Mysteries on TV, your source for the most complete selection of detective, amateur sleuth, private investigator, and suspense television mystery series now available or coming soon to DVD, is profiling one series that has a season DVD being released this week.
Jameson Parker and Gerald McRaney starred as brothers and private investigators with their own agency in Simon & Simon, a series that ran on CBS for 8 seasons from 1981 through 1989. A. J. (Parker) was the calm, cool-headed, intellectual brother while Rick (McRaney) was the more reckless, street-smark, ask questions later one. Mary Carver played their monther, Cecilia. The series was set in San Diego.
Simon & Simon almost didn't make it to a second season. It's first season (really, only half a season with 13 episodes) did poorly in the ratings. For the second season, it was moved to Thursday nights after Magnum P.I. and became a qualified hit. In fact, the first episode of the second season guest starred Tom Selleck as Thomas Magnum (one of two crossover episodes between the series). The second season is also notable for a change of theme music (arguably for the better though the first season theme had more of an edge and seemed more appropriate for the San Diego setting).
The Simon & Simon: Season Two DVD set of 6 discs contains the 22 episodes that aired from October 1982 through March 1983 on CBS.
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