Tracy Hotchner
Director
Big Shamus, Little Shamus (1979)
Season 1
Big Shamus, Little Shamus is an American detective drama series that aired on CBS from September 29, 1979 to October 6, 1979. The Series focused on Arnie Sutter, the veteran house detective at The Ansonia Hotel in Atlantic City, New Jersey, and his thirteen-year-old son Max, who solved crimes at the hotel casino relating to legalized gambling.
Released Sept. 29, 1979
Episode 60 min
None+
Keywords: tmdb.hotel, tmdb.casino, tmdb.parent-child-relationship, tmdb.detective, tmdb.atlantic-city, imdb.detective, imdb.comma-in-title + 2 more, imdb.four-word-title, imdb.repetition-in-title
Network: CBS
Country: United States
Languages:
English
S1E0 - Pilot
S1E1 - The Canary
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.
Sept. 29, 1979, midnight
S1E2 - The Abduction
Arnie and a young heiress are held hostage en route to Max's Father's Day speech at school.
Oct. 6, 1979, midnight
S1E3 - The Cover
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.
Oct. 2, 1979, midnight
S1E4 - The Ledge
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.
Oct. 18, 1979, midnight
S1E5 - The Rubens
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.
Oct. 19, 1979, midnight
S1E6 - The Bar Mitzvah
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.
Oct. 25, 1979, midnight
S1E7 - The Loser
Arnie unintentionally exposes a woman given a new identity by the FBI, and he now must protect her from the mob.
Nov. 15, 1979, midnight
S1E8 - The Assassin
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.
Nov. 21, 1979, midnight
S1E9 - The Fanatics
Stephanie, Jingles and Max accidentally become hostages when two fanatics plan to kill a civil rights leader who is staying at the hotel.
Dec. 4, 1979, midnight
Network: CBS
Episode Runtime: 60 min.
Season Runtime: 60 min.
Released: Sept. 29, 1979
Last Air Date: Dec. 4, 1979, midnight
Status: Ended
Certification: NR
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