Episode 1
The Fourth Man
1976-09-24 • 43 min
Jim helps a friend who works in the airline industry, who's apparently being pursued by a hit man, and she's no idea why she's being targeted.
TV season
1976-09-24
Episode 1
1976-09-24 • 43 min
Jim helps a friend who works in the airline industry, who's apparently being pursued by a hit man, and she's no idea why she's being targeted.
Episode 2
1976-10-01 • 43 min
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 two people.
Episode 3
1976-10-08 • 48 min
Jim and Rocky find an abandoned young girl that leads to Jim finding and helping her father.
Episode 4
1976-10-15 • 43 min
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.
Episode 5
1976-11-05 • 48 min
Jim finds out there's a hit out on Angel and runs into trouble with the mob bailing him out.
Episode 6
1976-11-12 • 43 min
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.
Episode 7
1976-11-19 • 48 min
Jim gets called before a grand jury where he promptly gets thrown into jail for contempt.
Episode 8
1976-11-26 • 43 min
Angel is working a con involving the sale of a landfill, and unknown to him or Jim, it happens to be the location of a dead body from an unsolved case from twelve years before. The people who put it there don't want it found.
Episode 9
1976-12-10 • 43 min
Jim gets used by an old Army buddy in an insurance recovery case.
Episode 10
1976-12-17 • 43 min
While investigating an insurance claim Jim accidentally stumbles into a gun smuggling operation.
Episode 11
1976-12-24 • 43 min
Beth's nerdy cousin Warren drags Jim into his mounting troubles.
Episode 12
1977-01-07 • 48 min
After being conned by friends Jim sets them up to settle the score and save himself.
Episode 13
1977-01-14 • 43 min
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.
Episode 14
1977-01-21 • 43 min
Jim helps a friend (Strother Martin) of Rocky's who's being forced off his property.
Episode 15
1977-01-28 • 44 min
Jim helps a friend of Rocky's who's being forced off his property.
Episode 16
1977-02-11 • 43 min
Rockford's newest case is to clear his friend Dennis Becker, who is suspected of selling drugs to deal with his financial problems.
Episode 17
1977-02-18 • 48 min
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.
Episode 18
1977-02-25 • 48 min
Jim is hired by a Vietnamese refugee to find her missing brother.
Episode 19
1977-03-11 • 48 min
Rockford is hired to find a missing woman, only to discover that she is also being sought by a New York crime family.
Episode 20
1977-03-18 • 48 min
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.
Episode 21
1977-03-25 • 47 min
Beth turns to Jim for help when she finds herself being mentally harassed by a mysterious man while trying to win an important trial.
Episode 22
1977-04-01 • 43 min
Jim becomes very concerned when Rocky starts receiving thousands of dollars through the mail.