Season 3

21 episodes · 1985

An anonymous note concerning a 20-year-old surfing accident prompts Cody, Nick and Boz to call on a 1960s singing star.

The detectives agree to escort a government witness, a crime boss's estranged wife, from Mexico to the United States.

Quinlan is forced to consult the detectives when a city councilman's credit rating is destroyed by computer wizardry.

Nick stubbornly resists the tempting offer of a huge security corporation to purchase the Riptide Detective Agency; guest Robert Walker.

A reporter hires the detectives when she links the deaths of several scientists to the development of a food additive.

Nick and Cody try to defend love-struck Boz from a conniver who wants the computer wizard to design a solar-powered car.

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.

The detectives cross the border in the Screamin' Mimi to rescue an air-traffic controller from an alien-smuggling ring.

The father of a soldier killed in training claims that the body, which Nick escorted home, does not belong to his son.

The detectives try to prevent newly engaged Lt. Parisi from being the next victim of a serial killer who targets brides.

Nick and the niece of a dead man face losing sizable inheritances when an insurance company claims that the man was murdered.

Marriage-minded Andrew Carlton III hires Nick, Cody and Boz to find a billboard model, unaware that she is a crime kingpin's daughter.

Though Hawaiian crooner Frankie Kahana's act falls short of spectacular, the detectives consider the mob's execution plans extreme.

Cody and old flame Janet find they have a mutual interest in locating the missing cousin of Cody's client.

A wealthy adventurer hires the detectives to help him recover a legendary 17th-century sunken treasure.

Owners of a minor-league baseball club hire the detectives to identify a suspected drug dealer on the team.

The detectives join a scavenger hunt when Boz's friend Gloria finds a slain professor's notes on an unpublished Shakespearean manuscript.

After a magazine piece credits Nick as the brains behind the Riptide agency, the trio competes for the title of most valuable detective.

The detectives have the unhappy task of telling Lt. Parisi that her fiance is involved in government bid tampering.

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.

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.