Riptide
Riptide

Riptide

1984 3 Seasons 56 Episodes ⭐ 6.8 Crime Drama Action & Adventure

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.

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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Seasons & Episodes

EP 1

Pilot

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

EP 2

Conflict of Interest

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

EP 3

Somebody's Killing the Great Geeks of America

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

EP 4

Hatchet Job

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

EP 5

The Mean Green Love Machine

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

EP 6

Diamonds Are for Never

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

EP 7

The Hardcase

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

EP 8

Four-Eyes

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

EP 9

#1 with a Bullet

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

EP 10

Long Distance Daddy

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

EP 11

Double Your Pleasure

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

EP 12

Raiders of the Lost Sub

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

EP 13

Something Fishy

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

EP 1

Where the Girls Are

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

EP 2

The Orange Grove

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

EP 3

Catch of the Day

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

EP 4

Mirage

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

EP 5

Beat the Box

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

EP 6

Father's Day

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

EP 7

Be True to Your School

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

EP 8

It's a Vial Sort of Business

Dooley's prior involvement with a racetrack syndicate could jeopardize the life of the would-be actor the detectives wer

EP 9

Peter Pan Is Alive and Well

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

EP 10

Catch a Fallen Star

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

EP 11

Gams People Play

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

EP 12

Prisoner of War

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

EP 13

Baxter and Boz

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

EP 14

Curse of the Mary Aberdeen

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

EP 15

Boz Busters

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

EP 16

Oil Bets Are Off

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

EP 17

Girls Night Out

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

EP 18

Polly Want an Explanation

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

EP 19

The Twisted Cross

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

EP 20

Fuzzy Vision

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

EP 21

Arrivederci, Baby

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

EP 22

Harmony and Grits

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

EP 1

Wipe Out

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

EP 2

Thirty-Six Hours Till Dawn

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

EP 3

Does Not Compute

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

EP 4

The Bargain Department

Nick stubbornly resists the tempting offer of a huge security corporation to purchase the Riptide Detective Agency; gues

EP 5

Who Really Watches the Sunset?

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

EP 6

Still Goin' Steady

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

EP 7

Robin and Marian

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

EP 8

Requiem for Icarus

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

EP 9

Home for Christmas

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

EP 10

Lady Killer

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

EP 11

A Matter of Policy

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

EP 12

The Wedding Bell Blues

Marriage-minded Andrew Carlton III hires Nick, Cody and Boz to find a billboard model, unaware that she is a crime kingp

EP 13

The Frankie Kahana Show

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

EP 14

Smiles We Left Behind

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

EP 15

The Pirate and the Princess

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

EP 16

Playing Hardball

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

EP 17

The Play's the Thing

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

EP 18

Dead Men Don't Floss

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

EP 19

Chapel of Glass

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

EP 20

If You Can't Beat 'Em, Join 'Em

Bickering TV co-stars seek to add realism to their TV-detective roles by asking Nick, Boz and Cody to bring them along o

EP 21

Echoes

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

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