The Best Episodes of Simon & Simon
Last Updated: Sep 14, 2018
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 - Pirate's Key (1)
Season 2 - Episode 13
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.
9.50
#2 - The Secret of the Chrome Eagle
Season 2 - Episode 20
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
#3 - Manna from Heaven
Season 4 - Episode 5
Rick is in big trouble when he is accused of murdering the president of the company that repossessed his boat.
9.00
#4 - I Thought the War Was Over
Season 6 - Episode 20
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
#5 - The Skeleton Who Came Out of the Closet
Season 2 - Episode 23
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.
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#6 - The List
Season 2 - Episode 18
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.
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#7 - Pirate's Key (2)
Season 2 - Episode 14
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.
9.00
#8 - Too Much of a Good Thing
Season 3 - Episode 9
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.
8.80
#9 - Who Killed the Sixties?
Season 4 - Episode 7
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
#10 - The Last Time I Saw Michael
Season 2 - Episode 8
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.
8.67
#11 - The Dark Side of the Street
Season 4 - Episode 4
A threatened bridegroom begs for help a few days before the wedding, who doesn't want the bridegroom to get married?
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#12 - Bail Out
Season 3 - Episode 4
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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#13 - Corpus Delecti
Season 3 - Episode 22
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.
8.67
#14 - Almost Foolproof
Season 4 - Episode 14
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
#15 - The Least Dangerous Game
Season 1 - Episode 5
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.
8.57
#16 - The Club Murder Vacation
Season 2 - Episode 15
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.
8.50
#17 - Caught Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea
Season 3 - Episode 7
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.
8.50
#18 - Double Play
Season 3 - Episode 18
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.
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#19 - Sudden Storm
Season 7 - Episode 14
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
8.33
#20 - Revolution #9 1/2
Season 4 - Episode 12
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.
8.33
#21 - Simon & Simon and Associates
Season 8 - Episode 2
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.
8.33
#22 - Murder Between the Lines
Season 2 - Episode 11
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.
8.25
#23 - John Doe
Season 3 - Episode 13
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.
8.25
#24 - DJ DOA
Season 3 - Episode 2
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.
8.20
#25 - A.W.O.L
Season 6 - Episode 2
A young sailor who is framed for drug possession and goes A.W.O.L. gets help from the Simons
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