7.2/1049 votes#1 - New Cop in Town
Season 7 Episode 1 - Aired 12/3/1987
Arrested for wiretapping, the Simons seek help from Downtown Brown and find he has been replaced by a tough new chief detective.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
- 7.3/1052 votes
#2 - Desperately Seeking Dacody
Season 7 Episode 2 - Aired 12/10/1987
A former girl friend of Rick, a zealous reporter becomes a problem when she hires them to prove a man innocent.
Director: Vincent McEveety
Writer: N/A
- 6.6/1049 votes
#3 - You, Too, Can Be a Detective
Season 7 Episode 3 - Aired 12/17/1987
Rick gets a telephone call from a girl who is inspired by his book and does some detective work herself, only to be arrested. Her eagerness equals trouble to have around, but it turns out she's right, and the Simons wish they'd taken her hunch more serious a lot earlier.
Director: Sigmund Neufeld Jr.
Writer: N/A
- 7.2/1050 votes
#4 - Shadows
Season 7 Episode 4 - Aired 1/7/1988
The Simon family are enjoying a day at the ballpark when a 'kid' takes off with AJ's wallet. AJ pursues the kid and catches her, but Allison swears it was just an initiation into a club, so he lets her go. She turns up again at the office to return some things that had 'fallen out' of AJ's wallet. She says she's there to ask for help, but the minute the brothers' backs are turned, she takes off with Rick's $1,000 camera. It turns out that she is working as a prostitute to survive. Her pimp has decided one of her co-workers who is also a friend needs to die. Allison is doing her best to keep her friend alive and out of the pimp's reach. She's pawned Rick's camera for $50 worth of groceries. When the 'customers' get rough with her, Allison flees to AJ's for a safe haven for a night. She's touched by his kindness after she'd stolen Rick's camera, but not touched enough to keep from 'borrowing' AJ's gun. AJ and Rick catch up to her in time to find her friend is dying. When she dies at t
Director: Sigmund Neufeld Jr.
Writer: N/A
- 7.3/1049 votes
#5 - Second Swell
Season 7 Episode 5 - Aired 1/14/1988
AJ's past comes back to haunt him when a routine serving of a summons goes terribly wrong. Bracken, a murderer convicted by AJ's testimony 17 years ago, has returned and wants revenge on both him and his ex-girlfriend, Kristen. The beating he gives AJ leaves the young Simon in the hospital. AJ doesn't tell anyone who attacked him, and as soon as he can stand, he leaves the hospital and goes in search of the girl he used to love. Once he finds her, he convinces her to let him stay while her husband's gone to protect her from Bracken. Meanwhile, Rick is beside himself with worry. AJ has gone off without telling him where he was going, and Rick knew it had something to do with the attack. Many hours of research later, he finds out about the old murder case AJ was involved in that happened while Rick was in Vietnam. Convinced more than ever that AJ's in real trouble, he starts tracking Kristen down. AJ and Kristen find themselves attracted to each other after all these years, but AJ refu
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
- 7.0/1046 votes
#6 - Forever Hold Your Piece
Season 7 Episode 6 - Aired 1/21/1988
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Director: Sigmund Neufeld Jr.
Writer: N/A
- 7.4/1047 votes
#7 - Tale of the Tiger
Season 7 Episode 7 - Aired 1/28/1988
When the Simons are hired to discover a saboteur on a fishing boat, Rick decides to spend some time at sea with the crew. When he returns, one of his shipmates, a Vietnamese man, is severely beaten before Rick and AJ can put a stop to it. While in the hospital, he is killed by poison injected into his IV. At the funeral, AJ is attracted to the man's sister, Ho Xuan, and offers his sympathies. Rick, meanwhile, sees a beloved war buddy there that he hasn't seen in years - Chen. Unbeknownst to Rick, Chen and Ho Xuan have had a love affair gone very sour. Rick and Chen go out to dinner to celebrate their reunion. AJ starts investigating the sabotage on his own and runs into Ho Xuan. She tells him that her brother was killed by a man known as 'the Tiger', who is the leader of organized crime in the area. She's afraid for her life, so AJ goes to Abigail for more information. She tells him that 'the Tiger' is Chen. AJ goes to Rick's boat to tell him what he's discovered, only to find Rick a
Director: Sigmund Neufeld Jr.
Writer: N/A
- 7.2/1048 votes
#8 - Nuevo Salvador
Season 7 Episode 8 - Aired 2/4/1988
Rick and AJ are protecting a relief worker from a Salvadoran death squad.
Director: Vincent McEveety
Writer: N/A
- 7.4/1048 votes
#9 - Bad Betty
Season 7 Episode 9 - Aired 2/11/1988
The Simons race to capture a thief called the Weazel before a bounty hunter called ""Bad Betty"" catches him.
Director: Bernard McEveety
Writer: N/A
- 7.2/1051 votes
#10 - Baja, Humbug
Season 7 Episode 10 - Aired 2/18/1988
After the Simons have a case go downhill on them, Rick inherits a charter boat in Mexico and decides to take over the charter business. He tries different ways to talk AJ into going along with his idea and only wins when he reminds AJ of the novel he always wanted to write and now he could.
Director: Don Weis
Writer: N/A
- 7.4/1050 votes
#11 - A Firm Grasp of Reality
Season 7 Episode 11 - Aired 2/25/1988
A woman, a biochemist, on the verge of a multi-million dollar discovery, goes into a mental hospital when no one will believe she's being followed and harrassed, everyone thinks she's making it up, which leads to her having a relapse of her mental disorder. The Simons go undercover to protect her.
Director: Sigmund Neufeld Jr.
Writer: N/A
- 7.2/1048 votes
#12 - Ties That Bind
Season 7 Episode 12 - Aired 3/3/1988
Officer Nixon goes to the Simons to ask them to investigate the activities of a fellow officer and close friend, when the officer borrows a large sum from a loan shark shortly after his brother returns to town.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
- 7.1/1048 votes
#13 - Little Boy Dead
Season 7 Episode 13 - Aired 3/10/1988
Lt. Marsh is devastated when she shoots a young boy and finds it very hard to cope, Rick and AJ notice right away she is out of sorts and come to her rescue to help her make sense of the whole thing.
Director: Vincent McEveety
Writer: N/A
- 7.6/1050 votes
#14 - Sudden Storm
Season 7 Episode 14 - Aired 3/17/1988
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: N/A
Writer: N/A
- 7.2/1046 votes
#15 - Something Special
Season 7 Episode 15 - Aired 3/31/1988
Both of the Simon brothers are amazed of the architect they are protecting, when she hires them.
Director: Vincent McEveety
Writer: N/A
- 8.0/1060 votes
#16 - 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 Best Episodes of Simon & Simon Season 7
Every episode of Simon & Simon Season 7 ranked from best to worst. Discover the Best Episodes of Simon & Simon Season 7!
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Season 7 Ratings Summary
"New Cop in Town" is the best rated episode of "Simon & Simon" season 7. It scored 7.2/10 based on 49 votes. Directed by N/A and written by N/A, it aired on 12/3/1987. This episode is rated 0.1 points higher than the second-best, "Desperately Seeking Dacody".