Riptide

- Season 1

(1984)

Nick Ryder and Cody Allen leave their former employment, taking tourists on trips by helicopter or by boat, and start their own private detective agency. Things aren't going too well at first, but their luck changes when they bring in old Vietnam buddy and computer geek, Murray "Boz" Bozinski. Together they try to clear the only survivor of a ship that got blown up, of smuggling charges and involvement in the crime.

A girl whom Cody dated. runs away from her husband and goes to the boat looking for him. But they're not there but Murray is and he offers to help her. Nick and Cody are taken to her husband by his men who tells them to find her. Later when they meet, she tells them that her husband is planning to kill Quinlan. And when they tell him, he refuses to believe them.

An attempt is made on Natalie Kramer's life and her associates in the so-called brain trust group have already been assasinated. The Riptide agency helps out, but Nick shares a complicated relationship with her as the two totally different personalities were in high school together.

Although happy at first that a client found their way to their detective agency, the boys quickly discover she's an escapee from a mental institution who doesn't remember if she actually committed the crime, stabbing her abusive husband, for which she was put in the asylum for.

A girl from Mama Jo's crew is afraid something has happened to her father and the Riptide Agency goes to Mexico to find out in what kind of trouble he's in.

While in the theater watching Bambi, Murray encounters an upset woman. It turns out she just witnessed the killing of a good friend of hers who turns out to be a diamond smuggler.

A young woman spurned is a suspect in a murder. The guys get on the wrong side of three thugs on a neighboring boat, one of which is a real hard hearted murderer, who is guilty of the crime the young woman is suspected of. It's up to the boys to straighten things out.

The boys are hired by a guy to keep tabs on his wife. It seems he wants to divorce her and he wants ammo to avoid giving her alimony. When the man turns up dead, his wife is the prime suspect. The guys meet a couple of female private eyes who were hired by the wife to see if her husband is hiding any assets. While they're all in agreement that she didn't do it they try to find who did.

When a music star is killed in a car accident and the equally famous passenger gets injured, the Riptide agency gets hired by his fanclub to deliver flowers to his hospital bed. Soon however, they learn that somebody is still intending to put his lights out.

Nick's sponsor child comes from Cambodia to the USA so his sister can undergo heart surgery. But while being stowawayers at a cargo plane, they witness the murder of the son of a major crime Boss.

Cody's flirt with a pretty girl sends the boys on a search for her apparently missing sister. Her ties to a mobster make them a target for him and his goons.

Well educated, but just as goofy, Murray's sister shows up unexpectedly, and persuades the boys to look for a sunken WW2 German submarine.

Boz and Nick both fall for the same beautiful dolphin-trainer, whose charges become implicated as accomplices in a drug-smuggling scheme.