Simon & Simon

1. Details at Eleven

24 Nov 1981 · 60m

The step-daughter of a news anchor is missing and the Simons are hired to find her, but when they do, the plot thickens.

2. Love, Christy

1 Dec 1981 · 60m

Rick uses some of his old and shady contacts when he and AJ try to recover the stolen sports car of a pretty co-ed who Rick is determined to impress.

3. Trapdoors

8 Dec 1981 · 60m

A banks computer system is being accessed by a young computer whiz, who helps himself to a little spending money. One of the bank's officials wants to know how the boy does it, and hires the Simons to find out.

4. A Recipe for Disaster

17 Dec 1981 · 60m

When it looks like a little girl may have been kidnapped by her oilman father, Rick and AJ go to Mexico to retrieve her but end up helping both of them out of a dangerous situation.

5. The Least Dangerous Game

29 Dec 1981 · 60m

Rick and AJ are hired to investigate the death of an animal keeper, they go undercover at the zoo but become very suspicious of their client, a wealthy benefactor.

6. The Dead Letter File

5 Jan 1982 · 60m

Rick and AJ receive a letter in the mail and when it arrives at the office it's 23 years after it was sent, but contains a clue to the murder of the letter writer, who died the day after he mailed it.

7. The Hottest Ticket in Town

12 Jan 1982 · 60m

When their mother orders Rick and AJ to find tickets to a sold-out rock concert for their cousin, the search leads them to thousands of tickets that aren't suppose to exist, and big trouble when they try to return them.

8. Ashes to Ashes, and None Too Soon

16 Jan 1982 · 60m

Immediately after the Simons serve a man with divorce papers, he commits suicide-or does he.?

9. The Uncivil Servant

27 Jan 1982 · 60m

Myron hires the Simons when one of his operatives removes a confidential file from his office, and he wants to know why.

10. Earth to Stacey

9 Feb 1982 · 60m

Rick needs money in a hurry when his truck is repossessed, so he grabs the first client he can, which turns out to be one of Myron's. Rick and AJ's new client is a jilted bride and trying to find her runaway groom is more trouble than it's worth.

11. Double Entry

2 Mar 1982 · 60m

A woman hires Rick and AJ to find out if her husband is having an affair with the company accountant. but their investigation reveals what the accountant is really up to.

12. Matchmaker

9 Mar 1982 · 60m

The Simons uncover a robbery scheme within a dating service while trying to recover stolen antiques insured by a beautiful agent who has her eye on AJ, past experiences with her tell them not to trust her, but who can they trust?

13. Tanks For the Memories

16 Mar 1982 · 60m

Their former high school teacher asks Rick and AJ to find some missing classmates for the class reunion, the search for Rick's class president takes them into unsuspected trouble.

1. Emeralds Are Not a Girl's Best Friend (II)

5 Oct 1982 · 60m

Rick and AJ are in Hawaii tailing a con artist who Higgins has just entrusted with $350.000 proceeds from his charity event-the three follow her to South America where they reel her in with a con of their own, using a huge emerald and AJ as bait. The crossover starts on Magnum, P.I. S03E03 Ki'i's Don't Lie (I)

2. Mike & Pat

14 Oct 1982 · 60m

A dolphin is abducted, and Rick and AJ have to find him and bring him back before his mate starves herself to death.

3. Guessing Game

21 Oct 1982 · 60m

Using a psychic in a murder investigation becomes embarrassing to the police but she continues having visions connected with the case, so she hires the Simons to check out her leads when the police no longer will.

4. Art for Arthur's Sake

28 Oct 1982 · 60m

The Simons are given 24 hours to recover a valuable painting that was stolen from the Navy museum, and the key to its recovery lies with the feuding daughters of the Navy admiral who donated the painting.

5. The Ten Thousand Dollar Deductible

4 Nov 1982 · 60m

AJ is robbed while delivering $450,000 in diamonds, and he and Rick have to find them soon, not only is AJ the FBI's prime suspect, they are also on the hook for the first $10,000 of the insurance settlement.

6. Rough Rider Rides Again

18 Nov 1982 · 60m

One of the old-time TV cowboys (a Saturday morning hero of young Rick and AJ) is accused of killing his show's producer when a young actor is hired to revive his old role.

7. Sometimes Dreams Come True

2 Dec 1982 · 60m

A woman's frightening dream about her twin sister seems to be coming true when her sister disappears.

8. The Last Time I Saw Michael

9 Dec 1982 · 60m

A friend claims she just seen her dead husband alive. Cecilia Simon enlists the help of her sons when she becomes concerned about her friend's insistance.

9. Fowl Play

16 Dec 1982 · 60m

A pro football player wants to quit fixing the games, but the people who's dirty work he's doing won't let him stop.

10. Thin Air

30 Dec 1982 · 60m

Rick's former girlfriend asks him to find her missing husband and then she is arrested for his murder.

11. Murder Between the Lines

6 Jan 1983 · 60m

AJ promises to locate a novelist's long-lost cousin within 24 hours, but this tedious all-nighter evolves into a compelling case when several murders are committed exactly as depicted in the author's lastest book, and AJ thinks he's next.

12. Psyched Out

13 Jan 1983 · 60m

AJ poses as a student and Rick becomes a subject in a psychologist's experiment to investigate the death of a track star who died in a suspicious fall from a fraternity house roof.

13. Pirate's Key (1)

20 Jan 1983 · 60m

Complications from their current case put Rick and AJ before the state licensing board to answer charges from an incident in Florida several years earlier, when AJ was engaged to Janet and working for Myron at Peerless Detectives. The incident is revealed in flashbacks taken from 1980 made for TV-""Pirate's Key"", which was the basis of the series.

14. Pirate's Key (2)

20 Jan 1983 · 60m

Complications from their current case put Rick and AJ before the state licensing board to answer charges from an incident in Florida several years earlier, when AJ was engaged to Janet and working for Myron at Peerless Detectives. The incident is revealed in flashbacks taken from 1980 made for TV-""Pirate's Key"", which was the basis of the series.

15. The Club Murder Vacation

27 Jan 1983 · 60m

When Rick's pestering drives AJ to take advantage of mom's offer to share the large suite she was given (instead of a small room) at a northern California resort, he cramps her style when he tries to prove that he witnessed a murder-that nobody will believe really happened.

16. It's Only a Game

3 Feb 1983 · 60m

Rick and AJ's good friend, the coroner, asks the brothers to deliver a new video game to Las Vegas and they don't understand just how valuable it is until thieves attack.

17. Design for Killing

10 Feb 1983 · 60m

A clothing design house, featuring a top teen model, hires the Simons to protect its new fall line from being stolen by a rival firm.

18. The List

17 Feb 1983 · 60m

AJ pressures Rick into taking the case of a woman accused of murdering the publisher who put her (against her wishes) on a list of San Diego's ten sexiest women, but Rick also investigates their client's mysterious secrets, while AJ is falling in love with her.

19. What's in a Gnome?

24 Feb 1983 · 60m

An amusement park owned by a retired Marine colonel is being repeatedly vandalized so the manager hires the Simons to work undercover but the more they learn about the vandal, the more they question who the real villian is.

20. The Secret of the Chrome Eagle

3 Mar 1983 · 60m

Rick and AJ are hired to transport a valuable classic car to San Francisco but events along the way make them wonder if there isn't more here than meets the eye.

21. Room 3502

10 Mar 1983 · 60m

A panic sticken husband comes to the Simons when he finds his wife has vanished from their hotel room overnight.

22. Red Dog Blues

24 Mar 1983 · 60m

When Janet is assigned to her first murder case, she wants Rick and AJ to help her build an airtight case, but they've already been hired by the opposition-the accused man's defense attorney.

23. The Skeleton Who Came Out of the Closet

31 Mar 1983 · 60m

Rick and AJ have more than they can handle when they accept a job transporting a huge man who was placed in a mental institution by his brother, only to find out he is as gentle as a lamb, and the trouble they run into against his brother makes them enlist the help of their very huge friend.

1. Grand Illusion

29 Sep 1983 · 60m

A magician hires the Rick and AJ to find out how a rival stole his spectacular new trick.

2. D.J., D.O.A.

6 Oct 1983 · 60m

A disc jockey is beaten and then disappears, a fellow D.J. who witnessed the beating hires the Simons to find out what happened to her co-worker.

3. I Heard It Was Murder

13 Oct 1983 · 60m

Rick and AJ take on the job of protecting a blind witness.

4. Bail Out

20 Oct 1983 · 60m

AJ goes undercover as a tennis pro when he and Rick are hired by an executive's widow to investigate the parachute ""accident"" that had killed her husband.

5. Fly the Alibi Skies

27 Oct 1983 · 60m

This is a cross-over with the Whiz Kids who help the Simons solve their case.

6. Shadow of Sam Penny

3 Nov 1983 · 60m

AJ's idol, famous detective Sam Penny (""the man who wrote the book"") needs the Simons help to solve a 30 year old case.

7. Caught Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea

10 Nov 1983 · 60m

Rick and AJ are hired by a woman to find her ex-husband, a cop accused of robbery and cop-killing. In this episode, the Simons meet Downtown Brown for the first time as they help him prove his friends's innocence.

8. The Bare Facts

17 Nov 1983 · 60m

In order to find a missing contractor, the Simons have to search a nudist colony.

9. Too Much of a Good Thing

1 Dec 1983 · 60m

A woman comes to the Simons when her husband disappears, they start the investigation with his job (inspecting produce for illegal pesticides) but the real surprises turn up when the investigation veers into his personal life.

10. Betty Grable Flies Again

8 Dec 1983 · 60m

WWII pilot wants to find his long lost B-25.

11. Bon Voyage, Alonso

15 Dec 1983 · 60m

Cecelia agrees to chaperone two teenage girls on a cruise, with Rick's help, but then the ship is highjacked.

12. All Your Favorite Games

22 Dec 1983 · 60m

When her star witness is nearly killed while under police protection, Janet asks Rick and AJ to take over the protective custody, but the witness's compulsive need to gamble makes her very uncooperative.

13. John Doe

5 Jan 1984 · 60m

A man comes to Rick and AJ claiming to be an amnesiac who can't remember the last three months of his life and wants them to find out why he's accused od murder.

14. Dear Lovesick

12 Jan 1984 · 60m

An advice columnist hires Rick and AJ when she fears one of her regular readers is in danger.

15. Bloodlines

19 Jan 1984 · 60m

While the Simons are looking for a stolen horse, they uncover some revealing information about the racing accident that had killed their client's father years before.

16. Heels and Toes

2 Feb 1984 · 60m

AJ's broken wrist puts him and Rick in position to help a dancer, a ballerina by day and an exotic dancer by night, who is accused of murdering her roommate.

17. The Wrong Stuff

9 Feb 1984 · 60m

An innocent young woman fears her future will be ruined when a producer turns a movie she made as a teenager into an x-rated film and gives it wide distribution.

18. Double Play

16 Feb 1984 · 60m

Rick is haunted by a recurring dream while he and AJ are trying to figure out who devised the elaborate frame that gets them arrested for transporting stolen securities to Mexico, and their investigation leads them to a look-a-like escort service.

19. Under the Knife

23 Feb 1984 · 60m

AJ goes undercover as a patient in a hospital when a surgeon hires the Simons to prove that the plaintiff in a malpractice suit is phony.

20. Harm's Way

1 Mar 1984 · 60m

A woman hires the Simons to find a man she claims is her ex-husband, but when they find him, the larger-than-life Brian Harm's, he recuits them into his world of espionage and international intrigue.

21. The Dillinger Print

8 Mar 1984 · 60m

A retired FBI agent thinks he has some new evidence in the John Dillinger case and then he is murdered, and AJ is forced to face his own fear when his reaction to a violent warning is not what he would have expected.

22. Corpus Delecti

22 Mar 1984 · 60m

A steel denture found in a burned car is the major clue in proving a woman is dead and her insurance policy payable, but is it? The Simons $120,000 commission sits in the balance when AJ insists that they continue digging into the case.

23. The Disappearance of Harry the Hat

29 Mar 1984 · 60m

A mild mannered accountant hires Rick and AJ to teach him how to vanish. He tells them that he wants to evade a demanding wife, but maybe he has another reason.

1. C'est Simon (1)

27 Sep 1984 · 60m

The Simons follow their mother to Paris where she has an affair with a suave Frenchman, but is he all that he seems?

2. C'est Simon (2)

27 Sep 1984 · 60m

The Simons follow their mother to Paris where she has an affair with a suave Frenchman, but is he all that he seems?

3. A Little Wine with Murder

4 Oct 1984 · 60m

A restuarant critic is killed, and his partner hires Rick and AJ to find out why and by whom.

4. The Dark Side of the Street

18 Oct 1984 · 60m

A threatened bridegroom begs for help a few days before the wedding, who doesn't want the bridegroom to get married?

5. Manna from Heaven

25 Oct 1984 · 60m

Rick is in big trouble when he is accused of murdering the president of the company that repossessed his boat.

6. What Goes Around Comes Around

1 Nov 1984 · 60m

A racecar driver hires the Simons to investigate his string of bad luck.

7. Who Killed the Sixties?

8 Nov 1984 · 60m

After she finds new evidence, AJ's former girlfriend shows back up in his life to have him and Rick look into her brother's death, which could possibly have been a murder, trouble is it was eighteen years ago and it uncovers more than that.

8. Break a Leg, Darling

15 Nov 1984 · 60m

A stage actress is threatened when feuding with her co-star and ex-husband.

9. Almost Completely Out of Circulation

22 Nov 1984 · 60m

There is a clue to the murderer of a cartoonist in one of his comic books.

10. Our Fair City

29 Nov 1984 · 60m

The mayor of Abalone Bay (aka as Sin City) hires the Simons to prove that his ex-wife, the chief of police, is trying to kill him, but when they get there, it's the mayor who's being indicted for murdering the chief.

11. Deep Cover

6 Dec 1984 · 60m

A tv reporter put out a contract on himself to flush out a hitman for a story and now needs Rick and AJ to save him.

12. Revolution #9½

13 Dec 1984 · 60m

The Simons fun-loving fortune-hunting uncle turns up and drags them off to a South Seas island to investigate why the dividend checks stopped coming from a crazy investment that had started to pay off.

13. Yes, Virginia, There Is a Liberace

20 Dec 1984 · 60m

On Christmas Eve Rick and AJ go to Las Vegas in search of the father of a little girl.

14. Almost Foolproof

3 Jan 1985 · 60m

Rick's friend Lolita asks him and AJ to look into the disappearance of a couple of transients she was helping, then she herself disappears.

15. Enter the Jaguar

17 Jan 1985 · 60m

16. Simon Without Simon (1)

24 Jan 1985 · 60m

When they accidentally solve ""the crime of the century"" Rick and AJ accept the lucrative, but separate, job offers that result from the publicity, but things don't go as planned when they're ambushed and framed for espionage and attempted murder.

17. Simon Without Simon (2)

31 Jan 1985 · 60m

When they accidentally solve ""the crime of the century"" Rick and AJ accept the lucratve, but separate, job offers that reslt from the publicity, but things don't go as planned when they're ambushed and framed for espionage and murder.

18. Slither

7 Feb 1985 · 60m

AJ is undercover as a coach to check out a teen's drug habits, then when she runs away, he feels responsible, but when he and Rick try to bring her home, her street friends find a nasty way to fight back.

19. The Mickey Mouse Mob

14 Feb 1985 · 60m

A candidate in a major union election hires Rick and AJ to find his wife and child he deserted years ago, the search gets the Simons involved with the bosses of both the East and West coast ties to the mob.

20. Mummy Talks

21 Feb 1985 · 60m

A graduate student in Egyptology finds a mummy in the museum basement that's never been reported, and the Simons help her swipe it so she can study it to see if it's real.

21. Marlowe, Come Home

28 Feb 1985 · 60m

Rick enters Marlowe in a dog show in an attempt to locate the man who is holding their client's championship bitch for ransom, but the case hits too close to home when Marlowe gets snatched too.

22. Out-of-Town Brown

28 Mar 1985 · 60m

Soon after Town's cousin, a student veterinarian finds evidence that there is something wrong with the livestock at the biggest ranch in the area, his house is vandalized and then he's accused of murder.

1. Love and/or Marriage

3 Oct 1985 · 60m

A wedding sets the stage, as Rick falls in love with their client (who suspects her husband is having an affair) and AJ proposes to Liz.

2. Burden of the Beast

10 Oct 1985 · 60m

A trained chimp is the only witness to a murder and they try to figure out who the chimp is identifying as the assailant.

3. The Third Eye

17 Oct 1985 · 60m

A writer asks to be an apprentice P.I. to get background information for his book and then he is framed.

4. Enchilada Express

24 Oct 1985 · 60m

Their current case takes them to a Mexican divorce resort when a worried ex-wife asks them to find her husband.

5. The Skull of Nostradamus

31 Oct 1985 · 60m

An apprentice witch seeks Rick and AJ's help when she is threatened, but the case gets tricky when events seem to be influenced by the supernatural.

6. Have You Hugged Your Private Detective Today?

7 Nov 1985 · 60m

Just when his breakup with Liz has AJ looking for love in all the wrong places, the brothers are hired by a TV sex therapist to investigate the death of one of her employees.

7. Reunion at Alcatraz

14 Nov 1985 · 60m

Sam Penny is back searching for the only prisoner ever to have escaped from Alcatraz, almost 25 years ago.

8. Down-Home Country Blues

21 Nov 1985 · 60m

The Simons set out to find a missing country singer.

9. Quint Is Out

5 Dec 1985 · 60m

The brothers become concerned when a vengeful ex-con is on the loose.

10. Walk a Mile in My Hat

12 Dec 1985 · 60m

The brothers switch identities.

11. Facets

18 Dec 1985 · 60m

AJ is devastated when he shoots a young man during an investigation of a diamond theft which reveals a family feud separating two lovers.

12. Sunrise at Camp Apollo

2 Jan 1986 · 60m

The guys pose as camp counselors at a camp for street kids, as a favor to Town.

13. The Blue Chip Stomp

16 Jan 1986 · 60m

The Simons help Town and a high school basketball coach when the teams star is accused of murdering a college recruiter.

14. Something for Sarah

23 Jan 1986 · 60m

A woman hires Rick and AJ to find her long-lost father after $10,000 is left anonymously on her front porch and she thinks it might have been from him.

15. Mobile Home of the Brave

30 Jan 1986 · 60m

A cameraman is pursued by the mob and involves a charming family on vacation in their mobile home at a theme park.

16. Family Forecast

6 Feb 1986 · 60m

The MC of a family style tv quiz show is worried that the show might be rigged and asks the Simons to investigate, which they do by becoming contestants.

17. A Significant Obsession

13 Feb 1986 · 60m

Espionage at the laser research center. A former client obsessed with AJ hinders the investigation.

18. For the People

20 Feb 1986 · 60m

The D.A. has AJ testify about a shooting he witnessed, but the accused may be innocent.

19. Full Moon Blues

6 Mar 1986 · 60m

Rick moves in with a woman for the first time in his life, but she won't continue their relationship until he meets her missing roommate, when Rick and AJ search for him, they find themselves caught between the government and the mob.

20. Eye of the Beholder

13 Mar 1986 · 60m

A rich industrialist hires the Simons to provide security for the cursed Peruvian icon he's about to receive, and as long as they're there, he asks if they could also keep an eye on his two teenage daughters.

21. D-I-V-O-R-C-E

27 Mar 1986 · 60m

Rick and AJ help a couple of friends who claim they want a divorce, but act otherwise.

22. Act Five

3 Apr 1986 · 60m

When the Simons find out their client has used them to cheat his wife out of her rightful settlement, they enlist the help of Town's cousin to set up a scam to get even.

23. The Last Harangue

10 Apr 1986 · 60m

AJ runs for the city council while Rick investigates his opponent's alleged toxic waste dumping and murder.

24. The Apple Doesn't Fall Far from the Tree

1 May 1986 · 60m

When hoods try to steal the family journal, Rick and AJ are prompted to go to Boston (with cousin Elizabeth) and trace the family tree, where they learn about pairs of Simon brothers down through the ages. Wayne (AJ) and Mad Benedict (Rick) Simon and their mother (Cecelia) in revolution-era Boston. 1775 and 1776 Sir Francis (AJ) and Black Jack (Rick) Simon and their mother Evangeline (Cece) in Pirate's Key, Florida. 1692 Orville (AJ) and Wilbur (Rick) Simon, shoe salesmen from Buffalo (owners of Simon Brothers shoes) in 1986.

1. Competition--Who Needs It?

25 Sep 1986 · 60m

A large PI firm moves into the Simons office building vowing to drive them out of business, meanwhile, they're trying to get their client, a charter boat captain, the insurance settlement she deserves for the boat that blew up.

2. A.W.O.L.

2 Oct 1986 · 60m

A young sailor who is framed for drug possession and goes A.W.O.L. gets help from the Simons

3. Still Phil After All These Years

9 Oct 1986 · 60m

AJ and Rick dig up a time capsule for their mother's high school reunion and get a surprise when they find things connecting her former classmate to a long ago murder.

4. The Cop Who Came to Dinner

16 Oct 1986 · 60m

Town is injured and becomes their house guest, without telling them his life may be in danger.

5. Treasure

23 Oct 1986 · 60m

Against his better judgement, AJ agrees to go along on a job helping a wealthy old prospector find a lost mine in Mexico, when he finds himself attracted to the client, the man's daughter.

6. The Last Big Break

30 Oct 1986 · 60m

A surfer who was thought to be drowned some 20 years ago turns up alive - and a target for murder.

7. The Rookie

6 Nov 1986 · 60m

A rookie cop with a problem comes to the Simons for help, she suspects her partner, Town's mentor, is dirty, but she thinks if she reports him it will ruin her career.

8. Like Father, Like Son

13 Nov 1986 · 60m

Temple Hill asks Rick and AJ to protect the threatened son of a investigatve reporter who was murdered while working on an expose of a boxing promotor, but the boy wants them to help him find his father's killer.

9. The Case of Don Diablo

20 Nov 1986 · 60m

Rick refuses to give up his search for the $100,000 case of Don Diablo Wine Cooler when the contest's ad executive hires AJ to find it, making Rick and AJ rivals in the search.

10. Mrs. Simon & Mrs. Simon

4 Dec 1986 · 60m

Rick and AJ are hired by two lovely Greek stewardesses to investigate a murder they witnessed, then they end up marrying them to keep them from being deported to Greece (where the killers await) when their visas expire.

11. Just Because I'm Paranoid...

11 Dec 1986 · 60m

A woman insists on running in a marathon even though she is a target, AJ runs along with her and Rick patrols the path.

12. Tonsillitis

18 Dec 1986 · 60m

Rick protests violently when the doctor wants to remove his tonsils, but he has to. While he is under anesthetic, he sees what he thinks is a murder, and no one will believe him.

13. Deep Water Death

8 Jan 1987 · 60m

While doing a security check of a marine park, the Simons spot a ruthless pair they had a run-in with years before, and stick around to figure out what they're up to.

14. For Old Crime's Sake

15 Jan 1987 · 60m

The Simons investigate a 50 year old bank robbery, when one robber took all the money and his three accomplices want revenge.

15. Opposites Attack

29 Jan 1987 · 60m

Rick and AJ vie with two female private detectives to find the set of Samurai swords they were all hired to protect, when competition doesn't bring results, they decide to join forces.

16. Judgement Call

5 Feb 1987 · 60m

Downtown plans to propose to Temple, but they disagree about an arrest. Downtown thinks the arrested man is a criminal and Temple thinks he is the victim of a plot to evict him from his home.

17. Tanner, P.I. For Hire

12 Feb 1987 · 60m

The actor who plays tv's hottest detective disappears from the private detectives convention that Rick and AJ helped to organize, but it's a clue from a famous real detective, now down on his luck, that helps them find the guest of honor.

18. Ancient Echoes

19 Feb 1987 · 60m

A young Indian finds some prehistoric artifacts at a construction site and then disappears. His uncle hires the Simons to investigate.

19. Second-Story Simons

26 Feb 1987 · 60m

In a James Bond style caper, the Simons search the Yugoslavian embassy for some stolen top secret plans.

20. I Thought the War Was Over

5 Mar 1987 · 60m

Rick becomes obsessed about the war in Vietnam when a buddy who saved his life there is murdered. His determination to find the killer pushes him over the edge and into a VA hospital.

21. Lost Lady

12 Mar 1987 · 60m

Janet returns with amnesia and involved in some serious trouble. The brothers work hard to discover what happened to the last four years and to save her.

22. Walking Point

26 Mar 1987 · 60m

Another malpractice suit needs their attention, but the lawyer who is running a center for the disabled thinks AJ has sold out to the defendant.

1. New Cop in Town

3 Dec 1987 · 60m

Arrested for wiretapping, the Simons seek help from Downtown Brown and find he has been replaced by a tough new chief detective.

2. Desperately Seeking Dacody

10 Dec 1987 · 60m

A former girl friend of Rick, a zealous reporter becomes a problem when she hires them to prove a man innocent.

3. You, Too, Can Be a Detective

17 Dec 1987 · 60m

Rick gets a telephone call from a girl who is inspired by his book and does some detective work herself, only to be arrested. Her eagerness equals trouble to have around, but it turns out she's right, and the Simons wish they'd taken her hunch more serious a lot earlier.

4. Shadows

7 Jan 1988 · 60m

The Simon family are enjoying a day at the ballpark when a 'kid' takes off with AJ's wallet. AJ pursues the kid and catches her, but Allison swears it was just an initiation into a club, so he lets her go. She turns up again at the office to return some things that had 'fallen out' of AJ's wallet. She says she's there to ask for help, but the minute the brothers' backs are turned, she takes off with Rick's $1,000 camera. It turns out that she is working as a prostitute to survive. Her pimp has decided one of her co-workers who is also a friend needs to die. Allison is doing her best to keep her friend alive and out of the pimp's reach. She's pawned Rick's camera for $50 worth of groceries. When the 'customers' get rough with her, Allison flees to AJ's for a safe haven for a night. She's touched by his kindness after she'd stolen Rick's camera, but not touched enough to keep from 'borrowing' AJ's gun. AJ and Rick catch up to her in time to find her friend is dying. When she dies at t

5. Second Swell

14 Jan 1988 · 60m

AJ's past comes back to haunt him when a routine serving of a summons goes terribly wrong. Bracken, a murderer convicted by AJ's testimony 17 years ago, has returned and wants revenge on both him and his ex-girlfriend, Kristen. The beating he gives AJ leaves the young Simon in the hospital. AJ doesn't tell anyone who attacked him, and as soon as he can stand, he leaves the hospital and goes in search of the girl he used to love. Once he finds her, he convinces her to let him stay while her husband's gone to protect her from Bracken. Meanwhile, Rick is beside himself with worry. AJ has gone off without telling him where he was going, and Rick knew it had something to do with the attack. Many hours of research later, he finds out about the old murder case AJ was involved in that happened while Rick was in Vietnam. Convinced more than ever that AJ's in real trouble, he starts tracking Kristen down. AJ and Kristen find themselves attracted to each other after all these years, but AJ refu

6. Forever Hold Your Piece

21 Jan 1988 · 60m

7. Tale of the Tiger

28 Jan 1988 · 60m

When the Simons are hired to discover a saboteur on a fishing boat, Rick decides to spend some time at sea with the crew. When he returns, one of his shipmates, a Vietnamese man, is severely beaten before Rick and AJ can put a stop to it. While in the hospital, he is killed by poison injected into his IV. At the funeral, AJ is attracted to the man's sister, Ho Xuan, and offers his sympathies. Rick, meanwhile, sees a beloved war buddy there that he hasn't seen in years - Chen. Unbeknownst to Rick, Chen and Ho Xuan have had a love affair gone very sour. Rick and Chen go out to dinner to celebrate their reunion. AJ starts investigating the sabotage on his own and runs into Ho Xuan. She tells him that her brother was killed by a man known as 'the Tiger', who is the leader of organized crime in the area. She's afraid for her life, so AJ goes to Abigail for more information. She tells him that 'the Tiger' is Chen. AJ goes to Rick's boat to tell him what he's discovered, only to find Rick a

8. Nuevo Salvador

4 Feb 1988 · 60m

Rick and AJ are protecting a relief worker from a Salvadoran death squad.

9. Bad Betty

11 Feb 1988 · 60m

The Simons race to capture a thief called the Weazel before a bounty hunter called ""Bad Betty"" catches him.

10. Baja, Humbug

18 Feb 1988 · 60m

After the Simons have a case go downhill on them, Rick inherits a charter boat in Mexico and decides to take over the charter business. He tries different ways to talk AJ into going along with his idea and only wins when he reminds AJ of the novel he always wanted to write and now he could.

11. A Firm Grasp of Reality

25 Feb 1988 · 60m

A woman, a biochemist, on the verge of a multi-million dollar discovery, goes into a mental hospital when no one will believe she's being followed and harrassed, everyone thinks she's making it up, which leads to her having a relapse of her mental disorder. The Simons go undercover to protect her.

12. Ties That Bind

3 Mar 1988 · 60m

Officer Nixon goes to the Simons to ask them to investigate the activities of a fellow officer and close friend, when the officer borrows a large sum from a loan shark shortly after his brother returns to town.

13. Little Boy Dead

10 Mar 1988 · 60m

Lt. Marsh is devastated when she shoots a young boy and finds it very hard to cope, Rick and AJ notice right away she is out of sorts and come to her rescue to help her make sense of the whole thing.

14. Sudden Storm

17 Mar 1988 · 60m

After returning home from a date and spurning his advances, Cecilia's power is knocked out and she is beaten and raped by a man she can't see. AJ, who'd been on the phone with her when she was was attacked, rushed to her aid, but got there too late. Rick joined AJ and Abby in the waiting room, horrified to discover his mother has been so brutally attack. He vows vengeance while AJ withdraws into himself, unable to speak about it. They go in to visit Cecilia and find a deeply hurt and defensive woman. The brothers are both enflamed by her pain, and both start to look for the monster who did this. Rick is sure it is the man Cecilia had been out with, and goes about trying to prove it. AJ, meanwhile, is equally sure it is the gardener, who'd been seen skulking around Cecilia's house. They are both sure the other is completely wrong. Things become strained between all of the Simons - Cecilia doesn't want her boys hovering over her, and the brothers are angry with each other. After Rick b

15. Something Special

31 Mar 1988 · 60m

Both of the Simon brothers are amazed of the architect they are protecting, when she hires them.

16. May the Road Rise Up

7 Apr 1988 · 60m

The Simons' world turns upside down when the brothers discover the car that their father had died in was driving down the street. They stopped the driver to discover it was indeed their father's car, but he knew nothing - it had been bought at an auction the month before. Cecilia wouldn't believe the boys at first, but they finally convinced her it was the same car. While she and Rick couldn't believe he was still alive, AJ clung to the hope that he was, to the point of striking his brother. Both were horrified by how close they'd come to really hurting each other and resumed their search for the truth. After a long, frustrating search, they finally discover that Jack Simon hadn't died in a fiery car crash on a rainy night. He'd actually died months later of radiation poisoning, contracted when he was stopping some terrorists of stealing the radioactive materials. Jack's old boss and good friend shows them the cabin where he had really died and gave them the key. Inside the one-roo

1. Beauty and Deceased

8 Oct 1988 · 60m

An old friend of the Simons, Beth, shows up in their office after finding a blackmail note given to one of the beauty contestants in her pageant. She's responsible for the pageant going off smoothly, so she wants the Simons to go undercover and find out who is being blackmailed by whom. With a sparkle in his eye, Rick decides that AJ will enter as a contestant while he will show up as a judge. AJ is less than happy about it, especially the swimsuit competition, but grudgingly agrees to do it. Things get more serious when the pageant host stumbles upon the blackmailer being beaten by two toughs. The blackmailer, realizing the host must have heard that he owed money to a loan shark, kills him. A pageant contestant finds the body and is immediately suspected of being the murderer. It turns out that she was the one being blackmailed because she was kicked out of her family for being an unmarried mother. The Simons don't believe she's guilty and get Abby to give them 48 hours to find the re

2. Simon & Simon and Associates

15 Oct 1988 · 60m

When Rick's truck is stolen, the publicity about the Simons' much talked about capture of the thief attracts more trouble with business they can hardly handle, bringing associates into the firm seems to make Rick bossy while it makes A.J. uncomfortable.

3. Zen and the Art of the Split Finger Fastball

22 Oct 1988 · 60m

The Simons are hired to protect a Japanese businessman while he is at a fantasy baseball camp.

4. The Merry Adventures of Robert Hood

29 Oct 1988 · 60m

AJ is horrified to find almost $9,000 charged to his credit card without his knowledge. Rick is innocent this time and AJ goes to the bank to demand it be taken off his card. To his surprise, the person he starts complaining to bursts into tears. Instantly repentant, AJ takes the lady out to lunch when her stern boss tells her she's holding up the other employee lunches. While eating, the lady, Marion, tells AJ that this is the ninth time someone's credit card has been charged fraudulently and that her boss had threatened to fire her if it happened again. She loses track of time and returns to work late. When her boss comes to yell at her for being late, he surmises the fraud has happened again and proclaims tomorrow will be her last day working there. AJ is smitten by Marion and decides to investigate what's going on with Rick. They get a lead that takes them to a warehouse that is full of goods bought with stolen credit card money. The brothers see someone and split up to investigat

5. Ain't Gonna Get It from Me, Jack

5 Nov 1988 · 60m

A loud-mouth acid-tongued talk show host invites the Simons on his show and then hires them to find out who is sending threatening letters to him.

6. Love Song Of Abigail Marsh

12 Nov 1988 · 60m

Abby is attracted to a client of the Simons, but they are concerned the relationship will be a disaster when they insist he tell her of his troubled past.

7. Simon & Simon, Jr.

19 Nov 1988 · 60m

An old girlfriend tells Rick he has a teen-aged son and asks to protect the boy from a murderer who knows he witnessed the crime.

8. Cloak of Danger

3 Dec 1988 · 60m

AJ writes a play based on a long-unsolved murder case, then suddenly it flushes out the real culprit.

9. The Richer They Are the Harder They Fall

10 Dec 1988 · 60m

The Simon brothers join the Van Alder family at their elaborate estate for the first wedding anniversary of AJ's best friend Tommy Van Alder and his beautiful wife Trish, but as they repeat their vows, Tommy is stricken with an apparent heart attack and dies.

10. Play It Again, Simon

17 Dec 1988 · 60m

There's a 40 year old ""LOST"" manuscript to be found and A.J. is excited about the idea of one more story from his favorite detective novelist, even if it means going to L.A., where he finds everything strange, while Rick never wanted the job to begin with.

11. First, Let's Kill All the Lawyers

31 Dec 1988 · 60m

Woody Grant, John Channing, and Mark Fordham are all involved in an insider trading scheme using information gained from Woody's father's company. When Woody tells John he wants out, he ends up dead. His grieving father hires Rick and A.J. to investigate, and the two manage to finger John as the killer, but their mother's new beau Doug McKenna is an old Channing family friend, and ends up defending him in court, and in his attempt to defend a client he believes is innocent, he has to rip both A.J. and Rick apart on the stand. John is acquited of the crime, and the Simon brothers come under investigation. They manage to convince Lloyd Grant to keep them on the case, but they're going nowhere until Mark also tells John he wants out, and ends up being thrown off a walkway at the university library. They go to Doug with what they know, and the three hatch a plan to catch Channing at his own game.

12. Photo Finished

1 Mar 1989 · 60m

Rick and AJ are asked by Tom Huntley, a State Senatorial candidate, to find out whether his wife Colleen is having an affair. Despite their rule against working on cases involving marital difficulties, they agree. Naturally, it's all a setup. The Simons are put in place as witnesses to the apparent murder of Mrs. Huntley. They report the murder and turn over the pictures they've taken to the police. After her body turns up, they realize that what they saw was a scripted scene played out between two hired actors.

13. Simon Says 'Good-Bye'

2 Mar 1989 · 60m