A.J. feels a connection to the woman they've been hired to investigate by her politician husband, and he won't accept the obvious answer when she turns up dead.
The Simons take the stand to testify in an insider trading and murder case. Mom's male friend is the defense attorney and he uses his personal knowledge of Rick and A.J. to attack their credibility on the stand.
There's a 40 year old "LOST" manuscript to be found and A.J. is excited about the idea of one more story from his favorite detective novelist, even if it means going to L.A., where he finds everything strange, while Rick never wanted the job to begin with.
The Simon brothers join the Van Alder family at their elaborate estate for the first wedding anniversary of AJ's best friend Tommy Van Alder and his beautiful wife Trish, but as they repeat their vows, Tommy is stricken with an apparent heart attack and dies.
Abby is attracted to a client of the Simons, but they are concerned the relationship will be a disaster when they insist he tell her of his troubled past.
When Rick's truck is stolen, the publicity about the Simons' much talked about capture of the thief attracts more trouble with business they can hardly handle, bringing associates into the firm seems to make Rick bossy while it makes A.J. uncomfortable.
A.J. goes undercover as a contestant and Rick as a judge of a beauty pageant (whose winners will receive highly lucrative spokesmodel contracts) in order to find out who's blackmailing one of the models.
Despite their mother's vehement objections, Rick and A.J. investigate the circumstances of their father's death after they spot his old Buick, which had supposedly been destroyed in the accident that killed him.
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.
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.
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.moreless
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.moreless
When a killer from A.J.'s past returns for revenge against him and his high school sweetheart, A.J. keeps Rick at a distance to keep him from learning an old secret.
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.
Janet returns with amnesia and involved in some serious trouble. The brothers work hard to discover what happened to the last four years and to save her.
Rick becomes obsessed about the war in Vietnam when a buddy who saved his life there is murdered. His determination to find the killer pushes him over the edge and into a VA hospital.
When Rick and A.J. are hired to reclaim some stolen documents from the Yugoslavian embassy, only to find themselves in the middle of an ongoing FBI operation.
The actor who plays tv's hottest detective disappears from the private detectives convention that Rick and AJ helped to organize, but it's a clue from a famous real detective, now down on his luck, that helps them find the guest of honor.
Downtown plans to propose to Temple, but they disagree about an arrest. Downtown thinks the arrested man is a criminal and Temple thinks he is the victim of a plot to evict him from his home.
Rick and AJ vie with two female private detectives to find the set of Samurai swords they were all hired to protect, when competition doesn't bring results, they decide to join forces--despite Rick's objections.
While doing a security check of a marine park, the Simons spot a ruthless pair they had a run-in with years before, and stick around to figure out what they're up to.
Rick protests violently when the doctor wants to remove his tonsils, but he has to. While he is under anesthetic, he sees what he thinks is a murder, and no one will believe him.
Rick and AJ are hired by two lovely Greek stewardesses to investigate a murder they witnessed, then they end up marrying them to keep them from being deported to Greece (where the killers await) when their visas expire.
Rick refuses to give up his search for the $100,000 case of Don Diablo Wine Cooler when the contest's ad executive hires AJ to find it, making Rick and AJ rivals in the search--at least until things start getting dangerous.
Temple Hill asks Rick and AJ to protect the threatened son of a investigatve reporter who was murdered while working on an expose of a boxing promotor, but the boy wants them to help him find his father's killer.
A rookie cop with a problem comes to the Simons for help, she suspects her partner, Town's mentor, is dirty, but she thinks if she reports him it will ruin her career.
Against his better judgement, AJ agrees to go along on a job helping a wealthy old prospector find a lost mine in Mexico, when he finds himself attracted to the client, the man's daughter.
AJ and Rick dig up a time capsule for their mother's high school reunion and get a surprise when they find things connecting her former classmate to a long ago murder.
A large PI firm moves into the Simons office building vowing to drive them out of business, meanwhile, they're trying to get their client, a charter boat captain, the insurance settlement she deserves for the boat that blew up.
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.moreless
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Rick and A.J. are called in to help Downtown Brown and a local high school basketball coach when one of his star players is accused of murdering a college recruiter.
Rick and A.J. investigate a string of burglaries that have been occurring in a small town. They go undercover a local camp for troubled teens as counselors.
During an investigation of a diamond theft, Rick and A.J. discover that two lovers being separated by their feuding families are connected. Complicating matters more, A.J. shoots the young man and has to find away to live with his actions.
While A.J. is on a trip, Rick assumes A.J.'s identity to take on a client offering $10,000 for two days work. A.J. comes home early to find Rick in over his head.
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.
A woman (Elaine Joyce) hires Rick & A.J. to find her thought to be ex-husband Odell. He was last seen south of the border in Costa Verde where they had a divorce vacation. When Rick & A.J. get there, they find a divorce scam and a money theft ring involving those ment to protect the innocent. Now the whole gang has to fly down to uncover the perpertrators, and save Odell.moreless
A chimpanzee is the locked up and set for execution for the murder of one of his trainers. His other trainer doesn't believe the chimp could ever hurt someone he loved. Rick and A.J. are hired by her to figure out who the murderer actually is. The chimp witnessed the murder and gives the guys clues through his ability to speak sign language.moreless
Marcel's cousin is a student in a local veterinarian program and is placed at one of the largest ranches in the area. He finds evidence that there is something wrong with the livestock and mentions it to his boss. Later, his house is vandalized and then he is accused of murder. Rick and A.J. take on the case to clear their friend's cousin.moreless
Rick enters Marlowe in a dog show in an attempt to locate the man who is holding their client's championship bitch for ransom, but the case hits too close to home when Marlowe gets snatched too.
When a graduate student in Egyptology finds an unreported mummy in the museum basement that she believes is Pharaoh Akhenaton. She hires Rick and A.J. to help her figure out what is going on.
A candidate in a major union election hires Rick and A.J. to find out who is blackmailing him. Their investigation brings them to the attention of the bosses from the East and West mob organizations.
Rick and A.J. are hired by her parents to investigate their daughter's alleged drug habit. A.J. goes undercover at the school to keep an eye on her. When drugs are found in her locker, she runs away and Rick and A.J. go looking for her on the streets.
Rick and A.J. find themselves in trouble when they are framed for attempted murder. When each brother has an attempt made on their life, they decide to team back up and clear their names.
Rick and A.J. undercover a smuggling ring and find themselves in the middle of a media storm. Each brother is made lucrative job offers and they decide to go their separate way.
Rick and A.J. look into a series of disappearances of a couple of homeless people as a favor to Lolita, an old friend of Ricks. The case takes a turn for the worst when Lolita disappears.
Rick and A.J.'s fun-loving fortune-hunting uncle drags them off to an island in the South Seas in hopes of finding out what happened with crazy investment that had started to pay off, but then the checks stopped.
Rick and A.J. are hired by the mayor of a neighboring city, known as 'Sin City' to find proof that his ex-wife, who is also the chief of police is trying to kill him. Only once the boys arrive, they find the police chief is dead and their client is being arrested.moreless
Rick and A.J. are hired to investigate the murder of a local cartoonist. They are hired by his daughter who believes that her father left the identity of his killer in his drawings.
Rick and A.J. are hired to investigate who is terrorizing a local theater's comeback. Making matters worse, the two stars of the show are divorced from each other.
A.J.'s high school sweetheart shows back up in his life after twenty years. She wants Rick and A.J. to investigate her brother's death. Only his death occurred many years ago at a "Concert for Peace".
Rick is in big trouble when he is accused of murdering the president of the company that repossessed his boat and his only alibi, the woman he spent the night with, has no name or identity.
Rick and A.J. are hired to investigate several threats to Taylor Martin and they are on a limited time frame, he is scheduled to get married soon. Rick suspects that Taylor is hiding something and finds a surprising secret.
A mild mannered accountant hires Rick and A.J. to teach him how to vanish. He tells them that he wants to evade a demanding wife, but maybe he has another reason.
A steel denture found in a burned car is the major clue in proving a woman is dead and her insurance policy payable. The Simons $120,000 commission sits in the balance when A.J. insists that they continue digging into the case.
When a retired FBI agent is murdered, his daughter hires Rick and A.J. to look into it, and they soon realise that the only print left at the scene belongs to notorious mobster John Dillinger. After someone tries to take A.J. out mob-style on the squash court, he has trouble recovering from the fear of being at someone else's complete mercy.moreless
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 international intrigue.
Rick is haunted by a recurring dream while he and A.J. are trying to figure out who devised the elaborate frame that gets them arrested for transporting stolen securities to Mexico, and their investigation leads them to a look-a-like escort service.
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.
The Simon boys land a new client while A.J. is getting his broken wrist fixed up in the hospital by an odd friend of Rick's. Holly hires the brothers to tell her boss and lover, Randy Dever, that she wants out of her job as an exotic dancer because she wants to concentrate on her ballet career. After her roommate is murdered, A.J. and Rick need to clear her name and help her keep her career on-track.moreless
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.
Brian Gatewood wakes up next to a car accident and a gun wearing a tuxedo he doesn't remember purchasing. When he stops by his job, he learns he's been missing for three months, but has no memory of anything after going through an anti-smoking program. When he is accused of murdering Julia Kessler, it's up to Rick and A.J. to clear his name, and figure out where his last three months went.moreless
When her star witness is nearly killed while under police protection, Janet asks Rick and A.J. to take over the protective custody, but the witness's compulsive need to gamble makes her very uncooperative.
Rick and A.J. investigate the disappearance of Walter Carmichael at his wife's insistence and begin to believe his disappearance is connected ti illegal pesticide usage until they realise that there's more than one Mrs. Walter Carmichael out there.
After Mary DeAngelo hires Rick and A.J. to find a missing friend of hers, they find themselves having to go undercover at a nudist colony to find out where the missing man spent his last days. A.J. soon acclimatizes himself to the colony, but Rick is less than thrilled at having to shed his clothes to figure out a case.moreless
Marie Haines hires Rick and A.J. to find her ex-husband Roy, an undercover cop accused of killing a fellow cop and running off with the loot. Marie turns the brothers onto Downtown Brown, a good friend of Roy's who is also an undercover cop. The Simons meet with trouble at every turn because no one, not even Haines' captain, is willing to consider the fact that Haines might have been set up.moreless
The Simons' efforts to find their client's missing brother lead them right into the high-profile murder investigation of an old nemesis, Lt. Bogartis. A.J. enlists the help of some computer-savvy kids to come up with the evidence to solve both cases.
A.J. goes undercover as a tennis pro when he and Rick are hired by an executive's widow to investigate the parachuting 'accident' that had killed her husband.