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Big Shamus, Little Shamus

Season 1

1979 · 10 episodes

  1. 0. Pilot

    60m

  2. 1. The Canary

    1979-09-29 · 60m

    Arnie becomes romantically involved with a beautiful singer who is making a comeback. A fake attempt on her life, staged for publicity, becomes twisted and the attempts become real.

  3. 2. The Abduction

    1979-10-06 · 60m

    Arnie and a young heiress are held hostage en route to Max's Father's Day speech at school.

  4. 3. The Cover

    1979-10-02 · 60m

    Stephanie's cousin convinces Stephanie and Arnie to help him one last time. Only this time his con game kills a cop and almost kills Max.

  5. 4. The Ledge

    1979-10-18 · 60m

    The diversion at the heist of a jeweler's trade show, an attempted suicide, is diverted by Max's friendship with the woman's daughter.

  6. 5. The Rubens

    1979-10-19 · 60m

    The insurance agent for a company arranging a ""buy-back"" of a Rubens is mugged. Arnie becomes suspicious when the thief seems to know the insurance agent, and Arnie's investigation almost gets him killed.

  7. 6. The Bar Mitzvah

    1979-10-25 · 60m

    Through Max's relationship with Paul, the Bar Mitzvah boy, Arnie learns Paul's mother is being blackmailed. When the blackmailer is killed, both Paul's mother and her husband come under suspicion.

  8. 7. The Loser

    1979-11-15 · 60m

    Arnie unintentionally exposes a woman given a new identity by the FBI, and he now must protect her from the mob.

  9. 8. The Assassin

    1979-11-21 · 60m

    Max eavesdrops on a phone call in which a hired killer is to murder Korman for revenge. Korman investigates with his computer, Arnie, who has common sense.

  10. 9. The Fanatics

    1979-12-04 · 60m

    Stephanie, Jingles and Max accidentally become hostages when two fanatics plan to kill a civil rights leader who is staying at the hotel.

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