Big Shamus, Little Shamus
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Big Shamus, Little Shamus

5.0 / 10
1979
1 season
10 episodes
Drama

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.

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  • Ep 0

    0.Pilot

    TBA60m
  • Ep 1

    1.The Canary

    29-09-197960m

    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...

  • Ep 2

    2.The Abduction

    06-10-197960m

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

  • Ep 3

    3.The Cover

    02-10-197960m

    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.

  • Ep 4

    4.The Ledge

    18-10-197960m

    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.

  • Ep 5

    5.The Rubens

    19-10-197960m

    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 investigati...

  • Ep 6

    6.The Bar Mitzvah

    25-10-197960m

    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...

  • Ep 7

    7.The Loser

    15-11-197960m

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

  • Ep 8

    8.The Assassin

    21-11-197960m

    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.

  • Ep 9

    9.The Fanatics

    04-12-197960m

    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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