Simon & Simon
Simon & Simon
| 24 November 1981 (USA)
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  • Season 8 : 1988 | 13 Episodes

    EP1 Beauty and Deceased Oct 08, 1988

    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

    EP2 Simon & Simon and Associates Oct 15, 1988

    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.

    EP3 Zen and the Art of the Split Finger Fastball Oct 22, 1988

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

    EP4 The Merry Adventures of Robert Hood Oct 29, 1988

    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

    EP5 Ain't Gonna Get It from Me, Jack Nov 05, 1988

    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.

    EP6 Love Song Of Abigail Marsh Nov 12, 1988

    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.

    EP7 Simon & Simon, Jr. Nov 19, 1988

    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.

    EP8 Cloak of Danger Dec 03, 1988

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

    EP9 The Richer They Are the Harder They Fall Dec 10, 1988

    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.

    EP10 Play It Again, Simon Dec 17, 1988

    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.

    EP11 First, Let's Kill All the Lawyers Dec 31, 1988

    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.

    EP12 Photo Finished Mar 01, 1989

    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.

    EP13 Simon Says 'Good-Bye' Mar 02, 1989

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    Reviews
    drystyx

    There is never any shortage of private investigator TV series. This is one of what seems to be thousands.Here, we have two brothers. The older one, with the mustache, has a backwoods manliness. The younger one is the 1981 attempt to bring back the blond young man as something besides a red neck or sissy.It's important to remember that other than Eastwood, Redford, and Newman, those whom already had acceptance, the handsome blond man of the seventies was viewed as the "great evil empire".Strangely, blond women were treated as "invulnerable". The seventies were the ideal decade for neo Nazis who worshiped Adolf and Eva, the dark haired man and the blond woman. They were the American model. Any deviation from this genotype was to be eliminated in the action movies of the seventies. It was truly the "neo nazi decade".Then came "Star Wars", which shattered the stereotype, and soon after, TV followed suit, again allowing blond men to exist. It would be a while before brunette women would be allowed to live. The nazi machine wasn't going to give up that easy.So instead of romantic lead men always being Fonz and his clones, Simon and Simon dared to bring a romantic blond man into the TV set. It was revolutionary. He still wasn't allowed to be very macho, but it was a step.But a private eye show had to have more than just a new gimmick. It had to click. These two as brothers clicked. The stories clicked, and it was entertaining. The actors, amazingly, weren't sure if they would click, which is even a bigger tribute to their acting. They made it work, as did the rest of the crew.Like most TV series, there was a need for a recurring character to come into focus. "Bronco" the brute was chosen. He was a bit of comic relief, but too much was put on his shoulders. The writers tended to go too much into clichés, but they started out very fresh. Too bad they lost it.

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    mixedmerchandise

    I started watching Simon & Simon when it aired in 1981 and from the very beginning I enjoyed the show, especially the shows setting in beautiful San Diego, CA.I was a 14 yr. old kid when it aired in 1981 growing up in a crime ridden area of New York City (The South Bronx).I could only dream of escaping to that beautiful sun soaked paradise I envisioned through the wonders of television as I watched episode after episode.In 1989 a year after Simon & Simon was cancelled I happily moved to beautiful San Diego, CA and could now experience what life in such a wonderful town would be like first hand.I lived in San Diego from 1989-1993 and could honestly say that those were the most memorable moments in my life, and I owe it all to the Simon & Simon T.V show for giving a teenage kid from The Bronx hope beyond the ghetto.

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    greg-mcphee

    I really enjoyed this show, and watched it religiously when me and my family lived in L.A. in the eighties.I think it was one of the last P.I. shows on the air when it was cancelled, as by that time the sitcom was taking over and action/adventure shows like this had fallen out of favour.It had the same kind of sense of humour as Rockford and Magnum, and was just as entertaining as either one. (No real surprise as the series creator Philip DeGuere had worked with Roy Huggins, Stephen J. Cannell and Donald P. Bellisario, who gave us those other two classics.)Stand out episodes include: "Ashes to Ashes, and None Too Soon", "Thin Air", "Pirate's Key", "The List", "Grand Illusion", "The Dillinger Print", "C'est Simon", "Who Killed the Sixties?" "Simon Without Simon" Parts 1 and 2, and of course, "May the Road Rise Up"There are more but not enough room or time to mention them all.

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    Calios

    Didn't watch this series that often when it ran in the '80s, but did catch a few episodes then and saw nearly all when A&E replayed it. It is one of the best action, detective series ever. Some shows are better than some Rockford Files episodes.The relationship and interaction between the brothers seemed real and genuine. The acting and directing was top notch and the locations are special as one can get a taste for that time period in San Diego or Florida (my favorite episode when they went back to where they started, it was a two-parter) or where ever the guys were.The acting was the best as this series easily tops Magnum for quality and enjoyment... well except for guys, seeing the sights in Hawaii ; ) and a Ferrari Testarossa and for women, Tom Selleck.

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