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- Season 4 overviewSep 25, 1987-May 6, 198822 episodesSeason 4 episodes1. Contempt of Court Sep 25, 1987
- A mobster hopes to buy time to find a witness.
- 2. Amen ... Send Money Oct 2, 1987
- Tubbs apprehends an eccentric TV evangelist on a narcotics possession charge.
- 3. Death and the Lady Oct 16, 1987
- Crockett and Tubbs investigate an avant-garde filmmaker accused of slaying his leading lady.
- 4. The Big Thaw Oct 23, 1987
- The detectives take on a case involving the frozen body of a reggae singer.
- 5. Child's Play Oct 30, 1987
- Crockett visits his son after shooting a boy during an investigation.
- 6. God's Work Nov 6, 1987
- A Wall Street hotshot may help his mobster father with a financial coup.
- 7. Missing Hours Nov 13, 1987
- Strange phenomena occur: A corpse vanishes and a UFO expert explains Trudy's brief disappearance.
- 8. Like a Hurricane Nov 20, 1987
- An out-of-favor rock star, who is involved as a witness in a music payola scandal, weds Crockett.
- 9. Rising Sun of Death Dec 4, 1987
- Castillo discovers that a group of Japanese mobsters has begun to establish a foothold in Miami.
- 10. Love at First Sight Jan 15, 1988
- Caitlin fears that Sonny may be the next victim of a knife-wielding murderer.
- 11. A Rock and a Hard Place Jan 22, 1988
- Crockett tries to deal with his wife's success as a rock singer.
- 12. The Cows of October Feb 5, 1988
- Crockett and Tubbs investigate a cowboy's reported theft of irreplaceable bull semen.
- 13. Vote of Confidence Feb 12, 1988
- Vice nearly derails a gubernatorial candidate.
- 14. Baseballs of Death Feb 19, 1988
- Crockett and Tubbs suspect a Chilean chief of police in a double murder case.
- 15. Indian Wars Feb 26, 1988
- The detectives meet an American Indian crusading against drugs.
- 16. Honor Among Thieves Mar 4, 1988
- Tubbs and Crockett want to bring in a killer, but fear doing so will blow their cover.
- 17. Hell Hath No Fury ... Mar 11, 1988
- A convicted rapist's release makes Trudy fear the man's victim may have revenge on her mind.
- 18. Badge of Dishonor Mar 18, 1988
- Crockett and Tubbs try to solve a series of slayings involving drug dealers.
- 19. Blood and Roses Apr 1, 1988
- When the killer of Crockett's friend is released from prison, Crockett decides to keep tabs on him.
- 20. A Bullet for Crockett Apr 15, 1988
- Wounded and near death from a drug kingpin's bullet, Crockett hallucinates about his police work.
- 21. Deliver Us From Evil Apr 29, 1988
- Murder case reunites Crockett and a freed killer.
- 22. Mirror Image May 6, 1988
- An explosion causes Crockett to believe he's actually Sonny Burnett.
S4.E13 ∙ Vote of Confidence. Fri, Feb 12, 1988. Miami Vice raids a train of prostitutes and johns and finds one of the candidates for governor on board, with his pants down. When he disappears, Crockett and Tubbs investigate the corrupt world of local politics. 6.7/10 (299)
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Season 4 of Miami Vice premiered on September 25, 1987 on NBC, with the season premiere "Contempt of Court". The fourth season concluded on May 6, 1988 after 22 episodes, with the Sonny Burnett cliffhanger "Mirror Image". It was released on DVD on March 20, 2007. Season 4 is currently available for viewing at Tubi.com.
•Don Johnson as Metro-Dade Detective James "Sonny" Crockett
•Philip Michael Thomas as Metro-Dade Detective Ricardo "Rico" Tubbs
•Saundra Santiago as Metro-Dade Detective Gina Calabrese
•Michael Talbott as Metro-Dade Detective Stan Switek
•Olivia Brown as Metro-Dade Detective Trudy Joplin
•Edward James Olmos as Metro-Dade Lieutenant Martin "Marty" Castillo
While nowhere near as severe as at the start of season 3, the show nevertheless undergoes several notable changes at the start of season 4, seemingly aimed at recapturing the feel of seasons 1 and 2.
•Many viewers and critics feel that the show's magic had begun a long, slow fade by the beginning of Season 4, though they didn't know why. Behind the scenes, at this point all the original writers had left, and NBC putting the show against Dallas for most of Season 3 had not helped its ratings.
•The extensive use of dark, gritty storylines is scaled back somewhat, although some nihilistic episodes still remain. At the other end of the scale, some of the lighter episodes veer wildly into science-fiction and comedy, most infamously the seventh episode "Missing Hours", which is often cited as the point when the series "jumped the shark". The disparity between dark episodes and light episodes leads to a decidedly uneven season.
•Tubbs' involvement in storylines is noticeably downscaled.
•Tubbs grows a beard for season 4 and Crockett's hair reverts to a slightly longer and shaggier version of his season 2 hairstyle, and continues to grow slightly as the season goes on.
•Pastel clothing is largely reintroduced, although some of the darker styles of the third season still appear regularly.
•Season 4 aired Friday nights at 9:00 pm until April, 1988, when it returned to the 10:00 pm time slot it held in its first two seasons.
•A recurring "theme" of the fourth season is the Organized Crime Bureau becoming involved in cases that would realistically fall outside of their jurisdiction. While this has happened before in earlier seasons (examples include "The Home Invaders" and "Shadow in the Dark"), such occurrences were rare and often stated to be the result of exceptional circumstances, typically involving the temporary reassignment of personnel due to unusually high public pressure to solve a particular case. In season 4, these ventures outside of OCB's jurisdiction are almost never explained or justified and make it seem as though the Vice squad is the only functioning police unit in Miami, taking on any and all law enforcement details. When arriving at the scene of such cases, Crockett would often ask, "Why were we called?"
•Several of the episodes in this season are frequently rated by fans as the worst in the series, most notably "Missing Hours" and "The Cows of October".
•Michael Mann had planned to have episodes of the series set in Paris and Tokyo, but those plans ultimately fell through as ratings continued to deteriorate and brought with them reduced production budgets.
•This is the only season of the show not to have either a feature-length episode or an episode aired in two parts (although the storylines involving Frank Mosca and Fremont/Wiggins each take place across two separate episodes, and the Sonny Burnett Arc spans several episodes at the end of the season and the beginning of the next).
•The only season-end cliffhanger in the show occurs this season, with the aforementioned Sonny Burnett story arc carrying over into season 5.
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Season five of Miami Vice is the final season of the series. The season premiered on November 4, 1988, with the episode "Hostile Takeover (Part 2)". The series concluded on May 21, 1989, with "Freefall", after 17 episodes, but later NBC aired three new episodes after the series finale.
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S4 E401 - Ep 401 - Contempt of Court. September 24, 1987. 47min. TV-14. Crockett and Tubbs' case against the head of a large organized crime family brings the man to trial and puts Crockett behind bars when he will not divulge the name of his informant. Store Filled.
Fri, Oct 2, 1987 60 mins. After the squad traps a TV-evangelist's wife (Anita Morris) in a drug sting, Tubbs is set up for rape, pulling the vice cops into a rivalry between TV ministries. Philip ...
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