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- DirectorBernard L. KowalskiStarsJames GarnerNoah Beery Jr.Joseph CottenJim 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.
- DirectorAlexander GrasshoffStarsJames GarnerNoah Beery Jr.Lee PurcellRockford 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."
- 1974–198050mTV-PG7.9 (366)TV EpisodeDirectorStuart MargolinStarsJames GarnerNoah Beery Jr.Shelley FabaresWhen 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.
- DirectorJackie CooperStarsJames GarnerNoah Beery Jr.Stuart MargolinJim's hired by someone he knew inside, to track down his former girlfriend, who's stolen something of his.
- DirectorRuss MayberryStarsJames GarnerNoah Beery Jr.Joe SantosCharlie 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.
- DirectorJerry LondonStarsJames GarnerNoah Beery Jr.Neva PattersonA 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.
- DirectorLou AntonioStarsJames GarnerNoah Beery Jr.Jesse WellesAn 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.
- DirectorLawrence DohenyStarsJames GarnerNoah Beery Jr.Joe SantosWhen Dennis is conned into investing in a hotel for mobsters, Jim impersonates a Texas oil man to get his friend's money back.
- DirectorWilliam WiardStarsJames GarnerNoah Beery Jr.Joe SantosAfter 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.
- DirectorWilliam WiardStarsJames GarnerNoah Beery Jr.Joe SantosIn 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.
- DirectorJackie CooperStarsJames GarnerNoah Beery Jr.Lindsay WagnerJim'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.
- DirectorWilliam WiardStarsJames GarnerNoah Beery Jr.Joe SantosAfter 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".
- DirectorIvan DixonStarsJames GarnerNoah Beery Jr.Joe SantosChristine 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.
- DirectorLawrence DohenyStarsJames GarnerNoah Beery Jr.Edith AtwaterJim investigates the death of a Rookie Police Officer on behalf the mother, a good friend of Rocky's..
- 1974–198050mTV-PG8.0 (289)TV EpisodeDirectorRuss MayberryStarsJames GarnerNoah Beery Jr.Joe SantosConvinced a convicted murderer is actually innocent, a journalist looking for a scoop hires Jim to investigate a six year old murder.
- 1974–198050mTV-PG8.5 (336)TV EpisodeDirectorLawrence DohenyStarsJames GarnerNoah Beery Jr.Joe SantosAngel 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.
- DirectorJeannot SzwarcStarsJames GarnerNoah Beery Jr.Joe SantosWhen 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.
- 1974–198050mTV-PG7.6 (315)TV EpisodeDirectorLou AntonioStarsJames GarnerNoah Beery Jr.Joe SantosAaron 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.
- DirectorLawrence DohenyStarsJames GarnerNoah Beery Jr.Joe SantosRockford 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.
- 1974–198049mTV-PG8.1 (281)TV EpisodeDirectorJames GarnerStarsJames GarnerNoah Beery Jr.Joe SantosJim goes undercover to expose an illegal gambling club and gets help from a young D.A.
- DirectorJerry LondonStarsJames GarnerNoah Beery Jr.Joe SantosA 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.
- DirectorLou AntonioStarsJames GarnerNoah Beery Jr.Joe SantosA egotistical minor league football player who thinks he's every woman's dream drags Jim into his troubles. It's not the women who are trouble, but some hoods who think he has evidence against them the Feds want.
- 1974–198049mTV-PG8.4 (317)TV EpisodeDirectorLawrence DohenyStarsJames GarnerNoah Beery Jr.Joe SantosWhen 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.
- DirectorMeta RosenbergStarsJames GarnerNoah Beery Jr.Joe SantosDave Delaroux, a smarmy client of Beth's, hires Jim to check on his company. Jim doesn't want to do it, partly because it's not his kind of job, and partly because Beth is attracted to him.
- DirectorLawrence DohenyStarsJames GarnerNoah Beery Jr.Joe SantosJim helps one of Beth's clients, who is being swindled out of his business.
- DirectorJackie CooperStarsJames GarnerNoah Beery Jr.Joe SantosBeth has trouble and is nearly killed by a client with tax trouble.
- DirectorJackie CooperStarsJames GarnerNoah Beery Jr.Joe SantosJim gets hired by a diamond smuggler posing as an art dealer causing trouble for Jim with LAPD and other smugglers.
- DirectorLawrence DohenyStarsJames GarnerNoah Beery Jr.Joe SantosRocky's friend is killed thinking his Granddaughter was kidnapped leading Jim with the help of Rocky to untangle a crooked real estate deal.
- DirectorLou AntonioStarsJames GarnerNoah Beery Jr.Joe SantosAfter 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.
- DirectorJerry LondonStarsJames GarnerNoah Beery Jr.Joe SantosBelieving 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'.
- DirectorJerry LondonStarsJames GarnerNoah Beery Jr.Joe SantosRockford 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.
- DirectorWilliam WiardStarsJames GarnerNoah Beery Jr.Joe SantosJim 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.
- DirectorWilliam WiardStarsJames GarnerNoah Beery Jr.Joe SantosJim and Rocky find an abandoned young girl that leads to Jim finding and helping her father.
- DirectorLawrence DohenyStarsJames GarnerNoah Beery Jr.Joe SantosJim finds out there's a hit out on Angel and runs into trouble with the mob bailing him out.
- DirectorMeta RosenbergStarsJames GarnerNoah Beery Jr.Joe SantosAngel'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.
- DirectorBruce KesslerStarsJames GarnerNoah Beery Jr.Joe SantosJim gets used by an old Army buddy in an insurance recovery case.
- DirectorChristian I. Nyby IIStarsJames GarnerNoah Beery Jr.Joe SantosBeth's nerdy cousin Warren drags Jim into his mounting troubles.
- 1974–19801hTV-PG8.0 (297)TV EpisodeDirectorRuss MayberryStarsJames GarnerNoah Beery Jr.Joe SantosRockford 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.
- DirectorMeta RosenbergStarsJames GarnerNoah Beery Jr.Joe SantosAfter being conned by friends Jim sets them up to settle the score and save himself.
- 1974–19801hTV-PG8.5 (295)TV EpisodeDirectorJerry LondonStarsJames GarnerNoah Beery Jr.Joe SantosWhen 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.
- DirectorRuss MayberryStarsJames GarnerNoah Beery Jr.Joe SantosJim 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.
- DirectorRuss MayberryStarsJames GarnerNoah Beery Jr.Joe SantosRocky 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.
- DirectorReza BadiyiStarsJames GarnerNoah Beery Jr.Joe SantosRockford's newest case; to clear his friend, Dennis Becker, who's suspected of selling drugs to deal with his financial problems.
- DirectorRuss MayberryStarsJames GarnerNoah Beery Jr.Susan StrasbergJim is helping a Countess avoid a blackmailer but is then charged for the blackmailer's murder.
- DirectorAlexander GrasshoffStarsJames GarnerNoah Beery Jr.Corinne CamachoJim 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.
- DirectorReza BadiyiStarsJames GarnerNoah Beery Jr.Joe SantosBeth turns to Jim for help when she finds herself being mentally harassed by a mysterious man while trying to win an important trial.
- DirectorStephen J. CannellStarsJames GarnerNoah Beery Jr.Joe SantosJim 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...
- DirectorReza BadiyiStarsJames GarnerNoah Beery Jr.Joe SantosWhen the life of Gandy Fitch's girlfriend's in danger, he turns to Rockfish for help.
- DirectorWilliam WiardStarsJames GarnerNoah Beery Jr.Joe SantosJim gets Gandy a job with his P.I. buddy Marcus Hayes who promptly then tries to steal the case.
- DirectorReza BadiyiStarsJames GarnerNoah Beery Jr.Joe SantosHelping a young woman with a history of mental illness leads Jim into crossing paths with the Mob and federal intelligence.
- 1974–19801hTV-PG8.1 (272)TV EpisodeDirectorIvan DixonStarsJames GarnerNoah Beery Jr.Joe SantosJim 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.
- DirectorWilliam WiardStarsJames GarnerNoah Beery Jr.Joe SantosJim'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.
- DirectorHarry FalkStarsJames GarnerNoah Beery Jr.Joe SantosAn author suffering from writers block tells Jim he thinks he has the next best seller in an old murder case from 1961.
- DirectorMeta RosenbergStarsJames GarnerNoah Beery Jr.Joe SantosRockford 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.
- DirectorReza BadiyiStarsJames GarnerNoah Beery Jr.Joe SantosA threat to the wrong phone number has Jim scrambling to find out who it was meant for.
- DirectorJames CoburnStarsJames GarnerNoah Beery Jr.Joe SantosRockford gives himself a headache trying to solve the connection between a 30 year old murder, a valuable missing painting and Nazi Germany.
- DirectorWilliam WiardStarsJames GarnerNoah Beery Jr.Joe SantosMistaken 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.
- DirectorWilliam WiardStarsJames GarnerNoah Beery Jr.Linda EvansJim'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.
- DirectorJackie CooperStarsJames GarnerNoah Beery Jr.Hector ElizondoHIred by Mitch, a photographer friend, Jim must travel to Seattle find a missing model who stands accused of shooting a gang member.
- DirectorHarry FalkStarsJames GarnerNoah Beery Jr.Joe SantosJim winds up in a funny farm when he gets too close to the truth about an elite health club.
- DirectorRuss MayberryStarsJames GarnerNoah Beery Jr.Joe SantosAccidently witnessing a murder makes Angel Martin the police's prime witness in the trial of the murderer.
- 1974–19801hTV-PG7.7 (227)TV EpisodeDirectorIvan DixonStarsJames GarnerNoah Beery Jr.Joe SantosWhen the son of an old friend goes missing, Jim goes to the young man's college to try and find out what happened.
- 1974–19801h 35mTV-PG8.7 (336)TV EpisodeDirectorHy AverbackStarsJames GarnerNoah Beery Jr.Joe SantosWhen 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.
- DirectorWilliam WiardStarsJames GarnerNoah Beery Jr.Joe SantosJim 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.
- DirectorWilliam WiardStarsJames GarnerNoah Beery Jr.Joe SantosWrongly accused of beating a man to death, Jim discovers the best legal advice he can find is from disbarred lawyer John Cooper.
- DirectorRichard CrennaStarsJames GarnerNoah Beery Jr.Joe SantosA prostitute (Rita Moreno) hires Jim to find out who has been sending her death threats.
- 1974–19801hTV-PG8.9 (394)TV EpisodeDirectorStephen J. CannellStarsJames GarnerNoah Beery Jr.Joe SantosHandsome, 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.
- 1974–19801hTV-PG7.6 (242)TV EpisodeDirectorWilliam WiardStarsJames GarnerNoah Beery Jr.Joe SantosJim 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.
- DirectorCorey AllenStarsJames GarnerNoah Beery Jr.Joe SantosAt 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.
- DirectorArnold LavenStarsJames GarnerNoah Beery Jr.Joe SantosRockford'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.
- DirectorReza BadiyiStarsJames GarnerNoah Beery Jr.Joe SantosJim puts up his dukes and steps forward to help a boxing coach who has been framed with bribery and murder.
- 1974–19801hTV-PG7.7 (242)TV EpisodeDirectorWilliam WiardStarsJames GarnerNoah Beery Jr.Joe SantosA 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.
- 1974–19801hTV-PG7.3 (233)TV EpisodeDirectorMeta RosenbergStarsJames GarnerNoah Beery Jr.Joe SantosJim 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.
- 1974–19801hTV-PG7.3 (227)TV EpisodeDirectorIvan DixonStarsJames GarnerNoah Beery Jr.Joe SantosA 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.
- DirectorIvan DixonStarsJames GarnerNoah Beery Jr.Joe SantosWhen 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.
- DirectorWilliam WiardStarsJames GarnerNoah Beery Jr.Joe SantosJim finds his guilty conscience being manipulated by a former fiancee, who asks him to find out who is threatening her life.
- DirectorBernard McEveetyStarsJames GarnerNoah Beery Jr.Joe SantosHaving 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.
- 1974–19801h 14mTV-PG7.7 (233)TV EpisodeDirectorCorey AllenStarsJames GarnerNoah Beery Jr.Joe SantosIf 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.
- 1974–19801hTV-PG7.5 (255)TV EpisodeDirectorWilliam WiardStarsJames GarnerNoah Beery Jr.Joe SantosA 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.
- DirectorWilliam WiardStarsJames GarnerNoah Beery Jr.Joe SantosJim finds himself being dragged into a complicated situation when Angel's con job as a hit man for hire goes awry.
- 1974–19801h 35mTV-PG8.7 (323)TV EpisodeDirectorWilliam WiardStarsJames GarnerNoah Beery Jr.Joe SantosRichie'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.
- DirectorReza BadiyiStarsJames GarnerNoah Beery Jr.Joe SantosWhile in hospital after a car accident, Jim stumbles across a black market for vital organs.
- 1974–19801hTV-PG8.1 (237)TV EpisodeDirectorIvan DixonStarsJames GarnerNoah Beery Jr.Joe SantosIgnorant 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.
- 1974–19801h 36mTV-PG7.8 (296)TV EpisodeDirectorWilliam WiardStarsJames GarnerNoah Beery Jr.Joe SantosJim rubs shoulders with royalty when a princess hires him because she believes someone is trying to kill her friend (Lauren Bacall).
- DirectorJohn PattersonStarsJames GarnerNoah Beery Jr.Joe SantosJim 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.
- DirectorJohn PattersonStarsJames GarnerNoah Beery Jr.Joe SantosThe 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.
- DirectorWilliam WiardStarsJames GarnerNoah Beery Jr.Joe SantosJim 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.
- DirectorCorey AllenStarsJames GarnerNoah Beery Jr.Joe SantosRita 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.
- DirectorIvan DixonStarsJames GarnerNoah Beery Jr.Joe SantosRockford 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.
- DirectorRichard T. HeffronStarsJames GarnerLindsay WagnerWilliam SmithJim helps a woman whose father was murdered, after LAPD abandoned the case.
- DirectorJeannot SzwarcStarsJames GarnerNoah Beery Jr.Joe SantosJim gets called before a grand jury where he promptly gets thrown into jail for contempt.
- DirectorLou AntonioStarsJames GarnerNoah Beery Jr.Julie SommarsA wealthy but unlikeable young man hires Jim to solve the mystery of the death of his parents - the crime for which he stands accused.
- DirectorMichael SchultzStarsJames GarnerNoah Beery Jr.Gretchen CorbettJim is hired by Beth Davenport to help clear her female client accused of murdering her husband.
- DirectorJerry LondonStarsJames GarnerNoah Beery Jr.Sian Barbara AllenJim 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.
- DirectorLawrence DohenyStarsJames GarnerNoah Beery Jr.Joe SantosWhile investigating an insurance claim Jim accidentally stumbles into a gun smuggling operation.
- DirectorWinrich KolbeStarsJames GarnerNoah Beery Jr.Joe SantosIn 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.
- DirectorVincent McEveetyStarsJames GarnerNoah Beery Jr.Jill ClayburghA life insurance investigation becomes more complicated than first appeared when Jim believes the insuree is still alive.
- DirectorCharles S. DubinStarsJames GarnerNoah Beery Jr.Lynnette MetteyJim 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.
- DirectorLawrence DohenyStarsJames GarnerNoah Beery Jr.Joan Van ArkRockford 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.
- 1974–198050mTV-PG7.9 (265)TV EpisodeDirectorWilliam WiardStarsJames GarnerNoah Beery Jr.Joe SantosJim's hired to find a missing woman, only to discover that she's also being sought by a New York crime family.