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The Bionic Woman — The adventures of a Hawaii based private investigator. The Six Million Dollar Man — The Dukes of Hazzard — The adventures of the fast-drivin', rubber-burnin' Duke boys of Hazzard County. Edit Cast Complete series cast summary: Rick Simon episodes, Mary Carver Cecilia Simon episodes, Tim Reid Edit Did You Know? Trivia Rick was a U. Goofs Although the series is set in San Diego, California, it's abundantly clear during many of the outdoor scenes that it was filmed in the Los Angeles metro.
In several episodes the San Gabriel Mountains, which are outside of Los Angeles, can be clearly seen in the distance. Alright, let's put this thing into perspective. Rick is the less-refined, but still pleasant, United States Marine Corps Vietnam veteran with a penchant for cowboy boots, denim and four-wheel drive pickups.
Simon, a college graduate with a Wall Street look, is a polished fellow with a taste for classic cars and tailored suits. Rick lived on a boat in A. Together, they run a private detective service in San Diego, California during the s; the contrasting ways in which the brothers go about their investigations and the subsequent personality conflicts between them provided much of the dramatic dialectic each week.
Although Rick is a few years older, in fact McRaney and Parker were both born in with only a three-month age difference. The original pilot , called Pirate's Key , was set in Florida. When CBS picked up the show, the characters' home was changed from Florida to San Diego, California , where the show was filmed for the first season.
Due to the production costs and low ratings, filming and production moved to Los Angeles , although the show continued to be set in San Diego for the course of its eight-year run on CBS. The series was created by executive producer Philip DeGuere , who credited his inspirations as a request from a CBS executive to create something like a modern "Butch and Sundance", and a spec pilot DeGuere had recently read about a divorced husband and wife detective team written by Bob Shayne , whom DeGuere hired to write during the first two seasons. Shayne continued to write episodes for the series during its run, and together, they went on to create the CBS series Whiz Kids.
Simon and Simon's peak years in the ratings where seasons , where it landed at no.
It fell to 29th in the season and never recovered. CBS only committed to a episode season for the fall of but cancelled the series with two episodes left unaired, including the series finale.
Use the HTML below. An error has occured. He's also angry that his lawyer daughter Janet Fowler often helps the brothers on their cases. The series has quite quirky theme song to go along with it. Sign in with Facebook Other Sign in options. It's important to remember that other than Eastwood, Redford, and Newman, those whom already had acceptance, the handsome blond man of the seventies was viewed as the "great evil empire".
That episode did not air until the show entered syndication. For the first season, the song "Best of Friends", performed by the Thrasher Brothers, served as the series' theme song.
More specifically, the instrumental version of "Best of Friends" appeared at the beginning of each episode and short clips of the instrumental version occasionally appeared within episodes, even after the first season , while the lyrical version appeared at the conclusion of each episode. At the beginning of the second season, the second and more recognizable instrumental theme song, composed by Barry De Vorzon [1] who had previously composed the theme to the s police drama, S.
The theme consists primarily of an electric bottle- slide guitar lead with a saxophone interlude and remained until the last episode of the final season.
For repeat and syndication purposes, a second conclusion was also shot, wherein the fleeing villain is caught, allowing the Magnum episode to be wrapped up and the episode to be rerun as a "stand alone" episode. Both original versions have since been released on DVD. Simon appeared on the Whiz Kids episode " Deadly Access ".
In Fall , Shout! Factory announced that they had acquired the distribution rights through an agreement with Universal.
They subsequently released seasons 2—8 on DVD, with seasons originally released as Shout!