Mama Jo and the crew rescue Kimba Hall, a young woman stranded when an explosion damages the boat she was on, killing everyone else aboard. While searching for the real criminals, Cody Allen, Nick Ryder, and Murray "Boz" Bozinski work to prove that Kimba Hall had nothing to do with the Trade Wind's deadly explosion, or the smuggling operation the police believe is connected.

The wife of a well-known mobster, Tina Brazil, heads to Cody and Nick for help when she gets wind that her husband, Ricky Brazil, is plotting a murder.

When an attempt is made on the life of Murray's friend Natalie Kramer (Cindy Pickett) from the high IQ society, the agency investigates, uncovering a larger plot to assassinate a U.S. Senator.

Murray tries to get more involved in the physical elements of the investigations, and while employed by the Pier 56 merchant's association to locate a burglar plaguing the docks, the agency is also hired by an escaped mental patient (Maylo McCaslin) to solve her boyfriend Jack's murder.

The guys are hired by their old friend and dock neighbor Brandy to help her find her father Lane and his wife Dee-Dee Preston (Mary-Margaret Humes), who've gone missing in Cabo San Lucas.

Guest starring: Mary-Margaret Humes, Tamara Stafford, Sam Scarber, Robert Sampson, Ismael 'East' Carlo, Bruce Tuthill

After witnessing the murder of her friend Arthur Truman, Connie (Kathryn Witt), a flight attendant, encounters Murray in a movie theater and the agency helps her seek out Arthur's archaeologist brother Walter (John Anderson) in Peru, uncovering a diamond smuggling operation in the process.

Guest starring: Kathryn Witt, Peter Hobbs, Pepper Martin, Robin Evans, K.C. Winkler, Maurice Sneed, Jason Edwards

When the agency investigates a suspicious boat that appears in a slip at King Harbor, they find that it's connected to the murder of a doctor, which the police suspect Sherry Meyers (Kelly Preston) of committing.

Guest starring: Kelly Preston, All My Children star Paul Gleason, Jeffrey Josephson, Joshua Bryant, Robin Evans, K.C. Winkler, Karl Johnson, Lew Saunders, Lewis Arquette, James Edgcomb, Ken Lerner, Xander Berkeley

Special guest star: William Smith

Also starring: Marsha Warfield

The crew reluctantly take a job from the shady Myron Bell (Danny Wells), a well-known local attorney, and end up mixed up first in the client's divorce from his wife Joan (Joan Freeman), and then in his murder.

Two singers of a hit music group are involved in a devastating car crash that leaves one dead and one in serious condition at the hospital. The guys are hired by the singers' fanclub to deliver flowers to his bedside, only to find that it may not have been an accident after all.

Guest starring: Brant von Hoffman, Kelbe Nugent, Murphy Cross, Reid Smith, Peter Leeds, Ted Sorel, Mary Betten, Brian Libby, Jack Shea, G. Rockett Phillips, Richard Kuhlman

Special guest star: Edward Winter

A member a gun smuggling racket goes to drastic measures to get rid of the head of the racket and the witnesses to his crime--Nick's sponsor child from Cambodia and his critically ill sister.

Guest starring: Doug France, Frank Annese, Marshall Teague, Dean Wein, John Louie, David Graf, Julia Kono, Bobby Kelton, Tony Ciccone, James Emery

Special guest star: Joseph Sirola

Murray drags a reluctant Cody and Nick to a party where Cody meets an attractive young woman who asks for their help finding her missing sister. But there may be more to Sheila than meets the eye.

Guest starring: Marta DuBois, Ron Karabatsos, Eric Server, Deborah Richter, Robert Rothwell, Sandra de Bruin, Ellen Crawford

As the agency are experiencing a slow business week, Murray's sister, Melba (Geena Davis), arrives in town for help in proving that Hitler had a port on the west coast of the U.S. during World War II.

Guest starring: Geena Davis, Stefan Gierasch, Lance Henriksen

Special guest star: Steven Keats

Boz and Nick both fall for the same beautiful dolphin trainer, whose charges become implicated as accomplices in a drug-smuggling scheme.

The Riptide trio are hired to protect three high maintenance college students (Daphne Ashbrook, Juliana Donald, Claudia Christian) from kidnappers while they visit Los Angeles.

Guest starring: Daphne Ashbrook, Alex McArthur, Claudia Christian, Juliana Donald, George Clooney, Don Stark, Joe W. Davis, Charlie Dell

Special guest star: Ken Olandt

Brigadier General "Pitbull" Johnson (Gerald S. O'Loughlin), who the Riptide crew knew in Vietnam, is suspected of dealing cocaine, and an FBI agent (Kurtwood Smith) pressures Cody, Nick, and Boz into luring him out.

Guest starring: Gerald S. O'Loughlin, Kurtwood Smith, Stanley Kamel, Al White, Michael Swan, Arnold F. Turner

A woman appears out of the water to warn Arnie, a mentally challenged fisherman and friend of the Riptide crew, that a ship is in danger. But the authorities refuse to believe him when he describes her as a mermaid, so Nick, Cody, Boz, and a reporter work to prove Arnie's telling the truth.

Guest starring: Patrick Collins, Burr DeBenning, Christopher Stone, Lana Clarkson, Ken Foree, David Clover, Gene Ross, Randy Hamilton

While teaching science at the local college, Murray befriends a beautiful student who asks his help to get away from her abusive husband. He agrees to help her, but the trio soon find out that she is not as innocent as she appears to be.

Guest starring: Wendy Kilbourne, Randolph Powell, Jacqueline Scott, Adam Ageli

Murray's lie detector causes aggravation for Nick and Cody, but also proves quite helpful when a writer they are hired to protect jumps from a high building and the journalist who hired them (Ray Wise) seemingly suffers a mental break down on air.

Guest starring: Ray Wise, Joan Sweeney, William Traylor, Sal Viscuso, Jack Hogan, Geof Prysirr, Larry Gilman, Robert O'Reilly

A troubled woman abandons her baby at a church and the priest (Robert Logan Jr.) asks the crew to look into what trouble the woman has gotten herself into. But things are more difficult than usual when the priest also leaves the baby with the boys.

Guest starring: Robert Logan Jr., Sherry Hursey, Charles Cooper, Elaines Wilkes, Liz Sheridan, Steve Allie Collura, Dennis Haysbert

Special guest star: Paul Gleason

Nick, Cody, and Murray go to Nick's 15-year high school reunion, which turns into a job when someone shoots up the event.

Guest starring: Arthur Rosenberg, Sam J. Jones, Gerard Prendergast, Bart Braverman, Howard George, Barbara Whinnery, Charles Guardino, David Kagen, Mark Harrison

Mr. and Mrs. Collins (Jason Bernard and Kim Hamilton) hire Nick & Cody to find their son (Clarence Gilyard), who dropped out of college to try to make it in Hollywood, and who is apparently tangled up in some criminal scheme.

Guest starring: Alan Fudge, Joe Dorsey, Clarence Gilyard, Jason Bernard, Kim Hamilton, Vince McKewin, Fil Formicola, Ken Wright, James Andronica

A manager of a beach club hires the trio to investigate the robbery of valuables on the beach, but the boys end up protecting Cody's ex-roommate, a playboy lifeguard, instead.

Guest starring: Jonathan Perpich, Peter Brown, Tom McGreevy, Lynn Herring, Beth Miller, Robyn Peterson and Steve Tannen

Special guest star: Fionnula Flanagan

The trio save an elderly woman (Edith Fellows) from a pair of thugs and soon find out that she was once a famous movie star who disappeared over fifty years earlier.

The Riptide agency is hired to protect a beauty contestant whose life is being threatened. Just when they find out the identity of the stalker, the man is found dead and the woman is the prime suspect in his murder case. Game show hosts Gene Rayburn and Bob Eubanks appear as themselves.

Guest starring: Rod McCary, Kelly Ann Conn, Bridget Hanley, Dennis A. Pratt, Mindi Iden

Special guest star: Bill Macy

After witnessing a fatal hit and run, Nick's new girlfriend disappears into the red-light district. While searching for her, they inadvertently become involved in a turf war between two local pimps.

Guest starring: Nancy Stafford, Ji-Tu Cumbuka, Anthony James, Eve Roberts, Bill Quinn, Yung Sun

Murray meets a famous inventor (John Astin) who's down on his luck, leading him to hire the boys to expose a dangerous design flaw in helicopters that are being sold to the US military.

Guest starring: James Sloyan, Kenneth Gray, Clara Perryman, Ann Turkel, James Hornbeck, Lou Felder, Teri Ann Linn, Phil Hoover

Special guest star: John Astin

A man who was supposed to have died 18 years before (Richard Lynch) suddenly appears to hire the agency to find the Mary Aberdeen, a cursed boat he wants to find "before it kills again."

Guest starring: Bert Freed, Jack Riley, John Sanderford, Jeff Osterhage and Wolfe Perry

Special guest star: Richard Lynch

After leaving the agency for his dream job at a robotics company, Murray goes missing, and Nick & Cody have to find him before he disappears forever.

Guest starring: Mitchell Ryan, Rosalind Cash, Catherine Shirriff, Joseph Chapman, Robert Symonds, Will MacMillan, Gela Nash-Taylor, Clare Torao, Tom Williams, Sue Giosa

When she believes the police aren't properly investigating her father's murder, oil heiress Juliet Hafner (Joanna Johnson) hires the trio to look into the case.

Two suburban women (Belinda Montgomery, Lenore Kasdorf) are forced by a loan shark (James Cromwell) to become burglars to pay him back. After they are caught hitting the Riptide, the boys decide to help them to get out of their predicament.

Guest starring: Lenore Kasdorf, James Cromwell, Jeannetta Arnette, Mark Schneider, Milt Oberman

The Riptide agency, a wannabe-FBI agent, trouble prone con man Mack McPherson (William Russ) and his parrot all get in trouble with organized crime after McPherson writes an incriminating article about a mobster.

Guest starring: Robin Riker, William Russ, John McLiam, Richard McGonagle, Gary Wood, Phil Rubenstein, Bob Larkin

The trio are hired by a woman whose ex-husband won't let her see her son. They soon learn that the father is part of a neo-Nazi group led by a man named Kefler (Jere Burns).

Guest starring: Robert Gray, Katherine Cannon, Jere Burns, Randy Norton, Millie Slavin, Cameron Thor, Christopher Michael Moore, Corkey Ford

Also starring: Ken Olandt

The trio head out to sea for a vacation of relaxing and fishing, but their plans are stopped when the armature blows on the boat and they're trapped in a weird little town where a woman who can see into the future (Jan Sterling) is suspected of murder and everybody thinks Cody is the infamous and very unpopular Jake Tyler.

Oceanographer Angelo Guirilini (Cesar Romero) hires the trio to investigate when his son is badly wounded under mysterious circumstances during a diving expedition.

Guest starring: Dana Elcar, Ava Lazar, Russell Todd, Glenn Morrissey, Steve Lattanzi, Bradford English, Nick Cavanaugh, James Andronica

Special guest star: Cesar Romero

Murray drags a reluctant Nick and Cody to a "harmonising" seminar. But the topic of the seminar takes a back seat to a large brawl and a concerned wife who's afraid her husband is having an affair.

Hard up for work, the Riptide crew reluctantly take on the case sent to them anonymously, asking them to investigate the death of a surfer that took place in 1964.

The Riptide Agency are hired to escort Renee Sinclair, the estranged wife of underworld crime-lord Sonny Sinclair, to his trial where she is to be the star prosecution witness. During the extraction, Nick and Renee are trapped in a canyon together, and Cody and Murray have to find them before Sinclair's people do.

After a liberal city councilman (Larry Linville) accuses the police department of framing him for corruption, Lt. Quinlan hires the crew to prove the police department innocent. Murray's investigation angers the hacker behind the attacks, and he turns his eyes to the Riptide.

After their insurance is mysteriously cancelled, Cody and Murray opt to sell the agency to a corporate investigation firm led by Oscar Davenport (Robert Walker, Jr.), whose offer also includes jobs for the three of them, over Nick's strenuous objections. Their new jobs turn out to be anything but ideal, and Cody, Nick, and Murray team up to find out what was really behind the failure of the Riptide Detective Agency.

A reporter with only six months to live (Darleen Carr) hires the trio to find out who infected her with the disease that will kill her.

Guest starring: Darleen Carr, Harvey Vernon, Paul Willson, Jim Bentley and Nancy Linari

Murray's lucrative winning streak on a popular quiz show is in jeopardy when his high-school crush arrives asking for his help, and Nick and Cody soon find out she's not all she appears to be.

When the Riptide is burgled and the Roboz stolen, the guys track the goods down to a man who considers himself a modern day Robin Hood, stealing from the rich to give to the poor--and the "rich" unfortunately includes a dangerous counterfeiting gang who are desperate to get their property back.

Nick meets up with an old friend who he hasn't seen or heard from in five years, after his daughter becomes concerned about her father's erratic behavior. Saving him becomes all more important for the team once they find out he is both suicidal and deeply involved in a smuggling operation.

Guest starring: Clu Gulager, Lisa Denton, Carl Franklin, Carl Strano, Gus Corrado

Rather than celebrate a holiday he hates, Nick spends his Christmas escorting the remains of a young soldier home to his father (James Whitmore), only to find out upon arrival that the body doesn't belong to the man's deceased son.

Guest starring: Ken Swofford, J.D. Hinton, Fred Grossinger, Hugh Gillin, Anne Bellamy, Stephen Liska

A serial killer is targeting engaged women in King Harbor, and the crew meet their new police contact: a gorgeous blonde named Lt. Joanne Parisi.

While Murray is off at a computer conference, Nick learns he's inherited a large sum of money from the recently deceased father of a soldier he tried to save in Vietnam, but according to the dead man's niece (Kim Darby), his death was no accident.

Cody, Nick and Murray are hired by an eccentric millionaire (Richard Lewis) to find a model that he wants to marry--only to be caught up in a heated mob war between the model's family and the family of her jilted fiancé.

When their night out is interrupted by someone attempting to kill their host, a Hawaiian lounge singer, the crew end up embroiled in the case.

When Danny Lee doesn't arrive from San Francisco for his cousin's wedding, the crew offer to go to San Francisco to pick him up. Soon they realize that more than Lucy's wedding is at stake--the case involves attempted murder, espionage, nuclear secrets, and more dangerously, Cody's ex-fiancée, Janet (Jane Badler).

The Riptide crew reunites with Angelo and Giovanna Guirilini (Cesar Romero and Ava Lazar from Season 2's Arrivederci, Baby) as they try to find the lost treasure of pirate captain William Tyson.

Cody and Nick go undercover as baseball players at the behest of the minor league team's owner to investigate a drug problem in the locker room.

Guest starring: Nicholas Guest, Ray Abruzzo, Linda Thompson, Barbi Benton, Robert Hanley

A string of murders is connected to the search for an undiscovered Shakespeare manuscript and the Riptide agency unhappily teams up with Gloria Burghoff (last seen in Season 2's Polly Want An Explanation) to find it.

When an article in a magazine praises Nick for "his" agency, the guys each take a separate case to see which of the three is really the best detective. Meanwhile, the author's jealous boyfriend (Christopher McDonald) is on the hunt for Nick.

As Lt. Parisi's wedding nears, a case the guys are working on strikes close to home, and may call into question everything she knows, as her fiancé is implicated in a deadly scheme.

The Riptide Detective Agency is hired to consult for a new detective television show. The lead actors (H. Richard Greene, Annette McCarthy) follow the guys around over a week while investigating an actual case.

While investigating a case, Cody is shot and Murray is forced to kill the shooter. While Cody recovers in the hospital, Nick and Murray hunt for the truth.

Guest starring: Lonny Chapman, Elinor Donahue, James Lemp, Linda Hoy, Chuck Lindsly, Hap Lawrence, Jon Locke, Walker Edmiston