Riptide (1984)
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 1 - Wipe Out
Release Date: 1985-10-01An anonymous note concerning a 20-year-old surfing accident prompts Cody, Nick and Boz to call on a 1960s singing star.
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Episode 2 - Thirty-Six Hours Till Dawn
Release Date: 1985-10-22The 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
Release Date: 1985-10-29Quinlan 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
Release Date: 1985-11-05Nick stubbornly resists the tempting offer of a huge security corporation to purchase the Riptide Detective Agency; guest Robert Walker.
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Episode 5 - Who Really Watches the Sunset?
Release Date: 1985-11-12A 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
Release Date: 1985-11-19Nick 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
Release Date: 1985-12-03The 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
Release Date: 1985-12-10The 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
Release Date: 1985-12-17The 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
Release Date: 1986-01-07The detectives try to prevent newly engaged Lt. Parisi from being the next victim of a serial killer who targets brides.
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Episode 11 - A Matter of Policy
Release Date: 1986-01-14Nick 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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Episode 12 - The Wedding Bell Blues
Release Date: 1986-01-21Marriage-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
Release Date: 1986-02-11Though 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
Release Date: 1986-02-25Cody and old flame Janet find they have a mutual interest in locating the missing cousin of Cody's client.
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Episode 15 - The Pirate and the Princess
Release Date: 1986-03-07A wealthy adventurer hires the detectives to help him recover a legendary 17th-century sunken treasure.
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Episode 16 - Playing Hardball
Release Date: 1986-03-14Owners 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
Release Date: 1986-03-21The 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
Release Date: 1986-04-04After 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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Episode 19 - Chapel of Glass
Release Date: 1986-04-11The 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
Release Date: 1986-04-18Bickering 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
Release Date: 1986-04-22Nick'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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Episode 22 - Echoes
Release Date: 1986-04-22The guys are hired by a man named Warwick to find his son Nathan. Unfortunately, their client is actually Judd Thompson, the father of a girl that Nathan Warwick has been accused of raping and murdering. A gunfight ensues when Thompson sees Warwick. As a result, Cody is shot and Murray is forced to shoot Warwick. Regrettably, Murray kills Warwick in the process. After Cody is taken to a hospital to recover, Nick and Murray are shocked when Elaine Warwick, Nathan's sister, hires them to prove that her brother never raped Thompson's daughter. Feeling guilty over leading Thompson to Nathan, Nick accepts the case and he and Murray are soon heading to Cyprus Bay, the Warwick's hometown. Pretending to be writing a book about the Warwick-Thompson shooting, Nick and Murray begin to investigate Nathan's past. They therefore are left alone in the sheriff's office where they find a list of the townspeople with codes next to the names. Nick and Murray soon uncover the fact that the sheriff and his