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#1 - Be True to Your School
Season 2 Episode 7
Aired 11/27/1984
While accompanying Nick to a high-school reunion, Cody and Boz discover Nick's former football teammates are involved in drug-running.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
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#2 - Baxter and Boz
Season 2 Episode 13
Aired 1/22/1985
An appreciative gesture from a multimillionaire genius makes Boz the recipient of a recently developed attack helicopter.
Director: Michael Lange
Writer: Bill Nuss
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#3 - Catch of the Day
Season 2 Episode 3
Aired 10/23/1984
A fisherman asks Nick, Cody and Boz to investigate a tale of murder after police dismiss him because he claims a mermaid was involved.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
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#4 - Beat the Box
Season 2 Episode 5
Aired 11/13/1984
Cody and Nick use Murray's lie-detector to crack a tough case of an author who killed himself just prior to a scheduled TV appearance.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
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#5 - Boz Busters
Season 2 Episode 15
Aired 2/5/1985
Cody and Nick suspect kidnapping when they discover that the job for which Boz left the agency is with a non-existent electronics firm.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
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#6 - The Bargain Department
Season 3 Episode 4
Aired 11/5/1985
Nick stubbornly resists the tempting offer of a huge security corporation to purchase the Riptide Detective Agency; guest Robert Walker.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
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#7 - Hatchet Job
Season 1 Episode 4
Aired 1/31/1984
An escaped mental patient asks Cody, Nick and Boz to find her boyfriend's murderer -- who just might be the unbalanced client herself.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
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#8 - Four-Eyes
Season 1 Episode 8
Aired 3/6/1984
Nick and Cody compete with a pair of private eyes to help a woman framed for the murder of her husband.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
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#9 - The Orange Grove
Season 2 Episode 2
Aired 10/16/1984
Cody, Nick and Boz re-enlist in the Army to determine whether their former commander is guilty of drug smuggling.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
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#10 - Does Not Compute
Season 3 Episode 3
Aired 10/29/1985
Quinlan is forced to consult the detectives when a city councilman's credit rating is destroyed by computer wizardry.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
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#11 - Dead Men Don't Floss
Season 3 Episode 18
Aired 4/4/1986
After a magazine piece credits Nick as the brains behind the Riptide agency, the trio competes for the title of most valuable detective.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
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#12 - Chapel of Glass
Season 3 Episode 19
Aired 4/11/1986
The detectives have the unhappy task of telling Lt. Parisi that her fiance is involved in government bid tampering.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
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#13 - Echoes
Season 3 Episode 21
Aired 4/22/1986
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.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
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#14 - Mirage
Season 2 Episode 4
Aired 10/30/1984
Part-time teacher Murray hires Nick and Cody to protect him after he falls for a student who happens to be the wife of a volatile tycoon.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
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#15 - Curse of the Mary Aberdeen
Season 2 Episode 14
Aired 1/29/1985
Cody, Nick and Boz wind up back where they started after a mysterious man sends them on a search for a haunted old boat.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
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#16 - Pilot
Season 1 Episode 1
Aired 1/3/1984
Nick and Cody's search for the sunken remains of a charter boat puts them in conflict with a mob kingpin.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
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#17 - Diamonds Are for Never
Season 1 Episode 6
Aired 2/21/1984
Nick and Cody race to rescue Boz and their client, a diabetic stewardess, held hostage by a killer desperate to retrieve stolen diamonds.
Director: Gloryette Clark
Writer: N/A
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#18 - Double Your Pleasure
Season 1 Episode 11
Aired 4/3/1984
Cody agrees to help his most recent girlfriend find her missing sister, who is supposedly fleeing from organised crime.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
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#19 - Something Fishy
Season 1 Episode 13
Aired 5/22/1984
Boz and Nick both fall for the same beautiful dolphin-trainer, whose charges become implicated as accomplices in a drug-smuggling scheme.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
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#20 - Peter Pan Is Alive and Well
Season 2 Episode 9
Aired 12/11/1984
While under cover at a Malibu club, Nick, Cody and Boz learn that an old friend working as a club lifeguard may be involved in extortion.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
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#21 - Fuzzy Vision
Season 2 Episode 20
Aired 3/19/1985
The detectives find big trouble in a small town when Cody suffers from mistaken identity and the whole trio winds up suspected of murder.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
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#22 - Who Really Watches the Sunset?
Season 3 Episode 5
Aired 11/12/1985
A reporter hires the detectives when she links the deaths of several scientists to the development of a food additive.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
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#23 - Home for Christmas
Season 3 Episode 9
Aired 12/17/1985
The father of a soldier killed in training claims that the body, which Nick escorted home, does not belong to his son.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
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#24 - Raiders of the Lost Sub
Season 1 Episode 12
Aired 5/15/1984
Murray's brilliant sister, Melba, convinces the detectives to help her find a sunken, gold-laden World War II submarine.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
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#25 - Catch a Fallen Star
Season 2 Episode 10
Aired 12/18/1984
Cody, Nick and Boz aid a former Hollywood screen star after her escape from the asylum where she had been held for more than 50 years.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
The Best Episodes of Riptide
Every episode of Riptide ranked from best to worst. Let's dive into the Best Episodes of Riptide!
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...
Genres:CrimeDramaAction & Adventure
Network:NBC
Episodes
56
Avg. Rating
7.2
S1
S2
S3
S4
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E2
E3
7.4
7.0
7.1
7.1
7.6
6.8
7.0
7.8
7.6
Best Episodes Summary
"Be True to Your School" is the best rated episode of "Riptide". It scored 8/10 based on 55 votes. Directed by N/A and written by N/A, it aired on 11/27/1984. This episode scored 0.1 points higher than the second highest rated, "Baxter and Boz".