Episode
Riptide: If You Can't Beat 'Em, Join 'Em
Overview
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.
Details
- Series
- Riptide
- Season
- Season 3
- Episode
- Episode 20
- Air date
- 1986-04-18
- Runtime
- 48 min
Episode context
If You Can't Beat 'Em, Join 'Em is Episode 20 in Season 3 of Riptide. It aired on 1986-04-18. The runtime is 48 min.
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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.
More episodes from this season
Episode 18: Dead Men Don't Floss
After a magazine piece credits Nick as the brains behind the Riptide agency, the trio competes for the title of most valuable detective.
Episode 17: The Play's the Thing
The detectives join a scavenger hunt when Boz's friend Gloria finds a slain professor's notes on an unpublished Shakespearean manuscript.
Episode 16: Playing Hardball
Owners of a minor-league baseball club hire the detectives to identify a suspected drug dealer on the team.
Episode 15: The Pirate and the Princess
A wealthy adventurer hires the detectives to help him recover a legendary 17th-century sunken treasure.
Episode 14: Smiles We Left Behind
Cody and old flame Janet find they have a mutual interest in locating the missing cousin of Cody's client.
Episode 13: The Frankie Kahana Show
Though Hawaiian crooner Frankie Kahana's act falls short of spectacular, the detectives consider the mob's execution plans extreme.
Episode 12: The Wedding Bell Blues
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 11: A Matter of Policy
Nick and the niece of a dead man face losing sizable inheritances when an insurance company claims that the man was murdered.
Episode 10: Lady Killer
The detectives try to prevent newly engaged Lt. Parisi from being the next victim of a serial killer who targets brides.
Episode 9: Home for Christmas
The father of a soldier killed in training claims that the body, which Nick escorted home, does not belong to his son.