The Best Episodes Directed By Lawrence Doheny

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.

Director: Lawrence Doheny

Writer: Stephen J. Cannell

A cop dies in an accident that his mother refuses to accept. Rocky offers Jim's services free of charge. After begrudgingly accepting the case he discovers that dirty cops might be involved which then pits him against a very angry Lt. Diel.

Director: Lawrence Doheny

Writer: Juanita Bartlett

When a client's bail money disappears in a desert town, Rockford uncovers a major land swindle.

Director: Lawrence Doheny

Writer: Juanita Bartlett

A good deed for Angel makes Rockford the target of a mobster.

Director: Lawrence Doheny

Writer: Stephen J. Cannell

While investigating an insurance claim Jim accidentally stumbles into a gun smuggling operation.

Director: Lawrence Doheny

Writer: Juanita Bartlett

Magnum returns from a case to find that Higgins' old Army commander is staying on the Masters estate, under tight security, until some I.R.A. members he helped capture are tried. Two secret intelligence agents hire Magnum to protect the brigadier and foil assassins out to kill him before the terrorists' trial, but the "need to know" basis the agents insist on operating by only serves to complicate matters for Magnum.

Director: Lawrence Doheny

Writer: Frank Lupo

Rockford reluctantly takes a unique assignment: a beautiful mystery woman wants him to find her, to see if someone she fears could also track her down. With a check poised to bounce, the ex-con PI needs the retainer to balance his always-challenged checking account. When Rockford checks with a local police department, he worms out a chilling piece of data: she's been dating Denver Mafia capo-regime, hot-tempered Ralph Correll. But the more Barbara Kelbaker strings along Jim Rockford, the more he's charmed into helping the desperate 30 something.

Director: Lawrence Doheny

Writer: Juanita Bartlett

Ralph crashes head first into a train, and gets amnesia. Pam and Bill have to convince him that the suit really works.

Director: Lawrence Doheny

Writer: Frank Lupo

T.C. makes a late-night flight to land on a tanker, but on the journey back he is cornered and arrested by the Coast Guard for transporting drugs. Magnum and Rick are certain of their friend's innocence, but are shocked when he intends to accept the charges and refuses their help. Magnum investigates to find that T.C.'s trip to the tanker was to collect and bring home a man who once saved T.C.'s life in Vietnam, a deserter who is now supposedly a reformed drug addict, and who was calling in an old debt to be flown back into U.S. territory.

Director: Lawrence Doheny

Writer: Donald P. Bellisario

A perky woman hires Magnum to protect 'Norman', who is facing kidnap unless she pays a ransom; but the case has some unexpected turns when Magnum finds that her uncle is an old Vietnam comrade who is against him being hired, and that Norman is none other than a prized racehorse.

Director: Lawrence Doheny

Writer: Robert Hamilton

When a beautiful model-actress is killed by a shotgun blast in a scenario closely resembling a scene from the script of an upcoming film, it is seemingly suicide. Magnum is hired by her former producer and lover to investigate any other men that she may have been seeing before her death - a case that Magnum is reluctant to take, but, feeling guilty for not taking it before the girl was killed, agrees to.

Director: Lawrence Doheny

Writer: Donald P. Bellisario

Higgins volunteers Magnum's services to guard a wealthy socialite's quarantined dog after the attempted dognapping of the canine. Sir Algernon Farnsworth soon finds himself to be the most wanted dog in Hawaii when his former owner, aging gangster Victor DiGiorgio, needs to get him back.

Director: Lawrence Doheny

Writer: Frank Lupo

An aloof, beautiful girl, a Sumo wrestler, and a little person spell trouble and intrigue.

Director: Lawrence Doheny

Writer: Robert Hamilton

Jim investigates a large corporation when one of its executives is kidnapped and the wife of another executive claims the company murdered her husband.

Director: Lawrence Doheny

Writer: Stephen J. Cannell

Rocky's friend is killed thinking his Granddaughter was kidnapped leading Jim with the help of Rocky to untangle a crooked real estate deal.

Director: Lawrence Doheny

Writer: Don Carlos Dunaway

Magnum is hired by a Supreme Court nominee to find the woman he married on the eve of the raid on Pearl Harbor. He was a young Navy Ensign, she was a prostitute, and after their marriage they subsequently became separated in the bombings, with the Judge presuming her dead - until recently, after he started receiving blackmail threats relating to an incident 40 years ago.

Director: Lawrence Doheny

Writer: Donald P. Bellisario

Bill has a treasure map, and takes Ralph and his class out to the desert to find the lost Diablo Gold Mine that vanished a long time ago, and are met with resistance from the local thieves.

Director: Lawrence Doheny

Writer: Juanita Bartlett

A team of private investigators fly to Hawaii to recover a valuable and deadly native artifact, and find themselves in conflict with private investigator Thomas Magnum, Higgins, and a beautiful (but larcenous) socialite. The crossover continues on Simon & Simon S02E01 Emeralds Are Not a Girl's Best Friend (II).

Director: Lawrence Doheny

Writer: Philip DeGuere Jr.

Becker and a young writer ask for Rockford's help after they purchase a share in a condominium and discover they only own part of the lobby.

Director: Lawrence Doheny

Writer: Juanita Bartlett