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The Best Episodes of Simon & Simon

Every episode of Simon & Simon ranked from best to worst. Let's dive into the Best Episodes of 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...
Genre:Drama
Network:CBS

Best Episodes Summary

"I Thought the War Was Over" is the best rated episode of "Simon & Simon". It scored 8.2/10 based on 65 votes. Directed by N/A and written by N/A, it aired on 3/5/1987. This episode scored 0.2 points higher than the second highest rated, "What's in a Gnome?".

  • I Thought the War Was Over
    8.2/1065 votes
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    #1 - I Thought the War Was Over

    Season 6 Episode 20 - Aired 3/5/1987

    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.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • What's in a Gnome?
    8.0/1082 votes
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    #2 - What's in a Gnome?

    Season 2 Episode 19 - Aired 2/24/1983

    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 villian is.

    Director: Sigmund Neufeld Jr.

    Writer: N/A

  • May the Road Rise Up
    8.0/1060 votes
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    #3 - May the Road Rise Up

    Season 7 Episode 16 - Aired 4/7/1988

    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

    Director: Vincent McEveety

    Writer: Richard C. Okie

  • The Dead Letter File
    7.8/1098 votes
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    #4 - The Dead Letter File

    Season 1 Episode 6 - Aired 1/5/1982

    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.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • Ashes to Ashes, and None Too Soon
    7.8/1089 votes
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    #5 - Ashes to Ashes, and None Too Soon

    Season 1 Episode 8 - Aired 1/16/1982

    Immediately after the Simons serve a man with divorce papers, he commits suicide-or does he.?

    Director: Sigmund Neufeld Jr.

    Writer: N/A

  • Emeralds Are Not a Girl's Best Friend (II)
    7.8/10122 votes
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    #6 - Emeralds Are Not a Girl's Best Friend (II)

    Season 2 Episode 1 - Aired 10/5/1982

    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. The crossover starts on Magnum, P.I. S03E03 Ki'i's Don't Lie (I)

    Director: Lawrence Doheny

    Writer: N/A

  • The Secret of the Chrome Eagle
    7.8/1070 votes
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    #7 - The Secret of the Chrome Eagle

    Season 2 Episode 20 - Aired 3/3/1983

    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.

    Director: Vincent McEveety

    Writer: N/A

  • The Skeleton Who Came Out of the Closet
    7.8/1074 votes
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    #8 - The Skeleton Who Came Out of the Closet

    Season 2 Episode 23 - Aired 3/31/1983

    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.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • Almost Completely Out of Circulation
    7.8/1064 votes
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    #9 - Almost Completely Out of Circulation

    Season 4 Episode 9 - Aired 11/22/1984

    There is a clue to the murderer of a cartoonist in one of his comic books.

    Director: Sigmund Neufeld Jr.

    Writer: N/A

  • Trapdoors
    7.7/10111 votes
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    #10 - Trapdoors

    Season 1 Episode 3 - Aired 12/8/1981

    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.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • The Ten Thousand Dollar Deductible
    7.7/1076 votes
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    #11 - The Ten Thousand Dollar Deductible

    Season 2 Episode 5 - Aired 11/4/1982

    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.

    Director: Bernard McEveety

    Writer: N/A

  • Pirate's Key (1)
    7.7/1078 votes
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    #12 - Pirate's Key (1)

    Season 2 Episode 13 - Aired 1/20/1983

    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.

    Director: Corey Allen

    Writer: N/A

  • The Bare Facts
    7.7/1059 votes
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    #13 - The Bare Facts

    Season 3 Episode 8 - Aired 11/17/1983

    In order to find a missing contractor, the Simons have to search a nudist colony.

    Director: Sigmund Neufeld Jr.

    Writer: N/A

  • Who Killed the Sixties?
    7.7/1071 votes
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    #14 - Who Killed the Sixties?

    Season 4 Episode 7 - Aired 11/8/1984

    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.

    Director: Vincent McEveety

    Writer: N/A

  • Mike & Pat
    7.6/1086 votes
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    #15 - Mike & Pat

    Season 2 Episode 2 - Aired 10/14/1982

    A dolphin is abducted, and Rick and AJ have to find him and bring him back before his mate starves herself to death.

    Director: Sigmund Neufeld Jr.

    Writer: N/A

  • Rough Rider Rides Again
    7.6/1089 votes
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    #16 - Rough Rider Rides Again

    Season 2 Episode 6 - Aired 11/18/1982

    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.

    Director: Burt Kennedy

    Writer: N/A

  • The Club Murder Vacation
    7.6/1076 votes
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    #17 - The Club Murder Vacation

    Season 2 Episode 15 - Aired 1/27/1983

    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.

    Director: Burt Kennedy

    Writer: N/A

  • Double Play
    7.6/1065 votes
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    #18 - Double Play

    Season 3 Episode 18 - Aired 2/16/1984

    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.

    Director: Burt Kennedy

    Writer: N/A

  • A Little Wine with Murder
    7.6/1061 votes
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    #19 - A Little Wine with Murder

    Season 4 Episode 3 - Aired 10/4/1984

    A restuarant critic is killed, and his partner hires Rick and AJ to find out why and by whom.

    Director: Vincent McEveety

    Writer: N/A

  • The Dark Side of the Street
    7.6/1063 votes
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    #20 - The Dark Side of the Street

    Season 4 Episode 4 - Aired 10/18/1984

    A threatened bridegroom begs for help a few days before the wedding, who doesn't want the bridegroom to get married?

    Director: Sigmund Neufeld Jr.

    Writer: N/A

  • Out-of-Town Brown
    7.6/1050 votes
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    #21 - Out-of-Town Brown

    Season 4 Episode 22 - Aired 3/28/1985

    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.

    Director: Vincent McEveety

    Writer: N/A

  • Family Forecast
    7.6/1052 votes
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    #22 - Family Forecast

    Season 5 Episode 16 - Aired 2/6/1986

    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.

    Director: Burt Kennedy

    Writer: N/A

  • Still Phil After All These Years
    7.6/1054 votes
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    #23 - Still Phil After All These Years

    Season 6 Episode 3 - Aired 10/9/1986

    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.

    Director: Vincent McEveety

    Writer: N/A

  • Judgement Call
    7.6/1048 votes
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    #24 - Judgement Call

    Season 6 Episode 16 - Aired 2/5/1987

    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.

    Director: Burt Kennedy

    Writer: N/A

  • Lost Lady
    7.6/1048 votes
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    #25 - Lost Lady

    Season 6 Episode 21 - Aired 3/12/1987

    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.

    Director: Vincent McEveety

    Writer: N/A