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
S1.E0 ∙ Backlash of the Hunter
Jim helps a woman whose father was murdered, after LAPD abandoned the case.
S1.E1 ∙ The Kirkoff Case
A wealthy but unlikeable young man hires Jim to solve the mystery of the death of his parents - the crime for which he stands accused.
S1.E2 ∙ The Dark and Bloody Ground
Jim is hired by Beth Davenport to help clear her female client accused of murdering her husband.
S1.E3 ∙ The Countess
Jim is helping a Countess avoid a blackmailer but is then charged for the blackmailer's murder.
S1.E4 ∙ Exit Prentiss Carr
Jim finds the murdered body of Prentiss Carr in his hotel room and after reporting the incident to the police learns it has been classified as suicide.
S1.E5 ∙ Tall Woman in Red Wagon
Jim is hired by a newspaper woman to find her missing friend, who then insists on tagging along to "help" his investigation. The missing friend had a sordid past, and several of her old friends want to find her just as badly.
S1.E6 ∙ This Case Is Closed
Jim travels to Newark, and draws the attention of organized crime and the FBI. The FBI is protecting Jim's target because he is a former federal witness. The target is found dead, and Jim's client has some explaining to do.
S1.E7 ∙ The Big Ripoff
A life insurance investigation becomes more complicated than first appeared when Jim believes the insuree is still alive.
S1.E8 ∙ Find Me If You Can
Rockford is hired by a secretive woman who refuses to tell him anything about herself, and gives him an unusual task - to simply find her. Soon, Jim is embroiled in the mysterious woman's life, including the mobster who is after her.
S1.E9 ∙ In Pursuit of Carol Thorne
Jim tails a woman just released from prison. She was involved in a robbery of a Marine Corps payroll. The mastermind of the crime and his henchman follow her as well. They search for the remaining robber who wound up with the loot.
S1.E10 ∙ The Dexter Crisis
Rockford ends up in the Nevada desert (starting with the bright lights of Las Vegas) searching for a rich guy's mistress and her suitcase of precious "documents."
S1.E11 ∙ Caledonia - It's Worth a Fortune!
When knowledge of a critically ill convict's hidden fortune comes to light, Rockford becomes involved in helping the con's wife find the treasure before his former partner arrives and demands his share.
S1.E12 ∙ Profit and Loss, Part 1: Profit
Jim investigates a large corporation when one of its executives is kidnapped and the wife of another executive claims the company murdered her husband.
S1.E13 ∙ Profit and Loss, Part 2: Loss
Rockford discovers the investment firm Fiscal Dynamics is a financial fraud and its president Leon Fielder will do anything to prevent him from destroying his company.
S1.E14 ∙ Aura Lee, Farewell
Jim's old friend Sara Butler hires him to find out the real reason her employee Aura Lee Benton died. The police believe it was a drug overdose but Sara is convinced she was murdered.
S1.E15 ∙ Sleight of Hand
Jim's girlfriend suddenly disappears with no clue as to how or why. Lt. Diel thinks Rockford is probably responsible for her disappearance and orders him to stay away from the case. But Jim can't stop until he finds out what happened.
S1.E16 ∙ Counter Gambit
Jim's hired by someone he knew inside, to track down his former girlfriend, who's stolen something of his.
S1.E17 ∙ Claire
Jim's old girlfriend, Claire Prescott, phones and asks him to help give her protection from 2 hoods chasing her. He soon discovers there's a missing undercover cop, which puts him up against an arrogant Cpt. Highland, as well.
S1.E18 ∙ Say Goodbye to Jennifer
HIred by Mitch, a photographer friend, Jim must travel to Seattle find a missing model who stands accused of shooting a gang member.
S1.E19 ∙ Charlie Harris at Large
Charlie Harris, Rockford's former cell mate, is suspected of murdering his rich wife and is on the run. He calls on Rockford to find his alibi witness, a mystery woman with whom he was having an affair.
S1.E20 ∙ The Four Pound Brick
Jim investigates the death of a Rookie Police Officer on behalf the mother, a good friend of Rocky's..
S1.E21 ∙ Just by Accident
A race car driver dies in an apparent accident that his mother, an old friend of Jim's, thinks was no accident. It turns out he was part of an insurance scam outfit and they soon have a similar plan for Rockford.
S1.E22 ∙ Roundabout
An insurance company hires Rockford to locate a missing woman who is due an inheritance. He finds her in Las Vegas where she is an unwitting pawn in a money laundering operation.
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.
S3.E1 ∙ The Fourth Man
Jim helps a friend who works in the airline industry, who's being pursued by a man, and she's no idea why she's being targeted.
S3.E2 ∙ The Oracle Wore a Cashmere Suit
Rockford finds himself getting unwanted attention from the media and police, when a popular psychic fingers him as having important information on the disappearance of 2 people.
S3.E3 ∙ The Family Hour
Jim and Rocky find an abandoned young girl that leads to Jim finding and helping her father.
S3.E4 ∙ Feeding Frenzy
Jim helps a friend who wants to pay back money he stole three years earlier when his daughter then gets kidnapped leading to problems for Jim with the kidnappers and the police.
S3.E5 ∙ Drought at Indianhead River
Jim finds out there's a hit out on Angel and runs into trouble with the mob bailing him out.
S3.E6 ∙ Coulter City Wildcat
Rocky is forced to sign oil lease rights he owns away, leading Jim to investigate who and why someone wanted Rocky's seemingly worthless leases so badly.
S3.E7 ∙ So Help Me God
Jim gets called before a grand jury where he promptly gets thrown into jail for contempt.
S3.E8 ∙ Rattlers' Class of '63
Angel's working a con involving the sale of a landfill. Unknown to him or Jim, it happens to be the location of a dead body from an unsolved case from more than a decade earlier, and the people who put it there don't want it found.
S3.E9 ∙ Return to the 38th Parallel
Jim gets used by an old Army buddy in an insurance recovery case.
S3.E10 ∙ Piece Work
While investigating an insurance claim Jim accidentally stumbles into a gun smuggling operation.
S3.E11 ∙ The Trouble with Warren
Beth's nerdy cousin Warren drags Jim into his mounting troubles.
S3.E12 ∙ There's One in Every Port
After being conned by friends Jim sets them up to settle the score and save himself.
S3.E13 ∙ Sticks and Stones May Break Your Bones, But Waterbury Will Bury You
When several of Jim's fellow P.I.s lose their licenses under circumstances that are suspiciously similar, he begins to suspect that someone is targeting independent investigators and systematically putting them out of business.
S3.E14 ∙ The Trees, the Bees and T.T. Flowers: Part 1
Jim helps a friend (Strother Martin) of Rocky's who's being forced off his property.
S3.E15 ∙ The Trees, the Bees and T.T. Flowers: Part 2
Jim helps a friend of Rocky's who's being forced off his property.
S3.E16 ∙ The Becker Connection
Rockford's newest case; to clear his friend, Dennis Becker, who's suspected of selling drugs to deal with his financial problems.
S3.E17 ∙ Just Another Polish Wedding
Jim gets Gandy a job with his P.I. buddy Marcus Hayes who promptly then tries to steal the case.
S3.E18 ∙ New Life, Old Dragons
Jim is hired by a Vietnamese refugee to find her missing brother.
S3.E19 ∙ To Protect and Serve: Part 1
Jim's hired to find a missing woman, only to discover that she's also being sought by a New York crime family.
S3.E20 ∙ To Protect and Serve: Part 2
Rockford tries to keep a woman on the run out of the hands of two Minette hoods (and her revenge minded ex-fiancé) but the bungling interference of a disturbed police groupie threatens to get them both killed.
S3.E21 ∙ Crack Back
Beth turns to Jim for help when she finds herself being mentally harassed by a mysterious man while trying to win an important trial.
S3.E22 ∙ Dirty Money, Black Light
Jim becomes very concerned when Rocky starts receiving thousands of dollars through the mail.
S4.E1 ∙ Beamer's Last Case
Jim returns from vacation to discover someone's been using his identity, his trailer and totaled his car. And that's just the beginning of his problems...
S4.E2 ∙ Trouble in Chapter 17
Jim's drawn into being bodyguard for an author, who believes her popular book on the perfect wife's the cause of death threats against her.
S4.E3 ∙ The Battle of Canoga Park
Jim finds himself in an explosive situation when the gun he hides in his cookie jar is used in a murder.
S4.E4 ∙ Second Chance
When the life of Gandy Fitch's girlfriend's in danger, he turns to Rockfish for help.
S4.E5 ∙ The Dog and Pony Show
Helping a young woman with a history of mental illness leads Jim into crossing paths with the Mob and federal intelligence.
S4.E6 ∙ Requiem for a Funny Box
A washed-up comedian finds out about a Mob family member's secret, and gets Jim in trouble by framing him for a murder.
S4.E7 ∙ Quickie Nirvana
Rockford ends up regretting allowing an eccentric hippie woman to use his address temporarily, when her ex-boss sends a pair of thugs to retrieve money he put in her care.
S4.E8 ∙ Irving the Explainer
Rockford gives himself a headache trying to solve the connection between a 30 year old murder, a valuable missing painting and Nazi Germany.
S4.E9 ∙ The Mayor's Committee from Deer Lick Falls
Jim is hired by some small-town businessmen to help them buy a fire engine; they really want him to assassinate someone who could bring the IRS down on them.
S4.E10 ∙ Hotel of Fear
Accidently witnessing a murder makes Angel Martin the police's prime witness in the trial of the murderer.
S4.E11 ∙ Forced Retirement
Beth's old college friend is in trouble when her company that is developing a submersible robot explorer becomes the target of some shady businessmen. Jimmy Joe Meeker comes to her rescue.
S4.E12 ∙ The Queen of Peru
The RV family from hell decides to set up camp next door to Jim's trailer, just when he's got the recovery of a stolen diamond on his mind.
S4.E13 ∙ A Deadly Maze
Jim is unwittingly involved in a bizarre experiment when hired to find a man's missing wife.
S4.E14 ∙ The Attractive Nuisance
An unexplained break-in at Rocky's new diner has connections with the FBI fifty years ago.
S4.E15 ∙ The Gang at Don's Drive-In
An author suffering from writers block tells Jim he thinks he has the next best seller in an old murder case from 1961.
S4.E16 ∙ The Paper Palace
A prostitute (Rita Moreno) hires Jim to find out who has been sending her death threats.
S4.E17 ∙ Dwarf in a Helium Hat
A threat to the wrong phone number has Jim scrambling to find out who it was meant for.
S4.E18 ∙ South by Southeast
Mistaken identity by federal agents has Jim being sent to South America to help them contact a heiress, who has been isolated by her possessive husband.
S4.E19 ∙ The Competitive Edge
Jim winds up in a funny farm when he gets too close to the truth about an elite health club.
S4.E20 ∙ The Prisoner of Rosemont Hall
When the son of an old friend goes missing, Jim goes to the young man's college to try and find out what happened.
S4.E21 ∙ The House on Willis Avenue
When a fellow P.I. is killed on the Ventura freeway, Jim and Richie Brockelman team up to find out if it really was an accident.
S5.E1 ∙ Heartaches of a Fool
Jim finds that a country music star, corrupt union boss and Chinese triad all have one thing in common with why Rocky ended in hospital after his rig was forced off the road: sausages.
S5.E2 ∙ Rosendahl and Gilda Stern Are Dead
A doctor's murder has direct connections to the Mob, and Jim comes to the assistance of hooker friend Rita Capcovik (Rita Moreno) when she finds herself entangled in it.
S5.E3 ∙ The Jersey Bounce
Wrongly accused of beating a man to death, Jim discovers the best legal advice he can find is from disbarred lawyer John Cooper.
S5.E4 ∙ White on White and Nearly Perfect
Handsome, charmed PI Lance White (Tom Selleck) may speak lines that sound like they're from a 1940s B movie, but everyone is so attracted to him they hang on his every word. That is, everyone except Jim.
S5.E5 ∙ Kill the Messenger
When an already overly stressed Dennis Becker is lumped with the unwelcome task of finding out who murdered Deputy Chief Towne's unfaithful wife, Jim decides to lend a hand in the investigation.
S5.E6 ∙ A Good Clean Bust with Sequel Rights
Jim is forced to babysit Chicago ex-cop, now celebrity, "Frank Falcone," who has a television show and toy line. Falcone isn't easy to babysit, and things get dicey when some old Chicago "friends" of Falcone show up to complicate things.
S5.E7 ∙ Three Day Affair with a Thirty Day Escrow
After being strong-armed by an Arab sheik and his goons, and getting no help from the police, Jim decides to track down the two people who caused his trouble: a soft-voiced gigolo and the sheik's naive daughter.
S5.E8 ∙ The Empty Frame
At a swank party, attended by some of LA's high society and police dept. VIPs, in honor of Angel's brother-in-law, Aaron, being made Chief of Police, a robbery takes place, while Lt. Doug Chapman is in charge of security. Desperate to get back into good graces with his superiors, Chapman swallows his pride and asks Rockford to help him.
S5.E9 ∙ Black Mirror
Rockford's investigation of psychologist Megan Dougherty's stalker leads him to one of her patients who may have a split personality - one of which is a paid killer.
S5.E10 ∙ A Fast Count
Jim puts up his dukes and steps forward to help a boxing coach who has been framed with bribery and murder.
S5.E11 ∙ Local Man Eaten by Newspaper
Jim could use some saintly guidance when he goes undercover on a scandal rag that is getting confidential medical information on a doctor's famous, and infamous, patients.
S5.E12 ∙ With the French Heel Back, Can the Nehru Jacket Be Far Behind?
A fashion model friend of Jim is found dead on the ground below her balcony. The police believe it's suicide, but having gotten a desperate phone call from her, Jim believes it's murder.
S5.E13 ∙ The Battle-Ax and the Exploding Cigar
Ignorant that he's been driving a hot Cadillac with an illegal stash of guns in the trunk, leads Jim into rubbing shoulders with the FBI and the Company.
S5.E14 ∙ Guilt
Jim finds his guilty conscience being manipulated by a former fiancee, who asks him to find out who is threatening her life.
S5.E15 ∙ The Deuce
Having Jim doing jury duty leads to a mistrial and his being hired to investigate the case of pedestrian hit by a drunk-driver that brought the accused to court.
S5.E16 ∙ The Man Who Saw the Alligators
If having the IRS wanting to do an audit isn't bad enough, a gangster Jim helped put in prison is out on parole and wants a pound of his flesh in revenge.
S5.E17 ∙ The Return of the Black Shadow
A gang of bikers beat up Jim and assault John Cooper's sister, leading Coop to seek vengeance by returning to a darker period in his past when he was in a biker gang.
S5.E18 ∙ A Material Difference
Jim finds himself being dragged into a complicated situation when Angel's con job as a hit man for hire goes awry.
S5.E19 ∙ Never Send a Boy King to Do a Man's Job
Richie's father has been swindled by a man named Coombs. Jim assembles together a disparate group of con-artists in a complicated scheme using Coombs' anxieties, and even the "Curse" of King Tut, to save Mr. Brockelman from ruin.
S5.E20 ∙ A Different Drummer
While in hospital after a car accident, Jim stumbles across a black market for vital organs.
S6.E1 ∙ Paradise Cove
Jim's Malibu neighbourhood becomes the site of a treasure hunt for a stash of gold bullion, stolen fifty years earlier.
S6.E2 ∙ Lions, Tigers, Monkeys and Dogs
Jim rubs shoulders with royalty when a princess hires him because she believes someone is trying to kill her friend (Lauren Bacall).
S6.E3 ∙ Only Rock 'n Roll Will Never Die: Part 1
Jim senses something is out of tune while looking into the disappearance of a rock star's producer.
S6.E4 ∙ Only Rock 'n Roll Will Never Die: Part 2
While consoling his morose love-lorn friend Eddie, Jim continues to look for the missing producer. He eventually finds his body but the presumed killer is not whom he had expected.
S6.E5 ∙ Love Is the Word
Jim reconnects with Dr. Megan Dougherty and discovers she is engaged to another man. When she believes he is missing Jim agrees to help her, despite the fact he disapproves of her engagement and for his feelings for Megan.
S6.E6 ∙ Nice Guys Finish Dead
The special guest of a P.I. convention dinner is found murdered in the restroom, and Jim unhappily finds himself once more having to team up with flawless Lance White (Tom Selleck), while accident prone Freddie Beamer tags along.
S6.E7 ∙ The Hawaiian Headache
Jim is tricked into believing he's won a trip to Hawaii, when it really turns out to be doing a favor for an old army pal in the CIA.
S6.E8 ∙ No Fault Affair
Rita Capkovic (Rita Moreno) comes to Jim for help after her former pimp has beaten her up for refusing to work for him again. As Jim helps Rita recover she begins to see him as more than just as a friend, to the concern of everyone.
S6.E9 ∙ The Big Cheese
Rockford gets a phone call telling him to expect a package in the mail. Two hoods then murder the caller and go to Rockford's trailer to await the package's arrival. When the package is a wheel of cheese the mystery only gets deeper.
S6.E10 ∙ Just a Coupla Guys
Rockford flies to Newark for a case and is robbed, leaving him stranded at the police station. Jim is caught in the middle of a mob war when 2 mooks, looking to make a name for themselves, get involved and complicate everything.
S6.E11 ∙ Deadlock in Parma
In the series finale, Jim Rockford drives off into a California sunset in his wounded Firebird, after being ensnared in a small-town council battle with big implications. While trout fishing in the mountains, the vacationing PI becomes the emergency proxy for a fellow angler, an environmentalist councilman, felled by appendicitis. But the seemingly-innocuous proposition for a Parma city park, attracts a trailer load of New Jersey mobsters who urge Rockford to keep his vote green, or sleep with the fishes. Meanwhile, this town council in the land of endless propositions, acts to force their temporary member Rockford to go fishing under the moonlight, but not in Parma.
