7.8/10122 votes#1 - 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
- 7.6/1086 votes
#2 - 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
- 7.4/1079 votes
#3 - Guessing Game
Season 2 Episode 3 - Aired 10/21/1982
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.
Director: Vincent McEveety
Writer: N/A
- 7.4/1072 votes
#4 - Art for Arthur's Sake
Season 2 Episode 4 - Aired 10/28/1982
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.
Director: Vincent McEveety
Writer: N/A
- 7.7/1076 votes
#5 - 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
- 7.6/1089 votes
#6 - 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
- 7.1/1082 votes
#7 - Sometimes Dreams Come True
Season 2 Episode 7 - Aired 12/2/1982
A woman's frightening dream about her twin sister seems to be coming true when her sister disappears.
Director: Bernard McEveety
Writer: N/A
- 7.2/1079 votes
#8 - The Last Time I Saw Michael
Season 2 Episode 8 - Aired 12/9/1982
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.
Director: Vincent McEveety
Writer: N/A
- 7.1/1071 votes
#9 - Fowl Play
Season 2 Episode 9 - Aired 12/16/1982
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.
Director: Burt Kennedy
Writer: N/A
- 7.5/1080 votes
#10 - Thin Air
Season 2 Episode 10 - Aired 12/30/1982
Rick's former girlfriend asks him to find her missing husband and then she is arrested for his murder.
Director: Bernard McEveety
Writer: N/A
- 7.3/1073 votes
#11 - Murder Between the Lines
Season 2 Episode 11 - Aired 1/6/1983
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.
Director: Sigmund Neufeld Jr.
Writer: N/A
- 7.5/1074 votes
#12 - Psyched Out
Season 2 Episode 12 - Aired 1/13/1983
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: N/A
- 7.7/1078 votes
#13 - 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
- 7.5/1076 votes
#14 - Pirate's Key (2)
Season 2 Episode 14 - 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
- 7.6/1076 votes
#15 - 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
- 7.5/1070 votes
#16 - It's Only a Game
Season 2 Episode 16 - Aired 2/3/1983
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.
Director: Vincent McEveety
Writer: N/A
- 7.0/1068 votes
#17 - Design for Killing
Season 2 Episode 17 - Aired 2/10/1983
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.
Director: Bernard McEveety
Writer: N/A
- 7.2/1070 votes
#18 - The List
Season 2 Episode 18 - Aired 2/17/1983
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.
Director: Burt Kennedy
Writer: Michael Piller
- 8.0/1082 votes
#19 - 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
- 7.8/1070 votes
#20 - 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
- 6.8/1068 votes
#21 - Room 3502
Season 2 Episode 21 - Aired 3/10/1983
A panic sticken husband comes to the Simons when he finds his wife has vanished from their hotel room overnight.
Director: Sigmund Neufeld Jr.
Writer: N/A
- 7.2/1069 votes
#22 - Red Dog Blues
Season 2 Episode 22 - Aired 3/24/1983
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.
Director: Vincent McEveety
Writer: N/A
- 7.8/1074 votes
#23 - 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
The Best Episodes of Simon & Simon Season 2
Every episode of Simon & Simon Season 2 ranked from best to worst. Discover the Best Episodes of Simon & Simon Season 2!
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Season 2 Ratings Summary
"Emeralds Are Not a Girl's Best Friend (II)" is the best rated episode of "Simon & Simon" season 2. It scored 7.8/10 based on 122 votes. Directed by Lawrence Doheny and written by N/A, it aired on 10/5/1982. This episode is rated 0.2 points higher than the second-best, "Mike & Pat".