The BEST Episodes of Simon & Simon
Every episode ever - ranked by fan votes!
Last Updated: Mar 27, 2020
Network: CBS
Simon & Simon is a show based on TWO BROTHERS who just happen to be Private Investigators. They live and work in San Diego where once a week, for eight seasons, the series revealed the loyality and love they had for one another, "they're more than brothers, they're best of friends."
#1 - Manna from Heaven
Season 4 - Episode 5 - Aired Oct 25, 1984
Rick is in big trouble when he is accused of murdering the president of the company that repossessed his boat.
9.50 #2 - Pirate's Key (1)
Season 2 - Episode 13 - Aired Jan 20, 1983
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.
9.25 #3 - Pirate's Key (2)
Season 2 - Episode 14 - Aired Jan 20, 1983
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.
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#4 - The Secret of the Chrome Eagle
Season 2 - Episode 20 - Aired Mar 3, 1983
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.
9.00 #5 - The Skeleton Who Came Out of the Closet
Season 2 - Episode 23 - Aired Mar 31, 1983
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.
9.00 #6 - Bail Out
Season 3 - Episode 4 - Aired Oct 20, 1983
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.
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#7 - Corpus Delecti
Season 3 - Episode 22 - Aired Mar 22, 1984
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.
9.00 #8 - The Dark Side of the Street
Season 4 - Episode 4 - Aired Oct 18, 1984
A threatened bridegroom begs for help a few days before the wedding, who doesn't want the bridegroom to get married?
9.00 #9 - I Thought the War Was Over
Season 6 - Episode 20 - Aired Mar 5, 1987
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.
9.00 #10 - Play It Again, Simon
Season 8 - Episode 10 - Aired 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.
9.00 #11 - First, Let's Kill All the Lawyers
Season 8 - Episode 11 - Aired 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.
9.00 #12 - Simon Says Goodbye
Season 8 - Episode 13 - Aired Mar 22, 1989
In this series finale: Abby's friend hires Rick and A.J. to find an old flame, while the Simon's continue to be unlucky in love. Sadly (but with class), the series ends.
9.00 #13 - Too Much of a Good Thing
Season 3 - Episode 9 - Aired Dec 1, 1983
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.
8.86 #14 - The List
Season 2 - Episode 18 - Aired Feb 17, 1983
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.
8.80 #15 - Double Play
Season 3 - Episode 18 - Aired Feb 16, 1984
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.
8.80 #16 - The Club Murder Vacation
Season 2 - Episode 15 - Aired Jan 27, 1983
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.
8.75 #17 - Who Killed the Sixties?
Season 4 - Episode 7 - Aired Nov 8, 1984
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.
8.75 #18 - The Skull of Nostradamus
Season 5 - Episode 5 - Aired Oct 31, 1985
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.
8.75 #19 - Sudden Storm
Season 7 - Episode 14 - Aired Mar 17, 1988
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
8.75 #20 - Caught Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea
Season 3 - Episode 7 - Aired Nov 10, 1983
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.
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#21 - A Little Wine with Murder
Season 4 - Episode 3 - Aired Oct 4, 1984
A restuarant critic is killed, and his partner hires Rick and AJ to find out why and by whom.
8.67 #22 - Almost Foolproof
Season 4 - Episode 14 - Aired Jan 3, 1985
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.
8.67 #23 - Murder Between the Lines
Season 2 - Episode 11 - Aired Jan 6, 1983
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.
8.60 #24 - John Doe
Season 3 - Episode 13 - Aired Jan 5, 1984
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.
8.60 #25 - Fowl Play
Season 2 - Episode 9 - Aired Dec 16, 1982
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.
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