SIMON & SIMON: SEASON TWO

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• Release Year: 1981
• Genre: Action/Adventure, Crime, Mystery
• Plot: Simon & Simon is classic 80s television: a Top 20 action series and the show that followed another classic, Magnum P.I., in CBSs Thursday night lineup. ; Airing from 1981 to 1989, the show followed the Simon brothers as they ran a detective agency in San Diego, California. Despite coming from the same family, Rick (Gerald McRaney, Jericho) and A.J. (Jameson Parker, JAG) were complete opposites. Older brother Rick was a scruffy Vietnam veteran Marine, laid-back with street smarts and an aversion to rules, while A.J. (short for 'Andrew Jackson') was a slick, booksmart college graduate who was ambitious and sophisticated. ; ; Season Two (the show's first full season) opens with the brothers working on a case that puts them in contact with Thomas Magnum (Tom Selleck) in a 'cross-over episode' of Magnum P.I. (included in this set). From there Rick and A.J. tangle with psychics, investigate mysterious dolphin killing, tackle pro football, go to Vegas, almost go broke, fall in love and solve all their cases. ; ; After a shaky first season, Simon & Simon hit its stride in Season Two, landing in first place in the ratings for the opening episode and staying comfortably near the top thereafter. The Simon brothers my have mixed like oil and water, but for the show's fans they were a match made in heaven.
• Cast: Gerald McRaney, Jameson Parker, Mary Carver, Tim Reid, Scott Murphy, Eddie Barth, Jeannie Wilson, Joan McMurtrey, Donna Jepsen, Daphne Reid, Tom O'Rourke, Ed McCready, Jared Snyder, William Boyett, Robin Bach, William Bryant, Randy Hall, Darleen Carr, Jack Lucarelli, Kay Lenz, Gary Lockwood, Roy Jenson, Tony Longo, Dennis A. Pratt, David S. Cass Sr., Luca Bercovici, Richard Herd, Whitney Rydbeck, John Schuck, Belinda Montgomery, Alex Henteloff, Richard Wright, Louie Elias, Tony Epper, Tommy Madden, Richardson Morse, Shelley Smith, Harry Townes, Eric Server, Cassie Yates, Richard Yniguez, James Whitmore Jr., Kenneth Mars, James Shigeta, John H. Fields, Nicolas Coster, Matthew Tobin, Ted Markland, Luis Contreras, Thom Christopher, Panchito Gómez, John McCann, Kay Henley, Janice Carroll, Gene Whittington, Jourdan Fremin, Sandy McPeak, Ken Swofford, Anthony James, J.P. Bumstead, Dennis Patrick, Burt Marshall, Vernon Weddle, Lynette Mettey, Jonathan Banks, Lia Kirsten, M.C. Gainey, Paul Tuerpe, Richard Anderson, Murphy Dunne, Gene Evans, Wayne Heffley, Ray Walston, Marie Windsor, Susan Blu, Robert Casper, Anne Lockhart, Michelle Roth, Tom Simcox, Mills Watson, Nicholas Worth, John Chappell, Rick Lenz, Jimmy Lydon, Wayne Powers, Madelyn Cain, Robert Ginty, John Davis Chandler, Michael Constantine, Pat Corley, Lory Walsh, Marcelo Tubert, Peter Hansen, John Furlong, Lia Sargent, John Calvin, Kellyn Plasschaert, William Smith, Bert Rosario, David Goss
• Runtime: 19:00
• Company: Universal Studios
• Media Format: Series