Summary:
Cody Allen and Nick Ryder are two long-time friends who had served together in Vietnam.
Their Private Investigation business was based on Cody's boat, The Riptide, in King Harbour, Los Angeles.
In the Pilot adventure, faced with their first big case, they decided to recruit another old pal from 'Nam, the bespectacled, rather nerdish but much likeable electronics genius Murray "Boz" Bozinsky.
Along with his hoard of computer equipment, Murray had developed a strange-looking orange robot called "The Roboz", which had numerous unpredictable bugs but occasionally proved useful. Vehicle-wise, beyond the Riptide itself, the trio had an array of transport, including Nick's ancient, pink Sikorsky S-58T helicopter "The Screaming Mimi", which had a huge gaping mouth painted on the front, and had habit of cutting out at just the wrong moment; The Ebb-Tide - Cody's speed boat; Nick's classic Corvette; and most commonly, Cody's GMC Jimmy truck.
Their investigations into cases often found them treading on the toes of Lt. Ted Quinlan, who saw them as nothing but trouble-makers.
As the series progressed, Quinlan's tolerance of the trio gradually grew, albeit very slightly, and they several times co-operated to solve a case.
Quinlan met his demise at the end of the third season episode Requiem For Icarus; afterwhich the trio's new police contact was the much more co-operative Lt. Joanna Parisi, introduced in Lady Killer.
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CREW:
Directed by
Chuck Bowman
Bob Bralver (as Robert Bralver)
Gloryette Clark
Dennis Donnelly
Richard Forrest
Bruce Seth Green
Victor Hsu
Bruce Kessler
Perry King
Michael Lange
Arnold Laven
Guy Magar
Kim Manners
Tony Mordente
Christian I. Nyby II
Michael O'Herlihy
Michael Preece
Robert Sallin
Ron Satlof
Michael Switzer
Michael Vejar
James Whitmore Jr.
Writing credits (in alphabetical order)
James Andronica writer
Steve Beers writer
Paul Bernbaum writer
Tom Blomquist writer (16 episodes)
Stephen J. Cannell creator
Stephen J. Cannell writer
Jim Carlson writer
Alan Cassidy writer
Babs Greyhosky writer
Mark Jones writer
Frank Lupo creator
Frank Lupo writer
Terrence McDonnell writer
Terry D. Nelson writer
Bill Nuss writer
Burt Pearl writer
Steven L. Sears writer
Original Music by
Pete Carpenter
Mike Post
Cinematography by
Ron Vargas
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