Riptide

Riptide homepage  >  Season 2
Episode 1: "Where the Girls Are" (recap)
​Original airdate: 10/2/1984

The Riptide trio is tasked with protecting three high maintenance women from kidnappers during their California vacation.
Episode 2: "The Orange Grove" (recap)
​Original airdate: 10/16/1984

Nick and Cody are tapped by the FBI to investigate an old army buddy who's suspected of being a drug smuggler.
Episode 3: "Catch of the Day" (recap)
​Original airdate: 10/23/1984

A friend of the Riptide trio reports encountering an injured mermaid in the ocean.
Episode 4: "Mirage" (recap)
​Original airdate: 10/30/1894

Murray falls for the wife of a possessive tycoon, but soon finds himself accused of his murder.
Episode 5: "Beat the Box" (recap)
​Original airdate: 11/13/1984

A TV show producer hires the Riptide Detective Agency to look into an attack on a man who's scheduled to be the show's next guest.
Episode 6: "Father's Day" (recap)
Original airdate: 11/20/1984

A priest puts an abandoned baby in the care of the Riptide Detective Agency, then asks them to locate her terrified mother.
Episode 7: "Be True to Your School" (recap)
​Original airdate: 11/27/1984

Nick is stunned to learn that his best friends from high school are drug runners.
Episode 8: "It's a Vial Sort of Business" (recap)
Original airdate: 12/4/1984

The Riptide trio is hired by a couple to find their missing son...and the case intersects with Dooley's theft of valuable horse sperm.
Episode 9: "Peter Pan Is Alive and Well" (recap)
Original airdate: 12/11/1984

When the trio is hired to find a burglar at a swanky beach club, they realize that something more sinister is afoot...and that an old friend of Cody's, the club's promiscuous lifeguard, could be in mortal danger.
Episode 10: "Catch a Fallen Star" (recap)
Original airdate: 12/18/1984

​The Riptide trio comes to the aid of a legendary film actress when she seeks protection from her ex-lover's vindictive son.
Episode 11: "Gams People Play" (recap)
Original airdate: 1/8/1985

​A beauty pageant contestant turns to the Riptide trio for help when she receives threatening phone calls. 
Episode 12: "Prisoner of War" (recap)
​Original airdate: 1/15/1985

​Nick is perplexed when his girlfriend suffers a mental breakdown and seemingly becomes a prostitute, much to the confusion and ire of two rival pimps.
Episode 13: "Baxter and Boz" (recap)
​Original airdate: 1/22/1985

​Murray befriends a homeless man, who turns out to be the world's richest man whose aviation company is at the heart of a helicopter-related conspiracy.
Episode 14: "Curse of the Mary Aberdeen" (recap) 
​Original airdate: 1/29/1985

Murray is visited upon by a mysterious magician, who hires the Riptide Detective Agency to locate a haunted boat. 
Episode 15: "Boz Busters" (recap) 
​Original airdate: 2/5/1985

Murray is offered a dream job in Silicon Valley, but soon realizes that an old army nemesis is behind an elaborate scam to sell him to the Soviet regime.
Episode 16: "Oil Bets Are Off" (recap) 
​Original airdate: 2/12/1985

​Murray initiates an investigation to uncover the murderer of his geologist friend.
Episode 17: "Girls Night Out" (recap) 
Original airdate: 2/19/1985

​The Riptide trio investigates a string of robberies they soon discover are being committed under duress by two sisters.
Episode 18: "Polly Want an Explanation" (recap) 
​Original airdate: 3/5/1985

The Riptide trio is tasked with taking care of a chatty parrot as they get sucked into a dangerous situation involving a frenemy, his former crime boss, and a scandalous exposé. 
Episode 19: "The Twisted Cross" (recap) 
Original airdate: 3/12/1985

​The mother of an indoctrinated teenage Nazi approaches the Riptide Detective Agency for help getting her son away from his demented, white supremacist father.
Episode 20: "Fuzzy Vision" (recap) 
​Original airdate: 3/19/1985

​Nick, Cody, and Murray stumble into a strange town and get roped into helping the weird locals solve a seven year old murder.
Episode 21: "Arrivederci, Baby" (recap) 
​Original airdate: 5/7/1985

A renowned oceanographer turns to the Riptide trio for help when it appears as though someone is sabotaging his expeditions.
Episode 22: "Harmony and Grits" (recap) ​
​Original airdate: 5/14/1985

​The Riptide trio stumbles into an espionage operation when a client, the wife of one of the culprits, suspects that he's involved in some serious wrongdoing.