Pilot
Episode: 1x01 | Airdate: Dec 30, 1984
After being released from prison for the murder of his wife, a man sets out find his wife, who is still alive, and finish the crime for which he was imprisoned.
Episode: 1x01 | Airdate: Dec 30, 1984
After being released from prison for the murder of his wife, a man sets out find his wife, who is still alive, and finish the crime for which he was imprisoned.
Episode: 1x02 | Airdate: Jan 6, 1985
When a wealthy associate dies, Harry is left a cigar box containing film clips of the 1906 San Francisco Earthquake, a cigar, and baseball cards in the will of the man who died. The cigar box also contains a message: "If you're as good a detective as you think you are, use these clues to discover the key to my success."
Episode: 1x03 | Airdate: Jan 13, 1985
Harry is hired by a nun to find out how a prostitute was able to get herself into the will of a priest.
Episode: 1x04 | Airdate: Jan 20, 1985
Harry is notified by a friend that his goddaughter is engaged to him. He discovers that the groom, Bill Merrick, is already married and terminates the engagement. The challenge now is to locate Merrick's elusive wife as he denies ever being married.
Episode: 1x05 | Airdate: Feb 3, 1985
While on vacation, Harry sees a person commit murder. Harry witnesses the murder in a motor-home while camping with Harrison and family. A camping outing for the Fox family turns into a hunt for a body when Harry claims to have seen a murder being committed aboard a motorhome.
The mystery begins when the Foxes lose their way. On seeing the parked motorhome, they pull over to ask for directions. It is then that Harry witnesses the murder. Harry snoops around the motorhome the next morning but is threatened by the owner, Chuck. Shortly after this, a woman who resembles the "murdered" lady emerges. Puzzled, Harry asks the local sheriff to make a search for the body. But nothing turns up....
Episode: 1x06 | Airdate: Feb 17, 1985
A man who has been fatally wounded stumbles into Harrison's office asking for Mr. Fox and then dies soon after. Now, Harry must figure out who Mr. Fox is and why the man wanted him.
A stranger walks into Harrison's office but before he can utter a word, he collapses and dies. Neither Harrison nor Harry knows him. It turns out he was a con artist named Dragotti who had swindled several people. The Press gets wind of it and the incident is splashed in the papers. Thinking Harrison is Dragotti's lawyer, the dead man's victims swarm the office and even picket outside his residence....
Episode: 1x07 | Airdate: Feb 24, 1985
Harry finds a counterfeit bill among his winnings in a poker game. Gino, a restaurant worker, tells him that a customer gave it to him as a tip the previous night. Meanwhile, a criminal called Henry Clay born holds a meeting with his men. Elmo, Nick and Nolan and lets slip that he knows one of them had taken a bill from his test batch of counterfeit twenties. Nolan, the guilty one, confesses that Gino now has the money. Clayborn and men confront Gino, who desperately rings Harry up, begging him to come and meet him at the warehouse with the bill.
Episode: 1x08 | Airdate: Mar 3, 1985
Harry (Jack Warden) finally has a car accident that puts him in the hospital, where he thinks he witnesses the murder of his roommate.
Episode: 1x09 | Airdate: Mar 10, 1985
Harry and Harrison investigate a wealthy, eccentric vineyard owner's claim that a spaceship has landed in her grapes.
Episode: 1x10 | Airdate: Mar 17, 1985
Harry vows to solve his private investigator friend's final case after he is found murdered. Harry and Harrison work together to catch their friend's killer and identify those responsible for a lucrative truck heist.
Episode: 1x11 | Airdate: Mar 24, 1985
Episode: 1x12 | Airdate: Mar 31, 1985
Episode: 1x13 | Airdate: Apr 7, 1985
Episode: 2x01 | Airdate: Oct 6, 1985
Harry (Jack Warden) and his friend Chick Parrish (Pat Harrington) report a murder they witnessed during a helicopter flight over San Francisco. Harry and Chick, the helicopter pilot, insist they witnessed a murder, until the reported victim makes a personal appearance.
Episode: 2x02 | Airdate: Oct 13, 1985
When Harry (Jack Warden) tries to return a stolen wallet he recovered from a pickpocket, he stumbles onto a murder. Harry is baffled over conflicting evidence involving a wallet, a pickpocket and a gun receipt.
Episode: 2x03 | Airdate: Oct 20, 1985
Harry is hired by a midget wrestler (Tommy Madden) who's been receiving death threats. His investigation leads to a promoter (Vera Miles) who's afraid somebody wants to blow up her arena. Harry races against a time bomb to flush out someone eager to end a wrestling promoter's (Vera Miles) career.
Episode: 2x04 | Airdate: Oct 27, 1985
Howard, Harrison's father-in-law, (Dick Van Patten) witnesses Harry in action after the country club president is murdered on the golf course.
Episode: 2x05 | Airdate: Nov 3, 1985
Episode: 2x06 | Airdate: Nov 10, 1985
Episode: 2x07 | Airdate: Dec 1, 1985
Episode: 2x08 | Airdate: Dec 15, 1985
Episode: 2x09 | Airdate: Dec 22, 1985
Dr David Farr, a friend of Harrison's, is accused of planting a bomb in a colleague's car that killed him.
Episode: 2x10 | Airdate: Dec 29, 1985
Episode: 2x11 | Airdate: Jan 5, 1986
Episode: 2x12 | Airdate: Jan 15, 1986
Episode: 2x13 | Airdate: Jan 22, 1986
Episode: 2x14 | Airdate: Jan 29, 1986
No fortune cookie predicted the predicament of a cookie tycoon (Terri Treas) who's charged with murdering her long-lost husband.
Episode: 2x15 | Airdate: Feb 5, 1986
Episode: 2x16 | Airdate: Feb 12, 1986
Episode: 2x17 | Airdate: Feb 26, 1986
Episode: 2x18 | Airdate: Mar 5, 1986
Episode: 2x19 | Airdate: Apr 5, 1986
Episode: 2x20 | Airdate: Apr 12, 1986
Episode: 2x21 | Airdate: Apr 19, 1986
Episode: 2x22 | Airdate: May 3, 1986
Episode: S02 Special | Airdate: Apr 5, 1987 (120 min)
During a vacation in the United Kingdom, Harrison "Harry" Fox, Sr. and Harrison Fox, Jr. inadvertently become the prime suspects in a murder case, and must go on the run in the British countryside with the whole of the police force on their trail.