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Simon & Simon

Tue, Nov 24, 1981
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Synopsis

A.J. Simon is a polished fellow with a taste for classic cars and tailored suits. Rick Simon is his less refined (but still pleasant) older brother who has a taste for cowboy boots and four-wheel drive pickups. The two of them live in San Diego, where they own a private detective agency.

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Cast

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  • Jameson Parker
    Jameson Parker
    as A.J. Simon
  • Gerald McRaney
    Gerald McRaney
    as Rick Simon
  • Mary Carver
    Mary Carver
    as Cecilia Simon
  • Joan McMurtrey
    Joan McMurtrey
    as Abigail Marsh
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Episodes

8 seasons · 156 episodes

Ended · 156 aired
Season 1
13 episodes · 13 aired
▾
  • E1
    Details at Eleven
    Aired · Wed, Nov 25, 1981 · 60m

    Rick and AJ are hired to find the daughter of a prominent news anchor about to run for city council.

  • E2
    Love, Christy
    Aired · Wed, Dec 2, 1981 · 60m

    Rick gets talked into helping a pretty coed recover her stolen car.

  • E3
    Trapdoors
    Aired · Wed, Dec 9, 1981 · 60m

    Rick and AJ are hired to help a bank manager find a kid who broke into the bank computer. Unfortunately, the manager wants to use the kid to steal even more money.

  • E4
    A Recipe for Disaster
    Aired · Fri, Dec 18, 1981 · 60m

    Rick and AJ are hired to bring back a kidnapped child from Mexico. The case takes a turn when they discover the girl's father works for an oil company that's planning to possibly blow up a town to get to a new oil field.

  • E5
    The Least Dangereous Game
    Aired · Wed, Dec 30, 1981 · 60m

    Rick and AJ are hired by the zoo to find out why a keeper died. What they soon realize is they are being set up to prevent them from discovering an even larger secret.

  • E6
    The Dead Letter File
    Aired · Wed, Jan 6, 1982 · 60m

    Rick and AJ investigate a twenty-three year old murder after they receive an old letter delivered to them by mistake.

  • E7
    The Hottest Ticket in Town
    Aired · Wed, Jan 13, 1982 · 60m

    Rick and AJ are coerced by their mother into helping get concert tickets for their cousin, Diane. The simple task isn't so simple when they uncover a counterfeiting ring selling non-existent seats for the show.

  • E8
    Ashes to Ashes, and None Too Soon
    Aired · Sun, Jan 17, 1982 · 60m

    Rick and AJ are hired to serve court papers to an Anthony Ross. When Ross apparently dies from a fall out his hotel room window, the brothers find out there is something else going on; something involving misidentified bodies and stolen diamonds.

  • E9
    Uncivil Servant
    Aired · Thu, Jan 28, 1982 · 60m

    Myron hires Rick and AJ to find out which of his employees stole a confidential file.

  • E10
    Earth to Stacey
    Aired · Wed, Feb 10, 1982 · 60m

    Rick poaches a client from Myron only to find out she's more than a handful when she hires the brothers to find her missing fiance.

  • E11
    Double Entry
    Aired · Wed, Mar 3, 1982 · 60m

    Rick and AJ are hired to find out if a husband is cheating. They end up in the middle of a kidnapping scheme to cover up embezzling.

  • E12
    Matchmaker
    Aired · Wed, Mar 10, 1982 · 60m

    Rick and AJ are hired by a woman neither of them trust to recover an antiques collection. Along the way, they discover a burglery ring working out of a computer dating agency.

  • E13
    Tanks for the Memories
    Aired · Wed, Mar 17, 1982 · 60m

    Rick and AJ think they are hired to help find old school mate for a class reunion; in reality they are looking for one particular student that has himself in deep trouble with a survivalist group and its crazed colonel.

Season 2
23 episodes · 23 aired
▾
  • E1
    Emeralds Are Not a Girl's Best Friend
    Aired · Fri, Oct 8, 1982 · 60m

    Rick and A.J. are in Hawaii tailing a con artist who Jonathan Higgins of the Robin Masters' Estate, has just entrusted with $350,000 in 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 A.J. as bait.Story aired as a cross-over with Magnum P.I.; the first half of the story, Ki'i's Don't Lie, aired as a Magnum P.I. episode immediately preceding Emeralds Are Not a Girl's Best Friend.

  • E2
    Mike & Pat
    Aired · Fri, Oct 15, 1982 · 60m

    Rick and AJ are hired by Sea World to find a kidnapped dolphin.

  • E3
    Guessing Game
    Aired · Fri, Oct 22, 1982 · 60m

    A psychic hires Rick and AJ to help her solve a series of murders in a weathly neighborhood.

  • E4
    Art for Arthur's Sake
    Aired · Fri, Oct 29, 1982 · 60m

    Rick and AJ help two estranged sisters recover a painting thier deceased father donated to the naval museum.

  • E5
    The Ten Thousand Dollar Deductible
    Aired · Fri, Nov 5, 1982 · 60m

    AJ is robbed while on a courier job. Since he and Rick are considered the prime suspects, they decide to find out what really happened and who stole $450,000 in diamonds.

  • E6
    Rough Rider Rides Again
    Aired · Fri, Nov 19, 1982 · 60m

    Rick and AJ are hired to help a childhood hero accused of murder.(Episode emulated the controversy at the time over recasting the Lone Ranger and forcing actor Clayton Moore to give up the Lone Ranger mask.)

  • E7
    Sometimes Dreams Come True
    Aired · Fri, Dec 3, 1982 · 60m

    Janet sends a distraught woman to Rick and AJ to help her find her missing twin sister.

  • E8
    The Last Time I Saw Michael
    Aired · Fri, Dec 10, 1982 · 60m

    A family friend is about to be bilked out of $500,000 by a man impersonating her deceased husband; Rick and AJ set out to prove it is all a hoax.

  • E9
    Fowl Play
    Aired · Fri, Dec 17, 1982 · 60m

    Rick and AJ are hired to protect a football player from a game fixing scheme.

  • E10
    Thin Air
    Aired · Fri, Dec 31, 1982 · 60m

    An old friend of Rick's is accused of murdering her husband. Rick and AJ investigate and find mobsters and the FBI are involved.This episode is based on the novel Thin Air by Howard Browne.

  • E11
    Murder Between the Lines
    Aired · Fri, Jan 7, 1983 · 60m

    AJ believes he is the next victim in a case where people are murdered according to the plot of a best selling novel.

  • E12
    Psyched Out
    Aired · Fri, Jan 14, 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.

  • E13
    Pirate's Key (1)
    Aired · Fri, Jan 21, 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.

  • E14
    Pirate's Key (2)
    Aired · Fri, Jan 21, 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.

  • E15
    The Club Murder Vacation
    Aired · Fri, Jan 28, 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.

  • E16
    It's Only a Game
    Aired · Fri, Feb 4, 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.

  • E17
    A Design for Killing
    Aired · Fri, Feb 11, 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.

  • E18
    The List
    Aired · Fri, Feb 18, 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.

  • E19
    What's in a Gnome?
    Aired · Fri, Feb 25, 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 villain is.

  • E20
    The Secret of the Chrome Eagle
    Aired · Fri, Mar 4, 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.

  • E21
    Room 3502
    Aired · Fri, Mar 11, 1983 · 60m

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

  • E22
    Red Dog Blues
    Aired · Fri, Mar 25, 1983 · 60m
  • E23
    The Skeleton Who Came Out of the Closet
    Aired · Fri, Apr 1, 1983 · 60m
Season 3
23 episodes · 23 aired
▾
  • E1
    Grand Illusion
    Aired · Fri, Sep 30, 1983 · 60m
  • E2
    DJ DOA
    Aired · Fri, Oct 7, 1983 · 60m
  • E3
    I Heard It Was Murder
    Aired · Fri, Oct 14, 1983 · 60m
  • E4
    Bail Out
    Aired · Fri, Oct 21, 1983 · 60m
  • E5
    Fly the Alibi Skies
    Aired · Fri, Oct 28, 1983 · 60m

    The Simons (Jameson Parker, Gerald McRaney) call upon computer genius Richie Adler (Matthew Laborteaux of "Whiz Kids") to help in a murder investigation involving a pair of lookalike friends and double-booked airline reservations.

  • E6
    Shadow of Sam Penny
    Aired · Fri, Nov 4, 1983 · 60m
  • E7
    Caught Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea
    Aired · Fri, Nov 11, 1983 · 60m
  • E8
    The Bare Facts
    Aired · Fri, Nov 18, 1983 · 60m
  • E9
    Too Much of a Good Thing
    Aired · Fri, Dec 2, 1983 · 60m
  • E10
    Betty Grable Flies Again
    Aired · Fri, Dec 9, 1983 · 60m
  • E11
    Bon Voyage, Alonso
    Aired · Fri, Dec 16, 1983 · 60m
  • E12
    All Your Favorite Games
    Aired · Fri, Dec 23, 1983 · 60m
  • E13
    John Doe
    Aired · Fri, Jan 6, 1984 · 60m
  • E14
    Dear Lovesick
    Aired · Fri, Jan 13, 1984 · 60m
  • E15
    Bloodlines
    Aired · Fri, Jan 20, 1984 · 60m
  • E16
    Heels and Toes
    Aired · Fri, Feb 3, 1984 · 60m
  • E17
    The Wrong Stuff
    Aired · Fri, Feb 10, 1984 · 60m
  • E18
    Double Play
    Aired · Fri, Feb 17, 1984 · 60m
  • E19
    Under the Knife
    Aired · Fri, Feb 24, 1984 · 60m
  • E20
    Harm's Way
    Aired · Fri, Mar 2, 1984 · 60m
  • E21
    The Dillinger Print
    Aired · Fri, Mar 9, 1984 · 60m
  • E22
    Corpus Delecti
    Aired · Fri, Mar 23, 1984 · 60m
  • E23
    The Disappearance of Harry the Hat
    Aired · Fri, Mar 30, 1984 · 60m
Season 4
22 episodes · 22 aired
▾
  • E1
    C'est Simon (1)
    Aired · Fri, Sep 28, 1984 · 60m
  • E2
    C'est Simon (2)
    Aired · Fri, Sep 28, 1984 · 60m
  • E3
    A Little Wine with Murder
    Aired · Fri, Oct 5, 1984 · 60m
  • E4
    The Dark Side of the Street
    Aired · Fri, Oct 19, 1984 · 60m
  • E5
    Manna from Heaven
    Aired · Fri, Oct 26, 1984 · 60m
  • E6
    What Goes Around Comes Around
    Aired · Fri, Nov 2, 1984 · 60m
  • E7
    Who Killed the Sixties?
    Aired · Fri, Nov 9, 1984 · 60m
  • E8
    Break a Leg, Darling
    Aired · Fri, Nov 16, 1984 · 60m
  • E9
    Almost Completely Out of Circulation
    Aired · Fri, Nov 23, 1984 · 60m
  • E10
    Our Fair City
    Aired · Fri, Nov 30, 1984 · 60m
  • E11
    Deep Cover
    Aired · Fri, Dec 7, 1984 · 60m
  • E12
    Revolution #9 1/2
    Aired · Fri, Dec 14, 1984 · 60m
  • E13
    Yes, Virginia, There Is a Liberace
    Aired · Fri, Dec 21, 1984 · 60m
  • E14
    Almost Foolproof
    Aired · Fri, Jan 4, 1985 · 60m
  • E15
    Enter the Jaguar
    Aired · Fri, Jan 18, 1985 · 60m
  • E16
    Simon Without Simon (1)
    Aired · Fri, Jan 25, 1985 · 60m
  • E17
    Simon Without Simon (2)
    Aired · Fri, Feb 1, 1985 · 60m
  • E18
    Slither
    Aired · Fri, Feb 8, 1985 · 60m
  • E19
    The Mickey Mouse Mob
    Aired · Fri, Feb 15, 1985 · 60m
  • E20
    Mummy Talks
    Aired · Fri, Feb 22, 1985 · 60m
  • E21
    Marlowe, Come Home
    Aired · Fri, Mar 1, 1985 · 60m
  • E22
    Out-of-Town Brown
    Aired · Fri, Mar 29, 1985 · 60m
Season 5
24 episodes · 24 aired
▾
  • E1
    Love and/or Marriage
    Aired · Fri, Oct 4, 1985 · 60m
  • E2
    Burden of the Beast
    Aired · Fri, Oct 11, 1985 · 60m
  • E3
    The Third Eye
    Aired · Fri, Oct 18, 1985 · 60m
  • E4
    Enchilada Express
    Aired · Fri, Oct 25, 1985 · 60m
  • E5
    The Skull of Nostradamus
    Aired · Fri, Nov 1, 1985 · 60m
  • E6
    Have You Hugged Your Private Detective Today?
    Aired · Fri, Nov 8, 1985 · 60m
  • E7
    Reunion at Alcatraz
    Aired · Fri, Nov 15, 1985 · 60m
  • E8
    Down Home Country Blues
    Aired · Fri, Nov 22, 1985 · 60m
  • E9
    Quint Is Out
    Aired · Fri, Dec 6, 1985 · 60m
  • E10
    Walk a Mile in My Hat
    Aired · Fri, Dec 13, 1985 · 60m
  • E11
    Facets
    Aired · Thu, Dec 19, 1985 · 60m
  • E12
    Sunrise at Camp Apollo
    Aired · Fri, Jan 3, 1986 · 60m
  • E13
    The Blue Chip Stomp
    Aired · Fri, Jan 17, 1986 · 60m
  • E14
    Something for Sarah
    Aired · Fri, Jan 24, 1986 · 60m
  • E15
    Mobile Home of the Brave
    Aired · Fri, Jan 31, 1986 · 60m
  • E16
    Family Forecast
    Aired · Fri, Feb 7, 1986 · 60m
  • E17
    A Significant Obsession
    Aired · Fri, Feb 14, 1986 · 60m
  • E18
    For the People
    Aired · Fri, Feb 21, 1986 · 60m
  • E19
    Full Moon Blues
    Aired · Fri, Mar 7, 1986 · 60m
  • E20
    Eye of the Beholder
    Aired · Fri, Mar 14, 1986 · 60m
  • E21
    D-I-V-O-R-C-E
    Aired · Fri, Mar 28, 1986 · 60m
  • E22
    Act Five
    Aired · Fri, Apr 4, 1986 · 60m
  • E23
    The Last Harangue
    Aired · Fri, Apr 11, 1986 · 60m
  • E24
    The Apple Doesn't Fall Far from the Tree
    Aired · Fri, May 2, 1986 · 60m
Season 6
22 episodes · 22 aired
▾
  • E1
    Competition--Who Needs It?
    Aired · Fri, Sep 26, 1986 · 60m
  • E2
    A.W.O.L
    Aired · Fri, Oct 3, 1986 · 60m
  • E3
    Still Phil After All These Years
    Aired · Fri, Oct 10, 1986 · 60m
  • E4
    The Cop Who Came to Dinner
    Aired · Fri, Oct 17, 1986 · 60m
  • E5
    Treasure
    Aired · Fri, Oct 24, 1986 · 60m
  • E6
    The Last Big Break
    Aired · Fri, Oct 31, 1986 · 60m
  • E7
    The Rookie
    Aired · Fri, Nov 7, 1986 · 60m
  • E8
    Like Father, Like Son
    Aired · Fri, Nov 14, 1986 · 60m
  • E9
    The Case of Don Diablo
    Aired · Fri, Nov 21, 1986 · 60m
  • E10
    Mrs. Simon & Mrs. Simon
    Aired · Fri, Dec 5, 1986 · 60m
  • E11
    Just Because I'm Paranoid
    Aired · Fri, Dec 12, 1986 · 60m
  • E12
    Tonsillitis
    Aired · Fri, Dec 19, 1986 · 60m
  • E13
    Deep Water Death
    Aired · Fri, Jan 9, 1987 · 60m
  • E14
    For Old Crime's Sake
    Aired · Fri, Jan 16, 1987 · 60m
  • E15
    Opposites Attack
    Aired · Fri, Jan 30, 1987 · 60m
  • E16
    Judgement Call
    Aired · Fri, Feb 6, 1987 · 60m
  • E17
    Tanner P.I. for Hire
    Aired · Fri, Feb 13, 1987 · 60m
  • E18
    Ancient Echoes
    Aired · Fri, Feb 20, 1987 · 60m
  • E19
    Second Story Simons
    Aired · Fri, Feb 27, 1987 · 60m
  • E20
    I Thought the War Was Over
    Aired · Fri, Mar 6, 1987 · 60m
  • E21
    Lost Lady
    Aired · Fri, Mar 13, 1987 · 60m
  • E22
    Walking Point
    Aired · Fri, Mar 27, 1987 · 60m
Season 7
16 episodes · 16 aired
▾
  • E1
    New Cop in Town
    Aired · Fri, Dec 4, 1987 · 60m
  • E2
    Desperately Seeking Dacody
    Aired · Fri, Dec 11, 1987 · 60m
  • E3
    You, Too, Can Be a Detective
    Aired · Fri, Dec 18, 1987 · 60m
  • E4
    Shadows
    Aired · Fri, Jan 8, 1988 · 60m
  • E5
    Second Swell
    Aired · Fri, Jan 15, 1988 · 60m
  • E6
    Forever Hold Your Piece
    Aired · Fri, Jan 22, 1988 · 60m
  • E7
    Tale of the Tiger
    Aired · Fri, Jan 29, 1988 · 60m
  • E8
    Nuevo Salvador
    Aired · Fri, Feb 5, 1988 · 60m
  • E9
    Bad Betty
    Aired · Fri, Feb 12, 1988 · 60m
  • E10
    Baja, Humbug
    Aired · Fri, Feb 19, 1988 · 60m
  • E11
    A Firm Grasp of Reality
    Aired · Fri, Feb 26, 1988 · 60m
  • E12
    Ties That Bind
    Aired · Fri, Mar 4, 1988 · 60m
  • E13
    Little Boy Dead
    Aired · Fri, Mar 11, 1988 · 60m
  • E14
    Sudden Storm
    Aired · Fri, Mar 18, 1988 · 60m
  • E15
    Something Special
    Aired · Fri, Apr 1, 1988 · 60m
  • E16
    May the Road Rise Up
    Aired · Fri, Apr 8, 1988 · 60m
Season 8
13 episodes · 13 aired
▾
  • E1
    Beauty and Deceased
    Aired · Sun, Oct 9, 1988 · 60m
  • E2
    Simon & Simon and Associates
    Aired · Sun, Oct 16, 1988 · 60m
  • E3
    Zen and the Art of the Split Finger Fastball
    Aired · Sun, Oct 23, 1988 · 60m
  • E4
    The Merry Adventures of Robert Hood
    Aired · Sun, Oct 30, 1988 · 60m
  • E5
    Ain't Gonna Get It from Me, Jack
    Aired · Sun, Nov 6, 1988 · 60m
  • E6
    Love Song of Abigail Marsh
    Aired · Sun, Nov 13, 1988 · 60m
  • E7
    Simon & Simon Jr.
    Aired · Sun, Nov 20, 1988 · 60m
  • E8
    Cloak of Danger
    Aired · Sun, Dec 4, 1988 · 60m
  • E9
    The Richer They Are, the Harder They Fall
    Aired · Sun, Dec 11, 1988 · 60m
  • E10
    Play It Again, Simon
    Aired · Sun, Dec 18, 1988 · 60m
  • E11
    First, Let's Kill All the Lawyers
    Aired · Sun, Jan 1, 1989 · 60m
  • E12
    Photo Finished
    Aired · Thu, Mar 2, 1989 · 60m
  • E13
    Simon Says 'Goodbye'
    Aired · Fri, Mar 3, 1989 · 60m