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Episode List

Season 1

Details at Eleven

Episode: 1x01 | Airdate: Nov 24, 1981

Rick and AJ are hired to find the daughter of a prominent news anchor about to run for city council.

Love, Christy

Episode: 1x02 | Airdate: Dec 1, 1981

Rick gets talked into helping a pretty coed recover her stolen car.

Trapdoors

Episode: 1x03 | Airdate: Dec 8, 1981

Rick and AJ are hired to help a bank manager find a kid who broke into the bank computer. Unfortunately, the manager wants to use the kid to steal even more money.

A Recipe for Disaster

Episode: 1x04 | Airdate: Dec 17, 1981

Rick and AJ are hired to bring back a kidnapped child from Mexico. The case takes a turn when they discover the girl's father works for an oil company that's planning to possibly blow up a town to get to a new oil field.

The Least Dangereous Game

Episode: 1x05 | Airdate: Dec 29, 1981

Rick and AJ are hired by the zoo to find out why a keeper died. What they soon realize is they are being set up to prevent them from discovering an even larger secret.

The Dead Letter File

Episode: 1x06 | Airdate: Jan 5, 1982

Rick and AJ investigate a twenty-three year old murder after they receive an old letter delivered to them by mistake.

The Hottest Ticket in Town

Episode: 1x07 | Airdate: Jan 12, 1982

Rick and AJ are coerced by their mother into helping get concert tickets for their cousin, Diane. The simple task isn't so simple when they uncover a counterfeiting ring selling non-existent seats for the show.

Ashes to Ashes, and None Too Soon

Episode: 1x08 | Airdate: Jan 16, 1982

Rick and AJ are hired to serve court papers to an Anthony Ross. When Ross apparently dies from a fall out his hotel room window, the brothers find out there is something else going on; something involving misidentified bodies and stolen diamonds.

Uncivil Servant

Episode: 1x09 | Airdate: Jan 27, 1982

Myron hires Rick and AJ to find out which of his employees stole a confidential file.

Earth to Stacey

Episode: 1x10 | Airdate: Feb 9, 1982

Rick poaches a client from Myron only to find out she's more than a handful when she hires the brothers to find her missing fiance.

Double Entry

Episode: 1x11 | Airdate: Mar 2, 1982

Rick and AJ are hired to find out if a husband is cheating. They end up in the middle of a kidnapping scheme to cover up embezzling.

Matchmaker

Episode: 1x12 | Airdate: Mar 9, 1982

Rick and AJ are hired by a woman neither of them trust to recover an antiques collection. Along the way, they discover a burglery ring working out of a computer dating agency.

Tanks for the Memories

Episode: 1x13 | Airdate: Mar 16, 1982

Rick and AJ think they are hired to help find old school mate for a class reunion; in reality they are looking for one particular student that has himself in deep trouble with a survivalist group and its crazed colonel.

Season 2

Emeralds Are Not a Girl's Best Friend

Episode: 2x01 | Airdate: Oct 7, 1982

Rick and A.J. are in Hawaii tailing a con artist who Jonathan Higgins of the Robin Masters' Estate, has just entrusted with $350,000 in proceeds from his charity event. The three follow her to South America, where they reel her in with a con of their own, using a huge emerald and A.J. as bait.

Story aired as a cross-over with Magnum P.I.; the first half of the story, Ki'i's Don't Lie, aired as a Magnum P.I. episode immediately preceding Emeralds Are Not a Girl's Best Friend.

Mike & Pat

Episode: 2x02 | Airdate: Oct 14, 1982

Rick and AJ are hired by Sea World to find a kidnapped dolphin.

Guessing Game

Episode: 2x03 | Airdate: Oct 21, 1982

A psychic hires Rick and AJ to help her solve a series of murders in a weathly neighborhood.

Art for Arthur's Sake

Episode: 2x04 | Airdate: Oct 28, 1982

Rick and AJ help two estranged sisters recover a painting thier deceased father donated to the naval museum.

The Ten Thousand Dollar Deductible

Episode: 2x05 | Airdate: Nov 4, 1982

AJ is robbed while on a courier job. Since he and Rick are considered the prime suspects, they decide to find out what really happened and who stole $450,000 in diamonds.

Rough Rider Rides Again

Episode: 2x06 | Airdate: Nov 18, 1982

Rick and AJ are hired to help a childhood hero accused of murder.

(Episode emulated the controversy at the time over recasting the Lone Ranger and forcing actor Clayton Moore to give up the Lone Ranger mask.)

Sometimes Dreams Come True

Episode: 2x07 | Airdate: Dec 2, 1982

Janet sends a distraught woman to Rick and AJ to help her find her missing twin sister.

The Last Time I Saw Michael

Episode: 2x08 | Airdate: Dec 9, 1982

A family friend is about to be bilked out of $500,000 by a man impersonating her deceased husband; Rick and AJ set out to prove it is all a hoax.

Fowl Play

Episode: 2x09 | Airdate: Dec 16, 1982

Rick and AJ are hired to protect a football player from a game fixing scheme.

Thin Air

Episode: 2x10 | Airdate: Dec 30, 1982

An old friend of Rick's is accused of murdering her husband. Rick and AJ investigate and find mobsters and the FBI are involved.

This episode is based on the novel Thin Air by Howard Browne.

Murder Between the Lines

Episode: 2x11 | Airdate: Jan 6, 1983

AJ believes he is the next victim in a case where people are murdered according to the plot of a best selling novel.

Psyched Out

Episode: 2x12 | Airdate: Jan 13, 1983

AJ poses as a student and Rick becomes a subject in a psychologist's experiment to investigate the death of a track star who died in a suspicious fall from a fraternity house roof.

Pirate's Key (1)

Episode: 2x13 | Airdate: 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.

Pirate's Key (2)

Episode: 2x14 | Airdate: Jan 20, 1983

The Club Murder Vacation

Episode: 2x15 | Airdate: 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.

It's Only a Game

Episode: 2x16 | Airdate: Feb 3, 1983

Rick and AJ's good friend, the coroner, asks the brothers to deliver a new video game to Las Vegas and they don't understand just how valuable it is until thieves attack.

A Design for Killing

Episode: 2x17 | Airdate: Feb 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.

The List

Episode: 2x18 | Airdate: 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.

What's in a Gnome?

Episode: 2x19 | Airdate: Feb 24, 1983

An amusement park owned by a retired Marine colonel is being repeatedly vandalized so the manager hires the Simons to work undercover but the more they learn about the vandal, the more they question who the real villain is.

The Secret of the Chrome Eagle

Episode: 2x20 | Airdate: 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.

Room 3502

Episode: 2x21 | Airdate: Mar 10, 1983

A panic sticken husband comes to the Simons when he finds his wife has vanished from their hotel room overnight.

Red Dog Blues

Episode: 2x22 | Airdate: Mar 24, 1983

The Skeleton Who Came Out of the Closet

Episode: 2x23 | Airdate: Mar 31, 1983

Specials

Simon & Simon: In Trouble Again

Episode: S08 Special | Airdate: Feb 23, 1995 (90 min)

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