The BEST episodes of Simon & Simon
Every episode of Simon & Simon ever, ranked from best to worst by thousands of votes from fans of the show. The best episodes of Simon & Simon!
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 - Trapdoors
Season 1 - Episode 3 - Aired 12/8/1981
A banks computer system is being accessed by a young computer whiz, who helps himself to a little spending money. One of the bank's officials wants to know how the boy does it, and hires the Simons to find out.
#2 - Ashes to Ashes, and None Too Soon
Season 1 - Episode 8 - Aired 1/16/1982
Immediately after the Simons serve a man with divorce papers, he commits suicide-or does he.?
#3 - Love, Christy
Season 1 - Episode 2 - Aired 12/1/1981
Rick uses some of his old and shady contacts when he and AJ try to recover the stolen sports car of a pretty co-ed who Rick is determined to impress.
#4 - Details at Eleven
Season 1 - Episode 1 - Aired 11/24/1981
The step-daughter of a news anchor is missing and the Simons are hired to find her, but when they do, the plot thickens.
#5 - Love and/or Marriage
Season 5 - Episode 1 - Aired 10/3/1985
A wedding sets the stage, as Rick falls in love with their client (who suspects her husband is having an affair) and AJ proposes to Liz.
#6 - Enchilada Express
Season 5 - Episode 4 - Aired 10/24/1985
Their current case takes them to a Mexican divorce resort when a worried ex-wife asks them to find her husband.
#7 - Facets
Season 5 - Episode 11 - Aired 12/18/1985
AJ is devastated when he shoots a young man during an investigation of a diamond theft which reveals a family feud separating two lovers.
#8 - The Blue Chip Stomp
Season 5 - Episode 13 - Aired 1/16/1986
The Simons help Town and a high school basketball coach when the teams star is accused of murdering a college recruiter.
#9 - Mobile Home of the Brave
Season 5 - Episode 15 - Aired 1/30/1986
A cameraman is pursued by the mob and involves a charming family on vacation in their mobile home at a theme park.
#10 - Reunion at Alcatraz
Season 5 - Episode 7 - Aired 11/14/1985
Sam Penny is back searching for the only prisoner ever to have escaped from Alcatraz, almost 25 years ago.
#11 - Betty Grable Flies Again
Season 3 - Episode 10 - Aired 12/8/1983
WWII pilot wants to find his long lost B-25.
#12 - The Bare Facts
Season 3 - Episode 8 - Aired 11/17/1983
In order to find a missing contractor, the Simons have to search a nudist colony.
#13 - The Apple Doesn't Fall Far from the Tree
Season 5 - Episode 24 - Aired 5/1/1986
When hoods try to steal the family journal, Rick and AJ are prompted to go to Boston (with cousin Elizabeth) and trace the family tree, where they learn about pairs of Simon brothers down through the ages. Wayne (AJ) and Mad Benedict (Rick) Simon and their mother (Cecelia) in revolution-era Boston. 1775 and 1776 Sir Francis (AJ) and Black Jack (Rick) Simon and their mother Evangeline (Cece) in Pirate's Key, Florida. 1692 Orville (AJ) and Wilbur (Rick) Simon, shoe salesmen from Buffalo (owners of Simon Brothers shoes) in 1986.
#14 - Judgement Call
Season 6 - Episode 16 - Aired 2/5/1987
Downtown plans to propose to Temple, but they disagree about an arrest. Downtown thinks the arrested man is a criminal and Temple thinks he is the victim of a plot to evict him from his home.
#15 - Competition--Who Needs It?
Season 6 - Episode 1 - Aired 9/25/1986
A large PI firm moves into the Simons office building vowing to drive them out of business, meanwhile, they're trying to get their client, a charter boat captain, the insurance settlement she deserves for the boat that blew up.
#16 - A.W.O.L
Season 6 - Episode 2 - Aired 10/2/1986
A young sailor who is framed for drug possession and goes A.W.O.L. gets help from the Simons
#17 - Still Phil After All These Years
Season 6 - Episode 3 - Aired 10/9/1986
AJ and Rick dig up a time capsule for their mother's high school reunion and get a surprise when they find things connecting her former classmate to a long ago murder.
#18 - The Cop Who Came to Dinner
Season 6 - Episode 4 - Aired 10/16/1986
Town is injured and becomes their house guest, without telling them his life may be in danger.
#19 - Treasure
Season 6 - Episode 5 - Aired 10/23/1985
Against his better judgement, AJ agrees to go along on a job helping a wealthy old prospector find a lost mine in Mexico, when he finds himself attracted to the client, the man's daughter.
#21 - The Rookie
Season 6 - Episode 7 - Aired 11/6/1986
A rookie cop with a problem comes to the Simons for help, she suspects her partner, Town's mentor, is dirty, but she thinks if she reports him it will ruin her career.
#22 - Like Father, Like Son
Season 6 - Episode 8 - Aired 11/13/1986
Temple Hill asks Rick and AJ to protect the threatened son of a investigatve reporter who was murdered while working on an expose of a boxing promotor, but the boy wants them to help him find his father's killer.
#23 - The Case of Don Diablo
Season 6 - Episode 9 - Aired 11/20/1986
Rick refuses to give up his search for the $100,000 case of Don Diablo Wine Cooler when the contest's ad executive hires AJ to find it, making Rick and AJ rivals in the search.
#24 - Mrs. Simon & Mrs. Simon
Season 6 - Episode 10 - Aired 12/4/1986
Rick and AJ are hired by two lovely Greek stewardesses to investigate a murder they witnessed, then they end up marrying them to keep them from being deported to Greece (where the killers await) when their visas expire.
#25 - Just Because I'm Paranoid
Season 6 - Episode 11 - Aired 12/11/1986
A woman insists on running in a marathon even though she is a target, AJ runs along with her and Rick patrols the path.