Simon & Simon: Season 3
Season 3 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 2.
- 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 3 Progress Shield
Grand Illusion
Sep 29, 1983 · 60 min
A magician hires the Rick and AJ to find out how a rival stole his spectacular new trick.
D.J., D.O.A.
Oct 6, 1983 · 60 min
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.
I Heard It Was Murder
Oct 13, 1983 · 60 min
Rick and AJ take on the job of protecting a blind witness.
Bail Out
Oct 20, 1983 · 60 min
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.
Fly the Alibi Skies
Oct 27, 1983 · 60 min
This is a cross-over with the Whiz Kids who help the Simons solve their case.
Shadow of Sam Penny
Nov 3, 1983 · 60 min
AJ's idol, famous detective Sam Penny (""the man who wrote the book"") needs the Simons help to solve a 30 year old case.
Caught Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea
Nov 10, 1983 · 60 min
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 h
The Bare Facts
Nov 17, 1983 · 60 min
In order to find a missing contractor, the Simons have to search a nudist colony.
Too Much of a Good Thing
Dec 1, 1983 · 60 min
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 t
Betty Grable Flies Again
Dec 8, 1983 · 60 min
WWII pilot wants to find his long lost B-25.
Bon Voyage, Alonso
Dec 15, 1983 · 60 min
Cecelia agrees to chaperone two teenage girls on a cruise, with Rick's help, but then the ship is highjacked.
All Your Favorite Games
Dec 22, 1983 · 60 min
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
John Doe
Jan 5, 1984 · 60 min
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.
Dear Lovesick
Jan 12, 1984 · 60 min
An advice columnist hires Rick and AJ when she fears one of her regular readers is in danger.
Bloodlines
Jan 19, 1984 · 60 min
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.
Heels and Toes
Feb 2, 1984 · 60 min
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.
The Wrong Stuff
Feb 9, 1984 · 60 min
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.
Double Play
Feb 16, 1984 · 60 min
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,
Under the Knife
Feb 23, 1984 · 60 min
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.
Harm's Way
Mar 1, 1984 · 60 min
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 inte
The Dillinger Print
Mar 8, 1984 · 60 min
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
Corpus Delecti
Mar 22, 1984 · 60 min
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
The Disappearance of Harry the Hat
Mar 29, 1984 · 60 min
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.