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The Best Episodes of Riptide Season 3

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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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  1. Background image for The Bargain Department
    7.7/10(44 votes)

    #1 - The Bargain Department

    S3:E4

    Nick stubbornly resists the tempting offer of a huge security corporation to purchase the Riptide Detective Agency; guest Robert Walker.

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  2. Background image for Does Not Compute
    7.5/10(42 votes)

    #2 - Does Not Compute

    S3:E3

    Quinlan is forced to consult the detectives when a city councilman's credit rating is destroyed by computer wizardry.

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  3. Background image for Chapel of Glass
    7.5/10(37 votes)

    #3 - Chapel of Glass

    S3:E19

    The detectives have the unhappy task of telling Lt. Parisi that her fiance is involved in government bid tampering.

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  4. Background image for Echoes
    7.5/10(37 votes)

    #4 - Echoes

    S3:E21

    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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  5. Background image for Who Really Watches the Sunset?
    7.4/10(41 votes)

    #5 - Who Really Watches the Sunset?

    S3:E5

    A reporter hires the detectives when she links the deaths of several scientists to the development of a food additive.

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  6. Background image for Home for Christmas
    7.4/10(54 votes)

    #6 - Home for Christmas

    S3:E9

    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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  8. Background image for Dead Men Don't Floss
    7.4/10(42 votes)

    #7 - Dead Men Don't Floss

    S3:E18

    After 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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  9. Background image for Lady Killer
    7.3/10(40 votes)

    #8 - Lady Killer

    S3:E10

    The detectives try to prevent newly engaged Lt. Parisi from being the next victim of a serial killer who targets brides.

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  10. Background image for Smiles We Left Behind
    7.3/10(42 votes)

    #9 - Smiles We Left Behind

    S3:E14

    Cody and old flame Janet find they have a mutual interest in locating the missing cousin of Cody's client.

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  11. Background image for A Matter of Policy
    7.2/10(41 votes)

    #10 - A Matter of Policy

    S3:E11

    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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  12. Background image for Wipe Out
    7.1/10(46 votes)

    #11 - Wipe Out

    S3:E1

    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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  13. Background image for The Wedding Bell Blues
    7.1/10(44 votes)

    #12 - The Wedding Bell Blues

    S3:E12

    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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  14. Background image for Playing Hardball
    7.0/10(36 votes)

    #13 - Playing Hardball

    S3:E16

    Owners of a minor-league baseball club hire the detectives to identify a suspected drug dealer on the team.

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  15. Background image for Thirty-Six Hours Till Dawn
    6.9/10(45 votes)

    #14 - Thirty-Six Hours Till Dawn

    S3:E2

    The detectives agree to escort a government witness, a crime boss's estranged wife, from Mexico to the United States.

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  16. Background image for Still Goin' Steady
    6.9/10(38 votes)

    #15 - Still Goin' Steady

    S3:E6

    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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  17. Background image for Robin and Marian
    6.9/10(40 votes)

    #16 - Robin and Marian

    S3:E7

    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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  18. Background image for Requiem for Icarus
    6.8/10(39 votes)

    #17 - Requiem for Icarus

    S3:E8

    The detectives cross the border in the Screamin' Mimi to rescue an air-traffic controller from an alien-smuggling ring.

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  19. Background image for The Frankie Kahana Show
    6.5/10(36 votes)

    #18 - The Frankie Kahana Show

    S3:E13

    Though Hawaiian crooner Frankie Kahana's act falls short of spectacular, the detectives consider the mob's execution plans extreme.

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    6.4/10(35 votes)

    #19 - If You Can't Beat 'Em, Join 'Em

    S3:E20

    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.

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  21. Background image for The Pirate and the Princess
    6.3/10(38 votes)

    #20 - The Pirate and the Princess

    S3:E15

    A wealthy adventurer hires the detectives to help him recover a legendary 17th-century sunken treasure.

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  22. Background image for The Play's the Thing
    6.1/10(37 votes)

    #21 - The Play's the Thing

    S3:E17

    The 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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Season 3 Ratings Summary

"The Bargain Department" is the best rated episode of "Riptide" season 3. It scored 7.7/10 based on 44 votes. Directed by N/A and written by N/A, it aired on 11/5/1985. This episode is rated 0.2 points higher than the second-best, "Does Not Compute".