Episode 1: Wipe Out
1985-10-0148 min
An anonymous note concerning a 20-year-old surfing accident prompts Cody, Nick and Boz to call on a 1960s singing star.
Season guide
Riptide Season 3 — Episodes and Where to Watch
21 episodes · first aired 1985-10-01
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Episode guide
Episode 2: Thirty-Six Hours Till Dawn
1985-10-2248 min
The detectives agree to escort a government witness, a crime boss's estranged wife, from Mexico to the United States.
Episode 3: Does Not Compute
1985-10-2948 min
Quinlan is forced to consult the detectives when a city councilman's credit rating is destroyed by computer wizardry.
Episode 4: The Bargain Department
1985-11-0548 min
Nick stubbornly resists the tempting offer of a huge security corporation to purchase the Riptide Detective Agency; guest Robert Walker.
Episode 5: Who Really Watches the Sunset?
1985-11-1248 min
A reporter hires the detectives when she links the deaths of several scientists to the development of a food additive.
Episode 6: Still Goin' Steady
1985-11-1948 min
Nick and Cody try to defend love-struck Boz from a conniver who wants the computer wizard to design a solar-powered car.
Episode 7: Robin and Marian
1985-12-0348 min
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.
Episode 8: Requiem for Icarus
1985-12-1048 min
The detectives cross the border in the Screamin' Mimi to rescue an air-traffic controller from an alien-smuggling ring.
Episode 9: Home for Christmas
1985-12-1748 min
The father of a soldier killed in training claims that the body, which Nick escorted home, does not belong to his son.
Episode 10: Lady Killer
1986-01-0748 min
The detectives try to prevent newly engaged Lt. Parisi from being the next victim of a serial killer who targets brides.
Episode 11: A Matter of Policy
1986-01-1448 min
Nick and the niece of a dead man face losing sizable inheritances when an insurance company claims that the man was murdered.
Episode 12: The Wedding Bell Blues
1986-01-2148 min
Marriage-minded Andrew Carlton III hires Nick, Cody and Boz to find a billboard model, unaware that she is a crime kingpin's daughter.
Episode 13: The Frankie Kahana Show
1986-02-1148 min
Though Hawaiian crooner Frankie Kahana's act falls short of spectacular, the detectives consider the mob's execution plans extreme.
Episode 14: Smiles We Left Behind
1986-02-2596 min
Cody and old flame Janet find they have a mutual interest in locating the missing cousin of Cody's client.
Episode 15: The Pirate and the Princess
1986-03-0748 min
A wealthy adventurer hires the detectives to help him recover a legendary 17th-century sunken treasure.
Episode 16: Playing Hardball
1986-03-1448 min
Owners of a minor-league baseball club hire the detectives to identify a suspected drug dealer on the team.
Episode 17: The Play's the Thing
1986-03-2148 min
The detectives join a scavenger hunt when Boz's friend Gloria finds a slain professor's notes on an unpublished Shakespearean manuscript.
Episode 18: Dead Men Don't Floss
1986-04-0448 min
After a magazine piece credits Nick as the brains behind the Riptide agency, the trio competes for the title of most valuable detective.
Episode 19: Chapel of Glass
1986-04-1148 min
The detectives have the unhappy task of telling Lt. Parisi that her fiance is involved in government bid tampering.
Episode 20: If You Can't Beat 'Em, Join 'Em
1986-04-1848 min
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.
Episode 21: Echoes
1986-04-2248 min
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.
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