Season 1

1990 · 13 episodes

Episodes

1When Sally Met Bernie (Pilot)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.
2Career MovesSally, eager to try a little more detective work, inadvertently gets her own client while waiting for Bernie in his office.
3Duck FlambéWhy 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.
4Murder MaybeSally 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.
5GumshoeA defense attorney hires Bernie and Sally to track down more witnesses to a pool hall homicide.
6Undue InfluenceDue to his morbid fear of hospitals, Bernie brings in Sally to investigate the circumstances of an old man's will.
7Brendan B. GoneSally'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.
8Return to SenderSally 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.
9Looking for a LivingSally and Bernie set up a stakeout on a hotel room, only to learn that somebody else is spying on their quarry.
10Blue ChristmasMarie'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.
11Beneath the PacificThree 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.
12Over the EdgeBernie 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.
13Spinal TrapSally 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.