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11 Episodes 1979 - 1980
Episode 1
Fri, Sep 28, 197960 mins
Jim's Malibu neighbourhood becomes the site of a treasure hunt for a stash of gold bullion, stolen fifty years earlier.
Episode 2
Fri, Oct 12, 197996 mins
Jim rubs shoulders with royalty when a princess hires him because she believes someone is trying to kill her friend (Lauren Bacall).
Episode 3
Fri, Oct 19, 197960 mins
Jim senses something is out of tune while looking into the disappearance of a rock star's producer.
Episode 4
Fri, Oct 26, 197960 mins
While consoling his morose love-lorn friend Eddie, Jim continues to look for a missing producer. He eventually figures out where the corpse was buried but the killer is not the person Rockford had expected.
Episode 5
Fri, Nov 9, 197960 mins
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.
Episode 6
Fri, Nov 16, 197960 mins
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.
Episode 7
Fri, Nov 23, 197960 mins
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.
Episode 8
Fri, Nov 30, 197960 mins
After Rita has earned a certificate for a new career as a hair stylist, trouble arises when a former weekly client - Al - who happens to be the vicious pimp of Lily - a young girl who Rita had been attempting to talk into getting herself off the streets - beats Rita to a pulp for refusing to honor her weekly gig with him. This causes Lily to take Rita's advice and leaves town. After Al learns of this, he then learns that Rita had made Rockford's trailer a two-week hideout where she recovered from her injuries - where she had become completely smitten with Jim in the process. Al forces her to take Lily's place, threatening to kill Rockford to retain her as his cash cow.
Episode 9
Fri, Dec 7, 197960 mins
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.
Episode 10
Fri, Dec 14, 197960 mins
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.
Episode 11
Thu, Jan 10, 198060 mins
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.