Simon & Simon

Simon & Simon

1981
Simon & Simon
Simon & Simon

Simon & Simon

7 | en | Drama

Simon & Simon is an American detective television series that originally ran from November 24, 1981 to January 21, 1989. The series was broadcast on CBS and starred Gerald McRaney and Jameson Parker as two brothers who run a private detective agency together.

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

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EP12  Photo Finished
Mar. 01,1989
Photo Finished

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.

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

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.

EP10  Play It Again, Simon
Dec. 17,1988
Play It Again, Simon

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.

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

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.

EP8  Cloak of Danger
Dec. 03,1988
Cloak of Danger

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

EP7  Simon & Simon, Jr.
Nov. 19,1988
Simon & Simon, Jr.

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.

EP6  Love Song Of Abigail Marsh
Nov. 12,1988
Love Song Of Abigail Marsh

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.

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

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.

EP4  The Merry Adventures of Robert Hood
Oct. 29,1988
The Merry Adventures of Robert Hood

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

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

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

EP2  Simon & Simon and Associates
Oct. 15,1988
Simon & Simon and Associates

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.

EP1  Beauty and Deceased
Oct. 08,1988
Beauty and Deceased

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

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Released: 1981-11-24 | Released Producted By: Universal Television , Country: United States of America Budget: 0 Revenue: 0 Official Website:
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Simon & Simon is an American detective television series that originally ran from November 24, 1981 to January 21, 1989. The series was broadcast on CBS and starred Gerald McRaney and Jameson Parker as two brothers who run a private detective agency together.

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SnoopyStyle In San Diego, the Simon brothers have a private detective agency. Rick Simon (Gerald McRaney) is a Marine Vietnam vet, a hound dog and street-wise with underworld friends. A.J. (Jameson Parker) is the younger brother, a college boy with book smarts, responsible and living with their mom. Myron Fowler is their former boss who is still bitter about their departure. He's also angry that his lawyer daughter Janet Fowler often helps the brothers on their cases. In later years, police Lieutenant Marcel Proust "Downtown" Brown (Tim Reid) is their friend inside the force.There was an explosion of private detective shows with fun characters around that time. While it's not the best, it is better than most. Magnum is the king of the hill and these boys rode his coat tails. This show is notable for the fact that it stuck around for so long. McRaney and Parker don't really have superstar qualities but they work together well. At their best, they are loads of fun. Setting the show in San Diego allows the boys to go into Mexico every once in awhile. They do need a good third character and it's not until Tim Reid that they got a functional one. The show still suffers from a lack of good side characters. But at least their opening is really catchy.
denrainwater Simon and Simon was one of my favorite TV shows, ever -- particularly of the 80's. It was funny, had plenty of action, and showed some of the REAL sides of the P.I. business; unlike the more glamorous and sexy Magnum P.I., etc. (I mean, how often did we see Magnum squirming in that Ferarri for 15 hours on a stake-out, the floor littered with coffee cups, trying to keep his eyes open just a bit longer? Or for that matter, how often did he ever collect a fee for his services?? Nothing against Magnum -- I loved that show, too. But really, how long can a guy sponge off his friends -- or a host (Robin Masters) he's never even met -- and get away with it??) Simon and Simon showed just enough of the mundane side of the investigation business to keep it believable. Particularly for those of us who worked in that career... A good balance between action and fun, and the grittier reality of real-life investigators.Rick and A.J. were such polar opposites in clever ways that provided tension between the principal characters. The variety in their styles also gave a diverse audience something to relate to, to connect with. And who can forget Tim Reid as "Downtown" Brown, trying his darnedest to comprehend the latest scrape Rick's unorthodox methods had gotten them into? This show's run coincided with my relatively brief tenure as an investigator, and it became a tongue-in-cheek "policy" that our crew would gather each Thursday evening to take a needed break from business, and take in an hour of Magnum for comic relief -- and then our hour of Simon and Simon... Our weekly "training" meeting ;-) Ah, those were the days!
gazzo-2 This was a really good series, great partner for Magnum which it followed for some years. Good action, good humor, decent chemistry between the two leads....this show has a lot going for it. And having Venus Flytrap be your pal can't hurt either! I hadn't seen the show for some years 'til A and E began rerunning it of late; and still enjoy it, about as much as I had back in the '80s. It is a little repetitive and etc. as most series are, but still....see it if you can.
Risa-5 This show is one of my all time favorites!!!! I love the comradery between A.J. and Rick, even though they are brothers. When times get tough they are there for each other. It is too bad that we do not have many shows on today like that.