Riptide (1984)
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Bruce Tuthill as Guard / Bob
Episodes 3
The Mean Green Love Machine
rc: Anne Francis (Mama Jo)
Brandy, a friend of Cody and Nick's whose father until recently ran a local restaurant, hires the agency to find her father Lane, who she's lost contact with since he went to Mexico with his new, much younger wife Dee-Dee. As they investigate, it seems increasingly obvious that Lane's new wife is a gold digger, but she in turn is being put under pressure by a dangerous mobster...
Read MoreBeat The Box
rc: Ken Olant (Dooley), Jack Ging (Lt. Quinlan)
Nick and Cody are on the Riptide reluctantly helping Murray test out his new lie-detector game creation, ‘Beat The Box', when a television producer comes aboard to hire them to protect an upcoming guest on the show she works for - an author, who was nearly murdered when he arrived at the airport. But as they arrive to escort the man, he has seemingly gone insane and dives out of his high-rise window. As they investigate, they find themselves uncovering the slaughter of thirty soldiers in Vietnam years before, a case in which Murray's new game plays a key part in solving...
Read MoreDead Men Don't Floss
rc: June Chadwick (Lt. Parisi)
After a female reporter with the hots for Nick writes an article naming him as the primary force behind the Riptide Detective Agency, an argument ensues between himself, Cody, and Murray. Lt. Parisi tries to put a stop to the squabble by taking three help wanted ads from the newspaper and giving one to each of them, with the first to complete their individual task to be declared the best detective of the trio. Murray's case is to find a biker's estranged girlfriend; while Nick must find a short-tempered battleaxe's missing man; and a gifted young boy, unhappy at home, wants Cody to prove that he's adopted.
Meanwhile, the boyfriend of the woman who penned the article behind all the trouble sees Nick as a threat – and sets out to kill him...
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