Simon & Simon: Season Three
by Vincent McEveety
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Actor: Gerald McRaney, Jameson Parker, Tim ReidDirector: Vincent McEveety
Brand: Universal Studios
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language)
Format: Box set, Closed-captioned, Color, DVD, NTSC
Picture Format: 1.33:1
Running Time: 1200 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2009-08-18
Audience Rating: Unrated
Studio: Shout! Factory
Product features:
- SIMON & SIMON-SEASON 3 (DVD MOVIE)
DVD Reviews of Simon & Simon: Season Three
DVD Review: SIMON & SIMON RULE!
Summary: 4 Stars
I'm glad to hear that SIMON & SIMON's 1983-84 Season is finally being released this Summer since SIMON & SIMON's 3rd Season is even more upgraded than the first 2 seasons along with the fact that this is the season when Timothy Reid joins the cast & crew as Rick & AJ's streetwise cop buddy from San Diego P.D.(Det. Marcel "Downtown" Brown) to help the Simon brothers get inside classfied information to help solve their cases just like the often cynical Jim Rockford(James Garner)had his often exasperated cop buddy Sgt. Dennis Becker(Joe Santos)from the LAPD do on THE ROCKFORD FILES, not to mention that Gerald McRaney had 4 guest starring appearances on THE ROCKFORD FILES back in the 1970's before McRaney was even a star.
Mary Carver(Cecilia Simon)has also made a guest starring appearance on THE ROCKFORD FILES in the "Dirty Money, Black Light" episode, so I'm almost surprised that Jameson Parker, Timothy Reid, nor Joan McMurtry(Lt. Abigail Marsh)have never been on THE ROCKFORD FILES since Rockford seemed to inspire this show in the early 1980's.
Another thing that was so cool and unusual about this detective drama was SIMON & SIMON was not only the first private detective show about 2 brothers running a private investigations agency together, but it was definitely one of the first private detective dramas about 2 private investigators working together on cases instead of a private investigator working solo running a private-eye agency of their own as opposed to MAGNUM, P.I., THE ROCKFORD FILES, MANNIX, and MATT HOUSTON, since Rockford(James Garner), Magnum(Tom Selleck), Mannix(Michael Connors), and Houston(Lee Horsley)were all private detectives that mostly worked alone and usually had a cop buddy in the police department, except SIMON & SIMON was a private detective show about 2 brothers which were the gonzo private-eye Rick Simon(Gerald McRaney)and the often fastidious AJ Simon(Jameson Parker)who not only investigated cases together and ran their P.I. office in Downtown San Diego, but were brothers who had a love/hate relationship with one another who often butted heads even though they always managed to solve most of their investigations.
SIMON & SIMON was also the first and probably only private detective drama to be filmed in America's Finest City(San Diego) instead of L.A., New York City, or San Francisco too since SIMON & SIMON was the first show that I know of that was ever filmed here in San Diego on top of that.
Something else I found kind of intriguing was Rick & A.J. lived an eccentric lifestyle kind of like Rockford did since Rick lived on a boat in AJ's backyard in Venice just like Rockford lived alone in a rusty trailer in a parking lot in Malibu by the beach near the famous Pacific Coast Highway, and like Rockford, Magnum, and Mannix; the Simon Bros. lived on a shoe-string budget and didn't have money or cool clothes most of the time, but like Rockford, Rick & AJ had brains which helped them solve their cases which made this show almost like Rockford times two in a way, despite the fact that this show was a definite upgrade to THE ROCKFORD FILES and despite the fact that Rick & AJ were more fortunate than Rockford ever was.
It was also interesting seeing
-Dick York in the "Too Much Of A Good Thing" episode after his co-starring days as Darren Stephens on BEWITCHED
-Mills Watson in the "DJ DOA" episode after his co-starring days as the doofus Deputy Perkins on SHERIFF LOBO
-Bill Boyett in "The Disappearance Of Harry The Hat" episode after his co-starring days as Los Angeles Police Sgt. MacDonald on ADAM-12
-Jim Whitmore, Jr. in the "DJ DOA" episode before his co-starring days as Hunter & McCall's idiotic fellow officer(Det. Bernie Terwilliger)on the police drama HUNTER
This season also takes me all the way back to memory lane to when SIMON & SIMON was on CBS every Thursday night at 9PM after MAGNUM, PI was at 8PM since they were both part of CBS's Thursday night line up from the Fall of 1982 through the Summer of 1986 along with the fact that we get to see all these episodes of this detective drama complete & uncut instead of having to watch them with a bunch of deleted scenes & commercial disruptions when SIMON & SIMON was shown in reruns on A&E and WGN.
This season also takes me all the way back to memory lane to when CBS's motto was "We've Got The Touch" and to my childhood days of living in the Imperial Valley since I was 11 years old in the 5th grade at Desert Gardens Elementary School when this season was running on CBS.
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