Stingray

"Ray", a man of mystery, gets people out of trouble, asking for favors in return.

Cast:Nick Mancuso , James Handy , Barbara Williams , William S. Taylor , Lisa Rafel , Frank Totino , Rachel Ticotin , Ray Wise , Robert Vaughn , Kathleen Lloyd , Robyn Douglass , Raymond Singer , Kelbe Nugent , Marcia Strassman , Jeff Conaway , Rosalind Chao , Doug Savant , Samantha Eggar

1Season 1

S1.E1 ∙ Ancient Eyes

Tue, Mar 11, 1986

Ray infiltrates an illegal migrant worker camp in order to look for the missing son of the housekeeper of a former client. The camp is run more like a prison than a worker camp.

2Season 1

S1.E2 ∙ Ether

Tue, Mar 25, 1986

Ray poses as a visiting surgeon to find out why a hospital has such a high mortality rate for it's OR patients.

3Season 1

S1.E3 ∙ Below the Line

Tue, Apr 1, 1986

Ray is hired by an elementary school teacher to find her husband. He infiltrates a marine research facility where the man had been working as a diver.

4Season 1

S1.E4 ∙ Sometimes You Gotta Sing the Blues

Tue, Apr 8, 1986

Ray is picked up by the police and brought to the Chief who tells him he knows about him and what he does. Instead of arresting him before, he chose to sit on it till he could use him and it appears the time is now. It seems the man's wife was killed and it appears they were not happily married so they're turning their attention towards him. He's hoping another cop who was with him when his wife was killed will back him up but the cop not only doesn't, he passes the lie detector test. So with a girl who's a friend of the Chief he tries to prove his innocence.

5Season 1

S1.E5 ∙ Abnormal Psych

Tue, Apr 15, 1986

When a young woman tries to kill Ray, and then steps in front of a bus, his investigation leads him back to a University research program where several students have committed suicide. It turns out the program is being run by a man related to Ray's mysterious past.

6Season 1

S1.E6 ∙ Orange Blossom

Tue, Apr 29, 1986

Ray is contacted by a doctor at a mental hospital about some strange occurrences. But, once he gets inside the hospital, he finds out the "doctor" is really a patient. However, there really are some nefarious activities that he uncovers.

7Season 1

S1.E7 ∙ Less Than the Eye Can See

Tue, May 6, 1986

An employee of WHO shows up at Ray's door, and promptly dies after telling Ray he's infected with smallpox. Ray's investigation leads him to a secret government research facility.

8Season 1

S1.E8 ∙ That Terrible Swift Sword

Tue, May 13, 1986

Ray is hired by Sister Allison of a traveling religious show to find a serial killer murdering prostitutes in the cities that the show stops at. Ray goes undercover as a preacher to find the culprit, but when he does it seems to profoundly affect him.

1Season 2

S2.E1 ∙ The Greeter

Fri, Jan 9, 1987

A pharmaceutical chemist hires Ray to investigate some bogus drugs. When Ray arrives at the plant, not only is the chemist missing, no one in the company admits to having known him. With the help of a local Vietnam vet, Ray gets the information he needs about what's going on.

2Season 2

S2.E2 ∙ Gemini

Fri, Jan 16, 1987

Someone from out of Ray's past is setting him up for murder. And the people he's helped before are either not helping him, or acting against him.

3Season 2

S2.E3 ∙ Playback

Fri, Jan 23, 1987

A test of a new self-contained research station goes awry and all but one of the researchers ends up dead. Ray goes in with a new team, which includes the lone survivor, to try and determine what happened.

4Season 2

S2.E4 ∙ Bring Me the Hand That Hit Me

Fri, Jan 30, 1987

A girl asks Ray to help her brother whom she thinks is in trouble. It seems that he and the guy he hangs with robbed a mobster. And they thought what they got wouldn't be missed but not only does the man want what they took from him. He also wants the hand of the man who struck him.

5Season 2

S2.E5 ∙ Echoes

Fri, Feb 6, 1987

A sculptor that Ray helped in the past is once again being stalked, apparently by the very same man who is supposed to be dead. Ray is hired by the agent this time to safeguard the sculptor.

6Season 2

S2.E6 ∙ The First Time Is Forever

Fri, Feb 20, 1987

Ray turns down a journalist who shortly thereafter ends up dead. Recognizing he may have made a mistake Ray decides to look into things. As he investigates he keeps having hallucinations or flashbacks of killing people.

7Season 2

S2.E7 ∙ Autumn

Fri, Feb 27, 1987

Ray gets hired by a beautiful blonde to look into the disappearance of her father. But things just aren't making sense. It appears as though a novelist is somehow setting situations up for him.

8Season 2

S2.E8 ∙ The Neniwa

Fri, Mar 6, 1987

Ray poses as a college anthropology instructor in order to investigate suspicious accidents occurring at a construction site on what may be an Indian burial ground. The site may be a sacred place to a local tribe, but the developer plans to go ahead with the project unless Ray can get the him to reconnect with his own heritage.

9Season 2

S2.E9 ∙ The Second Finest Man Who Ever Lived

Fri, Mar 20, 1987

Ray gets involved when a man he helped in the past dies under suspicious circumstances working at the docks. The man's developmentally challenged son agrees to take on his father's debt as Ray tries to work out what got the man killed.

10Season 2

S2.E10 ∙ Night Maneuvers

Fri, Mar 27, 1987

A cadet sees what appears to be the murder of a man by his fellow cadets. When no one believes his report, he hired Ray to find out the truth.

11Season 2

S2.E11 ∙ Cry Wolf

Fri, Apr 3, 1987

Ray is hired by an actor who's been having attempts on his life. The actor has a rather overly dramatic grasp of reality.

12Season 2

S2.E12 ∙ Blood Money

Fri, Apr 10, 1987

A principal of an inner city school turns to Ray for help when a Fagin-like criminal has his sights on three of his students who he thinks can do some good if they stay out of his clutches. So Ray goes in posing as a teacher.

13Season 2

S2.E13 ∙ Anytime, Anywhere

Fri, Apr 17, 1987

Ray travels back to Vietnam to help retrieve a statue in return for a list of POWs still being held. During the transaction Ray is blinded and must learn to exist in a new world.

14Season 2

S2.E14 ∙ Caper

Fri, May 1, 1987

Ray is asked to reunite a Soviet scientist with her father who escaped years before. Now, he's being smuggled in a container on a cruise ship as one thing after another goes wrong for Ray.

15Season 2

S2.E15 ∙ One Way Ticket to the End of the Line

Fri, May 8, 1987

A crop duster who Ray owes a favor leaves a message for Ray that he's in trouble, and Ray should make sure his estranged daughter receives everything. Ray locates the daughter, a country singer, and they go searching together.