I watched it throughout my junior teens, but I think I missed the last few seasons. I don't know if that's because I was too old or I got my first real computer. Anyway, looking at it now, and how unsophisticated it is, I'm wondering if it was a kids' show.
shareOf course it wasn't a kids show!
The nerve of some people.
(Oh, right, the Wiz Kids..!)
Alright smart guy, then why did they do a crossover w/the Wiz Kids, eh?
Not uncommon back then to give new shows a boost that way. It was only AJ who crossed over to "Whiz Kids", probably because he was the more child friendly character.
"Simon & Simon" also crossed over with "Magnum", which wasn't a kids' series.
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True, but it's possible that the same target audience the Whiz Kids had was also watching Magnum. And the M.Pi cross-over was earlier, so the target may have changed.
Don't forget, the Whiz Kids also crossed over to S&S.
Oh, sure. I wasn't in double figures yet when those crossovers aired, and I was watching all three shows. But "Magnum" wasn't targeted at children, and neither was "Simon & Simon". "Whiz Kids" was. By and large, if a show is intended for a child audience, one or more of the cast are children. I'll grant you that Jameson Parker was a babyface back then, but he was an adult! Also, people died in both the other shows, sometimes quite messily, which they tend to try to avoid in children's shows. (Usually).
Season one is probably the most frothy and lightweight of the eight, and wouldn't struggle in a family-viewing slot. Later on, when they were dealing with tougher plotlines ('Nuevo Salvador', 'Sudden Storm', 'I Thought The War Was Over', etc), it's a very different story.
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S&S probably didn't have any fewer kids on it than the 6 Million Dollar Man or Knight Rider (if those weren't kids' shows, I'm Mickey Rooney) but they had father-son chemistry w/the characters. The Simons are reminiscent of bickering 8-year-olds, and they had a literal mother, who had retained a lot of her maternal instincts.
The dying characters is a very good point, but it must have been pretty abstract, (was it on-screen?) since I can't recall any of them off the top of my head.
Bad guys being shot, usually by Rick, and sometimes by Downtown Brown. Certainly nothing gory. Murders happened a lot, though again, nothing nasty was shown.
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I find concussion quite invigorating.
Speaking of the Whiz Kids, I remember it had a torture scene, which was... well... it stuck w/me. I think there was a lot of overlap in the target audiences for both shows.
shareThinking about it now, I would say that Simon & Simon was meant for whoever wanted to watch it.
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