Episodes
Episode 1
Wipe Out
October 1, 198548m7.0
An anonymous note concerning a 20-year-old surfing accident prompts Cody, Nick and Boz to call on a 1960s singing star.
Episode 2
Thirty-Six Hours Till Dawn
October 22, 198548m7.0
The detectives agree to escort a government witness, a crime boss's estranged wife, from Mexico to the United States.
Episode 3
Does Not Compute
October 29, 198548m9.0
Quinlan is forced to consult the detectives when a city councilman's credit rating is destroyed by computer wizardry.
Episode 4
The Bargain Department
November 5, 198548m8.0
Nick stubbornly resists the tempting offer of a huge security corporation to purchase the Riptide Detective Agency; guest Robert Walker.
Episode 5
Who Really Watches the Sunset?
November 12, 198548m8.0
A reporter hires the detectives when she links the deaths of several scientists to the development of a food additive.
Episode 6
Still Goin' Steady
November 19, 198548m8.0
Nick and Cody try to defend love-struck Boz from a conniver who wants the computer wizard to design a solar-powered car.
Episode 7
Robin and Marian
December 3, 198548m0.0
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.
Episode 8
Requiem for Icarus
December 10, 198548m5.0
The detectives cross the border in the Screamin' Mimi to rescue an air-traffic controller from an alien-smuggling ring.
Episode 9
Home for Christmas
December 17, 198548m0.0
The father of a soldier killed in training claims that the body, which Nick escorted home, does not belong to his son.
Episode 10
Lady Killer
January 7, 198648m0.0
The detectives try to prevent newly engaged Lt. Parisi from being the next victim of a serial killer who targets brides.
Episode 11
A Matter of Policy
January 14, 198648m0.0
Nick and the niece of a dead man face losing sizable inheritances when an insurance company claims that the man was murdered.
Episode 12
The Wedding Bell Blues
January 21, 198648m0.0
Marriage-minded Andrew Carlton III hires Nick, Cody and Boz to find a billboard model, unaware that she is a crime kingpin's daughter.
Episode 13
The Frankie Kahana Show
February 11, 198648m0.0
Though Hawaiian crooner Frankie Kahana's act falls short of spectacular, the detectives consider the mob's execution plans extreme.
Episode 14
Smiles We Left Behind
February 25, 19861h 36m0.0
Cody and old flame Janet find they have a mutual interest in locating the missing cousin of Cody's client.
Episode 15
The Pirate and the Princess
March 7, 198648m0.0
A wealthy adventurer hires the detectives to help him recover a legendary 17th-century sunken treasure.
Episode 16
Playing Hardball
March 14, 198648m0.0
Owners of a minor-league baseball club hire the detectives to identify a suspected drug dealer on the team.
Episode 17
The Play's the Thing
March 21, 198648m0.0
The detectives join a scavenger hunt when Boz's friend Gloria finds a slain professor's notes on an unpublished Shakespearean manuscript.
Episode 18
Dead Men Don't Floss
April 4, 198648m2.0
After a magazine piece credits Nick as the brains behind the Riptide agency, the trio competes for the title of most valuable detective.
Episode 19
Chapel of Glass
April 11, 198648m0.0
The detectives have the unhappy task of telling Lt. Parisi that her fiance is involved in government bid tampering.
Episode 20
If You Can't Beat 'Em, Join 'Em
April 18, 198648m0.0
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.
Episode 21
Echoes
April 22, 198648m0.0
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.