Cranky but likable L.A. PI Jim Rockford pulls no punches (but takes plenty of them). An ex-con sent to the slammer for a crime he didn't commit, Rockford takes on cases others don't want, aided by his tough old man, his lawyer girlfriend and some shady associates from his past.
Writer: Juanita Bartlett
Air date: 1976-09-24
Runtime: 43 min
Overview: 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.
Writer: David Chase
Air date: 1976-10-01
Runtime: 43 min
Overview: 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.
Writer: Gordon T. Dawson
Air date: 1976-10-08
Runtime: 48 min
Overview: Jim and Rocky find an abandoned young girl that leads to Jim finding and helping her father.
Writer: Stephen J. Cannell
Air date: 1976-10-15
Runtime: 43 min
Overview: 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.
Writer: Stephen J. Cannell
Air date: 1976-11-05
Runtime: 48 min
Overview: Jim finds out there's a hit out on Angel and runs into trouble with the mob bailing him out.
Writer: Don Carlos Dunaway
Air date: 1976-11-12
Runtime: 43 min
Overview: 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.
Writer: Juanita Bartlett
Air date: 1976-11-19
Runtime: 48 min
Overview: Jim gets called before a grand jury where he promptly gets thrown into jail for contempt.
Writer: David Chase
Air date: 1976-11-26
Runtime: 43 min
Overview: 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.
Writer: Walter Dallenbach
Air date: 1976-12-10
Runtime: 43 min
Overview: Jim gets used by an old Army buddy in an insurance recovery case.
Writer: Juanita Bartlett
Air date: 1976-12-17
Runtime: 43 min
Overview: While investigating an insurance claim Jim accidentally stumbles into a gun smuggling operation.
Writer: Juanita Bartlett
Air date: 1976-12-24
Runtime: 43 min
Overview: Beth's nerdy cousin Warren drags Jim into his mounting troubles.
Writer: Stephen J. Cannell
Air date: 1977-01-07
Runtime: 48 min
Overview: After being conned by friends Jim sets them up to settle the score and save himself.
Writer: David Chase
Air date: 1977-01-14
Runtime: 43 min
Overview: 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.
Writer: Gordon T. Dawson
Air date: 1977-01-21
Runtime: 43 min
Overview: Jim helps a friend (Strother Martin) of Rocky's who's being forced off his property.
Writer: Gordon T. Dawson
Air date: 1977-01-28
Runtime: 44 min
Overview: Jim helps a friend of Rocky's who's being forced off his property.
Writer: Juanita Bartlett
Air date: 1977-02-11
Runtime: 43 min
Overview: Rockford's newest case is to clear his friend Dennis Becker, who is suspected of selling drugs to deal with his financial problems.
Writer: Stephen J. Cannell
Air date: 1977-02-18
Runtime: 48 min
Overview: 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.
Writer: David Taylor
Air date: 1977-02-25
Runtime: 48 min
Overview: Jim is hired by a Vietnamese refugee to find her missing brother.
Writer: David Chase
Air date: 1977-03-11
Runtime: 48 min
Overview: Rockford is hired to find a missing woman, only to discover that she is also being sought by a New York crime family.
Writer: David Chase
Air date: 1977-03-18
Runtime: 48 min
Overview: 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.
Writer: Juanita Bartlett
Air date: 1977-03-25
Runtime: 47 min
Overview: Beth turns to Jim for help when she finds herself being mentally harassed by a mysterious man while trying to win an important trial.
Writer: David Taylor
Air date: 1977-04-01
Runtime: 43 min
Overview: Jim becomes very concerned when Rocky starts receiving thousands of dollars through the mail.
