• 14
    collected
  • 1979-09-29T04:00:00Z on CBS
  • 1h
  • 9h (9 episodes)
  • United States
  • English
  • Drama
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.

9 episodes

Series Premiere

1979-09-29T04:00:00Z

1x01 The Canary

Series Premiere

1x01 The Canary

  • 1979-09-29T04:00:00Z1h

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.

1979-10-06T04:00:00Z

1x02 The Abduction

1x02 The Abduction

  • 1979-10-06T04:00:00Z1h

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

1979-10-02T04:00:00Z

1x03 The Cover

1x03 The Cover

  • 1979-10-02T04:00:00Z1h

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.

1979-10-18T04:00:00Z

1x04 The Ledge

1x04 The Ledge

  • 1979-10-18T04:00:00Z1h

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.

1979-10-19T04:00:00Z

1x05 The Rubens

1x05 The Rubens

  • 1979-10-19T04:00:00Z1h

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.

1979-10-25T04:00:00Z

1x06 The Bar Mitzvah

1x06 The Bar Mitzvah

  • 1979-10-25T04:00:00Z1h

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.

1979-11-15T05:00:00Z

1x07 The Loser

1x07 The Loser

  • 1979-11-15T05:00:00Z1h

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

1979-11-21T05:00:00Z

1x08 The Assassin

1x08 The Assassin

  • 1979-11-21T05:00:00Z1h

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.

1979-12-04T05:00:00Z

1x09 The Fanatics

1x09 The Fanatics

  • 1979-12-04T05:00:00Z1h

Stephanie, Jingles and Max accidentally become hostages when two fanatics plan to kill a civil rights leader who is staying at the hotel.

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