Original title
Mom P.I.
Released
10/12/1990
Origin country
CA
Genre
Comedy, Crime, Drama
Production companies
Atlantis Films
Status
Ended
Number of seasons
2
Number of episodes
26
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.
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.
Sally, eager to try a little more detective work, inadvertently gets her own client while waiting for Bernie in his office.
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.
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.
A defense attorney hires Bernie and Sally to track down more witnesses to a pool hall homicide.
Due to his morbid fear of hospitals, Bernie brings in Sally to investigate the circumstances of an old man's will.
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.
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.
Sally and Bernie set up a stakeout on a hotel room, only to learn that somebody else is spying on their quarry.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Is erratic pitcher Reilly Jones throwing games, or is he hiding a different problem? Bernie and Sally investigate.
Bernie knows who killed Arthur Pleasant, but how can he get the police to figure it out for themselves when they have already identified Bernie as a prime suspect?
Sally 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 father and a welfare worker.
Bernie assures Sally that a car repossession will be an easy assignment, but neither one knows about the thief locked in the trunk.
Bernie'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 is nowhere near her deathbed, he realizes he's been duped.
Aging 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 Marty Cash, whose reaction to the comedian's death is suspiciously mixed.
Sally 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 from.
Sally wants to help Bernie with a new client who has multiple-personality disorder, but it's not easy when Chick corrals her into a temporary gig as a showgirl.
Sally and Bernie must find a reluctant murder witness and bring him in to testify.
After winning big at the track, Bernie discovers he's being tailed by a tax investigator whose list of suspects includes all of Bernie's friends.
While everyone else tries to find another gig for once-hot singing group The Shadows, Bernie and Sally are bombarded by memories of the past.
The 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 ago.
Sally really wants to help Nadine, but she's not keen on putting Johnny under surveillance to do it.
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