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  • Oct 2, 1984
  • NBC
  • Oct 2, 1984
Riptide

Summary Cody Allen and Nick Ryder are two long-time friends who had served together in Vietnam. Their Private Investigation business was based on Cody's boat, The Riptide, in King Harbour, Los Angeles. In the Pilot adventure, faced with their first big case, they decided to recruit another old pal from 'Nam, the bespectacled, rather nerd...

Created By: Stephen J. Cannell, Frank Lupo

  • NBC
  • Oct 2, 1984
  • NBC
  • Oct 2, 1984
Riptide
Season 2
Season Premiere: Oct 2, 1984
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Summary Cody Allen and Nick Ryder are two long-time friends who had served together in Vietnam. Their Private Investigation business was based on Cody's boat, The Riptide, in King Harbour, Los Angeles. In the Pilot adventure, faced with their first big case, they decided to recruit another old pal from 'Nam, the bespectacled, rather nerd...

Created By: Stephen J. Cannell, Frank Lupo

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Episode 1 • Oct 2, 1984 • 48 m
Where the Girls Are
The Riptide trio is tasked with protecting three high maintenance women from kidnappers during their California vacation.
Episode 2 • Oct 16, 1984 • 47 m
The Orange Grove
An army general they befriended in Vietnam, is suspected of dealing cocaine, and the boys are pressured by the FBI to Lure him out.
Episode 3 • Oct 23, 1984 • 47 m
Catch of the Day
A murder at sea is witnessed by a girl swimming, who relays it to a mentally challenged fisherman. When he is not taken seriously the boys take it upon them to prove they can solve the case.
Episode 4 • Oct 30, 1984 • 47 m
Mirage
One of Murray's students asks his help to get away from her abusive husband. He agrees to help the beautiful woman, but soon finds out she is not as innocent as she appears to be.
Episode 5 • Nov 13, 1984 • 47 m
Beat the Box
Murray's lie detector causes aggrevation for Nick and Cody, but also proves quite helpful when a writer they are hired to protect jumps from a high building.
Episode 6 • Nov 20, 1984 • 47 m
Father's Day
Episode 7 • Nov 27, 1984 • 47 m
Be True to Your School
Episode 8 • Dec 4, 1984 • 48 m
It's a Vial Sort of Business
Episode 9 • Dec 11, 1984 • 48 m
Peter Pan Is Alive and Well
When the Riptide agency is hired to catch a thief in a luxerous beach club, they come across an old lifeguard pal of cody's. But it's his life which has to be guarded after he gets in a heap of trouble thanks to his playboy lifestyle.
Episode 10 • Dec 18, 1984 • 47 m
Catch a Fallen Star
When a mobster's son is out to kill a former actress the boys protect and help her to retrieve the property deed to Pier 56, which she hid in her former mobster lover's house 50 years earlier.
Episode 11 • Jan 8, 1985 • 47 m
Gams People Play
Episode 12 • Jan 15, 1985 • 48 m
Prisoner of War
Nick's new girlfriend runs away after witnessing a pedestrian get run over with deadly consequences.
Episode 13 • Jan 22, 1985 • 47 m
Baxter and Boz
The boys are hired by the owner of a helicopter manufacturing business to expose some of his employees, who are a covering up a dangerous design flaw.
Episode 14 • Jan 29, 1985 • 45 m
Curse of the Mary Aberdeen
A man who is supposed to be dead for eighteen years, hires the Riptide boys to find the Mary Aberdeen "before it kills again". Things get even more spooky when it turns out this boat is actually Cody's Riptide.
Episode 15 • Feb 5, 1985 • 47 m
Boz Busters
When Murray is offered a dream job in computer research he leaves the agency and then goes missing. Nick and Cody set out to find him.
Episode 16 • Feb 12, 1985 • 47 m
Oil Bets Are Off
When an oil magnet is murdered and the police aren't doing much about it, the Riptide agency is off to get some answers for the daughter of the deceased.
Episode 17 • Feb 19, 1985 • 47 m
Girls Night Out
Two suburban women who owe money to a lone shark are forced to become burglars to pay him back. After they are caught hitting the Riptide the boys decide to help them to get out of their predicament.
Episode 18 • Mar 5, 1985 • 47 m
Polly Want an Explanation
The Riptide agency, a wannabe-FBI agent, trouble prone con man Mack McPherson and his parrot all get in trouble with organised crime after McPherson writes an incriminating article about a mobster
Episode 19 • Mar 12, 1985 • 45 m
The Twisted Cross
Episode 20 • Mar 19, 1985 • 47 m
Fuzzy Vision
After the Riptide breaks down, the boys end up in a weird little town where a woman who can see into the future is suspected of murder and everybody thinks Cody is the infamous and very unpopular Jake Tyler.
Episode 21 • May 7, 1985 • 47 m
Arrivederci, Baby
Nick "the pilot, Cody " the mustache" and Bozo "the docter" help out Murray's Italian friend Angelo Guirilini, when his son is badly wounded under mysterious circumstances during a diving expedition.
Episode 22 • May 14, 1985 • 47 m
Harmony and Grits
A seminar about harmony and communucation leads -apart from a fistfight and a bunch of arguments- to a concerned wife who's afraid her husband is having an affair. From there on, things get a lot worse for the Riptide agency.

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