Woody Grant, John Channing, and Mark Fordham are all involved in an insider trading scheme using information gained from Woody's father's company. When Woody tells John he wants out, he ends up dead. His grieving father hires Rick and A.J. to investigate, and the two manage to finger John as the killer, but their mother's new beau Doug McKenna is an old Channing family friend, and ends up defending him in court, and in his attempt to defend a client he believes is innocent, he has to rip both A.J. and Rick apart on the stand. John is acquited of the crime, and the Simon brothers come under investigation. They manage to convince Lloyd Grant to keep them on the case, but they're going nowhere until Mark also tells John he wants out, and ends up being thrown off a walkway at the university library. They go to Doug with what they know, and the three hatch a plan to catch Channing at his own game.

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.

The brothers become concerned when a vengeful ex-con is on the loose.

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 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.

AJ is undercover as a coach to check out a teen's drug habits, then when she runs away, he feels responsible, but when he and Rick try to bring her home, her street friends find a nasty way to fight back.

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 when AJ insists that they continue digging into the case.

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 guys pose as camp counselors at a camp for street kids, as a favor to Town.

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 depicted in the author's lastest book, and AJ thinks he's next.

The Simon family are enjoying a day at the ballpark when a 'kid' takes off with AJ's wallet. AJ pursues the kid and catches her, but Allison swears it was just an initiation into a club, so he lets her go. She turns up again at the office to return some things that had 'fallen out' of AJ's wallet. She says she's there to ask for help, but the minute the brothers' backs are turned, she takes off with Rick's $1,000 camera. It turns out that she is working as a prostitute to survive. Her pimp has decided one of her co-workers who is also a friend needs to die. Allison is doing her best to keep her friend alive and out of the pimp's reach. She's pawned Rick's camera for $50 worth of groceries. When the 'customers' get rough with her, Allison flees to AJ's for a safe haven for a night. She's touched by his kindness after she'd stolen Rick's camera, but not touched enough to keep from 'borrowing' AJ's gun. AJ and Rick catch up to her in time to find her friend is dying. When she dies at t

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.

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 him prove his friends's innocence.

AJ is devastated when he shoots a young man during an investigation of a diamond theft which reveals a family feud separating two lovers.

Sam Penny is back searching for the only prisoner ever to have escaped from Alcatraz, almost 25 years ago.

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 Janet and working for Myron at Peerless Detectives. The incident is revealed in flashbacks taken from 1980 made for TV-""Pirate's Key"", which was the basis of the series.

Rick and AJ are asked by Tom Huntley, a State Senatorial candidate, to find out whether his wife Colleen is having an affair. Despite their rule against working on cases involving marital difficulties, they agree. Naturally, it's all a setup. The Simons are put in place as witnesses to the apparent murder of Mrs. Huntley. They report the murder and turn over the pictures they've taken to the police. After her body turns up, they realize that what they saw was a scripted scene played out between two hired actors.

After returning home from a date and spurning his advances, Cecilia's power is knocked out and she is beaten and raped by a man she can't see. AJ, who'd been on the phone with her when she was was attacked, rushed to her aid, but got there too late. Rick joined AJ and Abby in the waiting room, horrified to discover his mother has been so brutally attack. He vows vengeance while AJ withdraws into himself, unable to speak about it. They go in to visit Cecilia and find a deeply hurt and defensive woman. The brothers are both enflamed by her pain, and both start to look for the monster who did this. Rick is sure it is the man Cecilia had been out with, and goes about trying to prove it. AJ, meanwhile, is equally sure it is the gardener, who'd been seen skulking around Cecilia's house. They are both sure the other is completely wrong. Things become strained between all of the Simons - Cecilia doesn't want her boys hovering over her, and the brothers are angry with each other. After Rick b

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.

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.

An old girlfriend tells Rick he has a teen-aged son and asks to protect the boy from a murderer who knows he witnessed the crime.

A surfer who was thought to be drowned some 20 years ago turns up alive - and a target for murder.

The D.A. has AJ testify about a shooting he witnessed, but the accused may be innocent.

When they accidentally solve ""the crime of the century"" Rick and AJ accept the lucrative, but separate, job offers that result from the publicity, but things don't go as planned when they're ambushed and framed for espionage and attempted murder.

There is a clue to the murderer of a cartoonist in one of his comic books.

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 her in with a con of their own, using a huge emerald and AJ as bait. The crossover starts on Magnum, P.I. S03E03 Ki'i's Don't Lie (I)

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 Janet and working for Myron at Peerless Detectives. The incident is revealed in flashbacks taken from 1980 made for TV-""Pirate's Key"", which was the basis of the series.

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.

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, and their investigation leads them to a look-a-like escort service.

WWII pilot wants to find his long lost B-25.

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 more they question who the real villian is.

A loud-mouth acid-tongued talk show host invites the Simons on his show and then hires them to find out who is sending threatening letters to him.

The Simons' world turns upside down when the brothers discover the car that their father had died in was driving down the street. They stopped the driver to discover it was indeed their father's car, but he knew nothing - it had been bought at an auction the month before. Cecilia wouldn't believe the boys at first, but they finally convinced her it was the same car. While she and Rick couldn't believe he was still alive, AJ clung to the hope that he was, to the point of striking his brother. Both were horrified by how close they'd come to really hurting each other and resumed their search for the truth. After a long, frustrating search, they finally discover that Jack Simon hadn't died in a fiery car crash on a rainy night. He'd actually died months later of radiation poisoning, contracted when he was stopping some terrorists of stealing the radioactive materials. Jack's old boss and good friend shows them the cabin where he had really died and gave them the key. Inside the one-roo

Another malpractice suit needs their attention, but the lawyer who is running a center for the disabled thinks AJ has sold out to the defendant.

In a James Bond style caper, the Simons search the Yugoslavian embassy for some stolen top secret plans.

A young Indian finds some prehistoric artifacts at a construction site and then disappears. His uncle hires the Simons to investigate.

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.

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.

A young sailor who is framed for drug possession and goes A.W.O.L. gets help from the Simons

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.

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.

The Simons help Town and a high school basketball coach when the teams star is accused of murdering a college recruiter.

The brothers switch identities.

After she finds new evidence, AJ's former girlfriend shows back up in his life to have him and Rick look into her brother's death, which could possibly have been a murder, trouble is it was eighteen years ago and it uncovers more than that.

AJ writes a play based on a long-unsolved murder case, then suddenly it flushes out the real culprit.

Both of the Simon brothers are amazed of the architect they are protecting, when she hires them.

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.

An old friend of the Simons, Beth, shows up in their office after finding a blackmail note given to one of the beauty contestants in her pageant. She's responsible for the pageant going off smoothly, so she wants the Simons to go undercover and find out who is being blackmailed by whom. With a sparkle in his eye, Rick decides that AJ will enter as a contestant while he will show up as a judge. AJ is less than happy about it, especially the swimsuit competition, but grudgingly agrees to do it. Things get more serious when the pageant host stumbles upon the blackmailer being beaten by two toughs. The blackmailer, realizing the host must have heard that he owed money to a loan shark, kills him. A pageant contestant finds the body and is immediately suspected of being the murderer. It turns out that she was the one being blackmailed because she was kicked out of her family for being an unmarried mother. The Simons don't believe she's guilty and get Abby to give them 48 hours to find the re

AJ's past comes back to haunt him when a routine serving of a summons goes terribly wrong. Bracken, a murderer convicted by AJ's testimony 17 years ago, has returned and wants revenge on both him and his ex-girlfriend, Kristen. The beating he gives AJ leaves the young Simon in the hospital. AJ doesn't tell anyone who attacked him, and as soon as he can stand, he leaves the hospital and goes in search of the girl he used to love. Once he finds her, he convinces her to let him stay while her husband's gone to protect her from Bracken. Meanwhile, Rick is beside himself with worry. AJ has gone off without telling him where he was going, and Rick knew it had something to do with the attack. Many hours of research later, he finds out about the old murder case AJ was involved in that happened while Rick was in Vietnam. Convinced more than ever that AJ's in real trouble, he starts tracking Kristen down. AJ and Kristen find themselves attracted to each other after all these years, but AJ refu

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 is not what he would have expected.

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.

A trained chimp is the only witness to a murder and they try to figure out who the chimp is identifying as the assailant.

The Simons follow their mother to Paris where she has an affair with a suave Frenchman, but is he all that he seems?

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.

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.

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.

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.

Their current case takes them to a Mexican divorce resort when a worried ex-wife asks them to find her husband.

A dolphin is abducted, and Rick and AJ have to find him and bring him back before his mate starves herself to death.

Rick and AJ are protecting a relief worker from a Salvadoran death squad.

When it looks like a little girl may have been kidnapped by her oilman father, Rick and AJ go to Mexico to retrieve her but end up helping both of them out of a dangerous situation.

When their mother orders Rick and AJ to find tickets to a sold-out rock concert for their cousin, the search leads them to thousands of tickets that aren't suppose to exist, and big trouble when they try to return them.

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 leads when the police no longer will.

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.

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.

AJ is horrified to find almost $9,000 charged to his credit card without his knowledge. Rick is innocent this time and AJ goes to the bank to demand it be taken off his card. To his surprise, the person he starts complaining to bursts into tears. Instantly repentant, AJ takes the lady out to lunch when her stern boss tells her she's holding up the other employee lunches. While eating, the lady, Marion, tells AJ that this is the ninth time someone's credit card has been charged fraudulently and that her boss had threatened to fire her if it happened again. She loses track of time and returns to work late. When her boss comes to yell at her for being late, he surmises the fraud has happened again and proclaims tomorrow will be her last day working there. AJ is smitten by Marion and decides to investigate what's going on with Rick. They get a lead that takes them to a warehouse that is full of goods bought with stolen credit card money. The brothers see someone and split up to investigat

Their former high school teacher asks Rick and AJ to find some missing classmates for the class reunion, the search for Rick's class president takes them into unsuspected trouble.

Cecelia agrees to chaperone two teenage girls on a cruise, with Rick's help, but then the ship is highjacked.

The mayor of Abalone Bay (aka as Sin City) hires the Simons to prove that his ex-wife, the chief of police, is trying to kill him, but when they get there, it's the mayor who's being indicted for murdering the chief.

The Simons fun-loving fortune-hunting uncle turns up and drags them off to a South Seas island to investigate why the dividend checks stopped coming from a crazy investment that had started to pay off.

On Christmas Eve Rick and AJ go to Las Vegas in search of the father of a little girl.

Rick needs money in a hurry when his truck is repossessed, so he grabs the first client he can, which turns out to be one of Myron's. Rick and AJ's new client is a jilted bride and trying to find her runaway groom is more trouble than it's worth.

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 her very uncooperative.

Rick and AJ help a couple of friends who claim they want a divorce, but act otherwise.

The Simons uncover a robbery scheme within a dating service while trying to recover stolen antiques insured by a beautiful agent who has her eye on AJ, past experiences with her tell them not to trust her, but who can they trust?

A panic sticken husband comes to the Simons when he finds his wife has vanished from their hotel room overnight.

A restuarant critic is killed, and his partner hires Rick and AJ to find out why and by whom.

Rick uses some of his old and shady contacts when he and AJ try to recover the stolen sports car of a pretty co-ed who Rick is determined to impress.

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 defense attorney.

The Simons investigate a 50 year old bank robbery, when one robber took all the money and his three accomplices want revenge.

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.

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.

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.

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.

A woman hires Rick and AJ to find out if her husband is having an affair with the company accountant. but their investigation reveals what the accountant is really up to.

A tv reporter put out a contract on himself to flush out a hitman for a story and now needs Rick and AJ to save him.

The Simons follow their mother to Paris where she has an affair with a suave Frenchman, but is he all that he seems?

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 who donated the painting.

Rick and AJ take on the job of protecting a blind witness.

This is a cross-over with the Whiz Kids who help the Simons solve their case.