Simon & Simon: Season Two
by Vincent McEveety
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Actor: Gerald McRaney, Jameson Parker, Mary CarverDirector: 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: 1140 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2009-02-10
Audience Rating: G (General Audience)
Model: SF11170
Studio: Shout! Factory
Product features:
- SIMON AND SIMON-SEASON 2 (DVD MOVIE)
Movie Reviews of Simon & Simon: Season Two
Movie Review: The Simons hit their stride
Summary: 5 Stars
With new living quarters for A.J. (Jameson Parker) Simon (a brown-shingled two-storey house overlooking a canal), a new boat (the cabin cruiser Hole-in-the-Water) for big brother Rick (Gerald McRaney), and a rollicking new country-rock theme song anchored by electric guitars, handclaps, and a screaming tenor sax, this first full-length season of one of TV's best-ever buddy-detective shows establishes much of the Simons' background: it's in these segments that we first learn that "Dad died," that Rick was a Marine who did two tours in Vietnam, made Master-Sergeant, has a chestful of medals and sometimes suffers insomnia; that A.J. ran the mile in college, loves old jazz, was an anti-war protester (mostly because he wanted Rick Out Of There), and "used to stay up all night studying for finals...get all tensed up...[and] break out in [a] rash." We even learn A.J.'s full name ("Andrew Jackson") and birthdate--and if you freeze your DVD at just the right instant during "The Secret of the Chrome Eagle," you'll see that Rick's military serial number was 27-010-48! McRaney especially begins fleshing out his character's little idiosyncracies--his trademark exclamation of "Ah, jeez!," his slim cigars (to which he shifts after observing in "Thin Air" that "I gotta quit smokin'," and he does--cigarettes), his crazy high-pitched cackle, and his enormous cannon of a .44 Magnum revolver worn in a breakaway shoulder holster (though he also carries, as the situation demands, a sleek automatic or a tiny snub-nosed waist gun). We see the first instances of Rick and A.J. being more or less able to read each other's minds, or at least complete each other's sentences (in "Rough Rider Rides Again," when A.J. says of a suspect, "But if he isn't her pimp--" and Rick takes it up with, "--Then he must be after her just as hot'n'heavy as we are."). And the series begins a long flirtation with the paranormal--a psychic's visions of murder in "Guessing Game," a woman's dreams of her twin sister in peril in "Sometimes Dreams Come True," and another woman's baffling personality change (after spending several hours in a "haunted" hotel room) in "Room 3502"). The dynamics of the series have shifted too, with Myron Fowler (Eddie Barth), A.J.'s old mentor, now retired, and his daughter Janet (Jeannie Wilson) graduated from law school and working as an Assistant DA for San Diego County, while Robert Ginty makes four appearances as the Simons' old friend Jerry Reiner, MD, of the coroner's office.
The second season repositioned the series on the CBS schedule, slotting it in right after "Magnum, PI," a powerful lead-in that contributed mightily to its subsequent climb in the ratings. Included in the set is the MPI episode "Kiis Don't Lie," the first half of a double crossover episode, in which Rick and A.J. travel to Hawaii to attempt the recovery of a native curio that may be cursed, and encounter Thomas Magnum (Tom Selleck) and his friends; the second half, "Emeralds Are Not a Girl's Best Friend," guest-stars John Hillerman in his MPI role as Jonathan Higgins, as he and the Simons travel to South America in pursuit of the female con artist who ripped off a charity auction. Here also are cases of varying character, some with murders and some without: a kidnapped dolphin ("Mike and Pat"), a stolen painting ("Art for Arthur's Sake"), the theft of $500,000 worth of diamonds ("The $10,000 Deductible"), the return (or is it?) of an old family friend thought drowned years ago ("The Last Time I Saw Michael"), a pro football player who's being pressured into throwing games ("Fowl Play"), a video game that somebody seems willing to kill for ("It's Only a Game"), a phantom saboteur haunting a soon-to-be-opened amusement park ("What's in a Gnome?"), the journey to San Francisco of a classic car ("Chrome Eagle"), a supposed mental patient who never should have been institutionalized to begin with ("The Skeleton Who Came Out of the Closet"). And the re-edited pilot, "Pirate's Key," set in Florida with a new framing story. There's even an episode loosely based on fact--"The Rough Rider Rides Again," which takes off from efforts by the producers of The Legend of the Lone Ranger to bar TV Ranger Clayton Moore from appearing publicly in costume. Both brothers get a taste of romance, A.J. in "The List," Rick in "Red Dog Blues." Best of all--what inspired a rich and active fandom that lasted almost a decade--is the relationship between the brothers: often wry, sometimes loud, but underneath it all always supportive (watch for A.J.'s way of grasping quickly at Rick's arm in moments of revelation). With drama, humor, action, and family connectedness in almost equal measure, this is the first of what I consider the three best seasons of the series run. Don't miss it.
Summary of Simon & Simon: Season Two
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