Season 5
24 episodes · first aired 1985-10-03
| Still | # | Title | Overview | Air date | Rating |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 01 | Love and/or Marriage 1985-10-03 | A wedding sets the stage, as Rick falls in love with their client (who suspects her husband is having an affair) and AJ proposes to Liz. | 1985-10-03 | 0.0 | |
| 02 | Burden of the Beast 1985-10-10 | A trained chimp is the only witness to a murder and they try to figure out who the chimp is identifying as the assailant. | 1985-10-10 | 0.0 | |
| 03 | The Third Eye 1985-10-17 | A writer asks to be an apprentice P.I. to get background information for his book and then he is framed. | 1985-10-17 | 0.0 | |
| 04 | Enchilada Express 1985-10-24 | Their current case takes them to a Mexican divorce resort when a worried ex-wife asks them to find her husband. | 1985-10-24 | 0.0 | |
| 05 | The Skull of Nostradamus 1985-10-31 | An apprentice witch seeks Rick and AJ's help when she is threatened, but the case gets tricky when events seem to be influenced by the supernatural. | 1985-10-31 | 0.0 | |
| 06 | Have You Hugged Your Private Detective Today? 1985-11-07 | Just when his breakup with Liz has AJ looking for love in all the wrong places, the brothers are hired by a TV sex therapist to investigate the death of one of her employees. | 1985-11-07 | 0.0 | |
| 07 | Reunion at Alcatraz 1985-11-14 | Sam Penny is back searching for the only prisoner ever to have escaped from Alcatraz, almost 25 years ago. | 1985-11-14 | 0.0 | |
| 08 | Down-Home Country Blues 1985-11-21 | The Simons set out to find a missing country singer. | 1985-11-21 | 0.0 | |
| 09 | Quint Is Out 1985-12-05 | The brothers become concerned when a vengeful ex-con is on the loose. | 1985-12-05 | 0.0 | |
| 10 | Walk a Mile in My Hat 1985-12-12 | The brothers switch identities. | 1985-12-12 | 0.0 | |
| 11 | Facets 1985-12-18 | AJ is devastated when he shoots a young man during an investigation of a diamond theft which reveals a family feud separating two lovers. | 1985-12-18 | 0.0 | |
| 12 | Sunrise at Camp Apollo 1986-01-02 | The guys pose as camp counselors at a camp for street kids, as a favor to Town. | 1986-01-02 | 0.0 | |
| 13 | The Blue Chip Stomp 1986-01-16 | The Simons help Town and a high school basketball coach when the teams star is accused of murdering a college recruiter. | 1986-01-16 | 0.0 | |
| 14 | Something for Sarah 1986-01-23 | A woman hires Rick and AJ to find her long-lost father after $10,000 is left anonymously on her front porch and she thinks it might have been from him. | 1986-01-23 | 0.0 | |
| 15 | Mobile Home of the Brave 1986-01-30 | A cameraman is pursued by the mob and involves a charming family on vacation in their mobile home at a theme park. | 1986-01-30 | 0.0 | |
| 16 | Family Forecast 1986-02-06 | 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. | 1986-02-06 | 0.0 | |
| 17 | A Significant Obsession 1986-02-13 | Espionage at the laser research center. A former client obsessed with AJ hinders the investigation. | 1986-02-13 | 0.0 | |
| 18 | For the People 1986-02-20 | The D.A. has AJ testify about a shooting he witnessed, but the accused may be innocent. | 1986-02-20 | 10.0 | |
| 19 | Full Moon Blues 1986-03-06 | Rick moves in with a woman for the first time in his life, but she won't continue their relationship until he meets her missing roommate, when Rick and AJ search for him, they find themselves caught between the government and the mob. | 1986-03-06 | 0.0 | |
| 20 | Eye of the Beholder 1986-03-13 | A rich industrialist hires the Simons to provide security for the cursed Peruvian icon he's about to receive, and as long as they're there, he asks if they could also keep an eye on his two teenage daughters. | 1986-03-13 | 0.0 | |
| 21 | D-I-V-O-R-C-E 1986-03-27 | Rick and AJ help a couple of friends who claim they want a divorce, but act otherwise. | 1986-03-27 | 0.0 | |
| 22 | Act Five 1986-04-03 | When the Simons find out their client has used them to cheat his wife out of her rightful settlement, they enlist the help of Town's cousin to set up a scam to get even. | 1986-04-03 | 0.0 | |
| 23 | The Last Harangue 1986-04-10 | AJ runs for the city council while Rick investigates his opponent's alleged toxic waste dumping and murder. | 1986-04-10 | 0.0 | |
| 24 | The Apple Doesn't Fall Far from the Tree 1986-05-01 | When hoods try to steal the family journal, Rick and AJ are prompted to go to Boston (with cousin Elizabeth) and trace the family tree, where they learn about pairs of Simon brothers down through the ages. Wayne (AJ) and Mad Benedict (Rick) Simon and their mother (Cecelia) in revolution-era Boston. 1775 and 1776 Sir Francis (AJ) and Black Jack (Rick) Simon and their mother Evangeline (Cece) in Pirate's Key, Florida. 1692 Orville (AJ) and Wilbur (Rick) Simon, shoe salesmen from Buffalo (owners of Simon Brothers shoes) in 1986. | 1986-05-01 | 0.0 |
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