Season 5
Episodes
S5 · E1 · 3 Oct 1985 · 60 min
Love and/or Marriage
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.
S5 · E2 · 10 Oct 1985 · 60 min
Burden of the Beast
A trained chimp is the only witness to a murder and they try to figure out who the chimp is identifying as the assailant.
S5 · E3 · 17 Oct 1985 · 60 min
The Third Eye
A writer asks to be an apprentice P.I. to get background information for his book and then he is framed.
S5 · E4 · 24 Oct 1985 · 60 min
Enchilada Express
Their current case takes them to a Mexican divorce resort when a worried ex-wife asks them to find her husband.
S5 · E5 · 31 Oct 1985 · 60 min
The Skull of Nostradamus
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.
S5 · E6 · 7 Nov 1985 · 60 min
Have You Hugged Your Private Detective Today?
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.
S5 · E7 · 14 Nov 1985 · 60 min
Reunion at Alcatraz
Sam Penny is back searching for the only prisoner ever to have escaped from Alcatraz, almost 25 years ago.
S5 · E8 · 21 Nov 1985 · 60 min
Down-Home Country Blues
The Simons set out to find a missing country singer.
S5 · E9 · 5 Dec 1985 · 60 min
Quint Is Out
The brothers become concerned when a vengeful ex-con is on the loose.
S5 · E10 · 12 Dec 1985 · 60 min
Walk a Mile in My Hat
The brothers switch identities.
S5 · E11 · 18 Dec 1985 · 60 min
Facets
AJ is devastated when he shoots a young man during an investigation of a diamond theft which reveals a family feud separating two lovers.
S5 · E12 · 2 Jan 1986 · 60 min
Sunrise at Camp Apollo
The guys pose as camp counselors at a camp for street kids, as a favor to Town.
S5 · E13 · 16 Jan 1986 · 60 min
The Blue Chip Stomp
The Simons help Town and a high school basketball coach when the teams star is accused of murdering a college recruiter.
S5 · E14 · 23 Jan 1986 · 60 min
Something for Sarah
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.
S5 · E15 · 30 Jan 1986 · 60 min
Mobile Home of the Brave
A cameraman is pursued by the mob and involves a charming family on vacation in their mobile home at a theme park.
S5 · E16 · 6 Feb 1986 · 60 min
Family Forecast
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.
S5 · E17 · 13 Feb 1986 · 60 min
A Significant Obsession
Espionage at the laser research center. A former client obsessed with AJ hinders the investigation.
S5 · E18 · 20 Feb 1986 · 60 min
For the People
The D.A. has AJ testify about a shooting he witnessed, but the accused may be innocent.
S5 · E19 · 6 Mar 1986 · 60 min
Full Moon Blues
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.
S5 · E20 · 13 Mar 1986 · 60 min
Eye of the Beholder
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.
S5 · E21 · 27 Mar 1986 · 60 min
D-I-V-O-R-C-E
Rick and AJ help a couple of friends who claim they want a divorce, but act otherwise.
S5 · E22 · 3 Apr 1986 · 60 min
Act Five
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.
S5 · E23 · 10 Apr 1986 · 60 min
The Last Harangue
AJ runs for the city council while Rick investigates his opponent's alleged toxic waste dumping and murder.
S5 · E24 · 1 May 1986 · 60 min
The Apple Doesn't Fall Far from the Tree
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.
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