Stingray
Ray is a shadowy character with a mysterious 'secret agent' past. People in trouble often come to him for help, since he has a lot of important and powerful contacts. He refuses to be paid for his services; however, those seeking his assistance must promise him a favor. Some time in the future, Ray will come to them and ask to collect on that favor, giving them some task that is often arduous and/or dangerous. The title of the show comes from the vintage Corvette Stingray that Ray drives.
- 1986-1987
- 2 seasons
- NBC
- Action & Adventure, Suspense, Drama
- TV-14
Ray is a shadowy character with a mysterious 'secret agent' past. People in trouble often come to him for help, since he has a lot of important and powerful contacts. He refuses to be paid for his services; however, those seeking his assistance must promise him a favor. Some time in the future, Ray will come to them and ask to collect on that favor, giving them some task that is often arduous and/or dangerous. The title of the show comes from the vintage Corvette Stingray that Ray drives.
Season 2 Episode Guide
15 Episodes 1987
Episode 1
The Greeter
Fri, Jan 9, 1987 60 mins
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.
Episode 2
Gemini
Fri, Jan 16, 1987 60 mins
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.
Episode 3
Playback
Fri, Jan 23, 1987 60 mins
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.
Episode 4
Bring Me the Hand That Hit Me
Fri, Jan 30, 1987 60 mins
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.
Episode 5
Echoes
Fri, Feb 6, 1987 60 mins
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.
Episode 6
The First Time Is Forever
Fri, Feb 20, 1987 60 mins
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.
Episode 7
Autumn
Fri, Feb 27, 1987 60 mins
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.
Episode 8
The Neniwa
Fri, Mar 6, 1987 60 mins
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.
Episode 9
The Second Finest Man Who Ever Lived
Fri, Mar 20, 1987 60 mins
When one of Ray's former "clients" stumbles across a smuggling operation, he's killed. Ray comes to investigate and befriends the man's mentally-challenged son, Joshua, while going undercover to get to the bottom of what happened. Joshua soon learns that his father took the job to support him and blames himself for his father's death.
Episode 10
Night Maneuvers
Fri, Mar 27, 1987 60 mins
When a cadet at a military academy thinks he saw a crime, he tells some of the officers what happened. They check it out and can't find any evidence of what he said happened. He later contacts Ray who says he will look into. He then shows up as a new instructor.
Episode 11
Cry Wolf
Fri, Apr 3, 1987 60 mins
A hammy soap opera actor hires Ray to get him out of a fix with the Yakuza who he inadvertently sold real estate to as part of his agent's scam. Ray discovers that the actor has inadvertently earned the ire of any number of criminals - all of who want the actor dead and will go to any lengths to do so..
Episode 12
Blood Money
Fri, Apr 10, 1987 60 mins
A high school principal, Roy Jeffries, comes to Ray for help when the gang member he hung with decades ago, Floyd Wilson, gets out of prison and returns to his old 'hood to recruit a new generation of members for his gang. Ray and his former client Chief Nelson Riskin use some "tough love" to try to get through to three of Floyd's recruits.
Episode 13
Anytime, Anywhere
Fri, Apr 17, 1987 60 mins
A young woman hires Ray to travel to Vietnam to her to recover a valuable statue. A buyer is willing to offer a list with the location of missing American POWs so Ray agrees, but is soon blinded in an attempt on his life. Ray has to learn how to navigate with the aid of a reluctant ex-serviceman, recover the statue, and thwart the men after him.
Episode 14
Caper
Fri, May 1, 1987 60 mins
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.
Episode 15
One Way Ticket to the End of the Line
Fri, May 8, 1987 60 mins
A crop duster, Chuck Mitchell, calls on Ray for help, and Ray and the pilot's daughter are drawn into s small-town war when two rival marijuana growers slug it out to see who will emerge on top - and one of them captured Chuck, Ray goes undercover as a semi driver to find out where the captive Chuck is and rescue him.
