The Rockford Files

Rockford is hired by Larry Kirkoff to find the identity of his parents killer. There are a number of possible suspects including Travis Buckman and Tawnia Baker who were lovers of Mrs. and Mr. Kirkoff respectively. The police actually suspect Larry of the crime, but, lack of evidence prevents them from making a case against him. Rockfords investigation runs him afoul of some pretty bad men who want everyone to go on thinking Larry killed them.

Jim is helping a Countess avoid a blackmailer but is then charged for the Blackmailer murder...

Jim helps a journalist trace the whereabouts of her friend and has to adopt a series of covers in order to obtain the information, as well as contend with a mobsters goons and a Treasury Agent...

Suspecting her ex-lover was killed by his wife, a woman hires Rockford to jet to Europe to compile evidence. After a fling with the widow, Rockford suspects Steve Nelson faked his death.

Jim tails a woman just released from prison. She was involved in a robbery of a Marine 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.

When knowledge of a critically ill convicts hidden fortune comes to light, Rockford becomes involved in helping the cons wife find the treasure before his former partner arrives and demands his share.

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.

Jims 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 cant stop until he finds out what happened.

Jims old girlfriend, Claire Prescott, phones, and asks him to help give her protection from 2 hoods chasing her. He soon discovers theres a missing undercover cop, which puts him up against an arrogant Cpt. Highland, as well.

Charlie Harris, Rockfords 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.

A race car driver dies in an apparent accident that his mother, an old friend of Jims, thinks was no accident. It turns out he was part of an insurance scam outfit and they soon have a similar plan for Rockford.

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Aaron Ironwood, a childhood friend of Jims, comes to town with a business deal that is just too good to be true. He finally agrees to the deal as he thinks Aaron might be in some kind of trouble. Hes is - with both the FBI and the mob.

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 hasnt 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.

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".

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.

Angel asks Jim to help him collect some money from someone who supposedly welshed on a deal. Not surprisingly he hasnt told Jim the whole truth, which includes two very angry hoods who want money Angel owes them.

A farming hub has more business than it can handle, including giving Rockford the business. The PIs 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 ?

Jim goes undercover to expose an illegal gambling club and gets help from a young D.A.

A minor league football player drags Jim into his troubles.

Jim helps one of Beths clients, who is being swindled out of his business.

Jim gets hired by a diamond smuggler posing as an art dealer causing trouble for Jim with LAPD and other smugglers.

Jims shackled to his ex-parole officer Marcus Aurelius (Louis Gossett Jr.), now a PI himself, when a no-holds barred competition for a new NBA franchise ensnares both sleazes. Jim cant figure which jock-sucker, the motor mouth Marc works for, but whoever it is, they keep bringing Jim the pain and costing him way-too-many non-reimbursed expenses. As a PO, slick Marc tried to send Jim back up the river; as a PI, he runs Jim dizzy dodging bullets.

Jim helps a friend who works in the airline industry, whos apparently being pursued by a hit man, and shes no idea why shes being targeted.

Jim and Rocky find an abandoned young girl that leads to Jim finding and helping her father.

Jim finds out theres a hit out on Angel and runs into trouble with the mob bailing him out.

Jim gets called before a grand jury where he promptly gets thrown into jail for contempt.

Jim gets used by an old Army buddy in an insurance recovery case.

Beths nerdy cousin Warren drags Jim into his mounting troubles.

When several of Jims 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.

Jim helps a friend of Rockys whos being forced off his property.

Jim gets Gandy (Isaac Hayes) a job with his P.I. buddy Marcus Hayes (Louis Gossett Jr.) who promptly then tries to steal the case.

Rockford is hired to find a missing woman, only to discover that she is also being sought by a New York crime family.

Beth turns to Jim for help when she finds herself being mentally harassed by a mysterious man while trying to win an important trial.

Rockford returns from vacation in Puerto Rico to discover someone has been using his identity, his trailer and totaled his Firebird. And thats just the beginning of his problems...

Jim finds himself in an explosive situation when the gun he hides in his cookie jar is used in a murder.

Helping a young woman with a history of mental illness leads Jim into crossing paths with the Mob and federal intelligence.

Rockford ends up regretting allowing an eccentric hippie woman to use his address temporarily, when her ex-boss sends a pair of thugs after her to retrieve some money he put in her care.

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.

Beths old college friend is in trouble when her company that is developing an submersible robot explorer becomes the target of some shady businessmen. Jimmy Joe Meeker comes to her rescue.

Jim is unwittingly involved in a bizarre experiment when hired to find a mans missing wife.

An author suffering from writers block tells Jim he thinks he has the next best seller in an old murder case from 1961.

A threat to the wrong phone number has Jim scrambling to find out who it was meant for.

Jim winds up in a funny farm when he gets too close to the truth about an elite health club.

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.

A doctors 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.

Handsome, charmed PI Lance White (Tom Selleck) may speak lines that sound like theyre from a 1940s B movie, but everyone is so attracted to him they hang on his every word. That is, everyone except Jim.

At a swank party, attended by some of LAs high society and police dept. VIPs, in honor of Angels 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.

Jim is forced to babysit Chicago ex-cop, now celebrity, "Frank Falcone," who has a television show and toy line. Falcone isnt easy to babysit, and things get dicey when some old Chicago "friends" of Falcone show up to complicate things.

Rockfords investigation of psychologist Megan Doughertys stalker leads him to one of her patients who may have a split personality - one of which is a paid killer.

Jim could use some saintly guidance when he goes undercover on a scandal rag that is getting confidential medical information on a doctors famous, and infamous, patients.

Ignorant that hes 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.

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.

A gang of bikers beat up Jim and assault John Coopers sister, leading Coop to seek vengeance by returning to a darker period in his past when he was in a biker gang.

Richies 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.

While in hospital after a car accident, Jim stumbles across a black market for vital organs.

Jim rubs shoulders with royalty when a princess hires him because she believes someone is trying to kill her friend (Lauren Bacall).

Jim senses something is out of tune while looking into the disappearance of a rock stars producer.

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.

Jim is tricked into believing hes won a trip to Hawaii, when it really turns out to be doing a favor for an old army pal in the CIA.

Rockford gets a phone call telling him to expect a package in the mail. Two hoods then murder the caller and go to Rockfords trailer to await the packages arrival. When the package is a wheel of cheese the mystery only gets deeper.

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.