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Riptide - Episode Guide

Season 1

Pilot

Episode: 1x01 | Airdate: Jan 3, 1984 (120 min)

Pilot

Kimba Hall is the lone survivor when the Trade Wind explodes at sea. She is rescued by Mama Jo and brought back to Pier 56. Kimba becomes a suspect in the explosion and the Riptide Detective agency sets out to prove her innocent.

Conflict of Interest

Episode: 1x02 | Airdate: Jan 10, 1984

Conflict of Interest

In the midst of an already rocky marriage, Tina Brazil, after hearing her mobster husband Ricky Brazil planning a murder, runs away and heads to her old friends Cody and Nick for help.

Hatchet Job

Episode: 1x04 | Airdate: Jan 31, 1984

Hatchet Job

Things aren't going too well for the detectives when the thief on Pier 56 that they're trying to catch makes off with all their surveillance equipment!

The Mean Green Love Machine

Episode: 1x05 | Airdate: Feb 7, 1984

The Mean Green Love Machine

A friend of Cody and Nick hires the agency to find her father Lane, who she's lost contact with since he went to Mexico with his new, much younger wife Dee-Dee.

Diamonds Are for Never

Episode: 1x06 | Airdate: Feb 21, 1984

Diamonds Are for Never

An air stewardess who delivers seemingly innocent packages from her friend Artie to his brother, witnesses Artie's murder, and is danger herself when the killer sees her and chases.

The Hardcase

Episode: 1x07 | Airdate: Feb 28, 1984

The Hardcase

The guys intervene when they spot three thugs on-board an unfamiliar boat harassing the girls on the Barefoot Contessa

Four-Eyes

Episode: 1x08 | Airdate: Mar 6, 1984

Four-Eyes

At great reluctance, Cody, Nick and Murray accept a job from shady attorney Myron Bell.

#1 with a Bullet

Episode: 1x09 | Airdate: Mar 20, 1984

#1 with a Bullet

After falling out with their record company, two singers of a long-running hit group lose control of their car, killing one and leaving the other in hospital.

Long Distance Daddy

Episode: 1x10 | Airdate: Mar 27, 1984

Long Distance Daddy

A member of a gun smuggling racket takes the opportunity to use a flight to bump off the irritating son of the head of the operation.

Double Your Pleasure

Episode: 1x11 | Airdate: Apr 3, 1984

Double Your Pleasure

Cody and Nick are reluctant when Murray takes them to a singles party, but Cody is soon glad he went when he meets an attractive, pleasant woman named Sheila.

Raiders of the Lost Sub

Episode: 1x12 | Airdate: May 15, 1984

Raiders of the Lost Sub

The detective trio are depressed over a lull in business, when Murray's attractive, practical joke-loving sister Melba arrives, looking for their help in proving her theory that Hitler had established a port on the U.S. west coast during World War II.

Something Fishy

Episode: 1x13 | Airdate: May 22, 1984

Something Fishy

Murray is excited about taking Cody and Nick to meet Jody, an attractive dolphin trainer who he's been conducting sonar experiments with, and whom he has a huge crush on.

Season 2

Where the Girls Are

Episode: 2x01 | Airdate: Oct 2, 1984

Where the Girls Are

Cody agrees to take care of three college student girls who are visiting the area.

The Orange Grove

Episode: 2x02 | Airdate: Oct 16, 1984

The Orange Grove

Two suited men try to force Dooley to leave a curious package on-board the Riptide, but he ignores their demands and alerts his friends.

Catch of the Day

Episode: 2x03 | Airdate: Oct 23, 1984

Catch of the Day

An injured young woman appears out of the water warning that a ship needs help, then she sinks beneath the waves.

Mirage

Episode: 2x04 | Airdate: Oct 30, 1984

Mirage

Teaching a science class at a local college, Murray falls for an attractive student who appears to be interested in him too.

Beat the Box

Episode: 2x05 | Airdate: Nov 13, 1984

Beat the Box

Nick and Cody reluctantly help Murray test out his new lie-detector game.

Father's Day

Episode: 2x06 | Airdate: Nov 20, 1984

Father's Day

When a troubled young woman leaves her baby at the local church, the priest asks the guys to investigate the trouble the girl is in – and also leaves the baby girl with the trio for safe keeping.

Be True to Your School

Episode: 2x07 | Airdate: Nov 27, 1984

Be True to Your School

Nick takes Cody and Murray with him as he attends his 15th year high-school reunion.

It's a Vial Sort of Business

Episode: 2x08 | Airdate: Dec 4, 1984

It's a Vial Sort of Business

Cody and Nick's patience is being tested with Dooley's singing while working off some debts and Murray causing chaos with the Riptide's electricity.

Peter Pan is Alive and Well

Episode: 2x09 | Airdate: Dec 11, 1984

Peter Pan is Alive and Well

The trio are hired by the manager of a local beach club to investigate a series of valuables being stolen on the beach.

Catch a Fallen Star

Episode: 2x10 | Airdate: Dec 18, 1984

Catch a Fallen Star

The trio come to the rescue of an elderly lady vagrant who is being grabbed by two thugs, only to learn that she is none other than a once-famous actress who vanished fifty years previously.

Gams People Play

Episode: 2x11 | Airdate: Jan 8, 1985

Gams People Play

When Nick returns from National Guard duty, he thinks Cody and Murray are playing a trick on him when they tell him they've been hired to watch over a beauty contest.

Prisoner of War

Episode: 2x12 | Airdate: Jan 15, 1985

Prisoner of War

Nick and his girlfriend, while returning from a date, witness an accident in which a young serviceman is fatally hit by a car.

Baxter and Boz

Episode: 2x13 | Airdate: Jan 22, 1985

Baxter and Boz

After meeting a down-and-out who is also a fellow inventor, and helping him iron out a kink in his latest creation, Murray learns that the man is actually reclusive billionaire Baxter Bernard.

Curse of the Mary Aberdeen

Episode: 2x14 | Airdate: Jan 29, 1985

Curse of the Mary Aberdeen

Murray is alone on the Riptide when a mysterious character suddenly appears seemingly out of nowhere, and pays $1000 cash for the Riptide Detective Agency to find the Mary Aberdeen, a supposedly cursed boat who's former owners have all been killed, before she "kills again".

Boz Busters

Episode: 2x15 | Airdate: Feb 5, 1985

Boz Busters

Nick and Cody recall their first encounter with the Boz, who's vanished---along with the high-tech firm he went to work for.

Oil Bets Are Off

Episode: 2x16 | Airdate: Feb 12, 1985

Oil Bets Are Off

The guys pose as high rollers and break into a post office, all in the course of a murder investigation.

Girls Night Out

Episode: 2x17 | Airdate: Feb 19, 1985

Girls Night Out

The guys are accused of burglaries being committed by two women in debt to a mobster.

Polly Want an Explanation

Episode: 2x18 | Airdate: Mar 5, 1985

Polly Want an Explanation

Nick and Cody are none too happy when their latest client, met with in a rough biker's bar, turns out to be Mack McPherson, an "acquaintance" who landed them in trouble in the Army.

The Twisted Cross

Episode: 2x19 | Airdate: Mar 12, 1985

The Twisted Cross

A woman wants to regain custody of her son, whose father is raising him as a Nazi.

Fuzzy Vision

Episode: 2x20 | Airdate: Mar 19, 1985

Fuzzy Vision

Cody is repeatedly mistaken for the village ne'er-do-well in a town where the guys' only friend is a clairvoyant---who is arrested for a murder she predicted.

Arrivederci, Baby

Episode: 2x21 | Airdate: May 7, 1985

Arrivederci, Baby

The guys offer their services to a famous oceanographer, whose planned expedition is being sabotaged.

Harmony and Grits

Episode: 2x22 | Airdate: May 14, 1985

Harmony and Grits

While tailing a husband suspected of cheating, the guys find a corpse, but Quinlan gets orders to drop the investigation.

Season 3

Wipe Out

Episode: 3x01 | Airdate: Oct 1, 1985

Wipe Out

The guys receive a retainer and anonymous notes urging them to investigate a death that was labeled a surfing accident---in 1964.

Thirty-Six Hours 'til Dawn

Episode: 3x02 | Airdate: Oct 22, 1985

Thirty-Six Hours 'til Dawn

The guys accept a Government assignment to escort a mobster's estranged wife back from Mexico to testify against him.

Does Not Compute

Episode: 3x03 | Airdate: Oct 29, 1985

Does Not Compute

Quinlan hires the guys to investigate a councilman's claim that the police are discrediting the councilman through computer tampering.

The Bargain Department

Episode: 3x04 | Airdate: Nov 5, 1985

The Bargain Department

With the agency in financial straits, the guys consider a buy-out offer from a corporation, until they suspect the company is involved in the murder of a security guard.

Who Really Watches the Sunset

Episode: 3x05 | Airdate: Nov 12, 1985

Who Really Watches the Sunset

An investigative reporter has reason to believe that her illness is related to the sudden death of a research biologist who was about to give her a big story.

Still Goin' Steady

Episode: 3x06 | Airdate: Nov 19, 1985

Still Goin' Steady

Boz's high-school chemistry partner uses her personal chemistry to entice Boz to help develop a solar car, whose investors include a loan shark anxious to see a return.

Robin and Marian

Episode: 3x07 | Airdate: Dec 3, 1985

Robin and Marian

Counterfeiters lose their plates and cash to a robbing hood who takes from the rich and gives to the poor---among them a foster parent, who's a favorite.

Requiem for Icarus

Episode: 3x08 | Airdate: Dec 10, 1985

Requiem for Icarus

The new and dangerous hobbies of Nick's old friend worry the man's daughter, particularly after she gets a phone call from him saying he may be away for a long time.

Home for Christmas

Episode: 3x09 | Airdate: Dec 17, 1985

Home for Christmas

Nick pulls Army Reserve escort duty for a casket that happens to contain the wrong body, a fact the military doesn't want to talk about.

Lady Killer

Episode: 3x10 | Airdate: Jan 7, 1986

Lady Killer

The guys find a new police lieutenant very cooperative, and somewhat distracting, as they investigate a man's suspicion that his roommate is a murderer.

A Matter of Policy

Episode: 3x11 | Airdate: Jan 14, 1986

A Matter of Policy

Nick stands to lose a $300,000 inheritance if he proves the claim of another beneficiary that her uncle's death was not an accident.

The Wedding Bell Blues

Episode: 3x12 | Airdate: Jan 21, 1986

The Wedding Bell Blues

A millionaire obsessed with a fashion model hires the guys to find her, unaware that she's a mobster's daughter who's prompted a feud between two crime families.

The Frankie Kahana Show

Episode: 3x13 | Airdate: Feb 11, 1986

The Frankie Kahana Show

A marginally talented Hawaiian singer disappears after the guys thwart an assault on him during his performance at a club.

Smiles We Left Behind

Episode: 3x14 | Airdate: Feb 25, 1986 (120 min)

Smiles We Left Behind

When only her cousin's luggage shows up for at her wedding, Lucy turns to her friends at the Riptide Detective Agency to find out what happened.

The Pirate and the Princess

Episode: 3x15 | Airdate: Mar 7, 1986

The Pirate and the Princess

Cody, Nick and Murray arrive in Martigua on vacation to visit their oceanographer friend Angelo, who with daughter Giovanna and son Tony, is searching for Tyson's sunken treasure.

Playing Hardball

Episode: 3x16 | Airdate: Mar 14, 1986

Playing Hardball

Cody doesn't share Nick's enthusiasm for going undercover as baseball players to investigate a drug problem on a minor-league team.

The Play's the Thing

Episode: 3x17 | Airdate: Mar 21, 1986

The Play's the Thing

Fortune shows herself unkind when a professor learns of the existence of an undiscovered Shakespeare manuscript---and is murdered.

Dead Men Don't Floss

Episode: 3x18 | Airdate: Apr 4, 1986

Dead Men Don't Floss

A magazine article names Nick as the major force in the agency, so the guys take separate cases to determine who is the best detective.

Chapel of Glass

Episode: 3x19 | Airdate: Apr 11, 1986

Chapel of Glass

Investigating a case of tampering with Government bids, Boz finds a connection between the prime suspect and Joanna's fiance.

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

Episode: 3x20 | Airdate: Apr 18, 1986

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

The guys moonlight as consultants for a TV detective show, whose bickering costars must follow the guys on a real case.

Echoes

Episode: 3x21 | Airdate: Aug 22, 1986

Echoes

Boz is strongly affected when he saves Cody's life by shooting an ex-con, whose sister claims was wrongly imprisoned for 10 years.

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