
Big Shamus, Little Shamus
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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Cast
Seasons
- Ep 0
0.Pilot
TBA60m - Ep 1
1.The Canary
29-09-197960mArnie 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
06-10-197960mArnie and a young heiress are held hostage en route to Max's Father's Day speech at school.
- Ep 3
3.The Cover
02-10-197960mStephanie'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
18-10-197960mThe 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
19-10-197960mThe 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
25-10-197960mThrough 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
15-11-197960mArnie 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
21-11-197960mMax 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
04-12-197960mStephanie, 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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