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Season 1 – Riptide

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Vietnam veterans-turned-California beach bums Cody and Nick open a detective agency that operates mainly from Cody's boat, the Riptide. They are assisted by another old friend, dweebish electronics genius "Boz" Bozinsky. Their investigations also occasionally involve Nick's aging but reliable helicopter, the Screaming Mimi.
Riptide — Season 1

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Critics Consensus

Cobbled together from the spare parts of just about every other action series preceding it, Riptide isn't fun enough to make up for its complete lack of originality.

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Susan Nicholls Sydney Morning Herald 07/23/2021
The script is big on unlikelihoods and massive on gags and pace. Anything thoughtful has no place here. It's that kind of show. Go to Full Review Jane Sullivan The Age (Australia) 07/23/2021
"Brains are sexy," one hunk consoles his fellow. "In a few years, a good-looking moron like you won't stand a chance." I wish the same could be said of [this] good-looking moronic television series. Go to Full Review Barbara Hooks The Age (Australia) 07/23/2021
It was full of excruciating lines, excruciatingly delivered, continuity clangers and improbable plot devices. Go to Full Review Bill Morrison News & Observer (Raleigh, NC) 07/23/2021
I don't know whether Riptide is a send-up or a satire, but it moved like greased lightning. This is the buddy drama to end all buddy dramas, being NBC's answer to Simon & Simon, The A-Team and La Cage Aux Folks. Go to Full Review Barry Garron Kansas City Star 07/23/2021
Although mildly diverting, it isn't worth yawning all day Monday to stay up to watch. Go to Full Review Read all reviews
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Anne Francis

Mama Jo

Joe Penny

Nick Ryder

Perry King

Cody Allen

Thom Bray

Murray "Boz" Bozinsky

Doug France

Actor

Paul Gleason

Actor

Episodes

Episode 1 Aired Jan 3, 1984 Pilot Detectives Cody Allen (Perry King) and Nick Ryder (Joe Penny) take the case of the survivor of a charter boat explosion. Details Episode 2 Aired Jan 3, 1984 Pilot Nick and Cody's search for the sunken remains of a charter boat puts them in conflict with a mob kingpin (Robert Viharo). Details Episode 3 Aired Jan 10, 1984 Conflict of Interest An old girlfriend (Kristen Meadows) seeks Nick and Cody's help after she overhears her husband plotting to murder a police lieutenant. Details Episode 4 Aired Jan 17, 1984 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. Details Episode 5 Aired Jan 31, 1984 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. Details Episode 6 Aired Feb 7, 1984 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. Details Episode 7 Aired Feb 21, 1984 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. Details Episode 8 Aired Feb 28, 1984 The Hard Case (There Goes the Neighborhood) While trying to rescue an old girlfriend, Nick and Cody become embroiled in a bizarre investigation involving murder and kidnapping. Details Episode 9 Aired Mar 6, 1984 Four Eyes Nick and Cody compete with a pair of private eyes (Stepfanie Kramer, D.D. Howard) to help a woman framed for the murder of her husband. Details Episode 10 Aired Mar 20, 1984 No. 1 With a Bullet A simple assignment to deliver flowers to a dead rock singer's hospitalized partner puts the detectives in the middle of a musical scam. Details Episode 11 Aired Mar 27, 1984 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. Details Episode 12 Aired Apr 3, 1984 Double Your Pleasure Cody agrees to help his most recent girlfriend (Marta Du Bois) find her missing sister, who is supposedly fleeing from organized crime. Details Episode 13 Aired May 15, 1984 Raiders of the Lost Sub Murray's brilliant sister (Geena Davis), Melba, convinces the detectives to help her find a sunken, gold-laden World War II submarine. Details Episode 14 Aired May 22, 1984 Something Fishy Boz and Nick both fall for the same beautiful dolphin-trainer, whose charges become implicated as accomplices in a drug-smuggling scheme. Details

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Riptide — Season 1

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Season Info

Network
NBC
Rating
TV-14
Genre
Crime, Drama
Original Language
English
Release Date
Jan 3, 1984