Simon & Simon was the name of a detective series starring Gerald McRaney and Jameson Parker. The show ran on CBS from 1981 to 1988. Gerald McRaney Gerald Mac McRaney (born August 19, 1948, Collins, Mississippi) is an American television and movie actor of Scottish and Choctaw Indian ancestry. ... CBSs first color logo, which debuted in the fall of 1965. ...

The show revolves around polar opposite brothers Rick (McRaney) and A.J. Simon (Parker). Rick was a Vietnam veteran and had much more street sense while A.J. went to law school and had book smarts. Rick preferred things that were viewed by his brother as lower-class, like pickup trucks, while A.J. earned more money and could afford to be more fashionable. Rick lived on a boat in the back of A.J.'s house. A.J. preferred to do things by the rules while Rick was much more of a free spirit, using a type of vigilante justice. The two went into a venture together running a private detective service, so the two different ways that the brothers had in mind as to how to run the business provided much of the story each week, in addition to the cases that they solved. Pickup truck with extended cabin and homebuilt lumber rack. ...

The show was almost canceled in 1982 before it was scheduled to run after Magnum, P.I.. This brought Simon & Simon's ratings up and allowed it to run for many years. Magnum, P.I. was an American television show that followed the adventures of Thomas Magnum (played by Tom Selleck), a private investigator living in Hawaii. ...