About this season
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.
Episodes (13)
1. When Sally Met Bernie (Pilot)
Aired 12 October 1990 • 60 min
Sally 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 goes missing in the middle of a criminal investigation.
2. Career Moves
Aired 15 October 1990 • 30 min
Sally, eager to try a little more detective work, inadvertently gets her own client while waiting for Bernie in his office.
3. Duck Flambé
Aired 22 October 1990 • 30 min
Why anyone would want to burn Ivory's music store is beyond Bernie, but the uninsured charred remains testify that someone did. Both Bernie and Sally take the case.
4. Murder Maybe
Aired 29 October 1990 • 30 min
Sally 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 over their heads.
5. Gumshoe
Aired 5 November 1990 • 30 min
A defense attorney hires Bernie and Sally to track down more witnesses to a pool hall homicide.
6. Undue Influence
Aired 12 November 1990 • 30 min
Due to his morbid fear of hospitals, Bernie brings in Sally to investigate the circumstances of an old man's will.
7. Brendan B. Gone
Aired 19 November 1990 • 30 min
Sally's brother-in-law, a fugitive on the run from dangerous gangsters, hopes to reconnect with his niece and nephew before he leaves the country.
8. Return to Sender
Aired 26 November 1990 • 30 min
Sally agrees to deliver a bank robber's encrypted letter to his girlfriend, hoping she might decipher the code and reveal the location of the loot.
9. Looking for a Living
Aired 3 December 1990 • 30 min
Sally and Bernie set up a stakeout on a hotel room, only to learn that somebody else is spying on their quarry.
10. Blue Christmas
Aired 10 December 1990 • 30 min
Marie's friend Blair wants to see her natural father just one more time before she moves away with her foster family, but Sally discovers that Blair's dad does not want to be found.
11. Beneath the Pacific
Aired 7 January 1991 • 30 min
Three 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 between his past loyalties and justice.
12. Over the Edge
Aired 14 January 1991 • 30 min
Bernie 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 on the line.
13. Spinal Trap
Aired 21 January 1991 • 30 min
Sally 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 him slip up.