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Riptide
1984 - 1986 6.7 (53 votes) 3 Seasons
Genres
Crime Drama Action & Adventure
Networks
NBC
Created By
Frank Lupo
Stephen J. Cannell

Riptide

Overview

The cases of a private investigations agency run by two Vietnam War veterans and their computer geek friend from high school, armed with toughness, their own helicopter, and the third's technical ability.

Key Crew

Producer: J. Rickley Dumm, Tom Blomquist

Top Cast

Perry King
Perry King

Cody Allen

Joe Penny
Joe Penny

Nick Ryder

Thom Bray
Thom Bray

Murray Bozinsky

Seasons

Season 1 poster
Season 1 (1984)

No overview available.

13 episodes

Episodes
Episode 1: Pilot
1984-01-03

Nick and Cody's search for the sunken remains of a charter boat puts them in conflict with a mob kingpin.

Runtime: 96 min
Episode 2: Conflict of Interest
1984-01-10

An old girlfriend seeks Nick and Cody's help after she overhears her husband plotting to murder a police lieutenant.

Runtime: 48 min
Episode 3: Somebody's Killing the Great Geeks of America
1984-01-17

Nick and Cody work to rescue a lovely executive analyst held captive by an assassin responsible for the deaths of two of her co-workers.

Runtime: 48 min
Episode 4: Hatchet Job
1984-01-31

An escaped mental patient asks Cody, Nick and Boz to find her boyfriend's murderer -- who just might be the unbalanced client herself.

Runtime: 48 min
Episode 5: The Mean Green Love Machine
1984-02-07

A friend of Nick and Cody's hires the detectives to help find her father, who vanished in Mexico while looking for his kidnapped wife.

Runtime: 48 min
Episode 6: Diamonds Are for Never
1984-02-21

Nick and Cody race to rescue Boz and their client, a diabetic stewardess, held hostage by a killer desperate to retrieve stolen diamonds.

Runtime: 48 min
Episode 7: The Hardcase
1984-02-28

While trying to rescue an old girlfriend, Nick and Cody become embroiled in a bizarre investigation involving murder and kidnapping.

Runtime: 48 min
Episode 8: Four-Eyes
1984-03-06

Nick and Cody compete with a pair of private eyes to help a woman framed for the murder of her husband.

Runtime: 48 min
Episode 9: #1 with a Bullet
1984-03-20

A simple assignment to deliver flowers to a dead rock singer's hospitalised partner puts the detectives in the middle of a musical scam.

Runtime: 48 min
Episode 10: Long Distance Daddy
1984-03-27

Two Cambodian orphans stow away on a jet to visit their American sponsor, Nick, only to be marked for death after witnessing a murder.

Runtime: 48 min
Episode 11: Double Your Pleasure
1984-04-03

Cody agrees to help his most recent girlfriend find her missing sister, who is supposedly fleeing from organised crime.

Runtime: 48 min
Episode 12: Raiders of the Lost Sub
1984-05-15

Murray's brilliant sister, Melba, convinces the detectives to help her find a sunken, gold-laden World War II submarine.

Runtime: 48 min
Episode 13: Something Fishy
1984-05-22

Boz and Nick both fall for the same beautiful dolphin-trainer, whose charges become implicated as accomplices in a drug-smuggling scheme.

Runtime: 48 min
Season 2 poster
Season 2 (1984)

No overview available.

22 episodes

Episodes
Episode 1: Where the Girls Are
1984-10-02

Cody, Nick and Boz join forces with dockworker Kirk "The Dool" Dooley to prevent the kidnapping of three wealthy coeds.

Runtime: 48 min
Episode 2: The Orange Grove
1984-10-16

Cody, Nick and Boz re-enlist in the Army to determine whether their former commander is guilty of drug smuggling.

Runtime: 48 min
Episode 3: Catch of the Day
1984-10-23

A fisherman asks Nick, Cody and Boz to investigate a tale of murder after police dismiss him because he claims a mermaid was involved.

Runtime: 48 min
Episode 4: Mirage
1984-10-30

Part-time teacher Murray hires Nick and Cody to protect him after he falls for a student who happens to be the wife of a volatile tycoon.

Runtime: 48 min
Episode 5: Beat the Box
1984-11-13

Cody and Nick use Murray's lie-detector to crack a tough case of an author who killed himself just prior to a scheduled TV appearance.

Runtime: 48 min
Episode 6: Father's Day
1984-11-20

A priest brings a baby girl to Nick, Cody and Boz in hopes that the detectives can locate the infant's threatened mother.

Runtime: 48 min
Episode 7: Be True to Your School
1984-11-27

While accompanying Nick to a high-school reunion, Cody and Boz discover Nick's former football teammates are involved in drug-running.

Runtime: 48 min
Episode 8: It's a Vial Sort of Business
1984-12-04

Dooley's prior involvement with a racetrack syndicate could jeopardize the life of the would-be actor the detectives were hired to find.

Runtime: 48 min
Episode 9: Peter Pan Is Alive and Well
1984-12-11

While under cover at a Malibu club, Nick, Cody and Boz learn that an old friend working as a club lifeguard may be involved in extortion.

Runtime: 48 min
Episode 10: Catch a Fallen Star
1984-12-18

Cody, Nick and Boz aid a former Hollywood screen star after her escape from the asylum where she had been held for more than 50 years.

Runtime: 48 min
Episode 11: Gams People Play
1985-01-08

The director of the annual Miss King Harbour Beauty Pageant hires the trio to uncover who has been threatening a competitor.

Runtime: 48 min
Episode 12: Prisoner of War
1985-01-15

Nick searches King Harbour's back streets for his troubled girlfriend, who has ignited a fierce battle between two pimps.

Runtime: 48 min
Episode 13: Baxter and Boz
1985-01-22

An appreciative gesture from a multimillionaire genius makes Boz the recipient of a recently developed attack helicopter.

Runtime: 48 min
Episode 14: Curse of the Mary Aberdeen
1985-01-29

Cody, Nick and Boz wind up back where they started after a mysterious man sends them on a search for a haunted old boat.

Runtime: 48 min
Episode 15: Boz Busters
1985-02-05

Cody and Nick suspect kidnapping when they discover that the job for which Boz left the agency is with a non-existent electronics firm.

Runtime: 48 min
Episode 16: Oil Bets Are Off
1985-02-12

Nick, Cody and Boz use electronics to infiltrate a heavily armed gambling yacht linked to the murder of Boz's friend, a noted geologist.

Runtime: 48 min
Episode 17: Girls Night Out
1985-02-19

Two housewives use Boz's computer gadget to execute several burglaries in a prosperous neighbourhood.

Runtime: 48 min
Episode 18: Polly Want an Explanation
1985-03-05

The detectives are tricked by a Vietnam War buddy who claims the CIA wants to prevent him from publishing an expose on the government.

Runtime: 48 min
Episode 19: The Twisted Cross
1985-03-12

Dooley infiltrates a boys military camp to rescue a cadet from his father, a radical who plans to send his charges on a suicide mission.

Runtime: 48 min
Episode 20: Fuzzy Vision
1985-03-19

The detectives find big trouble in a small town when Cody suffers from mistaken identity and the whole trio winds up suspected of murder.

Runtime: 48 min
Episode 21: Arrivederci, Baby
1985-05-07

Cody fends off culprits in a mini-submarine while investigating an oceanographer's report of a deep-sea toxic-waste dump.

Runtime: 48 min
Episode 22: Harmony and Grits
1985-05-14

A harmony-seminar visit finds the detectives brawling with a participant and agreeing to investigate a newlywed engineer.

Runtime: 48 min
Season 3 poster
Season 3 (1985)

No overview available.

21 episodes

Episodes
Episode 1: Wipe Out
1985-10-01

An anonymous note concerning a 20-year-old surfing accident prompts Cody, Nick and Boz to call on a 1960s singing star.

Runtime: 48 min
Episode 2: Thirty-Six Hours Till Dawn
1985-10-22

The detectives agree to escort a government witness, a crime boss's estranged wife, from Mexico to the United States.

Runtime: 48 min
Episode 3: Does Not Compute
1985-10-29

Quinlan is forced to consult the detectives when a city councilman's credit rating is destroyed by computer wizardry.

Runtime: 48 min
Episode 4: The Bargain Department
1985-11-05

Nick stubbornly resists the tempting offer of a huge security corporation to purchase the Riptide Detective Agency; guest Robert Walker.

Runtime: 48 min
Episode 5: Who Really Watches the Sunset?
1985-11-12

A reporter hires the detectives when she links the deaths of several scientists to the development of a food additive.

Runtime: 48 min
Episode 6: Still Goin' Steady
1985-11-19

Nick and Cody try to defend love-struck Boz from a conniver who wants the computer wizard to design a solar-powered car.

Runtime: 48 min
Episode 7: Robin and Marian
1985-12-03

The Roboz is one of the items pilfered by a would-be Robin Hood, bringing Nick, Cody and Boz into a case of counterfeiting and abduction.

Runtime: 48 min
Episode 8: Requiem for Icarus
1985-12-10

The detectives cross the border in the Screamin' Mimi to rescue an air-traffic controller from an alien-smuggling ring.

Runtime: 48 min
Episode 9: Home for Christmas
1985-12-17

The father of a soldier killed in training claims that the body, which Nick escorted home, does not belong to his son.

Runtime: 48 min
Episode 10: Lady Killer
1986-01-07

The detectives try to prevent newly engaged Lt. Parisi from being the next victim of a serial killer who targets brides.

Runtime: 48 min
Episode 11: A Matter of Policy
1986-01-14

Nick and the niece of a dead man face losing sizable inheritances when an insurance company claims that the man was murdered.

Runtime: 48 min
Episode 12: The Wedding Bell Blues
1986-01-21

Marriage-minded Andrew Carlton III hires Nick, Cody and Boz to find a billboard model, unaware that she is a crime kingpin's daughter.

Runtime: 48 min
Episode 13: The Frankie Kahana Show
1986-02-11

Though Hawaiian crooner Frankie Kahana's act falls short of spectacular, the detectives consider the mob's execution plans extreme.

Runtime: 48 min
Episode 14: Smiles We Left Behind
1986-02-25

Cody and old flame Janet find they have a mutual interest in locating the missing cousin of Cody's client.

Runtime: 96 min
Episode 15: The Pirate and the Princess
1986-03-07

A wealthy adventurer hires the detectives to help him recover a legendary 17th-century sunken treasure.

Runtime: 48 min
Episode 16: Playing Hardball
1986-03-14

Owners of a minor-league baseball club hire the detectives to identify a suspected drug dealer on the team.

Runtime: 48 min
Episode 17: The Play's the Thing
1986-03-21

The detectives join a scavenger hunt when Boz's friend Gloria finds a slain professor's notes on an unpublished Shakespearean manuscript.

Runtime: 48 min
Episode 18: Dead Men Don't Floss
1986-04-04

After a magazine piece credits Nick as the brains behind the Riptide agency, the trio competes for the title of most valuable detective.

Runtime: 48 min
Episode 19: Chapel of Glass
1986-04-11

The detectives have the unhappy task of telling Lt. Parisi that her fiance is involved in government bid tampering.

Runtime: 48 min
Episode 20: If You Can't Beat 'Em, Join 'Em
1986-04-18

Bickering TV co-stars seek to add realism to their TV-detective roles by asking Nick, Boz and Cody to bring them along on a real case.

Runtime: 48 min
Episode 21: Echoes
1986-04-22

Nick's suspicions that a man convicted of murder may have been framed lead the detectives to a remote town with its own brand of justice.

Runtime: 48 min

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