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A.J. Simon is a polished fellow with a taste for classic cars and tailored suits. Rick Simon is his less refined (but still pleasant) older brother who has a taste for cowboy boots and four-wheel

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  1. #1 Fan Favorite
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    Simon & Simon Season 6 Episode 20 - I Thought the War Was Over
    8.5/10(80 votes)

    #1 - I Thought the War Was Over

    S6:E20

    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:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  2. Simon & Simon Season 7 Episode 16 - May the Road Rise Up
    8.4/10(72 votes)

    #2 - May the Road Rise Up

    S7:E16

    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

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  3. Simon & Simon Season 2 Episode 19 - What's in a Gnome?
    8.1/10(100 votes)

    #3 - What's in a Gnome?

    S2:E19

    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:Unknown

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  4. Simon & Simon Season 4 Episode 7 - Who Killed the Sixties?
    8.1/10(87 votes)

    #4 - Who Killed the Sixties?

    S4:E7

    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:Unknown

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  5. Simon & Simon Season 4 Episode 9 - Almost Completely Out of Circulation
    8.1/10(81 votes)

    #5 - Almost Completely Out of Circulation

    S4:E9

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

    Director:Sigmund Neufeld Jr.
    Writer:Unknown

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  6. Simon & Simon Season 6 Episode 21 - Lost Lady
    8.1/10(60 votes)

    #6 - Lost Lady

    S6:E21

    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:Unknown

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  7. Simon & Simon Season 1 Episode 8 - Ashes to Ashes, and None Too Soon
    8.0/10(112 votes)

    #7 - Ashes to Ashes, and None Too Soon

    S1:E8

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

    Director:Sigmund Neufeld Jr.
    Writer:Unknown

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  8. Simon & Simon Season 2 Episode 20 - The Secret of the Chrome Eagle
    8.0/10(80 votes)

    #8 - The Secret of the Chrome Eagle

    S2:E20

    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:Unknown

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  9. Simon & Simon Season 2 Episode 23 - The Skeleton Who Came Out of the Closet
    8.0/10(90 votes)

    #9 - The Skeleton Who Came Out of the Closet

    S2:E23

    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:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  10. Simon & Simon Season 4 Episode 3 - A Little Wine with Murder
    8.0/10(75 votes)

    #10 - A Little Wine with Murder

    S4:E3

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

    Director:Vincent McEveety
    Writer:Unknown

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  11. Simon & Simon Season 4 Episode 4 - The Dark Side of the Street
    8.0/10(77 votes)

    #11 - The Dark Side of the Street

    S4:E4

    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:Unknown

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  12. Simon & Simon Season 5 Episode 16 - Family Forecast
    8.0/10(66 votes)

    #12 - Family Forecast

    S5:E16

    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:Unknown

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  13. Simon & Simon Season 6 Episode 13 - Deep Water Death
    8.0/10(57 votes)

    #13 - Deep Water Death

    S6:E13

    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.

    Director:Burt Kennedy
    Writer:Unknown

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  14. Simon & Simon Season 6 Episode 16 - Judgement Call
    8.0/10(58 votes)

    #14 - Judgement Call

    S6:E16

    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:Unknown

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  15. Simon & Simon Season 1 Episode 6 - The Dead Letter File
    7.9/10(122 votes)

    #15 - The Dead Letter File

    S1:E6

    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:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  16. Simon & Simon Season 2 Episode 5 - The Ten Thousand Dollar Deductible
    7.9/10(89 votes)

    #16 - The Ten Thousand Dollar Deductible

    S2:E5

    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:Unknown

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  17. Simon & Simon Season 2 Episode 10 - Thin Air
    7.9/10(101 votes)

    #17 - Thin Air

    S2:E10

    Rick's former girlfriend asks him to find her missing husband and then she is arrested for his murder.

    Director:Bernard McEveety
    Writer:Unknown

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  18. Simon & Simon Season 2 Episode 12 - Psyched Out
    7.9/10(90 votes)

    #18 - Psyched Out

    S2:E12

    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.

    Director:Sigmund Neufeld Jr.
    Writer:Unknown

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  19. Simon & Simon Season 3 Episode 18 - Double Play
    7.9/10(79 votes)

    #19 - Double Play

    S3:E18

    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:Unknown

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  20. Simon & Simon Season 4 Episode 10 - Our Fair City
    7.9/10(76 votes)

    #20 - Our Fair City

    S4:E10

    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.

    Director:Vincent McEveety
    Writer:Unknown

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  21. Simon & Simon Season 4 Episode 22 - Out-of-Town Brown
    7.9/10(62 votes)

    #21 - Out-of-Town Brown

    S4:E22

    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:Unknown

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  22. Simon & Simon Season 5 Episode 17 - A Significant Obsession
    7.9/10(69 votes)

    #22 - A Significant Obsession

    S5:E17

    Espionage at the laser research center. A former client obsessed with AJ hinders the investigation.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  23. Simon & Simon Season 6 Episode 3 - Still Phil After All These Years
    7.9/10(61 votes)

    #23 - Still Phil After All These Years

    S6:E3

    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:Unknown

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  24. Simon & Simon Season 7 Episode 9 - Bad Betty
    7.9/10(58 votes)

    #24 - Bad Betty

    S7:E9

    The Simons race to capture a thief called the Weazel before a bounty hunter called ""Bad Betty"" catches him.

    Director:Bernard McEveety
    Writer:Unknown

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  25. Simon & Simon Season 7 Episode 14 - Sudden Storm
    7.9/10(58 votes)

    #25 - Sudden Storm

    S7:E14

    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

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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Best Episodes Summary

"I Thought the War Was Over" is the best rated episode of "Simon & Simon". It scored 8.5/10 based on 80 votes. Directed by Unknown and written by Unknown, it aired on 3/5/1987. This episode scored 0.1 points higher than the second highest rated, "May the Road Rise Up".