The BEST episodes of Simon & Simon season 8
Every episode of Simon & Simon season 8, ranked from best to worst by thousands of votes from fans of the show. The best episodes of Simon & Simon season 8!
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 - First, Let's Kill All the Lawyers
Season 8 - Episode 11 - Aired 12/31/1988
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.
Watch Now:Amazon#2 - Simon & Simon and Associates
Season 8 - Episode 2 - Aired 10/15/1988
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.
Watch Now:Amazon#3 - Play It Again, Simon
Season 8 - Episode 10 - Aired 12/17/1988
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.
Watch Now:Amazon#4 - Photo Finished
Season 8 - Episode 12 - Aired 3/21/1989
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.
#5 - Simon & Simon Jr.
Season 8 - Episode 7 - Aired 11/19/1988
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.
Watch Now:Amazon#6 - Zen and the Art of the Split Finger Fastball
Season 8 - Episode 3 - Aired 10/22/1988
The Simons are hired to protect a Japanese businessman while he is at a fantasy baseball camp.
Watch Now:Amazon#7 - Ain't Gonna Get It from Me, Jack
Season 8 - Episode 5 - Aired 11/5/1988
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.
Watch Now:Amazon#8 - Simon Says Goodbye
Season 8 - Episode 13 - Aired 3/22/1989
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 - The Richer They Are, the Harder They Fall
Season 8 - Episode 9 - Aired 12/10/1988
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.
#10 - The Merry Adventures of Robert Hood
Season 8 - Episode 4 - Aired 10/29/1988
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
#11 - Beauty and Deceased
Season 8 - Episode 1 - Aired 10/8/1988
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
#12 - Love Song Of Abigail Marsh
Season 8 - Episode 6 - Aired 11/12/1988
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.
#13 - Cloak of Danger
Season 8 - Episode 8 - Aired 12/3/1988
AJ writes a play based on a long-unsolved murder case, then suddenly it flushes out the real culprit.