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Simon & Simon Season 5 Episodes
Season 5 Episode Guide
24 Episodes 1985 - 1986
Episode 1
Love and/or Marriage
Thu, Oct 3, 1985
While at a wedding, Rick bumps into a woman whom Cecilia knows and he finds himself attracted to her but she's married. She later goes to see him and A.J. and he tells them her husband has been behaving odd lately. She's worried that he might be having an affair, so she hires them to find out. They follow him and find him meeting with a woman. And their client learns of this she and Rick get closer. But they eventually learn what's going on.
Episode 2
Burden of the Beast
Thu, Oct 10, 1985
Famed primate researcher Dr. Nyri is found dead and his study subject, Joey the chimp, is suspected. Nyri's colleague Lisa hires Rick and AJ to clear the ape with the detectives becoming charmed by the exceptional animal. Several of Nyri's associates exhibit questionable behavior.
Episode 3
The Third Eye
Thu, Oct 17, 198560 mins
A writer specializing in "participatory journalism" is framed for murder after apprenticing himself to the Simons
Episode 4
The Enchilada Express
Thu, Oct 24, 198547 mins
AJ and Rick are hired by Connie Mitchell whose husband Odell disappeared while honeymooning in the country of Costa Verde. The brothers discover a dodgy divorce scam, an unhelpful US counsel and Downtown also goes missing while helping.
Episode 5
The Skull of Nostradamus
Thu, Oct 31, 1985
AJ and Rick are hired by a novice witch who has reasons to fear for her life. The brothers find themselves getting stonewalled with Jonathan and a bizarre coven as they delve into the occult.
Episode 6
Have You Hugged Your Private Detective Today?
Thu, Nov 7, 1985
AJ tries to speed up his recovery from breaking up with Liz by entering the dating scene with varied results. A sex therapist is concerned about an employee's disappearance, hiring Rick and AJ to look into the situation.
Episode 7
Reunion at Alcatraz
Thu, Nov 14, 1985
AJ and Rick, head to San Francisco to help a cousin Elizabeth who's opening a detective agency. They connect her with a veteran PI Sam Penny, currently tracking an escaped prisoner. The brothers even go to prison to help.
Episode 8
Down-Home Country Blues
Thu, Nov 21, 1985
Rick and AJ are hired to find performer Jim Lee who has disappeared with his son Jason but country music sweetheart Bonnie, his ex has custody. The brothers impersonate Nashville stars to uncover some dishonest deals.
Episode 9
Quint Is Out
Thu, Dec 5, 1985
A dangerous criminal the Simons put away, Quint is out of prison and he pays a visit claiming he's gone straight. The PIs are on guard but a cat and mouse game starts. Rick is kidnapped and AJ is desperate to save him.
Episode 10
Walk a Mile in My Hat
Thu, Dec 12, 1985
The agency is offered $10,000 but it requires Rick to pretend to be AJ who is on a trip. Complicating matters, AJ needs to assume his brother's identity on returning. The Simon's live are in danger after Gerry's discovered hiding a corpse.
Episode 11
Facets
Thu, Dec 19, 198560 mins
AJ and Rick are called in when a valuable gem is stolen from Nyquist jewelers who suspect their rivals, the Cartons. The brothers find themselves in the midst of a feud and AJ experiences guilt when forced to use his gun.
Episode 12
Sunrise at Camp Apollo
Thu, Jan 2, 1986
Rick and AJ become involved in a camp for troubled youth suspected of robberies in an upscale neighborhood. The teens resist help but Julio is arrested for murder and the PI's have ideas about kindly Ross Garrett plus the wealthy kids who hang out at his pharmacy.
Episode 13
The Blue Chip Stomp
Thu, Jan 16, 1986
Stanley Tate is a highly recruited basketball star being pressured by his brother Gordon to make easy money from gamblers. When a recruiter is murdered AJ and Rick are on the case to help the young man while busting the syndicate.
Episode 14
Something for Sarah
Thu, Jan 23, 1986
Sarah Jean finds a cash filled suitcase on her porch and hires the Simon brothers to locate who left it. Rick and AJ trace it to her long missing father Ben, who admits it came from a disrupted drug transaction making the dealer very angry.
Episode 15
Mobile Home of the Brave
Thu, Jan 30, 1986
Photographer Harrison captures noted mobster Manny Crobett on film but when pursued switches the roll with the vacationing Johnsons. AJ and Rick take the family under their protection, making the park area a dangerous place to be.
Episode 16
Family Forecast
Thu, Feb 6, 1986
A game show host suspects that the show he is currently hosting is fixed. So he turns to the Simons for help because he was already involved in the game show fixing scandal in the 50's even though he was completely innocent. So they try to find out how they're doing it.
Episode 17
A Significant Obsession
Thu, Feb 13, 1986
Rick and AJ conclude a stalking case of a young rich and beautiful woman. AJ has a brief one night affair with the woman. But as Rick and AJ move on to an industrial espionage case, AJ soon realizes that the woman wants more than a one night affair. Suddenly things take a dangerous turn where love is really deadly obsession.
Episode 18
For the People
Thu, Feb 20, 1986
A.J. and Rick were at a restaurant when the owner is killed. And while they didn't actually see the incident, they saw a man standing over him with the weapon. The prosecutor whom they know, who is using the case for exposure, is determined to see the man convicted. But they eventually realize the man may be innocent and the prosecutor also knows it but is apparently using them to get someone else.
Episode 19
Full Moon Blues
Thu, Mar 6, 1986
The brothers have trouble with both the Fed's and the Mob while looking for a eccentric woman's ex-boyfriend all while Rick makes an important life decision.
Episode 20
Eye of the Beholder
Thu, Mar 13, 1986
The brothers start a security company, and are immediately hired to protect a Peruvian national treasure. Despite the very expensive due diligence they apply to the premises on which is it held, it is promptly stolen.
Episode 21
D-I-V-O-R-C-E
Thu, Mar 27, 198648 mins
The brothers get in the middle of a divorce involving two of their Mom's best friends.
Episode 22
Act Five
Thu, Apr 3, 1986
When a man who's going through a messy divorce hires Rick and A.J. to locate a man who could give vital testimony, they find him bring him to court, he testifies and his wife's alimony suit is dismissed. Later they learn that their client and the man they were hired to find were in cahoots so that he wouldn't have to pay his wife a divorce settlement. When they are unable to prove their client's collusion and Brown tells them to let it go. They decide to turn Brown's cousin Lucky a con man who's just been released from prison. Brown warns them that Lucky is not to be trusted and after they approach him, he is approached by some people whom he owes money to and offers them what he's going to get from Rick and A.J.'s plot.
Episode 23
The Last Harangue
Thu, Apr 10, 1986
As A.J. runs for city council, Rick probes a case that could link his brother's opponent to murder and illegal toxic-waste dumping.
Episode 24
The Apple Doesn't Fall Far from the Tree
Thu, May 1, 1986
Rick and A.J travel to Boston and Florida to learn why bad guys want to steal the family journal.
