7.4/1067 votes#1 - Grand Illusion
Season 3 Episode 1 - Aired 9/29/1983
A magician hires the Rick and AJ to find out how a rival stole his spectacular new trick.
Director: Vincent McEveety
Writer: N/A
- 7.0/1064 votes
#2 - D.J., D.O.A.
Season 3 Episode 2 - Aired 10/6/1983
A disc jockey is beaten and then disappears, a fellow D.J. who witnessed the beating hires the Simons to find out what happened to her co-worker.
Director: Christian I. Nyby II
Writer: N/A
- 7.3/1061 votes
#3 - I Heard It Was Murder
Season 3 Episode 3 - Aired 10/13/1983
Rick and AJ take on the job of protecting a blind witness.
Director: Christian I. Nyby II
Writer: N/A
- 6.9/1062 votes
#4 - Bail Out
Season 3 Episode 4 - Aired 10/20/1983
AJ goes undercover as a tennis pro when he and Rick are hired by an executive's widow to investigate the parachute ""accident"" that had killed her husband.
Director: Vincent McEveety
Writer: N/A
- 7.4/1069 votes
#5 - Fly the Alibi Skies
Season 3 Episode 5 - Aired 10/27/1983
This is a cross-over with the Whiz Kids who help the Simons solve their case.
Director: Vincent McEveety
Writer: N/A
- 7.2/1063 votes
#6 - Shadow of Sam Penny
Season 3 Episode 6 - Aired 11/3/1983
AJ's idol, famous detective Sam Penny (""the man who wrote the book"") needs the Simons help to solve a 30 year old case.
Director: Vincent McEveety
Writer: N/A
- 7.4/1055 votes
#7 - Caught Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea
Season 3 Episode 7 - Aired 11/10/1983
Rick and AJ are hired by a woman to find her ex-husband, a cop accused of robbery and cop-killing. In this episode, the Simons meet Downtown Brown for the first time as they help him prove his friends's innocence.
Director: Sigmund Neufeld Jr.
Writer: N/A
- 7.7/1059 votes
#8 - 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
- 7.2/1065 votes
#9 - Too Much of a Good Thing
Season 3 Episode 9 - Aired 12/1/1983
A woman comes to the Simons when her husband disappears, they start the investigation with his job (inspecting produce for illegal pesticides) but the real surprises turn up when the investigation veers into his personal life.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
- 7.4/1062 votes
#10 - Betty Grable Flies Again
Season 3 Episode 10 - Aired 12/8/1983
WWII pilot wants to find his long lost B-25.
Director: Burt Kennedy
Writer: N/A
- 7.4/1060 votes
#11 - Bon Voyage, Alonso
Season 3 Episode 11 - Aired 12/15/1983
Cecelia agrees to chaperone two teenage girls on a cruise, with Rick's help, but then the ship is highjacked.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
- 7.2/1057 votes
#12 - All Your Favorite Games
Season 3 Episode 12 - Aired 12/22/1983
When her star witness is nearly killed while under police protection, Janet asks Rick and AJ to take over the protective custody, but the witness's compulsive need to gamble makes her very uncooperative.
Director: Vincent McEveety
Writer: N/A
- 7.2/1058 votes
#13 - John Doe
Season 3 Episode 13 - Aired 1/5/1984
A man comes to Rick and AJ claiming to be an amnesiac who can't remember the last three months of his life and wants them to find out why he's accused od murder.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
- 7.1/1058 votes
#14 - Dear Lovesick
Season 3 Episode 14 - Aired 1/12/1984
An advice columnist hires Rick and AJ when she fears one of her regular readers is in danger.
Director: Bernard L. Kowalski
Writer: N/A
- 6.5/1059 votes
#15 - Bloodlines
Season 3 Episode 15 - Aired 1/19/1984
While the Simons are looking for a stolen horse, they uncover some revealing information about the racing accident that had killed their client's father years before.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
- 6.9/1056 votes
#16 - Heels and Toes
Season 3 Episode 16 - Aired 2/2/1984
AJ's broken wrist puts him and Rick in position to help a dancer, a ballerina by day and an exotic dancer by night, who is accused of murdering her roommate.
Director: Georg Fenady
Writer: N/A
- 6.6/1059 votes
#17 - The Wrong Stuff
Season 3 Episode 17 - Aired 2/9/1984
An innocent young woman fears her future will be ruined when a producer turns a movie she made as a teenager into an x-rated film and gives it wide distribution.
Director: Vincent McEveety
Writer: N/A
- 7.6/1065 votes
#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
- 7.4/1063 votes
#19 - Under the Knife
Season 3 Episode 19 - Aired 2/23/1984
AJ goes undercover as a patient in a hospital when a surgeon hires the Simons to prove that the plaintiff in a malpractice suit is phony.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
- 6.9/1053 votes
#20 - Harm's Way
Season 3 Episode 20 - Aired 3/1/1984
A woman hires the Simons to find a man she claims is her ex-husband, but when they find him, the larger-than-life Brian Harm's, he recuits them into his world of espionage and international intrigue.
Director: Sigmund Neufeld Jr.
Writer: N/A
- 7.3/1063 votes
#21 - The Dillinger Print
Season 3 Episode 21 - Aired 3/8/1984
A retired FBI agent thinks he has some new evidence in the John Dillinger case and then he is murdered, and AJ is forced to face his own fear when his reaction to a violent warning is not what he would have expected.
Director: Vincent McEveety
Writer: N/A
- 7.1/1053 votes
#22 - Corpus Delecti
Season 3 Episode 22 - Aired 3/22/1984
A steel denture found in a burned car is the major clue in proving a woman is dead and her insurance policy payable, but is it? The Simons $120,000 commission sits in the balance when AJ insists that they continue digging into the case.
Director: Kim Manners
Writer: N/A
- 7.1/1054 votes
#23 - The Disappearance of Harry the Hat
Season 3 Episode 23 - Aired 3/29/1984
A mild mannered accountant hires Rick and AJ to teach him how to vanish. He tells them that he wants to evade a demanding wife, but maybe he has another reason.
Director: Vincent McEveety
Writer: N/A
The Best Episodes of Simon & Simon Season 3
Every episode of Simon & Simon Season 3 ranked from best to worst. Discover the Best Episodes of Simon & Simon Season 3!
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Season 3 Ratings Summary
"Grand Illusion" is the best rated episode of "Simon & Simon" season 3. It scored 7.4/10 based on 67 votes. Directed by Vincent McEveety and written by N/A, it aired on 9/29/1983. This episode is rated 0.4 points higher than the second-best, "D.J., D.O.A.".