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Mom P.I.

TV·1990–1992·2 seasons, 26 episodes·CBC Television·Drama, Comedy, Crime·30m·Created by Chris Haddock

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Mom P.I. is a 1990-92 Canadian television comedy-drama series starring Rosemary Dunsmore, Stuart Margolin, Emily Perkins, and Shane Meier. Dunsmore plays eternal optimist Sally Sullivan, a recently widowed mother of two supporting her family as a waitress in a working-class diner, who talks her way into a job as assistant to grumpy, cynical private eye Bernie Fox, played by The Rockford Files' Margolin. Head writer for the show was Chris Haddock, who later created the much grittier Da Vinci's Inquest and Intelligence, also for the CBC.

Cast

Episodes by season

Season0113Episodes1990–91AiredSeason avg
  1. S01E01When Sally Met Bernie (Pilot)October 12, 1990Sally Sullivan, a devoted mother working as a waitress to make ends meet, gets caught up in a cat-and-mouse mystery when her sister Ruth goe
  2. S01E02Career MovesOctober 15, 1990Sally, eager to try a little more detective work, inadvertently gets her own client while waiting for Bernie in his office.
  3. S01E03Duck FlambéOctober 22, 1990Why anyone would want to burn Ivory's music store is beyond Bernie, but the uninsured charred remains testify that someone did. Both Bernie
  4. S01E04Murder MaybeOctober 29, 1990Sally stumbles onto a rich man's plot to murder his wife, but when she tries to enlist Bernie's help to stop the crime, they both get in ove
  5. S01E05GumshoeNovember 5, 1990A defense attorney hires Bernie and Sally to track down more witnesses to a pool hall homicide.
  6. S01E06Undue InfluenceNovember 12, 1990Due to his morbid fear of hospitals, Bernie brings in Sally to investigate the circumstances of an old man's will.
  7. S01E07Brendan B. GoneNovember 19, 1990Sally's brother-in-law, a fugitive on the run from dangerous gangsters, hopes to reconnect with his niece and nephew before he leaves the co
  8. S01E08Mom P.I. S01E08Return to SenderNovember 26, 1990Sally agrees to deliver a bank robber's encrypted letter to his girlfriend, hoping she might decipher the code and reveal the location of th
  9. S01E09Looking for a LivingDecember 3, 1990Sally and Bernie set up a stakeout on a hotel room, only to learn that somebody else is spying on their quarry.
  10. S01E10Mom P.I. S01E10Blue ChristmasDecember 10, 1990Marie's friend Blair wants to see her natural father just one more time before she moves away with her foster family, but Sally discovers th
  11. S01E11Mom P.I. S01E11Beneath the PacificJanuary 7, 1991Three women use a tunnel beneath the Pacific Café for a break-in, but when the police get word of the route, Bernie is forced to choose betw
  12. S01E12Over the EdgeJanuary 14, 1991Bernie knows it's a little shady to be searching the prosecutor's office on behalf of a defense attorney, but an innocent man's freedom is o
  13. S01E13Mom P.I. S01E13Spinal TrapJanuary 21, 1991Sally and Bernie hope to prove Vic Stephens has been faking his neck injury to collect insurance money, but neither of them can seem to make

Season 1 ranked & reviewed

Season0213Episodes1991–92AiredSeason avg
  1. S02E01Mom P.I. S02E01Safe at HomeSeptember 30, 1991Is erratic pitcher Reilly Jones throwing games, or is he hiding a different problem? Bernie and Sally investigate.
  2. S02E02Mom P.I. S02E02Fists of FateOctober 28, 1991Bernie knows who killed Arthur Pleasant, but how can he get the police to figure it out for themselves when they have already identified Ber
  3. S02E03Mom P.I. S02E03Bad to be BornNovember 4, 1991Sally delivers a summons and comes back with a baby. As she tries to put things right, she and Bernie are pursued by the child's young fathe
  4. S02E04Mom P.I. S02E04Repo RideNovember 11, 1991Bernie assures Sally that a car repossession will be an easy assignment, but neither one knows about the thief locked in the trunk.
  5. S02E05Mom P.I. S02E05Time Wounds All HeelsNovember 18, 1991Bernie's cousin breaks out of jail and begs Bernie for help so he can visit his dying mother. When Bernie finds out that his cousin's mother
  6. S02E06Cash and MoneyNovember 25, 1991Aging comic Syd Money dies mid-joke at the Pacific Café, but the case really gets interesting when Bernie and Sally find Syd's ex-partner Ma
  7. S02E07Mom P.I. S02E07A Fugue for Mr. XDecember 9, 1991Sally and Bernie roam the city in hopes of helping amnesiac Mr. X remember who he is, how he came to their door and where all his money came
  8. S02E08Mom P.I. S02E08Through a Door QuicklyMarch 16, 1992Sally wants to help Bernie with a new client who has multiple-personality disorder, but it's not easy when Chick corrals her into a temporar
  9. S02E09Mom P.I. S02E09Night TrainMarch 23, 1992Sally and Bernie must find a reluctant murder witness and bring him in to testify.
  10. S02E10Mom P.I. S02E101 For You, 19 For MeMarch 30, 1992After winning big at the track, Bernie discovers he's being tailed by a tax investigator whose list of suspects includes all of Bernie's fri
  11. S02E11Mom P.I. S02E11The ShadowsApril 6, 1992While everyone else tries to find another gig for once-hot singing group The Shadows, Bernie and Sally are bombarded by memories of the past
  12. S02E12Mom P.I. S02E12Dig That GraveApril 13, 1992The second Mrs. Hardy wants Bernie to find her dog. Meanwhile, the first Mrs. Hardy wants Sally to find her husband - who was buried a year
  13. S02E13Mom P.I. S02E13I.O.U.April 20, 1992Sally really wants to help Nadine, but she's not keen on putting Johnny under surveillance to do it.

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