Episode

Miami Vice: Better Living Through Chemistry

Name: Miami Vice: Better Living Through Chemistry
Released: 1986-11-14
Duration: 48 min
Cast: Don Johnson, Philip Michael Thomas, Saundra Santiago, Olivia Brown, Michael Talbott

Miami ViceSeason 31986-11-14

Overview

Tubbs' former partner frames him when he abducts a chemist for some drug dealers.

Details

Series: Miami Vice
Season: Season 3
Episode: Episode 8
Air date: 1986-11-14
Runtime: 48 min

Episode context

Better Living Through Chemistry is Episode 8 in Season 3 of Miami Vice. It aired on 1986-11-14. The runtime is 48 min.

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Episode 7: El Viejo 1986-11-07 | 48 min Crockett & Tubbs keep tabs on a crusty old stranger who plans to cut a deal with a murderous Bolivian drug dealer.

Episode 9: Baby Blues 1986-11-21 | 48 min Unexpected contraband--babies and a stowaway mother seeking the child taken from her--puts the cops on the trail of an adoption ring.

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Episode 6: Shadow in the Dark 1986-10-31 | 48 min Crockett tries to nail a psychotic murderer by thinking like his quarry, despite the fact that another cop using that tactic wound up in a psych ward.

Episode 10: Street Wise 1986-12-05 | 48 min An undercover cop and his hooker lover help the detectives find the source of some pharmaceutical grade cocaine.

Episode 5: The Good Collar 1986-10-24 | 48 min A star high school athlete, arrested for delivering heroin, agrees to help Crockett trap a 15-year-old drug lord; it turns ugly.

Episode 11: Forgive Us Our Debts 1986-12-12 | 48 min New leads persuade Crockett that a man he put on death row might be innocent, but a campaign-conscious DA is reluctant to help.

Episode 4: Walk Alone 1986-10-17 | 48 min Tubbs poses as a con to expose prison guards who are extorting drugs from inmates, and killing those who refuse.

Episode 12: Down for the Count (1) 1987-01-09 | 48 min Zito reluctantly uses a boxer as bait to help the vice squad nail a former drug kingpin involved in bookmaking; it ends in tragedy and the loss of a comrade for the vice cops.

Episode 3: Killshot 1986-10-10 | 48 min Crockett and Tubbs are fingered as cops by a Customs agent who's being blackmailed by the drug kingpin the detectives are trying to nail.

Episode 13: Down for the Count (2) 1987-01-16 | 48 min Switek is outraged by Internal Affairs' findings; Crockett and Tubbs' TV gambit may prove fatal when a mobster reclaims the action lost to Guzman.

Episode 2: Stone's War 1986-10-03 | 48 min Crockett's Vietnam journalist buddy, Ira Stone, is back--claiming to have footage of a secret U.S war in Nicaragua; the trail leads Stone, Crockett & Tubbs to Maynard a.k.a. the elusive Captain Real Estate.

Episode 14: Cuba Libre 1987-01-23 | 48 min Crockett & Tubbs stumble onto a plot by fanatical Cuban commandos to assassinate an important Cuban diplomat.