Simon & Simon: Season Two

After nearly two and a half years of waiting, SHOUTFACTORY licensed this great show from UNIVERSAL and they did a great job. After the first season, which already was good, this second season shows why SIMON & SIMON was one of the most popular-TV-Shows back in these days. The greatest fun of the show was the interacting of Gerald McRaney and Jameson Parker, who did a really great job on portraying these different brothers. I really like both of them, but my heart will always beat for Rick Simon...this guy really was the coolest ( and hottest... ) P.I. of all those P.I.-shows of the Eighties. Go and get your copy of this tremendous show, to let SHOUT ( and UNIVERSAL... ) know there are a lot of us SIMON-fans and that we are really looking forward for the next seasons to come...

It's about time season two of this great show was released on DVD. To make up for lost time Shout Factory should have released both seasons 2 and 3 together like Universal did with the 3rd and 4th seasons of The Incredible Hulk. But i'm thankful after more than two years to be getting the second season. Nearly every episode is either good or great. And the list of well known or soon to be well known guest stars is another plus, including Tom Selleck, Charles Napier, Kathleen Lloyd, Anne Schedeen, Stuart Whitman, Ray Walston, Robert Englund, Darleen Carr, Richard Kiel, Jonathan Banks, Dick Butkus, Ed Lauter, and more. An episode from Magnum, P.I. featuring A.J. and Rick is the only bonus feature. A commentary on the 2 hour Pirate's Key episode by Jameson Parker and Gerald McRaney would have been nice. Hope season 3 follows soon. Total of episodes: 24 BONUS: Magnum, P.I. episode: Ki'is Don't Lie (1) 1.Emeralds Are Not a Girl's Best Friend (2) 2.Mike & Pat 3.Guessing Game 4.Art for Arthur's Sake 5.The Ten Thousand Dollar Deductible 6.Rough Rider Rides Again 7.Sometimes Dreams Come True 8.The Last Time I Saw Michael 9.Fowl Play 10.Thin Air 11.Murder Between the Lines 12.Psyched Out 13.Pirate's Key (2hrs) 14.The Club Murder Vacation 15.It's Only a Game 16.Design for Killing 17.The List 18.What's in a Gnome? 19.The Secret of the Chrome Eagle 20.Room 3502 21.Red Dog Blues 22.The Skeleton Who Came Out of the Closet

"Simon & Simon: Season Two" on DVD is worth cheering about! Far better written than the first season, and opening with a very entertaining crossover with it's new lead-in show, Tom Selleck's "Magnum P.I.", the series, and it's wonderful stars, Jameson Parker and Gerald McRaney, provided an irresistable blend of action and humor, and is every bit as enjoyable today as it was in 1982! Viewing both seasons, besides being great fun, is an education on how a series is 'polished' and improved. Besides the bouncy new slide-guitar theme, the characters of Myron Fowler and his daughter Janet (Eddie Barth and Jeannie Wilson) are gradually phased out, as the role of the Simons' mother, Cecilia (Mary Carver), is enlarged (thankfully, Marlowe, Rick's big, lovable dog, is still a fixture!). The backstory of Rick being a 'Nam vet is introduced, as is the first of the brothers' Police Department 'buddies' (Robert Ginty, as a hip coroner), who would foreshadow the arrival of Tim Reid, as Detective 'Downtown' Brown, in Season Three. More episodes would be set in the San Diego area, fewer across the border in Mexico (with a two-part episode utilizing the unaired series pilot, set in the Florida Keys), and most episodes ended with a smile (it appears McRaney often ad-libbed; watch Parker's attempts to stay in character to his occasional asides!) The show definitely had the look, and feel, of a winner! While I wish the collection offered a 'Subtitles' option, and commentaries by Parker and McRaney (I'd LOVE to hear their recollections), and the picture quality is occasionally a bit grainy, I'm not complaining; Season Two was the first of the GREAT seasons of "Simon & Simon", and I'm thrilled that it is finally available on DVD!

"Simon & Simon" was such a magnificent, unique, humorous and fun detective television series. Jameson Parker was perfect in the role of private investigator A.J. Simon. Gerald McRaney was perfect in the role of private investigator Rick Simon. I rated the "Simon & Simon: Season Two" 6-disc set four stars because the episode "The Secret of the Chrome Eagle" only runs for 48:40 instead of 49:12. "The Secret of the Chrome Eagle" ran for 49:12 on Disc #4 of the "Simon & Simon: Season One" 4-disc set. It was included on that Season One set as one of the bonus features. The teaser for the episode "The Secret of the Chrome Eagle" was included on both the Season One and Season Two sets, but, for whatever reason, the version of this episode on the Season Two set is missing a scene. The second season of "Simon & Simon" originally aired on CBS from October 5, 1982 until March 31, 1983. Here are the exact running times for all 23 episodes that were included on this Shout! Factory DVD release. Disc 1: [Magnum P.I. episode] - Ki'is Don't Lie - 48:21 Emeralds Are Not a Girl's Best Friend - 49:14 Mike & Pat - 49:16 Guessing Game - 49:09 Disc 2: Art for Arthur's Sake - 49:14 The Ten Thousand Dollar Deductible - 49:14 Rough Rider Rides Again - 49:18 Sometimes Dreams Come True - 49:16 Disc 3: The Last Time I Saw Michael - 49:12 Fowl Play - 49:16 Thin Air - 49:12 Murder Between the Lines - 49:17 Disc 4: Psyched Out - 49:13 Pirate's Key - 1:37:08 The Club Murder Vacation - 49:14 Disc 5: It's Only a Game - 49:14 Design for Killing - 49:14 The List - 49:18 What's in a Gnome? - 49:14 Disc 6: The Secret of the Chrome Eagle - 48:40 Room 3502 - 49:14 Red Dog Blues - 49:16 The Skeleton Who Came Out of the Closet - 49:17 The episode "Emeralds Are Not a Girl's Best Friend" concludes a crossover that begins on the Magnum, P.I. episode "Ki'i's Don't Lie". The picture quality and audio quality on this DVD set are both good. The packaging that Shout! Factory used for Simon & Simon: Season Two is perfect. There is a cardboard slip-cover case that holds three different slim plastic DVD cases inside. All three of the slim plastic DVD cases hold two discs each. Notable guest stars from the second season of "Simon & Simon" were Alan Hale Jr., Albert Salmi, Anne Schedeen, Brenda Scott, Broderick Crawford, Charles Napier, Cleavon Little, Cristina Raines, Darleen Carr, Dean Stockwell, Denny Miller, Dick Butkus, Don Gordon, Don Stroud, Eddie Albert, Ed Lauter, Edson Stroll, Gerald S. O'Loughlin, Jake Steinfeld, James Avery, James T. Callahan, Jock Mahoney, Joe Mantegna, John Hillerman, John Russell, Jonathan Banks, Joyce Brothers, Julia Duffy, June Allyson, Kathleen Lloyd, Kathy Garver, Kevin Hagen, Lloyd Haynes, Lonny Chapman, Monte Markham, Morgan Fairchild, Natalie Schafer, Pat Buttram, Patti Davis, Ray Walston, Richard Anderson, Richard Kiel, Robert Englund, Robert Sterling, Shelley Smith, Steve Franken, Stuart Whitman, Tim Considine and Tom Selleck.

I was very pleased when I read on the web that Universal had sub-licenced the 80's detective series Simon & Simon to Shout! Factory. I was doubly pleased when I bought the boxset via Amazon.com and found the boxset was intact and not damaged and all six discs played perfectly fine (I'd bought the second season from another Region 1 website beforehand but kept having problems with the boxset and some of the discs - broken pieces of plastic in some of the three slipcases, creases and dents to the outer box and audio problems on some of the discs). The presentation of the Simon & Simon's second season by Shout! Factory is well done. Each disc has a different clip for it's menu screen, the Season 1 theme tune is used as well as the new theme tune for Season 2 on the menu screens, and the print quality of the episodes is very nice. If the 23 episodes in this boxset haven't been digitally remastered by Shout! Factory, then the print quality hasn't diminished much since the episodes' original airing back in the 1982-83 US TV season on CBS. It was likely common for most 1980's TV series but I was pleased that there was a 30 second teaser before each episode. You eithee love or hate them. Some people say they spoil the following episode and some say they don't. I personally like pre-episode teasers (main example being the Jack Lord episode promos in the Hawaii Five-O DVD boxsets).

This was a gift for my husband. He loved it. This was his favorite TV show when he was a kid. And, truthfully, it's aged well. Still quite entertaining.

I used to live in San Diego when this series was being filmed. Loved it then & brought back fond memories.

This is one of the worst image transfers I have ever come across, I was hoping that the DVD was a bootleg copy and not the real deal, but alas it was the real copy. The first season was made by Universal Pictures Home Entertainment and the picture quality was good as you would expect, the rest of the seasons DVD production were taken over by the Shout! Factory and the image transfer quality is terrible, making the DVDS not worth watching, a very lazy and disrespectful effort from Shout! Factory to such a great show.