Simon & Simon: Season 2
Season 2 Lore Primer
Key plot threads, lore context, and character stakes you need to remember before diving into this season.
- Directly follows the overarching narrative developments of Simon & Simon Season 1.
- Faction dynamics and core character alliances shift under escalating external stakes.
- Crucial mysteries introduced previously reach key turning points and narrative reckonings.
- Sets up serialized story arcs that build directly toward the climactic season finale.
Episode Guide
Season 2 Progress Shield
Emeralds Are Not a Girl's Best Friend (II)
Oct 5, 1982 · 60 min
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 he
Mike & Pat
Oct 14, 1982 · 60 min
A dolphin is abducted, and Rick and AJ have to find him and bring him back before his mate starves herself to death.
Guessing Game
Oct 21, 1982 · 60 min
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 lead
Art for Arthur's Sake
Oct 28, 1982 · 60 min
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 w
The Ten Thousand Dollar Deductible
Nov 4, 1982 · 60 min
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
Rough Rider Rides Again
Nov 18, 1982 · 60 min
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.
Sometimes Dreams Come True
Dec 2, 1982 · 60 min
A woman's frightening dream about her twin sister seems to be coming true when her sister disappears.
The Last Time I Saw Michael
Dec 9, 1982 · 60 min
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.
Fowl Play
Dec 16, 1982 · 60 min
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.
Thin Air
Dec 30, 1982 · 60 min
Rick's former girlfriend asks him to find her missing husband and then she is arrested for his murder.
Murder Between the Lines
Jan 6, 1983 · 60 min
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 depic
Psyched Out
Jan 13, 1983 · 60 min
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.
Pirate's Key (1)
Jan 20, 1983 · 60 min
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 J
Pirate's Key (2)
Jan 20, 1983 · 60 min
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
The Club Murder Vacation
Jan 27, 1983 · 60 min
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 sty
It's Only a Game
Feb 3, 1983 · 60 min
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.
Design for Killing
Feb 10, 1983 · 60 min
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.
The List
Feb 17, 1983 · 60 min
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 inv
What's in a Gnome?
Feb 24, 1983 · 60 min
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
The Secret of the Chrome Eagle
Mar 3, 1983 · 60 min
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.
Room 3502
Mar 10, 1983 · 60 min
A panic sticken husband comes to the Simons when he finds his wife has vanished from their hotel room overnight.
Red Dog Blues
Mar 24, 1983 · 60 min
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 defens
The Skeleton Who Came Out of the Closet
Mar 31, 1983 · 60 min
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