The Best Episodes Directed By Lawrence Doheny

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   10.0/10(1 votes)

   #1 - Pastoria Prime Pick

   S2:E1111/28/1975

   A farming hub has more business than it can handle, including giving Rockford the business. The PI's car breaks down near the boomtown, after a source Rockford contacts in a divorce case steers Rockford there. While his car is being worked on, Rockford is quickly entangled between an underage motel worker and her jealous cop boyfriend, and in a double-cross over a narcotics deal. Is it just another tricky day for unlucky Jim, or is bucolic New Pastoria a sunny sin city ?

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   #2 - Drought at Indianhead River

   S3:E511/5/1976

   Jim finds out there's a hit out on Angel and runs into trouble with the mob bailing him out.

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   #3 - Profit and Loss (2)

   S1:E1312/27/1974

   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.

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   #4 - The Four Pound Brick

   S1:E202/21/1975

   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.

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   8.0/10(1 votes)

   #5 - Piece Work

   S3:E1012/17/1976

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

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   7.7/10(3 votes)

   #6 - The Great Blue Lake Land and Development Company

   S2:E610/17/1975

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

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   7.7/10(3 votes)

   #7 - Chicken Little Is a Little Chicken

   S2:E911/14/1975

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

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   7.6/10(5 votes)

   #8 - No Need to Know

   S1:E51/8/1981

   Magnum returns from a case to find that Higgins' old Army commander is staying on the Masters estate, under tight security, until some 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.

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   7.4/10(5 votes)

   #9 - Thicker than Blood

   S1:E122/26/1981

   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.

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    7.3/10(3 votes)

    #10 - Find Me If You Can

    S1:E811/1/1974

    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.

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    7.0/10(5 votes)

    #11 - Skin Deep

    S1:E61/15/1981

    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.

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    7.0/10(1 votes)

    #12 - Angels on a String

    S1:E151/19/1977

    An international political spokesman for free Poland is abducted and a double is substituted for him at a world conference being held at a resort where the Angels are vacationing.

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    6.8/10(5 votes)

    #13 - Adelaide

    S1:E143/19/1981

    A woman hires Magnum to protect Norman, who is facing kidnap unless she pays a ransom; but the case has some unexpected twists.

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    6.6/10(5 votes)

    #14 - The Ugliest Dog in Hawaii

    S1:E81/29/1981

    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, aging gangster Victor DiGiorgio, needs to get him back.

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    6.2/10(4 votes)

    #15 - Ki'i's Don't Lie (I)

    S3:E310/7/1982

    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).

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    6.0/10(2 votes)

    #16 - Tropical Madness

    S2:E711/12/1981

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

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    6.0/10(2 votes)

    #17 - The Farnsworth Stratagem

    S2:E29/19/1975

    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.

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    6.0/10(1 votes)

    #18 - Where's Houston?

    S2:E202/20/1976

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

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    6.0/10(1 votes)

    #19 - Profit and Loss (1)

    S1:E1212/20/1974

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

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    5.4/10(7 votes)

    #20 - Lest We Forget

    S1:E102/12/1981

    Magnum is hired by a Supreme Court nominee to find the woman he married on the eve of the raid on Pearl Harbor.

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