9.0/101 votes#1 - Profit and Loss (2)
Season 1 Episode 13 - Aired 12/27/1974
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
8.0/101 votes#2 - The Four Pound Brick
Season 1 Episode 20 - Aired 2/21/1975
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
8.0/102 votes#3 - The Great Blue Lake Land and Development Company
Season 2 Episode 6 - Aired 10/17/1975
When a client's bail money disappears in a desert town, Rockford uncovers a major land swindle.
Director: Lawrence Doheny
Writer: Juanita Bartlett
8.0/102 votes#4 - Chicken Little Is a Little Chicken
Season 2 Episode 9 - Aired 11/14/1975
A good deed for Angel makes Rockford the target of a mobster.
Director: Lawrence Doheny
Writer: Stephen J. Cannell
8.0/101 votes#5 - Piece Work
Season 3 Episode 10 - Aired 12/17/1976
While investigating an insurance claim Jim accidentally stumbles into a gun smuggling operation.
Director: Lawrence Doheny
Writer: Juanita Bartlett
7.7/103 votes#6 - No Need to Know
Season 1 Episode 5 - Aired 1/8/1981
Magnum returns from a case to find that Higgins' old Army commander is staying on the Masters Estate, under tight security, until some IRA 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' trail, 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
7.5/102 votes#7 - Find Me If You Can
Season 1 Episode 8 - Aired 11/1/1974
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
7.0/102 votes#8 - A Train of Thought
Season 2 Episode 9 - Aired 1/13/1982
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
6.5/102 votes#9 - Skin Deep
Season 1 Episode 6 - Aired 1/15/1981
When a beautiful model-actress is killed by a shot-gun 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, he agrees. But as the investigations unfold, it becomes apparent that there is much more to the case than first appears, and the supposedly murdered woman was being hounded by the obsessive former lover... The case reaches it's pinnacle when Magnum, still haunted by nightmares of the Vietnam war in his dreams, finds himself reliving it in much more reality, in a deadly hunt down on a deserted tropical island...
Director: Lawrence Doheny
Writer: Donald P. Bellisario
6.5/102 votes#10 - The Ugliest Dog in Hawaii
Season 1 Episode 8 - Aired 1/29/1981
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, ageing gangster Victor DiGiorgio, has need to get him back. Magnum and an animal regulations officer are soon on the run with Algie from the would-be dognappers - and the fact that the officer seems to be scared of dogs doesn't exactly make matters any easier - but just why does DiGiorgio want the mutt back so badly?...
Director: Lawrence Doheny
Writer: Frank Lupo
6.5/102 votes#11 - Thicker than Blood
Season 1 Episode 12 - Aired 2/26/1981
T.C. makes a late-night flight to land on a tanker, but on the journey back he is cornered arrested by the Coast Guard for transporting drugs. Magnum and Rick are certain of their friend's innocence, but are bemused when he intends to accept the charges and refuses their help. Magnum investigates, to find that T.C. 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 a supposedly reformed drug addict, who was calling in an old debt to be flown back in to U.S. territory...
Director: Lawrence Doheny
Writer: Donald P. Bellisario
6.5/102 votes#12 - Adelaide
Season 1 Episode 14 - Aired 3/19/1981
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 Thomas finds that her uncle is an old Vietnam comrade who is against him being hired, and that Norman is none other than a prized race-horse...
Director: Lawrence Doheny
Writer: N/A
6.0/101 votes#13 - Tropical Madness
Season 2 Episode 7 - Aired 11/12/1981
Magnum is surprised when a beautiful English woman spurns his advances - much to the amusement of T.C. and Rick - instead preferring Higgins. Thomas is certain that the woman is feigning interest in Higgins only to somehow use him, and plans to uncover the truth, but Higgins sees his doubts as sheer jealousy, and the ever volatile relationship between the two is pushed towards breaking point. Matters aren't helped when Magnum is attacked by a sumo wrestler and a dwarf and, understandably, no-one believes him...
Director: Lawrence Doheny
Writer: N/A
6.0/101 votes#14 - Profit and Loss (1)
Season 1 Episode 12 - Aired 12/20/1974
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
5.0/102 votes#15 - The Lost Diablo
Season 2 Episode 7 - Aired 12/16/1981
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
5.0/103 votes#16 - Lest We Forget
Season 1 Episode 10 - Aired 2/12/1981
Magnum is hired by a Supreme Court nominee to find the woman he married forty years ago, in 1941, on the eve of the raid on Pearl Harbour. 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 has started receiving blackmail threats relating to an incident forty years ago... Magnum's investigations into the case are helped by the fact that Higgins wants a favour, and is being overly nice and co-operative in return...
Director: Lawrence Doheny
Writer: Donald P. Bellisario
5.0/103 votes#17 - Ki'i's Don't Lie (I)
Season 3 Episode 3 - Aired 10/7/1982
For an upcoming charity auction organised by Higgins and an attractive socialite, to be held on the Estate, Robin Masters "donates" Magnum's services, to provide security over the valuable antiques up for auction at the event. Meanwhile, mainland Private Detective brothers A.J. and Rick Simon have been hired to steal back a Ki'i - a stolen Hawaiian artifact - by it's previous owner, who is in rapidly decreasing health and believes that he has been passed on a curse from which he will die, unless the Ki'i is returned to it's intended location of rest within the Hawaiian islands. But the "cursed" Ki'i seems to spell bad luck and trouble for all who come into possession of it... The crossover continues on Simon & Simon S02E01 Emeralds Are Not a Girl's Best Friend (II).
Director: Lawrence Doheny
Writer: Philip DeGuere Jr.
5.0/101 votes#18 - The Farnsworth Stratagem
Season 2 Episode 2 - Aired 9/19/1975
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
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"Profit and Loss (2)" is the best rated episode directed by Lawrence Doheny. It scored 9/10 based on 1 votes. It was written by Stephen J. Cannell. It aired on 12/27/1974 and is rated 1.0 points higher than their second-best episode, "The Four Pound Brick".