Riptide
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.
Seasons
1. Pilot
Air Date: 1984-01-03
Nick and Cody's search for the sunken remains of a charter boat puts them in conflict with a mob kingpin.
2. Conflict of Interest
Air Date: 1984-01-10
An old girlfriend seeks Nick and Cody's help after she overhears her husband plotting to murder a police lieutenant.
3. Somebody's Killing the Great Geeks of America
Air Date: 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.
4. Hatchet Job
Air Date: 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.
5. The Mean Green Love Machine
Air Date: 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.
6. Diamonds Are for Never
Air Date: 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.
7. The Hardcase
Air Date: 1984-02-28
While trying to rescue an old girlfriend, Nick and Cody become embroiled in a bizarre investigation involving murder and kidnapping.
8. Four-Eyes
Air Date: 1984-03-06
Nick and Cody compete with a pair of private eyes to help a woman framed for the murder of her husband.
9. #1 with a Bullet
Air Date: 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.
10. Long Distance Daddy
Air Date: 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.
11. Double Your Pleasure
Air Date: 1984-04-03
Cody agrees to help his most recent girlfriend find her missing sister, who is supposedly fleeing from organised crime.
12. Raiders of the Lost Sub
Air Date: 1984-05-15
Murray's brilliant sister, Melba, convinces the detectives to help her find a sunken, gold-laden World War II submarine.
13. Something Fishy
Air Date: 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.
1. Where the Girls Are
Air Date: 1984-10-02
Cody, Nick and Boz join forces with dockworker Kirk "The Dool" Dooley to prevent the kidnapping of three wealthy coeds.
2. The Orange Grove
Air Date: 1984-10-16
Cody, Nick and Boz re-enlist in the Army to determine whether their former commander is guilty of drug smuggling.
3. Catch of the Day
Air Date: 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.
4. Mirage
Air Date: 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.
5. Beat the Box
Air Date: 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.
6. Father's Day
Air Date: 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.
7. Be True to Your School
Air Date: 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.
8. It's a Vial Sort of Business
Air Date: 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.
9. Peter Pan Is Alive and Well
Air Date: 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.
10. Catch a Fallen Star
Air Date: 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.
11. Gams People Play
Air Date: 1985-01-08
The director of the annual Miss King Harbour Beauty Pageant hires the trio to uncover who has been threatening a competitor.
12. Prisoner of War
Air Date: 1985-01-15
Nick searches King Harbour's back streets for his troubled girlfriend, who has ignited a fierce battle between two pimps.
13. Baxter and Boz
Air Date: 1985-01-22
An appreciative gesture from a multimillionaire genius makes Boz the recipient of a recently developed attack helicopter.
14. Curse of the Mary Aberdeen
Air Date: 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.
15. Boz Busters
Air Date: 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.
16. Oil Bets Are Off
Air Date: 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.
17. Girls Night Out
Air Date: 1985-02-19
Two housewives use Boz's computer gadget to execute several burglaries in a prosperous neighbourhood.
18. Polly Want an Explanation
Air Date: 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.
19. The Twisted Cross
Air Date: 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.
20. Fuzzy Vision
Air Date: 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.
21. Arrivederci, Baby
Air Date: 1985-05-07
Cody fends off culprits in a mini-submarine while investigating an oceanographer's report of a deep-sea toxic-waste dump.
22. Harmony and Grits
Air Date: 1985-05-14
A harmony-seminar visit finds the detectives brawling with a participant and agreeing to investigate a newlywed engineer.
1. Wipe Out
Air Date: 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.
2. Thirty-Six Hours Till Dawn
Air Date: 1985-10-22
The detectives agree to escort a government witness, a crime boss's estranged wife, from Mexico to the United States.
3. Does Not Compute
Air Date: 1985-10-29
Quinlan is forced to consult the detectives when a city councilman's credit rating is destroyed by computer wizardry.
4. The Bargain Department
Air Date: 1985-11-05
Nick stubbornly resists the tempting offer of a huge security corporation to purchase the Riptide Detective Agency; guest Robert Walker.
5. Who Really Watches the Sunset?
Air Date: 1985-11-12
A reporter hires the detectives when she links the deaths of several scientists to the development of a food additive.
6. Still Goin' Steady
Air Date: 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.
7. Robin and Marian
Air Date: 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.
8. Requiem for Icarus
Air Date: 1985-12-10
The detectives cross the border in the Screamin' Mimi to rescue an air-traffic controller from an alien-smuggling ring.
9. Home for Christmas
Air Date: 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.
10. Lady Killer
Air Date: 1986-01-07
The detectives try to prevent newly engaged Lt. Parisi from being the next victim of a serial killer who targets brides.
11. A Matter of Policy
Air Date: 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.
12. The Wedding Bell Blues
Air Date: 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.
13. The Frankie Kahana Show
Air Date: 1986-02-11
Though Hawaiian crooner Frankie Kahana's act falls short of spectacular, the detectives consider the mob's execution plans extreme.
14. Smiles We Left Behind
Air Date: 1986-02-25
Cody and old flame Janet find they have a mutual interest in locating the missing cousin of Cody's client.
15. The Pirate and the Princess
Air Date: 1986-03-07
A wealthy adventurer hires the detectives to help him recover a legendary 17th-century sunken treasure.
16. Playing Hardball
Air Date: 1986-03-14
Owners of a minor-league baseball club hire the detectives to identify a suspected drug dealer on the team.
17. The Play's the Thing
Air Date: 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.
18. Dead Men Don't Floss
Air Date: 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.
19. Chapel of Glass
Air Date: 1986-04-11
The detectives have the unhappy task of telling Lt. Parisi that her fiance is involved in government bid tampering.
20. If You Can't Beat 'Em, Join 'Em
Air Date: 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.
21. Echoes
Air Date: 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.
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Rating
6.8/10
Release Date
1984-01-03
Episodes
56 (3 seasons)
Status
Ended
Cast
Production Companies
Stephen J. Cannell Productions