The BEST episodes of Stingray (1985) season 2
Every episode of Stingray (1985) season 2, ranked from best to worst by thousands of votes from fans of the show. The best episodes of Stingray (1985) season 2!
Stingray revolves around a mysterious man known only as Ray, who travels the land in a black '65 Stingray Corvette. His background is unknown. However, someone can contact him by placing a newspaper or computer ad to barter for a Stingray Corvette. He typically helps those who can't help themselves, but always asks a price: he requires that they help him out one time, sometime in the future, no questions asked. A favor for a favor. Ray has no friends but many allies and grateful customers, and only fleeting romantic relationships. He doesn't do repeat favors (although he will sometimes accept referrals from former clients). His background is unknown, although he is an expert martial artist, spy, and infiltrator.
#1 - Bring Me the Hand That Hit Me
Season 2 - Episode 4 - Aired 1/30/1987
A rather dimwitted garage worker and his criminal buddy steal $700,000 from a Mafioso who launders his money through the garage which he owns. The garage worker's sister is concerned that her brother is going to blow it: he doesn't seem to realize that quitting the day after you rob your boss and going crazy spending the money on coll stuff is a bad thing. She contacts Ray, who pretends to be another dimwitted crook and tries to get the two criminals out of trouble. The brother's buddy tries to double-cross them, and eventually despite Ray's best efforts to work things out, the sister is killed by the Mafioso Godfather. Her brother is left to mourn, as Ray warns him that he'll have to repay the favor his sister owed him.
#2 - The Greeter
Season 2 - Episode 1 - Aired 1/9/1987
After the head chemist at a pharmaceutical company hires Ray to look into lethal drugs being made for sale in Africa, he vanishes without a trace.
#3 - Playback
Season 2 - Episode 3 - Aired 1/23/1987
Ray recreates a space isolation experiment to try and clear an old friend of murder charges which stem from the fact he was the sole survivor of the first experiment.
#4 - Echoes
Season 2 - Episode 5 - Aired 2/6/1987
An artist, a former client of Ray's, is getting threatening calls from a stalker who Ray helped her out with, years before. In fact, the guy apparently died during his final encounter with Ray the last time around. The trail leads to a relative of the first stalker who is trying to get revenge.
#5 - Caper
Season 2 - Episode 14 - Aired 5/1/1987
Ray must rescue the father of a Soviet defector who is being held captive by the Russians in the hold of an ocean liner.
#6 - Night Maneuvers
Season 2 - Episode 10 - Aired 3/27/1987
Ray goes undercover as an instructor at a military academy to help a student who witnessed his classmates commit murder.
#7 - The First Time is Forever
Season 2 - Episode 6 - Aired 2/20/1987
After a TV reporter who Ray refused to help is killed, Ray decides to find out what the man was working on.
#8 - Gemini
Season 2 - Episode 2 - Aired 1/16/1987
Women are mysteriously being murdered by a serial killer. Each of them advertised for help using an ad for a black Stingray Corvette, and the murderer drives around in a Stingray. One of Ray's former clients, a councilwoman, helps to bring him in. Ray pulls in a favor or two to get out of jail, and begins to investigate. He eventually finds out that an old friend from his mysterious past, Edward Benton, is trying to get revenge on him. During a mission in East Germany, Benton was left behind and imprisoned and tortured as a spy. Now he is seeking to even the score. Ray tracks him down and rather then let himself capture, Benton drives his car into a wall.
#9 - The Neniwa
Season 2 - Episode 8 - Aired 3/6/1987
Ray attempts to resolve a dispute between a land developer and Indians who claim the proposed building site is on sacred ground.
#10 - The Second Finest Man Who Ever Lived
Season 2 - Episode 9 - Aired 3/20/1987
Ray helps a retarded man by going undercover as a dock worker at the dock where his father was killed in a suspicious accident.
#11 - Cry Wolf
Season 2 - Episode 11 - Aired 4/3/1987
Ray gets drawn into a case of a drugged-up TV star, Ty Gardiner, who tries to hire him despite Ray's misgivings. Turns out Gardiner's name and celebrity were used by his unscrupulous partner to rip off both the Mafia and the Yakuza. Now that the partner has disappeared, Gardiner is left holding the bag with both sides trying to kill him, and the Feds looking for him as well. Ray's attempts to negotiate the matter aren't helped by Gardiner, who fancies himself the big dramatic hero that he plays on TV. Ray manages to set up both the Mafia and the Yakuza to shoot it out with each other, using Gardiner as bait so that he isn't wanted by the Feds. In the subsequent shootout Ray and Ty both end up in hospital beds, with Gardiner hatching another nutty scheme.
#12 - Blood Money
Season 2 - Episode 12 - Aired 4/10/1987
Ray helps the principal of an urban high school prevent a gang war from erupting.
#13 - Anytime, Anywhere
Season 2 - Episode 13 - Aired 4/17/1987
Ray travels to Vietnam where an exploding bomb blinds him, hindering his search for a statue which can provide clues to the whereabouts of American MIA's.
#14 - One Way Ticket to the End of the Line
Season 2 - Episode 15 - Aired 5/8/1987
Ray comes to the aid of a crop duster pilot who gets caught in the middle when two rival marijuana growers insist that he poisoned the other's fields.
#15 - Autumn
Season 2 - Episode 7 - Aired 2/27/1987
Ray ends up in real trouble when he gets involved in a fantasy case made up by an author who needed an idea for his book.