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.

Type: tv

Season: 3

Episode: N/A

Duration: N/A minutes

Release: 1984-01-03

Rating: 6.8

Season 1 - Riptide
1984-01-03
Nick and Cody's search for the sunken remains of a charter boat puts them in conflict with a mob kingpin.
1984-01-10
An old girlfriend seeks Nick and Cody's help after she overhears her husband plotting to murder a police lieutenant.
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.
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.
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.
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.
1984-02-28
While trying to rescue an old girlfriend, Nick and Cody become embroiled in a bizarre investigation involving murder and kidnapping.
1984-03-06
Nick and Cody compete with a pair of private eyes to help a woman framed for the murder of her husband.
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.
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.
1984-04-03
Cody agrees to help his most recent girlfriend find her missing sister, who is supposedly fleeing from organised crime.
1984-05-15
Murray's brilliant sister, Melba, convinces the detectives to help her find a sunken, gold-laden World War II submarine.
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.

Season 2 - Riptide
1984-10-02
Cody, Nick and Boz join forces with dockworker Kirk "The Dool" Dooley to prevent the kidnapping of three wealthy coeds.
1984-10-16
Cody, Nick and Boz re-enlist in the Army to determine whether their former commander is guilty of drug smuggling.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
1985-01-08
The director of the annual Miss King Harbour Beauty Pageant hires the trio to uncover who has been threatening a competitor.
1985-01-15
Nick searches King Harbour's back streets for his troubled girlfriend, who has ignited a fierce battle between two pimps.
1985-01-22
An appreciative gesture from a multimillionaire genius makes Boz the recipient of a recently developed attack helicopter.
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.
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.
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.
1985-02-19
Two housewives use Boz's computer gadget to execute several burglaries in a prosperous neighbourhood.
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.
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.
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.
1985-05-07
Cody fends off culprits in a mini-submarine while investigating an oceanographer's report of a deep-sea toxic-waste dump.
1985-05-14
A harmony-seminar visit finds the detectives brawling with a participant and agreeing to investigate a newlywed engineer.

Season 3 - Riptide
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.
1985-10-22
The detectives agree to escort a government witness, a crime boss's estranged wife, from Mexico to the United States.
1985-10-29
Quinlan is forced to consult the detectives when a city councilman's credit rating is destroyed by computer wizardry.
1985-11-05
Nick stubbornly resists the tempting offer of a huge security corporation to purchase the Riptide Detective Agency; guest Robert Walker.
1985-11-12
A reporter hires the detectives when she links the deaths of several scientists to the development of a food additive.
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.
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.
1985-12-10
The detectives cross the border in the Screamin' Mimi to rescue an air-traffic controller from an alien-smuggling ring.
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.
1986-01-07
The detectives try to prevent newly engaged Lt. Parisi from being the next victim of a serial killer who targets brides.
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.
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.
1986-02-11
Though Hawaiian crooner Frankie Kahana's act falls short of spectacular, the detectives consider the mob's execution plans extreme.
1986-02-25
Cody and old flame Janet find they have a mutual interest in locating the missing cousin of Cody's client.
1986-03-07
A wealthy adventurer hires the detectives to help him recover a legendary 17th-century sunken treasure.
1986-03-14
Owners of a minor-league baseball club hire the detectives to identify a suspected drug dealer on the team.
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.
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.
1986-04-11
The detectives have the unhappy task of telling Lt. Parisi that her fiance is involved in government bid tampering.
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.
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.