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  • TV-14
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  • Sep 19, 1975
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  • NBC
  • Sep 19, 1975
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The Rockford Files (1974)

Summary James Garner stars as Jim Rockford, a private investigator who lives and works from his trailer in Malibu, Los Angeles. Jim is an ex-con who had been imprisoned for five years in San Quentin for armed robbery – a crime which he did not commit and was later pardoned. Jim has a quarter page advertisement in the yellow pages, drives a tan...

Directed By: Lawrence Doheny

Written By: Roy Huggins, Stephen J. Cannell, Juanita Bartlett

  • TV-14
  • NBC
  • Sep 19, 1975
  • 50 m
  • TV-14
  • NBC
  • Sep 19, 1975
  • 50 m
The Rockford Files (1974)
S2 • Episode 2
The Farnsworth Stratagem
Air Date: Sep 19, 1975
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Summary James Garner stars as Jim Rockford, a private investigator who lives and works from his trailer in Malibu, Los Angeles. Jim is an ex-con who had been imprisoned for five years in San Quentin for armed robbery – a crime which he did not commit and was later pardoned. Jim has a quarter page advertisement in the yellow pages, drives a tan...

Created By: Stephen J. Cannell, Roy Huggins

Season Episodes

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Episode 1 • Sep 12, 1975 • 50 m
The Aaron Ironwood School of Success
Aaron Ironwood, a childhood friend of Jim's, comes to town with a business deal that is just too good to be true. Jim finally agrees to the deal as he thinks Aaron might be in some kind of trouble. He is - with both the FBI and the mob.
Episode 2 • Sep 19, 1975 • 50 m
The Farnsworth Stratagem
When Dennis is conned into investing in a hotel for mobsters, Jim impersonates a Texas oil man to get his friend's money back.
Episode 3 • Sep 26, 1975 • 50 m
Gearjammers, Part 1
After witnessing a mob payoff that is part of a big-rig hijacking scheme, Rockford's father becomes the target of assassins. Working to protect his dad, Rockford learns that the man's life contains secrets that he never imagined.
Episode 4 • Oct 3, 1975 • 50 m
Gearjammers, Part 2
In this exciting conclusion to this two-part episode, the mob boss continues to hunt for Rocky, while Rockford teams up with the police to solve the trucking case, which is speeding towards disaster.
Episode 5 • Oct 10, 1975 • 50 m
The Deep Blue Sleep
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 • Oct 17, 1975 • 49 m
The Great Blue Lake Land and Development Company
When his car breaks down in a small town Jim leaves $10,000 in a land company's safe. The next morning the money - and the man who locked the money up - are gone. When the man turns up dead the sheriff thinks Rockford did it.
Episode 7 • Oct 31, 1975 • 50 m
The Real Easy Red Dog
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 • Nov 7, 1975 • 50 m
Resurrection in Black & White
Convinced a convicted murderer is actually innocent, a journalist looking for a scoop hires Jim to investigate a six year old murder.
Episode 9 • Nov 14, 1975 • 50 m
Chicken Little Is a Little Chicken
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 • Nov 21, 1975 • 50 m
2 Into 5.56 Won't Go
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 • Nov 28, 1975 • 50 m
Pastoria Prime Pick
Rockford takes a dislike to the small town he's visiting when a bogus repair bill is followed by phony criminal charges. Aided by his father and attorney, Rockford takes on the hamlet's corrupt mayor, sheriff and prosecuting attorney.
Episode 12 • Dec 5, 1975 • 50 m
The Reincarnation of Angie
Believing her stockbroker brother's been abducted by the mob, a bookkeeper hires Rockford. But once he's on the case, Rockford finds himself the object of another investigation, the feds'.
Episode 13 • Dec 19, 1975 • 49 m
The Girl in the Bay City Boys Club
Jim goes undercover to expose an illegal gambling club and gets help from a young D.A.
Episode 14 • Jan 9, 1976 • 50 m
The Hammer of C Block
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 • Jan 16, 1976 • 50 m
The No-Cut Contract
A 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 • Jan 23, 1976 • 50 m
A Portrait of Elizabeth
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 • Jan 30, 1976 • 50 m
Joey Blue Eyes
Jim helps one of Beth's clients, who is being swindled out of his business.
Episode 18 • Feb 6, 1976 • 49 m
In Hazard
Beth has trouble and is nearly killed by a client with tax trouble.
Episode 19 • Feb 13, 1976 • 50 m
The Italian Bird Fiasco
Jim gets hired by a diamond smuggler posing as an art dealer causing trouble for Jim with LAPD and other smugglers.
Episode 20 • Feb 20, 1976 • 50 m
Where's Houston?
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 • Mar 12, 1976 • 50 m
Foul on the First Play
After learning that the parole officer who hired him is actually a private detective, Rockford works to even the score in this case about a basketball franchise and the would-be owner who refuses to play by the rules.
Episode 22 • Mar 19, 1976 • 50 m
A Bad Deal in the Valley
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.
6 Seasons

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James Garner

Jim Rockford

Noah Beery Jr.

Joseph 'Rocky' Rockford

Joe Santos

Dennis Becker

Luis Delgado

Officer Billings, Officer Todd Billings, Counterman

Stuart Margolin

Angel Martin, Teeta Skerritt

Gretchen Corbett

Beth Davenport

James Luisi

Lt. Doug Chapman, Burt Stryker

Jack Garner

Bartender, Capt. McEnroe, Officer

Tom Atkins

Alex Diel, Lt. Thomas Diehl

Joe E. Tata

Solly Marshall, Agent Hanzer, Mike Trevino

Pepper Martin

Booking Sergeant, Foster, Greg Smith, Gustav, Harry Steel, Melvin, Mickey Wannamaker

Shirley Anthony

Receptionist, Bren Dagley, Club Member, Juror, Party Guest, Secretary

Nick Dimitri

Dorsey, Manny Axel, Sammy, Security Guard, Thug #1

George Loros

'Anthony Boy' Gagglio, Anthony Gagglio, Eddie, Eddie Lo Presti, Tommy Lorentz

Pat Finley

Peggy Becker

John Davey

Cowboy, Delivery Man, Deputy Harnsworth, Mechanic, Rudy, Sgt. Jacobson

Fritzi Burr

County Clerk, Maid, Miss Orneck, Mrs. DeAngelo, Receptionist, Tax Assistant

Bruce Tuthill

1st Hood, Bomb Squad Officer, Club Attendant, Murray Gaines, Officer, Waiter

Fred Lerner

Carl Richman, Freeman, Lou, Manny Morabito, Martin Fishback, Parking Attendant

Ken Swofford

Carl Wronko, Col. John 'Howling Mad' Smith, DEA Agent Al Jollett, FBI Agent Patrick, P.I. Floyd Ross

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