TROPICAL THUNDER! 'CSI: MIAMI' - THE FINAL SEASON...

Florida's finest, led by Horatio Caine (David Caruso), are back in CSI: MIAMI. Images: CBS.

Surviving a deadly gunshot wound to the chest, continued internal bleeding and diving into the Pacific to rescue friend and colleague Natalia (Eva La Rue) from a watery fate trapped inside a car boot, our superior television detective Horatio Caine, as uniquely personified by flame haired David Caruso, proved himself to be quite the dependable superman to the end-who needs Batman or THE AVENGERS, right?!- and finally put paid to the career of an escaped arsonist/serial killer in the premiere episode of CSI: MIAMI's tenth and final season, which began its exclusive UK airings on Channel FIVE from last Saturday night onwards.

So, in bidding adieu to the fine men and women in front of and behind the scenes of this always colourful, always fast paced, sometimes bonkers plotted, but always thoroughly enjoyable escapist television, here's a little pictorial taster of some of the last episodes to come:

Horatio and Natalia (Eva La Rue) are back in rue health in the series second episode, Stiff.

Trapped in a blazing fire, Calleigh (Emily Procter) tends to Delko (Adam Rodriguez) in Stiff.

More angst for Horatio and Eric as they tend to an injured Ryan (Jonathan Togo) in the tornado wrecking Blown Away.

There's a new baddie on the scene for Horatio. Ex-24 veteran Carlos Bernard as shady businessman Diego Bavarro in Look Who's Taunting.

Trouble in and out of court for Horatio and Detective Frank Tripp (Rex Linn) in A Few Dead Men.

Delko lashes out on guest star Taylor Cole in the search for an eccentric genius with a deadly weapon: Friendly Fire.

The lovely Bo Derek guests as a stable owner, and murder suspect, in The Last Straw.

Whilst another famous "body", the inimitable Raquel Welch, guest stars as a murder suspects influential supermom in Rest In Pieces.

The man who made MIAMI. So long and thanks for all the crime-fighting, Horatio!

Previous seasons of CSI: MIAMI are available on DVD from MOMENTUM PICTURES HOME ENTERTAINMENT.