Big Shamus, Little Shamus

5.0
19791h

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.

Seasons

10 Episodes • Premiered 1979

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0. Pilot

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1. 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.

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2. The Abduction

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

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3. 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.

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4. 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.

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5. 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.

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6. 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.

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7. The Loser

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

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8. 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.

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9. 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.

Cast

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Brian Dennehy

Arnie Sutter

Photo of Doug McKeon

Doug McKeon

Max Sutter

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Cynthia Sikes

Jingles Lodestar

Photo of George Wyner

George Wyner

George Korman

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Kathryn Leigh Scott

Stephanie Marsh

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