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Riptide Season Two

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...and was so much fun to watch these guys whom I had the pleasure of glimpsing in a NYC Thanksgiving Day Parade in the '80s. Also, gotta love the always brilliant Stephen J. Cannell. Thanks for supplying this series!!!

I watched this show loyally when I was a toddler. Ok, I was roughly 13 years old. But given the fact that the radio was playing Flock Of Seagulls, Culture Club & The Human League non-stop...this show gave me hope that I could seclude myself on a boat someday with no radio. Of course, the yacht filled with a dozen lovely ladies next door certainly didn't hurt my adolescent dream.

Anyway, this show & this season 2 collection is still just simple, enjoyable fun. It's great. The basis of the show is 3 guys who can't afford groceries but somehow manage to maintain a HELICOPTER, A Classic 1958[?] Corvette, a top-notch Speedboat (ooo-The Ebbtide!) & an actual YACHT that they live on! And each case only generates a couple hundred bucks if they don't decide to do it pro-bono as a favor to a friend. That's the 80's and that explains a lot about all of us from the 80's. Not to mention the fact that 3 guys living on a yacht could explain years of damage to my Psyche.

In Season 2 though especially were some EXCELLENT episodes that you can watch over n over! "Beat The Box" is great...Murray the computer NERD invents a box that tells on you when you lie. What better basis for a show of three guy detectives. After all, guys never lie. I've seen some reviews here mention the change and/or loss of music in the episode "Be true to your school" but that's because these are CANADIAN released DVD sets. Canada has never heard the Beach Boys or the Beatles so that's why the music is different! Just kidding Canada, I really like you guys. Canada more than likely had a different audience than the U.S. for this show in the 80's.

All in all & kidding aside, every episode from this season is actually fantastic but several stand out above the rest by far such as: "Arrivederci, Baby" featuring Cesar Romero. AWESOME! "Prisoner Of War" shows that Nick actually does date and it's a woman and she goes mental & turns to prostitution but Nick is still nice enough to go find her & save her...and then stick her in a mental hospital. Nice guy. I knew I wanted to be just like him. Then there's "Baxter And Boz" which features the guy who used to play The dad on the ADDAMS FAMILY!!! Can it get any better than this?? And in this episode Mr. Addams (Bax) is this ginormous quazillionnaire who gives away state-of-the-art helicopters and who gets one? You guessed it---our boys. I won't mention that they crash it in 18 seconds. It's OK though...they get another one. It's a cool episode with cheesy cars from the 80's. Finally, there is quite possibly the BEST EPISODE EVER...[drum roll]......"CURSE OF THE MARY ABERDEEN"!!!!!!! Totally awesome, Rad, [insert other 80's catch phrase here] episode! This episode kicks! Scary...eerily strange episode that leads to the guys finding out their yacht is a haunted boat...that holds the secret to a hidden treasure! Of course they are assisted by their client...the mysterious magician &...DOOLY!!! Yup, Season 2 shows the appearance of the local hip-kid named "Ken Dooly" played by Ken Olandt. Don't ask me why I remember his name. It's just strange. And a bit frightening. In the end the treasure is Harry Houdini's secret diaries (also pretty cool). This set is worth it for this episode alone.

Definately one of the better 80's TV shows. Al 3 seasons are excellent & the quality of the DVD's are very good. Enjoy Riptide Season 2!

Is anyone else a little disappointed in some of the episodes? My main complaint is about "BE TRUE TO YOUR SCHOOL". In the original TV episode there were some great songs used at the high school reunion (Wild Thing, Day Tripper). This recording has some lame ballad playing.
When Cody is consoling Nick about his buddies being drug dealers the original had Yesterday playing in the background. It was so corny you had to love it. In this factory release there is total silence. What a let-down.
But the most shocking was that nowhere in the episode did they use the title song "Be True to Your School", whereas in the original it was used twice.....just before the drug runner's boat blew up on the water, and most importantly at the end where Nick re-visits the football stadium.
I for one am keeping my old recording handy just so I never forget how it is really supposed to be.

Great TV series DVD -- these old shows are way better than the ones on TV today! Good fun anyone can watch.

Really enjoyed this show back in 1980's so snatched it up when I realized it was available on DVD. If you liked Season One, you'll like Season 2 which is more of the same. Really enjoy Computer Geek "Boz" and the portrayals of early computers and IBM style PC. In one episode, large conglomerate security company buys out finacially strapped RipTide Detective Agency, so the 3 have to go to work for them. Boz is envious to get his hands on "state of the art" large RAND 1660 Computer he saw occupying most of 13th Floor of security company on initial visit! On his first workday in regular computer section, everyone denies existance of 13th floor! In this episode, the "60" of the RAND 1660 stood for 60 Giga-bytes! Typical home computer now has a lot more than that and sits on desktop! Nice remembering the nostalgic references in this 1980's show!

THIS IS A GREAT DVD. THIS IS ONE YOU CAN WATCH WITH YOUR FAMILY AND NOT BE EMBARSSED AT ANYTHING IN IT. I PURCHASED ALL 3 SEASONS AND ENJOYED IT VERY MUCH. IT IS VERY FUNNY AND INTERTANING. GIVE IT A TRY!!!!!!!

I have been looking for this show on DVD for a long time and very glad when I found it on the website.

Just got it in today, and sat down to watch a few of the Second Season.
We laughed and enjoyed seeing our old friends again. I am so happy with the new release!!!! If you enjoyed Riptide, the show just kept getting better each season. LK

Your memories are always better than the second time around. I thought I like this series when it was on T.V.

It's just so dated and not in a good way, but in a very BAD way. It just all noise and the goofy nerd whose just awful with his inventions and his demeanor.