7.1/1043 votes#1 - Wipe Out
Season 3 Episode 1 - Aired 10/1/1985
An 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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6.8/1043 votes#2 - Thirty-Six Hours Till Dawn
Season 3 Episode 2 - Aired 10/22/1985
The detectives agree to escort a government witness, a crime boss's estranged wife, from Mexico to the United States.
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7.6/1040 votes#3 - 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.
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7.7/1040 votes#4 - 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.
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7.4/1038 votes#5 - 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.
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7.0/1036 votes#6 - Still Goin' Steady
Season 3 Episode 6 - Aired 11/19/1985
Nick 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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7.0/1039 votes#7 - Robin and Marian
Season 3 Episode 7 - Aired 12/3/1985
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.
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6.9/1039 votes#8 - Requiem for Icarus
Season 3 Episode 8 - Aired 12/10/1985
The detectives cross the border in the Screamin' Mimi to rescue an air-traffic controller from an alien-smuggling ring.
Director: N/A
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7.4/1051 votes#9 - 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.
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7.3/1040 votes#10 - Lady Killer
Season 3 Episode 10 - Aired 1/7/1986
The detectives try to prevent newly engaged Lt. Parisi from being the next victim of a serial killer who targets brides.
Director: N/A
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- 7.1/1040 votes
#11 - A Matter of Policy
Season 3 Episode 11 - Aired 1/14/1986
Nick 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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7.1/1042 votes#12 - The Wedding Bell Blues
Season 3 Episode 12 - Aired 1/21/1986
Marriage-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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6.5/1035 votes#13 - The Frankie Kahana Show
Season 3 Episode 13 - Aired 2/11/1986
Though Hawaiian crooner Frankie Kahana's act falls short of spectacular, the detectives consider the mob's execution plans extreme.
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7.4/1041 votes#14 - Smiles We Left Behind
Season 3 Episode 14 - Aired 2/25/1986
Cody and old flame Janet find they have a mutual interest in locating the missing cousin of Cody's client.
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6.3/1037 votes#15 - The Pirate and the Princess
Season 3 Episode 15 - Aired 3/7/1986
A wealthy adventurer hires the detectives to help him recover a legendary 17th-century sunken treasure.
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7.0/1035 votes#16 - Playing Hardball
Season 3 Episode 16 - Aired 3/14/1986
Owners of a minor-league baseball club hire the detectives to identify a suspected drug dealer on the team.
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6.1/1037 votes#17 - The Play's the Thing
Season 3 Episode 17 - Aired 3/21/1986
The detectives join a scavenger hunt when Boz's friend Gloria finds a slain professor's notes on an unpublished Shakespearean manuscript.
Director: N/A
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7.6/1041 votes#18 - 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
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7.6/1037 votes#19 - 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.
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6.5/1034 votes#20 - If You Can't Beat 'Em, Join 'Em
Season 3 Episode 20 - Aired 4/18/1986
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.
Director: N/A
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7.6/1036 votes#21 - 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
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The Best Episodes of Riptide Season 3
Every episode of Riptide Season 3 ranked from best to worst. Discover the Best Episodes of Riptide Season 3!
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...
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Network:NBC
Season 3 Ratings Summary
"Wipe Out" is the best rated episode of "Riptide" season 3. It scored 7.1/10 based on 43 votes. Directed by N/A and written by N/A, it aired on 10/1/1985. This episode is rated 0.3 points higher than the second-best, "Thirty-Six Hours Till Dawn".