Simon & Simon
Simon & Simon is an American detective television series that originally ran from November 24, 1981 to January 21, 1989. The series was broadcast on CBS and starred Gerald McRaney and Jameson Parker as two brothers who run a private detective agency together.
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
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.
The Simons are hired to protect a Japanese businessman while he is at a fantasy baseball camp.
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
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.
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.
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.
AJ writes a play based on a long-unsolved murder case, then suddenly it flushes out the real culprit.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Arrested for wiretapping, the Simons seek help from Downtown Brown and find he has been replaced by a tough new chief detective.
A former girl friend of Rick, a zealous reporter becomes a problem when she hires them to prove a man innocent.
Rick gets a telephone call from a girl who is inspired by his book and does some detective work herself, only to be arrested. Her eagerness equals trouble to have around, but it turns out she's right, and the Simons wish they'd taken her hunch more serious a lot earlier.
The Simon family are enjoying a day at the ballpark when a 'kid' takes off with AJ's wallet. AJ pursues the kid and catches her, but Allison swears it was just an initiation into a club, so he lets her go. She turns up again at the office to return some things that had 'fallen out' of AJ's wallet. She says she's there to ask for help, but the minute the brothers' backs are turned, she takes off with Rick's $1,000 camera. It turns out that she is working as a prostitute to survive. Her pimp has decided one of her co-workers who is also a friend needs to die. Allison is doing her best to keep her friend alive and out of the pimp's reach. She's pawned Rick's camera for $50 worth of groceries. When the 'customers' get rough with her, Allison flees to AJ's for a safe haven for a night. She's touched by his kindness after she'd stolen Rick's camera, but not touched enough to keep from 'borrowing' AJ's gun. AJ and Rick catch up to her in time to find her friend is dying. When she dies at t
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
When the Simons are hired to discover a saboteur on a fishing boat, Rick decides to spend some time at sea with the crew. When he returns, one of his shipmates, a Vietnamese man, is severely beaten before Rick and AJ can put a stop to it. While in the hospital, he is killed by poison injected into his IV. At the funeral, AJ is attracted to the man's sister, Ho Xuan, and offers his sympathies. Rick, meanwhile, sees a beloved war buddy there that he hasn't seen in years - Chen. Unbeknownst to Rick, Chen and Ho Xuan have had a love affair gone very sour. Rick and Chen go out to dinner to celebrate their reunion. AJ starts investigating the sabotage on his own and runs into Ho Xuan. She tells him that her brother was killed by a man known as 'the Tiger', who is the leader of organized crime in the area. She's afraid for her life, so AJ goes to Abigail for more information. She tells him that 'the Tiger' is Chen. AJ goes to Rick's boat to tell him what he's discovered, only to find Rick a
Rick and AJ are protecting a relief worker from a Salvadoran death squad.
The Simons race to capture a thief called the Weazel before a bounty hunter called ""Bad Betty"" catches him.
After the Simons have a case go downhill on them, Rick inherits a charter boat in Mexico and decides to take over the charter business. He tries different ways to talk AJ into going along with his idea and only wins when he reminds AJ of the novel he always wanted to write and now he could.
A woman, a biochemist, on the verge of a multi-million dollar discovery, goes into a mental hospital when no one will believe she's being followed and harrassed, everyone thinks she's making it up, which leads to her having a relapse of her mental disorder. The Simons go undercover to protect her.
Officer Nixon goes to the Simons to ask them to investigate the activities of a fellow officer and close friend, when the officer borrows a large sum from a loan shark shortly after his brother returns to town.
Lt. Marsh is devastated when she shoots a young boy and finds it very hard to cope, Rick and AJ notice right away she is out of sorts and come to her rescue to help her make sense of the whole thing.
After returning home from a date and spurning his advances, Cecilia's power is knocked out and she is beaten and raped by a man she can't see. AJ, who'd been on the phone with her when she was was attacked, rushed to her aid, but got there too late. Rick joined AJ and Abby in the waiting room, horrified to discover his mother has been so brutally attack. He vows vengeance while AJ withdraws into himself, unable to speak about it. They go in to visit Cecilia and find a deeply hurt and defensive woman. The brothers are both enflamed by her pain, and both start to look for the monster who did this. Rick is sure it is the man Cecilia had been out with, and goes about trying to prove it. AJ, meanwhile, is equally sure it is the gardener, who'd been seen skulking around Cecilia's house. They are both sure the other is completely wrong. Things become strained between all of the Simons - Cecilia doesn't want her boys hovering over her, and the brothers are angry with each other. After Rick b
Both of the Simon brothers are amazed of the architect they are protecting, when she hires them.
The Simons' world turns upside down when the brothers discover the car that their father had died in was driving down the street. They stopped the driver to discover it was indeed their father's car, but he knew nothing - it had been bought at an auction the month before. Cecilia wouldn't believe the boys at first, but they finally convinced her it was the same car. While she and Rick couldn't believe he was still alive, AJ clung to the hope that he was, to the point of striking his brother. Both were horrified by how close they'd come to really hurting each other and resumed their search for the truth. After a long, frustrating search, they finally discover that Jack Simon hadn't died in a fiery car crash on a rainy night. He'd actually died months later of radiation poisoning, contracted when he was stopping some terrorists of stealing the radioactive materials. Jack's old boss and good friend shows them the cabin where he had really died and gave them the key. Inside the one-roo
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.
A young sailor who is framed for drug possession and goes A.W.O.L. gets help from the Simons
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.
Town is injured and becomes their house guest, without telling them his life may be in danger.
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.
A surfer who was thought to be drowned some 20 years ago turns up alive - and a target for murder.
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.
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.
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.
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.
A woman insists on running in a marathon even though she is a target, AJ runs along with her and Rick patrols the path.
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.
While doing a security check of a marine park, the Simons spot a ruthless pair they had a run-in with years before, and stick around to figure out what they're up to.
The Simons investigate a 50 year old bank robbery, when one robber took all the money and his three accomplices want revenge.
Rick and AJ vie with two female private detectives to find the set of Samurai swords they were all hired to protect, when competition doesn't bring results, they decide to join forces.
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.
The actor who plays tv's hottest detective disappears from the private detectives convention that Rick and AJ helped to organize, but it's a clue from a famous real detective, now down on his luck, that helps them find the guest of honor.
A young Indian finds some prehistoric artifacts at a construction site and then disappears. His uncle hires the Simons to investigate.
In a James Bond style caper, the Simons search the Yugoslavian embassy for some stolen top secret plans.
Rick becomes obsessed about the war in Vietnam when a buddy who saved his life there is murdered. His determination to find the killer pushes him over the edge and into a VA hospital.
Janet returns with amnesia and involved in some serious trouble. The brothers work hard to discover what happened to the last four years and to save her.
Another malpractice suit needs their attention, but the lawyer who is running a center for the disabled thinks AJ has sold out to the defendant.
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.
A trained chimp is the only witness to a murder and they try to figure out who the chimp is identifying as the assailant.
A writer asks to be an apprentice P.I. to get background information for his book and then he is framed.
Their current case takes them to a Mexican divorce resort when a worried ex-wife asks them to find her husband.
An apprentice witch seeks Rick and AJ's help when she is threatened, but the case gets tricky when events seem to be influenced by the supernatural.
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.
Sam Penny is back searching for the only prisoner ever to have escaped from Alcatraz, almost 25 years ago.
The Simons set out to find a missing country singer.
The brothers become concerned when a vengeful ex-con is on the loose.
The brothers switch identities.
AJ is devastated when he shoots a young man during an investigation of a diamond theft which reveals a family feud separating two lovers.
The guys pose as camp counselors at a camp for street kids, as a favor to Town.
The Simons help Town and a high school basketball coach when the teams star is accused of murdering a college recruiter.
A woman hires Rick and AJ to find her long-lost father after $10,000 is left anonymously on her front porch and she thinks it might have been from him.
A cameraman is pursued by the mob and involves a charming family on vacation in their mobile home at a theme park.
The MC of a family style tv quiz show is worried that the show might be rigged and asks the Simons to investigate, which they do by becoming contestants.
Espionage at the laser research center. A former client obsessed with AJ hinders the investigation.
The D.A. has AJ testify about a shooting he witnessed, but the accused may be innocent.
Rick moves in with a woman for the first time in his life, but she won't continue their relationship until he meets her missing roommate, when Rick and AJ search for him, they find themselves caught between the government and the mob.
A rich industrialist hires the Simons to provide security for the cursed Peruvian icon he's about to receive, and as long as they're there, he asks if they could also keep an eye on his two teenage daughters.
Rick and AJ help a couple of friends who claim they want a divorce, but act otherwise.
When the Simons find out their client has used them to cheat his wife out of her rightful settlement, they enlist the help of Town's cousin to set up a scam to get even.
AJ runs for the city council while Rick investigates his opponent's alleged toxic waste dumping and murder.
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.
The Simons follow their mother to Paris where she has an affair with a suave Frenchman, but is he all that he seems?
The Simons follow their mother to Paris where she has an affair with a suave Frenchman, but is he all that he seems?
A restuarant critic is killed, and his partner hires Rick and AJ to find out why and by whom.
A threatened bridegroom begs for help a few days before the wedding, who doesn't want the bridegroom to get married?
Rick is in big trouble when he is accused of murdering the president of the company that repossessed his boat.
A racecar driver hires the Simons to investigate his string of bad luck.
After she finds new evidence, AJ's former girlfriend shows back up in his life to have him and Rick look into her brother's death, which could possibly have been a murder, trouble is it was eighteen years ago and it uncovers more than that.
A stage actress is threatened when feuding with her co-star and ex-husband.
There is a clue to the murderer of a cartoonist in one of his comic books.
The mayor of Abalone Bay (aka as Sin City) hires the Simons to prove that his ex-wife, the chief of police, is trying to kill him, but when they get there, it's the mayor who's being indicted for murdering the chief.
A tv reporter put out a contract on himself to flush out a hitman for a story and now needs Rick and AJ to save him.
The Simons fun-loving fortune-hunting uncle turns up and drags them off to a South Seas island to investigate why the dividend checks stopped coming from a crazy investment that had started to pay off.
On Christmas Eve Rick and AJ go to Las Vegas in search of the father of a little girl.
Rick's friend Lolita asks him and AJ to look into the disappearance of a couple of transients she was helping, then she herself disappears.
When they accidentally solve ""the crime of the century"" Rick and AJ accept the lucrative, but separate, job offers that result from the publicity, but things don't go as planned when they're ambushed and framed for espionage and attempted murder.
When they accidentally solve ""the crime of the century"" Rick and AJ accept the lucratve, but separate, job offers that reslt from the publicity, but things don't go as planned when they're ambushed and framed for espionage and murder.
AJ is undercover as a coach to check out a teen's drug habits, then when she runs away, he feels responsible, but when he and Rick try to bring her home, her street friends find a nasty way to fight back.
A candidate in a major union election hires Rick and AJ to find his wife and child he deserted years ago, the search gets the Simons involved with the bosses of both the East and West coast ties to the mob.
A graduate student in Egyptology finds a mummy in the museum basement that's never been reported, and the Simons help her swipe it so she can study it to see if it's real.
Rick enters Marlowe in a dog show in an attempt to locate the man who is holding their client's championship bitch for ransom, but the case hits too close to home when Marlowe gets snatched too.
Soon after Town's cousin, a student veterinarian finds evidence that there is something wrong with the livestock at the biggest ranch in the area, his house is vandalized and then he's accused of murder.
A magician hires the Rick and AJ to find out how a rival stole his spectacular new trick.
A disc jockey is beaten and then disappears, a fellow D.J. who witnessed the beating hires the Simons to find out what happened to her co-worker.
Rick and AJ take on the job of protecting a blind witness.
AJ goes undercover as a tennis pro when he and Rick are hired by an executive's widow to investigate the parachute ""accident"" that had killed her husband.
This is a cross-over with the Whiz Kids who help the Simons solve their case.
AJ's idol, famous detective Sam Penny (""the man who wrote the book"") needs the Simons help to solve a 30 year old case.
Rick and AJ are hired by a woman to find her ex-husband, a cop accused of robbery and cop-killing. In this episode, the Simons meet Downtown Brown for the first time as they help him prove his friends's innocence.
In order to find a missing contractor, the Simons have to search a nudist colony.
A woman comes to the Simons when her husband disappears, they start the investigation with his job (inspecting produce for illegal pesticides) but the real surprises turn up when the investigation veers into his personal life.
WWII pilot wants to find his long lost B-25.
Cecelia agrees to chaperone two teenage girls on a cruise, with Rick's help, but then the ship is highjacked.
When her star witness is nearly killed while under police protection, Janet asks Rick and AJ to take over the protective custody, but the witness's compulsive need to gamble makes her very uncooperative.
A man comes to Rick and AJ claiming to be an amnesiac who can't remember the last three months of his life and wants them to find out why he's accused od murder.
An advice columnist hires Rick and AJ when she fears one of her regular readers is in danger.
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.
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.
An innocent young woman fears her future will be ruined when a producer turns a movie she made as a teenager into an x-rated film and gives it wide distribution.
Rick is haunted by a recurring dream while he and AJ are trying to figure out who devised the elaborate frame that gets them arrested for transporting stolen securities to Mexico, and their investigation leads them to a look-a-like escort service.
AJ goes undercover as a patient in a hospital when a surgeon hires the Simons to prove that the plaintiff in a malpractice suit is phony.
A woman hires the Simons to find a man she claims is her ex-husband, but when they find him, the larger-than-life Brian Harm's, he recuits them into his world of espionage and international intrigue.
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.
A steel denture found in a burned car is the major clue in proving a woman is dead and her insurance policy payable, but is it? The Simons $120,000 commission sits in the balance when AJ insists that they continue digging into the case.
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.
Prelude to "Emeralds are NOT a Girl's Best Friend". Magnum P.I. crossover episode. For an upcoming charity auction organised by Higgins and an attractive socialite, to be held on the Estate, Robin Masters ""donates"" Magnum's services, to provide security over the valuable antiques up for auction at the event. Meanwhile, mainland Private Detective brothers A.J. and Rick Simon have been hired to steal back a Ki'i - a stolen Hawaiian artifact - by it's previous owner, who is in rapidly decreasing health and believes that he has been passed on a curse from which he will die, unless the Ki'i is returned to it's intended location of rest within the Hawaiian islands. But the ""cursed"" Ki'i seems to spell bad luck and trouble for all who come into possession of it...
This is a two-part story, but the first part is a Magnum P.I. episode (""Kii's Don't Lie"") which is not included in the Simon & Simon rerun cycle. Rick and AJ are in Hawaii tailing a con artist who Higgins has just entrusted with $350.000 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 AJ as bait.
A dolphin is abducted, and Rick and AJ have to find him and bring him back before his mate starves herself to death.
Using a psychic in a murder investigation becomes embarrassing to the police but she continues having visions connected with the case, so she hires the Simons to check out her leads when the police no longer will.
The Simons are given 24 hours to recover a valuable painting that was stolen from the Navy museum, and the key to its recovery lies with the feuding daughters of the Navy admiral who donated the painting.
AJ is robbed while delivering $450,000 in diamonds, and he and Rick have to find them soon, not only is AJ the FBI's prime suspect, they are also on the hook for the first $10,000 of the insurance settlement.
One of the old-time TV cowboys (a Saturday morning hero of young Rick and AJ) is accused of killing his show's producer when a young actor is hired to revive his old role.
A woman's frightening dream about her twin sister seems to be coming true when her sister disappears.
A friend claims she just seen her dead husband alive. Cecilia Simon enlists the help of her sons when she becomes concerned about her friend's insistance.
A pro football player wants to quit fixing the games, but the people who's dirty work he's doing won't let him stop.
Rick's former girlfriend asks him to find her missing husband and then she is arrested for his murder.
AJ promises to locate a novelist's long-lost cousin within 24 hours, but this tedious all-nighter evolves into a compelling case when several murders are committed exactly as depicted in the author's lastest book, and AJ thinks he's next.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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 clothing design house, featuring a top teen model, hires the Simons to protect its new fall line from being stolen by a rival firm.
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.
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 villian is.
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.
A panic sticken husband comes to the Simons when he finds his wife has vanished from their hotel room overnight.
When Janet is assigned to her first murder case, she wants Rick and AJ to help her build an airtight case, but they've already been hired by the opposition-the accused man's defense attorney.
Rick and AJ have more than they can handle when they accept a job transporting a huge man who was placed in a mental institution by his brother, only to find out he is as gentle as a lamb, and the trouble they run into against his brother makes them enlist the help of their very huge friend.
The step-daughter of a news anchor is missing and the Simons are hired to find her, but when they do, the plot thickens.
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.
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.
When it looks like a little girl may have been kidnapped by her oilman father, Rick and AJ go to Mexico to retrieve her but end up helping both of them out of a dangerous situation.
Rick and AJ are hired to investigate the death of an animal keeper, they go undercover at the zoo but become very suspicious of their client, a wealthy benefactor.
Rick and AJ receive a letter in the mail and when it arrives at the office it's 23 years after it was sent, but contains a clue to the murder of the letter writer, who died the day after he mailed it.
When their mother orders Rick and AJ to find tickets to a sold-out rock concert for their cousin, the search leads them to thousands of tickets that aren't suppose to exist, and big trouble when they try to return them.
Immediately after the Simons serve a man with divorce papers, he commits suicide-or does he.?
Myron hires the Simons when one of his operatives removes a confidential file from his office, and he wants to know why.
Rick needs money in a hurry when his truck is repossessed, so he grabs the first client he can, which turns out to be one of Myron's. Rick and AJ's new client is a jilted bride and trying to find her runaway groom is more trouble than it's worth.
A woman hires Rick and AJ to find out if her husband is having an affair with the company accountant. but their investigation reveals what the accountant is really up to.
The Simons uncover a robbery scheme within a dating service while trying to recover stolen antiques insured by a beautiful agent who has her eye on AJ, past experiences with her tell them not to trust her, but who can they trust?
Their former high school teacher asks Rick and AJ to find some missing classmates for the class reunion, the search for Rick's class president takes them into unsuspected trouble.
Prelude to "Emeralds are NOT a Girl's Best Friend". Magnum P.I. crossover episode. For an upcoming charity auction organised by Higgins and an attractive socialite, to be held on the Estate, Robin Masters ""donates"" Magnum's services, to provide security over the valuable antiques up for auction at the event. Meanwhile, mainland Private Detective brothers A.J. and Rick Simon have been hired to steal back a Ki'i - a stolen Hawaiian artifact - by it's previous owner, who is in rapidly decreasing health and believes that he has been passed on a curse from which he will die, unless the Ki'i is returned to it's intended location of rest within the Hawaiian islands. But the ""cursed"" Ki'i seems to spell bad luck and trouble for all who come into possession of it...
| Location | United States of America |
|---|---|
| Language | English |
| Release | 1981-11-24 |
| Producer | Universal Television |