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Mom P.I. Season 1 Episodes

Season 1 Episode Guide

13 Episodes 1990 - 1991

Episode 1

When Sally Met Bernie

47 mins

Bernie and Sally meet when he helps her catch a customer who leaves without paying his bill. But the real reason Bernie is in the restaurant is to track down some jewels which are reported stolen, but may not actually be missing. Sally is not sure she is happy about it as Bernie is spying on Sally'e future brother-in-law. Then the future in-law goes missing, and then Sally's sister Ruth goes missing, and mom rushes in where detectives fear to tread.

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Episode 2

Career Moves

23 mins

Sally is eager to try a little more detecting, and inadvertently gets her own client while waiting for Bernie in his office. It seems the client's husband may be seeing another woman, and she wants Sally to find out the worst. What Sally finds out is worse than that - and stranger - and Sally is not so sure she wants to see it through.

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Episode 3

Murder Maybe

23 mins

Sally stumbles on a rich man's plot to murder his wife, and rushes off to Bernie for help stopping it. Bernie is not so easily convinced, especially without any real evidence, but he reluctantly agrees to help investigate. Their investigation reveals that the plot was not what Sally thought it was - and the murder might be of our two heroes.

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Episode 4

Duck Flambé

23 mins

Why anyone would want to burn Ivory's music store is beyond Bernie, but the uninsured charred remains testify that someone did. Ivory is wiped out, and Bernie is angry. The trail leads to some very nasty customers, people who could do Bernie and Sally a lot of harm, but Bernie thinks he has a plan so that things will work out.

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Episode 5

Gumshoe

23 mins

A defense attorney hires Bernie and Sally to track down more witnesses to a pool hall homicide.

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Episode 6

Undue Influence

23 mins

Due to his morbid fear of hospitals, Bernie brings in Sally to investigate the circumstances of an old man's will.

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Episode 7

Looking for a Living

23 mins

Sally and Bernie set up a stakeout on a hotel room, only to learn that somebody else is spying on their quarry.

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Episode 8

Brendan Be Gone

23 mins

Sally's brother-in-law, a fugitive on the run from dangerous gangsters, hopes to reconnect with his niece and nephew before he leaves the country.

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Episode 9

Over the Edge

23 mins

Bernie knows it's a little shady to be searching the prosecutor's office on behalf of a defense attorney, but an innocent man's freedom is on the line.

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Episode 10

Return to Sender

23 mins

Sally agrees to deliver a bank robber's encrypted letter to his girlfriend, hoping she might decipher the code and reveal the location of the loot.

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Episode 11

Blue Christmas

23 mins

Marie's friend Blair wants to see her natural father just one more time before she moves away with her foster family, but Sally discovers that Blair's dad does not want to be found.

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Episode 12

Beneath the Pacific

23 mins

Three women use a tunnel beneath the Pacific Café for a break-in, but when the police get word of the route, Bernie is forced to choose between his past loyalties and justice.

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Episode 13

Spinal Trap

23 mins

Sally and Bernie hope to prove Vic Stephens has been faking his neck injury to collect insurance money, but neither of them can seem to make him slip up.

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