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 own helicopter, and the third's technical ability.
Episodes
1. Pilot
Nick and Cody's search for the sunken remains of a charter boat puts them in conflict with a mob kingpin.
2. Conflict of Interest
An old girlfriend seeks Nick and Cody's help after she overhears her husband plotting to murder a police lieutenant.
3. Somebody's Killing the Great Geeks of America
Nick and Cody work to rescue a lovely executive analyst held captive by an assassin responsible for the deaths of two of her co-workers.
4. Hatchet Job
An escaped mental patient asks Cody, Nick and Boz to find her boyfriend's murderer -- who just might be the unbalanced client herself.
5. The Mean Green Love Machine
A friend of Nick and Cody's hires the detectives to help find her father, who vanished in Mexico while looking for his kidnapped wife.
6. Diamonds Are for Never
Nick and Cody race to rescue Boz and their client, a diabetic stewardess, held hostage by a killer desperate to retrieve stolen diamonds.
7. The Hardcase
While trying to rescue an old girlfriend, Nick and Cody become embroiled in a bizarre investigation involving murder and kidnapping.
8. Four-Eyes
Nick and Cody compete with a pair of private eyes to help a woman framed for the murder of her husband.
9. #1 with a Bullet
A simple assignment to deliver flowers to a dead rock singer's hospitalised partner puts the detectives in the middle of a musical scam.
10. Long Distance Daddy
Two Cambodian orphans stow away on a jet to visit their American sponsor, Nick, only to be marked for death after witnessing a murder.
11. Double Your Pleasure
Cody agrees to help his most recent girlfriend find her missing sister, who is supposedly fleeing from organised crime.
12. Raiders of the Lost Sub
Murray's brilliant sister, Melba, convinces the detectives to help her find a sunken, gold-laden World War II submarine.
13. Something Fishy
Boz and Nick both fall for the same beautiful dolphin-trainer, whose charges become implicated as accomplices in a drug-smuggling scheme.
Cast & Crew
Perry King
Cody Allen
Joe Penny
Nick Ryder
Thom Bray
Murray Bozinsky
Story & Production Details
Reviews & Thoughts
NO ONE REMEMBERS THIS!!!!! When I was little, I liked this more than the A-Team, and that is high raise because the A-Team had Mr. T and I was living in the 80s at the right age to think Mr. T was the greatest thing since sliced bread. But I liked Riptide more, and Dad agreed with me....which was weird because at that age...well...I was stuck defending Mr. T and the A-Team against a jaded vet. But there is a reason for this, and after re-watching it as an adult, I can push it off to one of the shows. Cody (Perry King) gets ahold of a pacifistic self-help book and takes to it like a 1960s New Age freak. The plot of the show is the usual detective show tropes...but the episode is really centered around the frustration this new age self-help book causes everyone involved with Cody, and, of course, ends in a rejection. But it is done brilliantly, so much so that it doesn't stand out as a paint-by-numbers detective show, it has actual characters not just gimmicks. The stories are fresh and entertaining. And, watching them again in the 2010s after the end of the 2nd Golden Age of Television...it still stands up as a great show.
