Riptide (American TV series)

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Riptide
Title Card for the first season
Genre	Detective fiction
Created by	Stephen J. Cannell Frank Lupo
Starring	Perry King Joe Penny Thom Bray Jack Ging June Chadwick Anne Francis (1984 only)
Composers	Pete Carpenter Mike Post
Country of origin	United States
Original language	English
No. of seasons	3
No. of episodes	58 (list of episodes) Preview warning: Page using Template:Infobox television with "list_episodes" parameter using self-link. See Infobox instructions and MOS:INFOBOXPURPOSE.
Production
Executive producers	Stephen J. Cannell Frank Lupo Babs Greyhosky (Seasons 2 and 3)
Producers	Babs Greyhosky (Season 1) J. Rickley Dumm Tom Blomquist (Season 3)
Production locations	Cabrillo Beach, San Pedro, Los Angeles Redondo Beach, California Santa Clarita, California
Running time	48 minutes per episode
Production company	Stephen J. Cannell Productions
Original release
Network	NBC
Release	January 3, 1984 (1984-01-03) – April 22, 1986 (1986-04-22)
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Riptide is an American detective television series that ran on NBC between January 3, 1984 and April 22, 1986, starring Perry King, Joe Penny, and Thom Bray.

The series was created by Frank Lupo and Stephen J. Cannell for NBC. The main theme was composed by Mike Post and Pete Carpenter. A midseason replacement, it debuted as a two-hour TV movie in early 1984. After its cancellation, reruns were aired on the USA Network during the late 1980s. The series currently appears occasionally on the schedules of getTV and Decades.