Season 5
24 episodes · Oct 3, 1985
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- S5E1
Love and/or Marriage
Oct 3, 198560mA 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.
- S5E2
Burden of the Beast
Oct 10, 198560mA trained chimp is the only witness to a murder and they try to figure out who the chimp is identifying as the assailant.
- S5E3
The Third Eye
Oct 17, 198560mA writer asks to be an apprentice P.I. to get background information for his book and then he is framed.
- S5E4
Enchilada Express
Oct 24, 198560mTheir current case takes them to a Mexican divorce resort when a worried ex-wife asks them to find her husband.
- S5E5
The Skull of Nostradamus
Oct 31, 198560mAn 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.
- S5E6
Have You Hugged Your Private Detective Today?
Nov 7, 198560mJust 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.
- S5E7
Reunion at Alcatraz
Nov 14, 198560mSam Penny is back searching for the only prisoner ever to have escaped from Alcatraz, almost 25 years ago.
- S5E8
Down-Home Country Blues
Nov 21, 198560mThe Simons set out to find a missing country singer.
- S5E9
Quint Is Out
Dec 5, 198560mThe brothers become concerned when a vengeful ex-con is on the loose.
- S5E11
Facets
Dec 18, 198560mAJ is devastated when he shoots a young man during an investigation of a diamond theft which reveals a family feud separating two lovers.
- S5E12
Sunrise at Camp Apollo
Jan 2, 198660mThe guys pose as camp counselors at a camp for street kids, as a favor to Town.
- S5E13
The Blue Chip Stomp
Jan 16, 198660mThe Simons help Town and a high school basketball coach when the teams star is accused of murdering a college recruiter.
- S5E14
Something for Sarah
Jan 23, 198660mA 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.
- S5E15
Mobile Home of the Brave
Jan 30, 198660mA cameraman is pursued by the mob and involves a charming family on vacation in their mobile home at a theme park.
- S5E16
Family Forecast
Feb 6, 198660mThe 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.
- S5E17
A Significant Obsession
Feb 13, 198660mEspionage at the laser research center. A former client obsessed with AJ hinders the investigation.
- S5E18
For the People
Feb 20, 198660mThe D.A. has AJ testify about a shooting he witnessed, but the accused may be innocent.
- S5E19
Full Moon Blues
Mar 6, 198660mRick 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.
- S5E20
Eye of the Beholder
Mar 13, 198660mA 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.
- S5E21
D-I-V-O-R-C-E
Mar 27, 198660mRick and AJ help a couple of friends who claim they want a divorce, but act otherwise.
- S5E22
Act Five
Apr 3, 198660mWhen 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.
- S5E23
The Last Harangue
Apr 10, 198660mAJ runs for the city council while Rick investigates his opponent's alleged toxic waste dumping and murder.
- S5E24
The Apple Doesn't Fall Far from the Tree
May 1, 198660mWhen 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.