Episode 1
Wipe Out
48m7.0 / 10
An anonymous note concerning a 20-year-old surfing accident prompts Cody, Nick and Boz to call on a 1960s singing star.
Episode credits
Guest stars Suzanne Snyder
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Riptide
1984NR3 seasons6.8 / 10
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.
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Synopsis
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.
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Episode 2
Thirty-Six Hours Till Dawn
48m7.0 / 10
The detectives agree to escort a government witness, a crime boss's estranged wife, from Mexico to the United States.
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Episode 3
Does Not Compute
48m9.0 / 10
Quinlan is forced to consult the detectives when a city councilman's credit rating is destroyed by computer wizardry.
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Episode 4
The Bargain Department
48m8.0 / 10
Nick stubbornly resists the tempting offer of a huge security corporation to purchase the Riptide Detective Agency; guest Robert Walker.
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Guest stars Barbara Keegan
Episode 5
Who Really Watches the Sunset?
48m8.0 / 10
A reporter hires the detectives when she links the deaths of several scientists to the development of a food additive.
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Episode 6
Still Goin' Steady
48m8.0 / 10
Nick and Cody try to defend love-struck Boz from a conniver who wants the computer wizard to design a solar-powered car.
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Episode 7
Robin and Marian
48m
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.
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Episode 8
Requiem for Icarus
48m5.0 / 10
The detectives cross the border in the Screamin' Mimi to rescue an air-traffic controller from an alien-smuggling ring.
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Episode 9
Home for Christmas
48m
The father of a soldier killed in training claims that the body, which Nick escorted home, does not belong to his son.
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Episode 10
Lady Killer
48m
The detectives try to prevent newly engaged Lt. Parisi from being the next victim of a serial killer who targets brides.
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A Matter of Policy
48m
Nick and the niece of a dead man face losing sizable inheritances when an insurance company claims that the man was murdered.
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Guest stars Deborah Voorhees
Episode 12
The Wedding Bell Blues
48m
Marriage-minded Andrew Carlton III hires Nick, Cody and Boz to find a billboard model, unaware that she is a crime kingpin's daughter.
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Episode 13
The Frankie Kahana Show
48m
Though Hawaiian crooner Frankie Kahana's act falls short of spectacular, the detectives consider the mob's execution plans extreme.
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Episode 14
Smiles We Left Behind
1h 36m
Cody and old flame Janet find they have a mutual interest in locating the missing cousin of Cody's client.
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Guest stars Rosalind Chao
Episode 15
The Pirate and the Princess
48m
A wealthy adventurer hires the detectives to help him recover a legendary 17th-century sunken treasure.
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Episode 16
Playing Hardball
48m
Owners of a minor-league baseball club hire the detectives to identify a suspected drug dealer on the team.
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Episode 17
The Play's the Thing
48m
The detectives join a scavenger hunt when Boz's friend Gloria finds a slain professor's notes on an unpublished Shakespearean manuscript.
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Episode 18
Dead Men Don't Floss
48m2.0 / 10
After a magazine piece credits Nick as the brains behind the Riptide agency, the trio competes for the title of most valuable detective.
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Guest stars Bruce Tuthill
Episode 19
Chapel of Glass
48m
The detectives have the unhappy task of telling Lt. Parisi that her fiance is involved in government bid tampering.
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Episode 20
If You Can't Beat 'Em, Join 'Em
48m
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.
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Episode 21
Echoes
48mfinale
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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More about Riptide
Cast
Perry KingCody Allen
Joe PennyNick Ryder
Thom BrayMurray Bozinsky
Jack GingTed Quinlan
Ken OlandtKirk Dooley
Anne FrancisMama Jo
Deborah VoorheesTippy
Barbara KeeganTinaCredits
- Created by
- Frank Lupo, Stephen J. Cannell
- Written by
- Bill Nuss
Production details
- Status
- Ended
- Series type
- Scripted
- Episodes
- 56
- Original language
- English
Networks & production
NBCUnited States- Stephen J. Cannell ProductionsUnited States
Themes
detective agencyex soldierlos angeles, californiaprivate investigator
