Riptide · S3 · E16
Playing Hardball
Owners of a minor-league baseball club hire the detectives to identify a suspected drug dealer on the team.
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Owners of a minor-league baseball club hire the detectives to identify a suspected drug dealer on the team.
Season 3
1Wipe Out
48 minOct 1, 1985
An anonymous note concerning a 20-year-old surfing accident prompts Cody, Nick and Boz to call on a 1960s singing star.
2Thirty-Six Hours Till Dawn
48 minOct 22, 1985
The detectives agree to escort a government witness, a crime boss's estranged wife, from Mexico to the United States.
3Does Not Compute
48 minOct 29, 1985
Quinlan is forced to consult the detectives when a city councilman's credit rating is destroyed by computer wizardry.
4The Bargain Department
48 minNov 5, 1985
Nick stubbornly resists the tempting offer of a huge security corporation to purchase the Riptide Detective Agency; guest Robert Walker.
5Who Really Watches the Sunset?
48 minNov 12, 1985
A reporter hires the detectives when she links the deaths of several scientists to the development of a food additive.
6Still Goin' Steady
48 minNov 19, 1985
Nick and Cody try to defend love-struck Boz from a conniver who wants the computer wizard to design a solar-powered car.
7Robin and Marian
48 minDec 3, 1985
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.
8Requiem for Icarus
48 minDec 10, 1985
The detectives cross the border in the Screamin' Mimi to rescue an air-traffic controller from an alien-smuggling ring.
9Home for Christmas
48 minDec 17, 1985
The father of a soldier killed in training claims that the body, which Nick escorted home, does not belong to his son.
10Lady Killer
48 minJan 7, 1986
The detectives try to prevent newly engaged Lt. Parisi from being the next victim of a serial killer who targets brides.
11A Matter of Policy
48 minJan 14, 1986
Nick and the niece of a dead man face losing sizable inheritances when an insurance company claims that the man was murdered.
12The Wedding Bell Blues
48 minJan 21, 1986
Marriage-minded Andrew Carlton III hires Nick, Cody and Boz to find a billboard model, unaware that she is a crime kingpin's daughter.
13The Frankie Kahana Show
48 minFeb 11, 1986
Though Hawaiian crooner Frankie Kahana's act falls short of spectacular, the detectives consider the mob's execution plans extreme.
14Smiles We Left Behind
96 minFeb 25, 1986
Cody and old flame Janet find they have a mutual interest in locating the missing cousin of Cody's client.
15The Pirate and the Princess
48 minMar 7, 1986
A wealthy adventurer hires the detectives to help him recover a legendary 17th-century sunken treasure.
16Playing Hardball
48 minMar 14, 1986Now viewing
Owners of a minor-league baseball club hire the detectives to identify a suspected drug dealer on the team.
17The Play's the Thing
48 minMar 21, 1986
The detectives join a scavenger hunt when Boz's friend Gloria finds a slain professor's notes on an unpublished Shakespearean manuscript.
18Dead Men Don't Floss
48 minApr 4, 1986
After a magazine piece credits Nick as the brains behind the Riptide agency, the trio competes for the title of most valuable detective.
19Chapel of Glass
48 minApr 11, 1986
The detectives have the unhappy task of telling Lt. Parisi that her fiance is involved in government bid tampering.
20If You Can't Beat 'Em, Join 'Em
48 minApr 18, 1986
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.
21Echoes
48 minApr 22, 1986
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.