The WORST episodes of Simon & Simon

#1 - 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.

#2 - Something Special

Season 7 - Episode 15 - Aired 3/31/1988

Both of the Simon brothers are amazed of the architect they are protecting, when she hires them.

#3 - 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.

#4 - 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.

#5 - 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

#6 - Second Swell

Season 7 - Episode 5 - Aired 1/14/1988

AJ's past comes back to haunt him when a routine serving of a summons goes terribly wrong. Bracken, a murderer convicted by AJ's testimony 17 years ago, has returned and wants revenge on both him and his ex-girlfriend, Kristen. The beating he gives AJ leaves the young Simon in the hospital. AJ doesn't tell anyone who attacked him, and as soon as he can stand, he leaves the hospital and goes in search of the girl he used to love. Once he finds her, he convinces her to let him stay while her husband's gone to protect her from Bracken. Meanwhile, Rick is beside himself with worry. AJ has gone off without telling him where he was going, and Rick knew it had something to do with the attack. Many hours of research later, he finds out about the old murder case AJ was involved in that happened while Rick was in Vietnam. Convinced more than ever that AJ's in real trouble, he starts tracking Kristen down. AJ and Kristen find themselves attracted to each other after all these years, but AJ refu

#7 - The Dillinger Print

Season 3 - Episode 21 - Aired 3/8/1984

A retired FBI agent thinks he has some new evidence in the John Dillinger case and then he is murdered, and AJ is forced to face his own fear when his reaction to a violent warning is not what he would have expected.

#8 - 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.

#9 - Betty Grable Flies Again

Season 3 - Episode 10 - Aired 12/8/1983

WWII pilot wants to find his long lost B-25.

#10 - Bloodlines

Season 3 - Episode 15 - Aired 1/19/1984

While the Simons are looking for a stolen horse, they uncover some revealing information about the racing accident that had killed their client's father years before.

#11 - Burden of the Beast

Season 5 - Episode 2 - Aired 10/10/1985

A trained chimp is the only witness to a murder and they try to figure out who the chimp is identifying as the assailant.

#12 - C'est Simon (2)

Season 4 - Episode 2 - Aired 9/27/1984

#13 - Tonsillitis

Season 6 - Episode 12 - Aired 12/18/1986

Rick protests violently when the doctor wants to remove his tonsils, but he has to. While he is under anesthetic, he sees what he thinks is a murder, and no one will believe him.

#14 - Have You Hugged Your Private Detective Today?

Season 5 - Episode 6 - Aired 11/7/1985

Just when his breakup with Liz has AJ looking for love in all the wrong places, the brothers are hired by a TV sex therapist to investigate the death of one of her employees.

#15 - Enter the Jaguar

Season 4 - Episode 15 - Aired 1/17/1984

Rick and AJ go international with a beginning in Morocco where two different worlds intersect. Respected bird expert John Howell asks the detective brothers to prove he is not a jewel thief wanted in multiple countries.

#16 - The Disappearance of Harry the Hat

Season 3 - Episode 23 - Aired 3/29/1984

A mild mannered accountant hires Rick and AJ to teach him how to vanish. He tells them that he wants to evade a demanding wife, but maybe he has another reason.

#17 - A Design for Killing

Season 2 - Episode 17 - Aired 2/10/1983

A clothing design house, featuring a top teen model, hires the Simons to protect its new fall line from being stolen by a rival firm.

#18 - 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.

#19 - 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.

#20 - 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.

#21 - 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.

#22 - Heels and Toes

Season 3 - Episode 16 - Aired 2/2/1984

AJ's broken wrist puts him and Rick in position to help a dancer, a ballerina by day and an exotic dancer by night, who is accused of murdering her roommate.

#23 - Nuevo Salvador

Season 7 - Episode 8 - Aired 2/4/1988

Rick and AJ are protecting a relief worker from a Salvadoran death squad.

#24 - Bon Voyage, Alonso

Season 3 - Episode 11 - Aired 12/15/1983

Cecelia agrees to chaperone two teenage girls on a cruise, with Rick's help, but then the ship is highjacked.

#25 - Mike & Pat

Season 2 - Episode 2 - Aired 10/14/1982

A dolphin is abducted, and Rick and AJ have to find him and bring him back before his mate starves herself to death.