Episode

Miami Vice: Hard Knocks

Name: Miami Vice: Hard Knocks
Released: 1989-01-20
Duration: 48 min
Cast: Don Johnson, Philip Michael Thomas, Saundra Santiago, Olivia Brown, Michael Talbott

Miami ViceSeason 51989-01-20

Overview

Switek sinks into drinking and gambling when thugs convince him to talk a friend's son, a major college quarterback, into throwing a game.

Details

Series: Miami Vice
Season: Season 5
Episode: Episode 8
Air date: 1989-01-20
Runtime: 48 min

Episode context

Hard Knocks is Episode 8 in Season 5 of Miami Vice. It aired on 1989-01-20. The runtime is 48 min.

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Episode 7: Asian Cut 1989-01-13 | 48 min Crockett & Tubbs use Trudy as a decoy to lure a sadistic serial killer who preys on call girls.

Episode 9: Fruit of the Poison Tree 1989-02-03 | 48 min Crockett & Tubbs investigate an attorney who defends drug dealers, then steals and resells their drugs.

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Episode 6: Line of Fire 1988-12-16 | 48 min Crockett & Tubbs reluctantly comply with an FBI request to guard their key witness in a drug overlord's trial.

Episode 10: To Have and to Hold (a.k.a. Second Chance) 1989-02-10 | 48 min While undercover, Tubbs falls for the widow of a slain drug kingpin. Crockett must leave to help his son deal with the pregnancy of his remarried mother.

Episode 5: Borrasca 1988-12-09 | 48 min Tubbs & Castillo attempt to intervene in a drug deal in which government agents want no police interference.

Episode 11: Miami Squeeze 1989-02-17 | 48 min The irresponsible son of a fierce, anti-drug-minded Congresswoman jeopardizes his mother's political career when he incurs the wrath of a British drug lord by stealing his shipment of drugs.

Episode 4: Bad Timing 1988-12-02 | 48 min Ordered to take time off, Crockett's vacation is cut short when he is kidnapped by 3 homicidal prison escapees.

Episode 12: Jack of All Trades 1989-03-03 | 48 min Crockett's cousin Jack, the black sheep of the family, gets him mixed up in a scheme. Jack must repay a $50,000 debt.

Episode 3: Heart of Night 1988-11-18 | 48 min Castillo grapples with emotions while protecting his ex-wife from a drug kingpin trying to kill her current husband.

Episode 13: The Cell Within 1989-03-10 | 48 min A dark, chilling episode in which Tubbs is held prisoner - along with a drug dealer, a young prostitute and a prison psychologist - in the personal dungeon (complete with electric chair) of a supposedly reformed, freed killer who he once put behind bars. One of the highlights of Season 5.

Episode 2: Redemption in Blood (4) 1988-11-11 | 48 min As now drug-lord Crockett's memory returns, Tubbs feels his partner has gone bad and must be destroyed.

Episode 14: The Lost Madonna 1989-03-17 | 48 min Crockett & Tubbs help an NYPD detective retrieve a stolen 15th century Madonna statue in the possession of a mob family.