The Rockford Files

1Paradise Cove

43 minSep 28, 1979

Jim's Malibu neighborhood becomes the site of a treasure hunt for a stash of gold bullion, stolen fifty years earlier.

2Lions, Tigers, Monkeys and Dogs (1)

42 minOct 12, 1979

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

3Lions, Tigers, Monkeys and Dogs (2)

41 minOct 12, 1979

Jim traces a killer via a barman, florist and gangster in order to establish who ordered the Princess' friend killed…

4Only Rock 'n Roll Will Never Die (1)

47 minOct 19, 1979

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

5Only Rock 'n Roll Will Never Die (2)

47 minOct 26, 1979

While consoling his morose love-lorn friend Eddie, Jim continues to look for the missing producer. He eventually finds his body but the presumed killer is not whom he had expected.

6Love Is the Word

47 minNov 19, 1979

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.

7Nice Guys Finish Dead

43 minNov 16, 1979

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.

8The Hawaiian Headache

43 minNov 23, 1979

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.

9No Fault Affair

47 minNov 30, 1979

Rita Capkovic (Rita Moreno) comes to Jim for help after her former pimp has beaten her up for refusing to work for him again. As Jim helps Rita recover she begins to see him as more than just as a friend, to the concern of everyone.

10The Big Cheese

43 minDec 7, 1979

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.

11Just a Coupla Guys

46 minDec 14, 1979

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.

12Deadlock in Parma

43 minJan 10, 1980

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.