The Rockford Files
The cases of an easy-going ex-convict turned private investigator.
Cast:James Garner , Noah Beery Jr. , Joe Santos , Luis Delgado , Stuart Margolin , Gretchen Corbett , James Luisi , Jack Garner , Tom Atkins , Joe E. Tata , Pepper Martin , Shirley Anthony , Nick Dimitri , George Loros , Pat Finley , John Davey , Fritzi Burr , Bruce Tuthill
S2.E1 ∙ The Aaron Ironwood School of Success
Aaron Ironwood, a childhood friend of Jim's, comes to town with a business deal that is just too good to be true. Jim finally agrees to the deal as he thinks Aaron might be in some kind of trouble. He is - with both the FBI and the mob.
S2.E2 ∙ The Farnsworth Stratagem
When Dennis is conned into investing in a hotel for mobsters, Jim impersonates a Texas oil man to get his friend's money back.
S2.E3 ∙ Gearjammers, Part 1
After witnessing a mob payoff that is part of a big-rig hijacking scheme, Rockford's father becomes the target of assassins. Working to protect his dad, Rockford learns that the man's life contains secrets that he never imagined.
S2.E4 ∙ Gearjammers, Part 2
In this exciting conclusion to this two-part episode, the mob boss continues to hunt for Rocky, while Rockford teams up with the police to solve the trucking case, which is speeding towards disaster.
S2.E5 ∙ The Deep Blue Sleep
After a late night phone call Beth hires Jim to look for a missing friend who eventually turns up dead. The dead woman worked for a fashion designer who is unknowingly in up to her neck with some very bad "fellas".
S2.E6 ∙ The Great Blue Lake Land and Development Company
When his car breaks down in a small town Jim leaves $10,000 in a land company's safe. The next morning the money - and the man who locked the money up - are gone. When the man turns up dead the sheriff thinks Rockford did it.
S2.E7 ∙ The Real Easy Red Dog
Christine Dusseau, a female private eye, first blindsides Rockford, then joins him in tracking down the murderer in a case the police have dismissed as a suicide.
S2.E8 ∙ Resurrection in Black & White
Convinced a convicted murderer is actually innocent, a journalist looking for a scoop hires Jim to investigate a six year old murder.
S2.E9 ∙ Chicken Little Is a Little Chicken
Angel asks Jim to help him collect some money from someone who supposedly welshed on a deal. Not surprisingly he hasn't told Jim the whole truth, which includes two very angry hoods who want money Angel owes them.
S2.E10 ∙ 2 Into 5.56 Won't Go
When an army colonel is murdered after contacting Rockford, Rockford is forced into the middle of a conflict involving military police, military thieves and the colonel's daughter.
S2.E11 ∙ Pastoria Prime Pick
Rockford takes a dislike to the small town he's visiting when a bogus repair bill is followed by phony criminal charges. Aided by his father and attorney, Rockford takes on the hamlet's corrupt mayor, sheriff and prosecuting attorney.
S2.E12 ∙ The Reincarnation of Angie
Believing her stockbroker brother's been abducted by the mob, a bookkeeper hires Rockford. But once he's on the case, Rockford finds himself the object of another investigation, the feds'.
S2.E13 ∙ The Girl in the Bay City Boys Club
Jim goes undercover to expose an illegal gambling club and gets help from a young D.A.
S2.E14 ∙ The Hammer of C Block
A fellow inmate (Isaac Hayes) from Jim's time in prison is released after serving twenty years, and needs help clearing himself from the crime he was put into prison for.
S2.E15 ∙ The No-Cut Contract
A minor league football player drags Jim into his troubles.
S2.E16 ∙ A Portrait of Elizabeth
A client of Beth's hires Jim misleadingly to check on his company.
S2.E17 ∙ Joey Blue Eyes
Jim helps one of Beth's clients, who is being swindled out of his business.
S2.E18 ∙ In Hazard
Beth has trouble and is nearly killed by a client with tax trouble.
S2.E19 ∙ The Italian Bird Fiasco
Jim gets hired by a diamond smuggler posing as an art dealer causing trouble for Jim with LAPD and other smugglers.
S2.E20 ∙ Where's Houston?
Rocky's friend is killed thinking his Granddaughter was kidnapped leading Jim with the help of Rocky to untangle a crooked real estate deal.
S2.E21 ∙ Foul on the First Play
After learning that the parole officer who hired him is actually a private detective, Rockford works to even the score in this case about a basketball franchise and the would-be owner who refuses to play by the rules.
S2.E22 ∙ A Bad Deal in the Valley
Rockford finds himself in the middle of a bad deal indeed when he agrees to help an old girlfriend and ends up with a suitcase full of counterfeit money and under arrest by the F.B.I.
