Episode
Riptide: The Bargain Department
Overview
Nick stubbornly resists the tempting offer of a huge security corporation to purchase the Riptide Detective Agency; guest Robert Walker.
Details
- Series
- Riptide
- Season
- Season 3
- Episode
- Episode 4
- Air date
- 1985-11-05
- Runtime
- 48 min
Episode context
The Bargain Department is Episode 4 in Season 3 of Riptide. It aired on 1985-11-05. The runtime is 48 min.
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Episode 3: Does Not Compute
Quinlan is forced to consult the detectives when a city councilman's credit rating is destroyed by computer wizardry.
Episode 5: Who Really Watches the Sunset?
A reporter hires the detectives when she links the deaths of several scientists to the development of a food additive.
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Episode 2: Thirty-Six Hours Till Dawn
The detectives agree to escort a government witness, a crime boss's estranged wife, from Mexico to the United States.
Episode 6: Still Goin' Steady
Nick and Cody try to defend love-struck Boz from a conniver who wants the computer wizard to design a solar-powered car.
Episode 1: Wipe Out
An anonymous note concerning a 20-year-old surfing accident prompts Cody, Nick and Boz to call on a 1960s singing star.
Episode 7: Robin and Marian
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.
Episode 8: Requiem for Icarus
The detectives cross the border in the Screamin' Mimi to rescue an air-traffic controller from an alien-smuggling ring.
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.
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 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 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 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.