 48 min | Oct 03, 1986

When Ira Stone films a video of American forces on illegal operations in South America, Crockett must protect him from their old nemesis Maynard, who will stop at nothing to silence Stone.

3 Killshot 47 min | Oct 10, 1986

A major drug dealer that's being investigated and his ruthless partner, a brothel madam, frame a professional jai alai player for murder of a prostitute to blackmail the athlete's customs agent brother into selling Crockett and Tubbs out.

4 Walk-Alone 47 min | Oct 17, 1986

Tubbs goes undercover in a penitentiary to try and smoke out a group of corrupt prison guards.

5 The Good Collar 47 min | Oct 24, 1986

Crockett attempts to help a high-school football star achieve his dream, while others pressure him to help bring down a teenage drug lord.

6 Shadow in the Dark 47 min | Oct 31, 1986

Crockett risks his sanity to try and enter the mind of a creepy, bizarre serial home invader, who might change his exhibitionist m.o. to murder or worse unless he's stopped in time.

7 El Viejo 47 min | Nov 07, 1986

Crockett and Tubbs have their hands full with an impatient old-timer (Willie Nelson) anxious to make a deal with a deadly Bolivian cocaine importer.

8 Better Living Through Chemistry 47 min | Nov 14, 1986

Tubbs' attempts to stop synthetic cocaine of the highest purity from hitting the streets are threatened by his ex-NYPD-partner, whose career was destroyed by Tubbs' testimony regarding a confused shooting.

9 Baby Blues 47 min | Nov 21, 1986

The team learns of a baby selling ring when one of the children's mother comes to Miami looking for her child. The trail leads them to a sleazy lawyer. When the lawyer manages to tie up any loose ends, they decide to use the mother to trap him.

10 Streetwise 47 min | Dec 05, 1986

A prostitution bust at a motel snares an officer from another precinct. Castillo wants to take his badge, but Crockett haves him hold off and uses the officer to find the source of pure cocaine found on one of the prostitutes, a girl the wayward cop is in love with.

11 Forgive Us Our Debts 48 min | Dec 12, 1986

New evidence leads Crockett to fight against the execution of Frank Hackman, put on Death Row for murdering Crockett's old partner.

12 Down for the Count 47 min | Jan 09, 1987

Zito goes undercover as a boxing manager to take down a crooked bookie, but pays the ultimate price for it.

13 Down for the Count: Part II 47 min | Jan 16, 1987

Shaken and angered by Zito's death, Switek and the squad pull out all the stops to take Guzman down.

14 Cuba Libre 47 min | Jan 23, 1987

Crockett and Tubbs go undercover to move on a major Miami dealer and stumble into a runaway paramilitary group with blood in their sights and plans of their own for the deal money.

15 Duty and Honor 47 min | Feb 06, 1987

When some prostitutes are being killed, Castillo recognizes the M.O. as similar to some killings he saw when he was in Vietnam and working with a Vietnamese investigator. And the investigator shows up in Miami.

16 Theresa 48 min | Feb 13, 1987

Crockett plans to marry his latest girlfriend, an ER doctor from the UK. However, she has a dark secret. A major drug dealer whom Sonny has recently busted uses it to both free himself and make Crockett look dirty.

17 The Afternoon Plane 47 min | Feb 20, 1987

Tubbs wins a free vacation and he brings his girlfriend with him. But when he arrives, he discovers a man he arrested. He eventually learns that he's been set up by Calderone, who is arriving on the next plane. Tubbs is trapped and with no weapon and no one is willing to help him. He also eventually discovers another woman he knew who is now with Calderone.

18 Lend Me an Ear 47 min | Feb 27, 1987

Crockett and Tubbs' investigation of a paranoid dealer is complicated by a surveillance expert who decides to play both sides against one another.

19 Red Tape 48 min | Mar 13, 1987

Crockett and Tubbs along with a couple of other cops were about to make a bust but instead are ambushed and one of the cops is killed. It seems that this was not the first time this happened. It's evident that someone on the inside is giving dealers info on busts. Tubbs then loses it. Later he is approached by a cop who wants him to work with him. The partner of the cop who was killed is determined to find out what happened. And when he sees Tubbs with the cop, he follows him.

20 By Hooker by Crook 47 min | Mar 20, 1987

A call girl witnesses two henchmen take her client and ultimately murder him, causing her to go into hiding, confiding and staying with a friend, a woman Crockett falls for big time. Unknown to him, there is far more to her than he knows.

21 Knock, Knock... Who's There? 47 min | Mar 27, 1987

While Crockett and Tubbs are meeting undercover with a dealer, DEA agents raid the buy and take the cash and drugs. The DEA admits to nothing, setting in motion an Internal Affairs investigation into Crockett himself. Crockett decides to talk to someone he knows in the DEA, who, unbeknownst to him, is the one responsible for stealing the money.

22 Viking Bikers from Hell 47 min | Apr 03, 1987

A member of a violent biker gang is accidentally killed during a drug sting by Crockett. The other members of his biker gang avenge his death by killing everybody that may have been a part of it until they find the wire.

23 Everybody's in Show Biz 49 min | May 01, 1987

While under cover, Tubbs and a powerful drug lord are robbed and taken in the process is a brief case. Now the two brothers are marked for death by the drug lord.

24 Heroes of the Revolution 47 min | May 08, 1987

The team is working on a Cuban named Pedroza. They discover another man keeping tabs on him. They learn that he's a Communist agent. He goes to see Gina and tells her that he knew her mother when she was still in Cuba and that she was murdered by a jealous ex-lover, Pedroza.

Cast View all

Edward James Olmos Lieutenant Martin Castillo
Philip Michael Thomas Detective Ricardo Tubbs
Don Johnson Detective James Crockett
Michael Talbott Detective Stan Switek
Olivia Brown Detective Trudy Joplin
Saundra Santiago Detective Gina Calabrese
John Diehl Detective Larry Zito
Rico Paisley
Martin Ferrero Izzy Moreno
Helena Bonham Carter Dr. Theresa Lyons
Charles S. Dutton Ed McCain
Joe Hess Javier Escobar
R. Emmett Fitzsimmons FBI Agent
Michael J. Carnevale Bartender
Benicio Del Toro Pito
Julio Oscar Mechoso Coroner Examiner Tommy
Antoni Corone George Sordoni
Lou Diamond Phillips Detective Bobby Diaz
Pepe Serna Oswaldo Guzman
Ismael 'East' Carlo Victor Vasquez
Stefen Laurantz DEA Agent #3
Mark Breland Bobby Sykes
Kathleen Carrier'e Pefferkorn Party Guest
Kenny Enriquez Echeverria
Liam Neeson Sean Carroon

Edition details

Packaging Custom Case
Nr Discs 5
Screen Ratios Fullscreen (4:3)
Audio Tracks Dolby Digital 5.1 [English]
Subtitles English | English (Closed Captioned)
Layers Single side, Dual layer
Edition Release Date Mar 20, 2007
Regions Region 1