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.
Mom P.I. (Season 1)
When Sally Met Bernie (Pilot) (Episode 1)
Air date: 1990-10-12
Runtime: 60 min
Overview: 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.
Career Moves (Episode 2)
Air date: 1990-10-15
Runtime: 30 min
Overview: Sally, eager to try a little more detective work, inadvertently gets her own client while waiting for Bernie in his office.
Duck Flambé (Episode 3)
Air date: 1990-10-22
Runtime: 30 min
Overview: 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.
Murder Maybe (Episode 4)
Air date: 1990-10-29
Runtime: 30 min
Overview: 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.
Gumshoe (Episode 5)
Air date: 1990-11-05
Runtime: 30 min
Overview: A defense attorney hires Bernie and Sally to track down more witnesses to a pool hall homicide.
Undue Influence (Episode 6)
Air date: 1990-11-12
Runtime: 30 min
Overview: Due to his morbid fear of hospitals, Bernie brings in Sally to investigate the circumstances of an old man's will.
Brendan B. Gone (Episode 7)
Air date: 1990-11-19
Runtime: 30 min
Overview: 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.
Return to Sender (Episode 8)
Air date: 1990-11-26
Runtime: 30 min
Overview: 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.
Looking for a Living (Episode 9)
Air date: 1990-12-03
Runtime: 30 min
Overview: Sally and Bernie set up a stakeout on a hotel room, only to learn that somebody else is spying on their quarry.
Blue Christmas (Episode 10)
Air date: 1990-12-10
Runtime: 30 min
Overview: 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.
Beneath the Pacific (Episode 11)
Air date: 1991-01-07
Runtime: 30 min
Overview: 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.
Over the Edge (Episode 12)
Air date: 1991-01-14
Runtime: 30 min
Overview: 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.
Spinal Trap (Episode 13)
Air date: 1991-01-21
Runtime: 30 min
Overview: 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.
Seasons
Episodes 13
Episodes 13