Wipe Out
Episode: 3x01 | Airdate: Oct 1, 1985
The guys receive a retainer and anonymous notes urging them to investigate a death that was labeled a surfing accident---in 1964.
Episode: 3x01 | Airdate: Oct 1, 1985
The guys receive a retainer and anonymous notes urging them to investigate a death that was labeled a surfing accident---in 1964.
Episode: 3x02 | Airdate: Oct 22, 1985
The guys accept a Government assignment to escort a mobster's estranged wife back from Mexico to testify against him.
Episode: 3x03 | Airdate: Oct 29, 1985
Quinlan hires the guys to investigate a councilman's claim that the police are discrediting the councilman through computer tampering.
Episode: 3x04 | Airdate: Nov 5, 1985
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.
Episode: 3x05 | Airdate: Nov 12, 1985
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.
Episode: 3x06 | Airdate: Nov 19, 1985
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.
Episode: 3x07 | Airdate: Dec 3, 1985
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.
Episode: 3x08 | Airdate: Dec 10, 1985
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.
Episode: 3x09 | Airdate: Dec 17, 1985
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.
Episode: 3x10 | Airdate: Jan 7, 1986
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.
Episode: 3x11 | Airdate: Jan 14, 1986
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.
Episode: 3x12 | Airdate: Jan 21, 1986
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.
Episode: 3x13 | Airdate: Feb 11, 1986
A marginally talented Hawaiian singer disappears after the guys thwart an assault on him during his performance at a club.
Episode: 3x14 | Airdate: Feb 25, 1986 (120 min)
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.
Episode: 3x15 | Airdate: Mar 7, 1986
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.
Episode: 3x16 | Airdate: Mar 14, 1986
Cody doesn't share Nick's enthusiasm for going undercover as baseball players to investigate a drug problem on a minor-league team.
Episode: 3x17 | Airdate: Mar 21, 1986
Fortune shows herself unkind when a professor learns of the existence of an undiscovered Shakespeare manuscript---and is murdered.
Episode: 3x18 | Airdate: Apr 4, 1986
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.
Episode: 3x19 | Airdate: Apr 11, 1986
Investigating a case of tampering with Government bids, Boz finds a connection between the prime suspect and Joanna's fiance.
Episode: 3x20 | Airdate: Apr 18, 1986
The guys moonlight as consultants for a TV detective show, whose bickering costars must follow the guys on a real case.
Episode: 3x21 | Airdate: Aug 22, 1986
Boz is strongly affected when he saves Cody's life by shooting an ex-con, whose sister claims was wrongly imprisoned for 10 years.