Miami Vice is now streaming free on Tubi: all five seasons are available

Miami Vice just landed on Tubi, and the whole thing is there to watch for free right now: all five seasons of the NBC crime drama starring Don Johnson and Philip Michael Thomas.

So yes, you’re getting the full NBC run, with Johnson and Thomas as Sonny Crockett and Rico Tubbs, two undercover vice detectives moving through Miami’s criminal underworld. Over the course of the series, they go after drug traffickers, arms dealers, killers, and the corrupt power brokers sitting behind a lot of it.

A big part of why the show still sticks is Michael Mann’s style. The neon, the pastels, the pop songs everywhere, it made Miami Vice one of the defining hits of the 1980s, and the influence on Grand Theft Auto: Vice City isn’t hard to spot. The series also got darker as it went on, digging into corruption, institutional failure, and endings that didn’t tie themselves up neatly. And for network TV, it was a seriously ambitious production, costing about $1.3 million to $2 million per episode, using licensed pop music and stereo sound, and spinning off a soundtrack that stayed at No. 1 for 11 weeks, Jan Hammer’s No. 1 theme and two Grammys, 15 first-year Emmy nominations with four wins, major fashion trends, and a boost to Miami Beach’s Art Deco image. If you’ve ever wanted to see why Miami Vice still means something to gamers and pop culture fans, this is a pretty good excuse.

You can stream Miami Vice for free on Tubi now. Miami Beach marked the show’s 40th anniversary in 2024, and Universal is reportedly developing Miami Vice ’85.