Trio mit vier Fäusten
SERIE • 1 Staffel •
Action & Abenteuer,
Drama,
Krimi,
Mystery & Thriller • Vereinigte Staaten von Amerika • 1984
In der US-Serie „Trio mit vier Fäusten“ geht es um einen schneller Wagen, eine gemütliche Jacht, und ein Uralt-Helicopter bilden die Ausrüstung der beiden schlagkräftigen Privatdetektive Cody und Nick, sowie Computer-As Murray mit seinem orangefarbenem Roboter „Roboz“.
Originaltitel
Riptide
Produktionsland
Vereinigte Staaten von Amerika
Originalsprache
Englisch
Regie
Jason Herbison
FSK
12
Untertitel
Nein
Besetzung
Jo Joyner, Asher Yasbincek, David Berry, Peter O'Brien, Ben Turland, Pia Miranda, Alexandra Fowler, Yazeed Daher, Benjamin Samaddar, Sonya Suares
Episoden-Guide
1. Staffel 1 (14 Episoden)
01
Die Drei von der Riptide (1)
rc: Anne Francis (Mama Jo), Jack Ging (Lt. Quinlan), Gianni Russo (Straightaway)
Mama Jo and her crew rescue a young woman, Kimba Hall, stranded after the boat she was staying on, the Trade Wind, was destroyed by a huge explosion, killing everyone on-board it. Mama Jo convinces her neighbors at Pier 56 Harbour, struggling Private Investigators Cody Allen and Nick Rider, to look into the case and prove that Kimba was not responsible for the explosion. Faced with their first big case, Cody and Nick, who's business is based on Cody's boat, the Riptide, decide to recruit an old friend from Vietnam, electronics genius Murray ""The Boz"" Bozinsky. With the additional aid of Boz and his experimental robot, ""The Roboz"", the PIs set about finding the real culprit for the destruction of the Trade Wind. Soon, they find themselves unwittingly stepping on the toes of local mobster Mike Santana, not to mention several other unidentified assailants, who all have their own particular interests in the Tr
02
Die Drei von der Riptide (2)
rc: Anne Francis (Mama Jo), Jack Ging (Lt. Quinlan), Gianni Russo (Straightaway)
The conclusion of the feature-length Pilot. Cody, Nick and Boz continue to try and prove Kimba Hall's innocence over the destruction of the Trade Wind as they aim to find the real culprits. But things really heat up as the people responsible go to extreme measures to try and stop them snooping around and unravelling the truth behind the events...
03
Gangstern auf der Spur
rc: Jack Ging (Lt. Quinlan), Gianni Russo (Straightaway)
In the midst of an already rocky marriage, Tina Brazil, after hearing her mobster husband Ricky Brazil planning a murder, runs away and heads to her old friends Cody and Nick for help. Cody and Nick aren't around when she arrives, but Murray greets her and assures her they'll help; unfortunately, at the same time, Cody and Nick have been accosted by Ricky's henchmen, and ""given"" the job of finding his missing wife. With Ricky Brazil not being the sort of man you can say no to, the PIs have even more trouble when the target of the planned murder turns out to be none other than Lt. Quinlan. Quinlan doesn't listen to the PIs at the best of times, and after Cody gets into a brawl with him when trying to convince him of the murder plot, the Private Detectives find themselves the prime suspects when Quinlan is kidnapped, and end up wanted by both the Police and Ricky's men...
04
Das Attentat
rc: Jack Ging (Lt. Quinlan)
One of the members of 'The High Q Club', an intellectual club of which Murray is a member, hires the Pier 56 Detective Agency after one of her co-workers at the scientific organisation where she works is killed, and she herself is having attempts made on her life. The case isn't exactly helped by the fact that the woman hiring them has a dislike for Nick after he cheated copying her in a geometry test 15 years before!...
05
Unter Mordverdacht
rc: Anne Francis (Mama Jo), Jack Ging (Lt. Quinlan)
Things aren't going too well for the detectives when the thief on Pier 56 that they're trying to catch makes off with all their surveillance equipment! While out for an early morning jog to try and get fit (after he was unable to stop the thief), Murray meets a young woman who is looking to hire the Riptide Detective Agency. She wants them to find her boyfriend's killer – and she's the prime suspect! She was found at the murder scene, standing over the body with a knife, but left in deep shock as a result of the murder, she lost memory of the events. As a result of being unable to prove her innocence, was sent to a hospital for the criminally insane. But as the trio try and determine who the real killer was, their belief in her story is tested when they learn that instead of having been released from the mental hospital, the girl has actually escaped from it!...
06
Der Lockvogel
rc: Anne Francis (Mama Jo)
Brandy, a friend of Cody and Nick's whose father until recently ran a local restaurant, hires the agency to find her father Lane, who she's lost contact with since he went to Mexico with his new, much younger wife Dee-Dee. As they investigate, it seems increasingly obvious that Lane's new wife is a gold digger, but she in turn is being put under pressure by a dangerous mobster...
07
Verraten und verkauft
rc: Anne Francis (Mama Jo)
An air stewardess who delivers seemingly innocent packages from her friend Artie to his brother, witnesses Artie's murder, and is danger herself when the killer sees her and chases. With Mama Jo away visiting a sick aunt, Nick and Cody are taking full advantage of the situation, with two of the girl's from the Barefoot Contessa coming over to the Riptide, and send Murray away to the cinema to get him out of the way. There he meets the hunted woman, hiding out in fear from the killer. Cody and Nick's intended romantic evening with the girls is reluctantly put on hold as the detectives investigate, and they find themselves uncovering diamond smuggling arranged by an infamous criminal...
08
Gefährliche Nachbarn
rc: Marsha Warfield (Max), Jack Ging (Lt. Quinlan)
The guys intervene when they spot three rowdy thugs on-board an unfamiliar boat, The Endeavour, harassing the girls on-board the Barefoot Contessa, only to later have the leader jump Murray and ransack the Riptide in revenge. They trace the boat as belonging to one Robert Atkins, but upon arrival at his house find it covered with police after he was found murdered. They unwittingly pick up a stowaway from the scene – the man's jilted former girlfriend who is now the price suspect in the murder. Believing the girl is innocent (thanks to Murray's lie detecting mood ring), the guys suspect that the thugs on board Atkins's boat were involved with the murder...
09
Der tote Auftraggeber
rc: Jack Ging (Lt. Quinlan)
At great reluctance, Cody, Nick and Murray accept a job from shady attorney Myron Bell that turns out to be working for an arrogant, rude character named Roger Ramsdale, who wants them to get evidence that his wife Joan is supposedly cheating on him, to help him win a divorce law suit. But as the trio begrudgingly take on their assignment, they find that far from being the harlot Roger claims, the woman is in fact an upstanding, thoroughly nice lady, and what's more, she herself has hired two female private investigators to prove that Roger is actually the one cheating on her. But when Roger is murdered, Joan is arrested as the prime suspect, and the male and female private investigators are forced to not only join forces to try and find the real killer, but more demandingly to simply manage to get along together...
10
Mord in schwarzen Rillen
rc: Marsha Warfield (Max), Jack Ging (Lt. Quinlan)
After falling out with their record company, two singers of a long-running hit group loose control of their car, killing one and leaving the other in hospital. The location of the surviving singer, Dell Turner, is being kept very under wraps, and Murray agrees on behalf of the Riptide Detective Agency to take on the task of finding which hospital he's in and delivering flowers sent by the group's fan club. But the seemingly straight-forward assignment leads the guys, along with a Nurse they unintentionally endanger after duping her into helping them, to uncovering a case involving the executive of the record company trying to bump Turner off in order to make huge sales of a memorial album...
2. Staffel 2 (22 Episoden)
01
Unheilvoller Besuch
Die Tochter eines Millionärs soll während ihres Urlaubs von dem Trio beschützt werden. Doch Entführer sind ihnen immer hinterher und der Urlaub entwickelt sich zu einem Abenteuer. Die drei Detektive von der "Riptide" müssen kurz darauf feststellen, dass Entführer, die merkwürdigerweise ständig alles über die Mädchen und ihren Aufenthaltsort wissen, den dreien auf der Spur sind.
02
Maulwurf Johnson
Cody, Nick und Boz ermitteln undercover bei der Armee. Ihr früherer Vietnam-Kommandant Johnson steht unter Verdacht, einen Drogenschmuggler-Ring zu unterstützen. Die drei wollen schnellstmöglich Beweise finden, die ihn entlasten. Es ist ihnen daher ein besonderes Anliegen, herauszufinden, was an dem Verdacht dran ist.
03
Der Augenzeuge
Arnie ist geistig behindert, was die drei Detektive nicht daran hindert, seinen Aussagen Glauben zu schenken. Er erzählt ihnen aufgelöst, er habe eine schwer verletzte Nixe im Wasser gesehen. Das Trio macht sich daran, diese seltsame Geschichte zu untersuchen. Nick, Cody und Murray haben natürlich auch Schwierigkeiten, dieser Geschichte Glauben zu schenken.
04
Der Liebesbrief
In der Kasse der Detektive herrscht gähnende Leere. Murray lässt sich etwas einfallen, um das zu ändern. Er gibt Vorlesungen an der Universität und sorgt für einen neuen Fall. Murray beschließt, Stephanie aus ihrer unglücklichen Ehe zu befreien.
05
Ein nützliches Spielzeug
Nick und Cody kommen das erste Mal in Berührung mit einem Lügendetektor. Nachdem sie zuerst skeptisch sind, merken sie schnell, dass er ihnen sehr hilfreich sein kann. Sie werden eines Besseren belehrt, als es ihnen dabei hilft, herauszufinden, warum der Schriftsteller Karl Novak, mit dessen Schutz sie beauftragt waren, kurz vor seinem Auftritt in einer Fernseh-Talkshow Selbstmord begangen hat.
06
Strapazierte Gastfreundschaft
Eine verzweifelte Mutter hat aus Angst vor ihrem gewalttätigen Ehemann ihr Kind bei einem Pfarrer gelassen. Der meldet sich bei dem Trio, die sich daraufhin der Sache annehmen. Die drei kümmern sich um das ausgesetzte Baby und versuchen festzustellen, wer eigentlich der brutale Vater ist.
07
Verwischte Spuren
rc: Ken Olant (Dooley)
Nick takes Cody and Murray with him as he attends his 15th year high-school reunion, but the nostalgic proceedings are suddenly interrupted when masked men with automatic rifles burst onto the scene and open fire, seemingly warning a group of the ex-classmates out of something. Afterwards, his old friends insist it was just guys from a rival high-school playing a prank, but the suspicious Private Investigators quickly spot that the bullets the masked men were firing were real. As Nick investigates, much to his upset he finds that his old high-school friends are mixed up in drug running, and worse still, have fallen foul of a mobster in doing so...
08
Heiß begehrt und tiefgefroren
Das Trio soll einen jungen Mann ausfindig machen, der von zu Hause weggegangen ist, um ein großer Star zu werden.
09
Das falsche Opfer
rc: Ken Olant (Dooley)
The trio are hired by the manager of a local beach club to investigate a series of valuables being stolen on the beach, and while there, Cody is pleased to find that an old room-mate, Byron Monk, is working as lifeguard at the club – and seems to be romancing a number of the club's female members. As they investigate the missing valuables, they find themselves uncovering a plot to both blackmail and kill Byron, but they more they investigate, the more it becomes apparent that he may be just asking for trouble with his attitude towards his relationships with women... The case is made more light-hearted by Murray's experimenting with taking on a tough guy image...
10
Das letzte Comeback
The trio come to the rescue of an elderly lady vagrant who is being grabbed by two thugs, only to learn that she is none other than a once-famous actress who vanished fifty years previously. It turns out she had been placed in a sanitarium by a man connected with the Mob that she was having an affair with after she refused to marry him, and what's more, she owns the deeds to Pier 56. The thugs were sent out by the man's son, who, determined to finish what his father has started, is determined to get his hands on the deed, the one last possession of the woman's that his father never took from her, even if it's against his father's wishes...
3. Staffel 3 (22 Episoden)
01
Der mysteriöse Tod eines Surfers
rc: Jack Ging (Lt. Quinlan)
The detective trio are worried about a new Private Investigation company in the area that is taking all their business, and, to the reluctance of Nick, decide to take on the case sent to them anonymously by post, asking them to investigate the death of a surfer that took place in 1964. Cody and Murray visit Billy Hagen, the lead singer of a popular band at the time, who were playing at a dance that was the scene of a fight between the surfer and another man shortly before the death. Hagen, whom Cody is a big fan of, is planning a comeback, but the deeper the detectives dig into the case and the past, the more it begins to seem that maybe Hagen was more involved in the death than previously thought...
02
Eine unvergessliche Begegnung
rc: Jack Ging (Lt. Quinlan)
Through Lt. Quinlan, the Government hires the trio to go down to Mexico and bring out a model named Renee Sinclair, the estranged wife of underworld crime-lord Sonny Sinclair, who is prepared to testify against her husband in a case that is sure to send him down, after he murdered her brother. But after making contact with the woman, while Cody and Murray run a decoy, Nick and Renee come under heavy gun-fire, damaging the Screaming Mimi and forcing Nick to make an emergency landing in a canyon in the hills. As Cody and Murray try to goad the reluctant local authorities into helping them search, Nick and Renee find over-night refuge in a drug smuggler's den, and in their time together, they begin to fall in love, faced with the knowledge that Nick will never be able to see or hear from her again when she gets a new identity after the trial...
03
Auf Mord programmiert
Rc: Jack Ging (Lt. Quinlan) *see note
A liberal city councilman embroiled in controversy for allegedly defaulting on various financial obligations blames it on the ""right wing"" police department discrediting him through computer tampering. To their surprise, none other than Lt. Quinlan hires the Riptide Detective Agency for Murray to use his computer expertise and disprove the claims and find who the real culprit is. But their investigation angers the hacker who is behind the councilman's problems, who promptly turns his hacking towards the Agency, tampering with their financial accounts and causing them to go into the red. Murray finds himself up against a worthy computer opponent as he tries not only to disprove the councilman's claims, but to prevent the hacker from wrecking the Riptide Detective Agency financially...
04
In fremdem Auftrag
With the Riptide Detective Agency in it's worse ever financial trouble, much to Nick's disagreement, Cody is considering an offer to sell the agency to corporate investigation company Tricor, who want to buy them out. After the Riptide is ransacked, adding further to the P.I.s problems, Murray and Cody accept jobs with Tricor, but Nick refuses, and opts instead to leave the agency. But when a friend of the trio, who had been working as a security guard on Pier 56, is murdered, it slowly begins to seem that Tricor is somehow involved, and the Riptide agency's recent financial troubles have been orchestrated by the same company, who are determined to get their hands of a letter left by the dead man to the trio before his death. The key to the whole mystery seems to lie on the unobtainable 13th floor of Tricor, where a secret super-computer is based – and the detectives intend to unlock the secrets held on that floor...
05
Der schleichende Tod
After reporter Marlene Lewis learns she in dying, she hires the guys to find out who infected her with an incurable disease. The guys accept the case and soon learn that Marlene had been working on a story with a man named Don Orley. However, Orley had died of a heart attack before she could discover more. Fortunately, the guys get a lead when Marlene receives a phone message from a man named Jeff Rockwell. Unfortunately, the guys arrive at Rockwell's house only to find that he has apparently hung himself. Searching Rockwell's house, the guys learn that Rockwell worked for the F.D.A. Since Orley, a food engineer working on APS (a food enhancer), would have needed F.D.A. approval, the guys realize the connection between the two dead men. Checking into records on APS, the guys discover that Robert Stockwood is the only member of the AP. research team that has not been killed. Therefore, the guys decide to protect Stockwood. Then, at Orley's funeral, Stockwood disappears after a nearby ca
06
Riskantes Spiel
Murray Bozinsky ist Star-Kandidat in der Quiz-Show 'Das Superhirn'. Auf einer Party, die zu seinen Ehren veranstaltet wird, trifft er auch plötzlich seine alte Studienkollegin Brenda Malloy wieder. Sie steckt in großen Schwierigkeiten. Zusammen mit ihrem Freund hat sie ein Solar-Auto entwickelt, das aber nicht funktioniert. Sie bittet jetzt das Computer-Genie Murray ihr zu helfen, da sie ihren Entwurf bereits an rücksichtslose Geschäftsleute verkauft hat.
07
Robin und Marian
Robin hat ein Ziel: Er will sich für die Armen einsetzen und bestiehlt deswegen die Reichen. Allerdings treibt er es zu weit und hat auf einmal üble Verbrecher im Nacken.
08
Quinlans letzter Fall
At a party, the guys run into Cathy Skinner, an old friend of Nick's. Nick explains that when he was a cargo pilot, he used to ""crash"" at the home of Doug Skinner, Cathy's father. While catching up on old times, Nick learns that Cathy is worried about the fact that Doug has been acting very strangely lately. In response to Cathy's concerns, the guys go to see Doug. An ungrateful Doug responds by telling the Riptide Detectives to leave him alone. That night, Doug calls Cathy and tells her that he will be leaving town for a while. Alarmed, Cathy and the guys go to Doug's home. Once there, the guys end up in a shoot out with some men looking for Doug. Unfortunately, the guys are mistakenly arrested by the police. After getting out of jail, the guys trace some pills that they had found in Doug's home. They then learn that Doug has been suffering from delayed stress as a result of an airplane accident that occurred when he was an air traffic controller. (Doug suffered despite the fact that
09
Eine folgenschwere Verwechslung
Nick, who has never particularly enjoyed the holiday season, decides to accept an assignment from Colonel Ryan, his Army Reserve commander. Thereby, Captain Nick Ryder is assigned to transport the remains of Private Ricky Wilkenson, a soldier who died in a training accident. However, when he arrives in Wyoming, Nick learns from the funeral home that the body he transported is not Ricky. (Unlike Ricky who had permanently injured his foot when he was a kid, the corpse has a complete set of toes.) After Colonel Ryan denies there was a mistake and a Congressman tries to dismiss the concerns of Ben Wilkenson, Ricky's father, Cody and Murray decide to help their partner investigate the situation. Murray accesses the army's computer system and is surprised when he finds Ricky's records kept with Vietnam files. Once back in California, Nick joins Cody in an attempt to sneak onto the army base for more information. Unfortunately, Lieutenant Walker, one of Ryan's aids, catches the guys. Ryan the
10
Verbrechen aus Leidenschaft
rc: June Chadwick (Lt. Parisi)
Nick and Cody manage to make fools of themselves when they both unsuccessfully try to hit on an attractive woman while shopping in a grocery store. After the latest in a string of serial killings, the Agency is hired by a man who claims to have reason to believe that his elusive roommate might be the murderer. The detectives find to their surprise that the woman from the store is none other than their new Police contact; but as they investigate their case, there is a twist they don't expect, as they hunt for a killer with a hatred for engaged women...