The Rockford Files
Television series about Jim Rockford, an ex-convict-turned-private-investigator who would rather run away than fight and would rather go fishing than work. He isn't a coward, and he isn't lazy -- just rather on the cautious side, that's all. And he bears a very strong resemblance to Western television hero Bret Maverick. Rockford is sometimes assisted (and sometimes deterred) in his cases by friends Dennis Becker (a police detective), Evelyn "Angel" Martin (his cowardly former cellmate) and pretty Beth Davenport (his lawyer).
- 1974-1980
- 6 seasons
- NBC
- Suspense, Drama
- TV-PG
Television series about Jim Rockford, an ex-convict-turned-private-investigator who would rather run away than fight and would rather go fishing than work. He isn't a coward, and he isn't lazy -- just rather on the cautious side, that's all. And he bears a very strong resemblance to Western television hero Bret Maverick. Rockford is sometimes assisted (and sometimes deterred) in his cases by friends Dennis Becker (a police detective), Evelyn "Angel" Martin (his cowardly former cellmate) and pretty Beth Davenport (his lawyer).
Season 2 Episode Guide
22 Episodes 1975 - 1976
Episode 1
The Aaron Ironwood School of Success
Fri, Sep 12, 1975 50 mins
Rockford welcomes home his childhood foster brother, who has struck it rich as the result of a shaky pyramid scheme. On the run from both the mob and the feds, the failing millionaire asks Rockford to temporarily take ownership of his company - the ironically named School of Success.
Episode 2
The Farnsworth Stratagem
Fri, Sep 19, 1975 50 mins
Dennis pleads with Jim to untangle him from a timeshare con, without Dennis' boss, Jim's nemesis Lt. Diehl, finding out he's a victim too. Rockford's a lot more interested when a friend of Dennis' who's also an unhappy vacation homeowner, proves very helpful, and happens to be a gorgeous single blonde. Jim recruits his father and Angel to out-scam the scammers.
Episode 3
Gearjammers, Part 1
Fri, Sep 26, 1975 50 mins
Rocky is targeted for death after seeing a meeting between a truck dispatcher and a crooked executive. Jim wants desperately to protect his father but discovers he hasn't been keeping up with Rocky enough to even find him on a typical day. The dispatcher was giving the supposedly-retired Rocky work as a trucker, so when Jim discovers the dispatcher dead in a crate bound for Malaysia, the police figure the elusive Rocky knows why.
Episode 4
Gearjammers, Part 2
Fri, Oct 3, 1975 50 mins
The Rockfords work with Sgt. Becker to solve Rocky's friend's murder. When 6 tractor trailers from the same depot are hijacked by a gang, there must be a connection with the killing, but who desperately needs tons of ladies' underwear, grapefruit and dynamite ? The proud Rocky resents Jim taking care of him, making the slew of hit-men even harder to combat for Dennis and a very confused LAPD.
Episode 5
The Deep Blue Sleep
Fri, Oct 10, 1975 50 mins
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".
Episode 6
The Great Blue Lake Land and Development Company
Fri, Oct 17, 1975 49 mins
While stranded in a desert town, Rockford has $10,000 - money for a client's bail - stolen. He turns to his father and Fast Harry, an ex-con friend, to help him find both the money and the thief, and in the process they uncover an intricate real estate swindle.
Episode 7
The Real Easy Red Dog
Fri, Oct 31, 1975 50 mins
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.
Episode 8
Resurrection in Black & White
Fri, Nov 7, 1975 50 mins
Following her "gut feelings," a magazine writer hires Rockford to help her prove the innocence of a man who's been convicted of homicide. Although skeptical at first, Rockford follows the trail that eventually makes him a believer...and leads him to a shootout at sea.
Episode 9
Chicken Little Is a Little Chicken
Fri, Nov 14, 1975 50 mins
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.
Episode 10
2 Into 5.56 Won't Go
Fri, Nov 21, 1975 50 mins
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.
Episode 11
Pastoria Prime Pick
Fri, Nov 28, 1975 50 mins
A farming hub has more business than it can handle, including giving Rockford the business. The PI's car breaks down near the boomtown, after a source Rockford contacts in a divorce case steers Rockford there. While his car is being worked on, Rockford is quickly entangled between an underage motel worker and her jealous cop boyfriend, and in a double-cross over a narcotics deal. Is it just another tricky day for unlucky Jim, or is bucolic New Pastoria a sunny sin city ?
Episode 12
The Reincarnation of Angie
Fri, Dec 5, 1975 50 mins
Hoods snatch a stockbroker, and his sister hires Rockford for $23.74, because Jim's in the yellow pages and her big brother instructed her not to dial the cops. Jim's protective of the naive 25 year old bookkeeper, despite the tiny fee, because he fears her brother is dead, and she can't accept that her only relative, who's always taken care of her, may be mixed up in a securities scam.
Episode 13
The Girl in the Bay City Boys Club
Fri, Dec 19, 1975 49 mins
Jim goes undercover to expose an illegal gambling club and gets help from a young D.A.
Episode 14
The Hammer of C Block
Fri, Jan 9, 1976 50 mins
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.
Episode 15
The No-Cut Contract
Fri, Jan 16, 1976 50 mins
An 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.
Episode 16
A Portrait of Elizabeth
Fri, Jan 23, 1976 50 mins
Dave 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.
Episode 17
Joey Blue Eyes
Fri, Jan 30, 1976 50 mins
Jim helps one of Beth's clients, who is being swindled out of his business.
Episode 18
In Hazard
Fri, Feb 6, 1976 49 mins
Beth has trouble and is nearly killed by a client with tax trouble.
Episode 19
The Italian Bird Fiasco
Fri, Feb 13, 1976 50 mins
Jim gets hired by a diamond smuggler posing as an art dealer causing trouble for Jim with LAPD and other smugglers.
Episode 20
Where's Houston?
Fri, Feb 20, 1976 50 mins
Rocky's friend is killed thinking his Granddaughter was kidnapped leading Jim with the help of Rocky to untangle a crooked real estate deal.
Episode 21
Foul on the First Play
Fri, Mar 12, 1976 50 mins
Jim's shackled to his former parole officer, Marcus Hayes (Louis Gossett Jr.), who's now a PI himself, when competition for a new NBA franchise ensnares both men. Jim can't figure which jock/sucker, the motor mouth Marc is working for, but whoever it is, they're causing Jim a lot of pain - the physical kind.
Episode 22
A Bad Deal in the Valley
Fri, Mar 19, 1976 50 mins
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.