The Best Episodes Directed By William Wiard

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1. #1 Fan Favorite
   

   9.0/10(2 votes)

   #1 - The Jersey Bounce

   S5:E310/6/1978

   Wrongly accused of beating a man to death, Jim discovers the best legal advice he can find is from disbarred lawyer John Cooper.

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   #2 - Tuttle

   S1:E151/14/1973

   Hawkeye creates a fake doctor, Captain Jonathan S. Tuttle, to give supplies to the local orphans. Henry wants Tuttle to be officer of the day, so Hawkeye creates a fake personnel file, and all his back pay is given to the orphanage. When General Clayton wants to reward his generosity, Hawkeye is forced to invent a story about Tuttle jumping from a chopper without his parachute! Of course, Trapper's new friend, Captain Murdoch, obtained the fake dog tags and parachute...!

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   8.0/10(1 votes)

   #3 - The Family Hour

   S3:E310/8/1976

   Jim and Rocky find an abandoned young girl that leads to Jim finding and helping her father.

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   8.0/10(1 votes)

   #4 - Just Another Polish Wedding

   S3:E172/18/1977

   Jim gets Gandy (Isaac Hayes) a job with his P.I. buddy Marcus Hayes (Louis Gossett Jr.) who promptly then tries to steal the case.

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   8.0/10(1 votes)

   #5 - To Protect and Serve: Part 1

   S3:E193/11/1977

   Rockford is hired to find a missing woman, only to discover that she is also being sought by a New York crime family.

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   #6 - A Deadly Maze

   S4:E1312/23/1977

   Jim is unwittingly involved in a bizarre experiment when hired to find a man's missing wife.

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   8.0/10(1 votes)

   #7 - South by Southeast

   S4:E182/3/1978

   Mistaken identity by federal agents has Jim being sent to South America to help them contact a heiress, who has been isolated by her possessive husband.

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   8.0/10(2 votes)

   #8 - Heartaches of a Fool

   S5:E19/22/1978

   Jim finds that a country music star, corrupt union boss and Chinese triad all have one thing in common with why Rocky ended in hospital after his rig was forced off the road: sausages.

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   8.0/10(2 votes)

   #9 - Rosendahl and Gilda Stern Are Dead

   S5:E29/29/1978

   A doctor's murder has direct connections to the Mob, and Jim comes to the assistance of hooker friend Rita Capcovik (Rita Moreno) when she finds herself entangled in it.

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    7.5/10(11 votes)

    #10 - Sometimes You Hear the Bullet

    S1:E171/28/1973

    Frank throws his back out whilst spending the evening with Margaret, and ends up in traction. He promptly applies for the Purple Heart, having been 'technically' wounded at a frontline unit. Tommy Gillis, an old friend of Hawkeye's, is writing a book about the war, and pays him a visit. Later, Tommy is brought into the camp, seriously wounded, and Hawkeye can't save him. A 15-year-old kid is in the hospital to have his appendix out. He joined up to be a hero back home, but Hawkeye has him sent home, giving him Frank's purple heart.

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    7.5/10(4 votes)

    #11 - Sleight of Hand

    S1:E151/17/1975

    Jim's girlfriend suddenly disappears with no clue as to how or why. Lt. Diel thinks Rockford is probably responsible for her disappearance and orders him to stay away from the case. But Jim can't stop until he finds out what happened.

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    7.5/10(2 votes)

    #12 - Claire

    S1:E171/31/1975

    Jim's old girlfriend, Claire Prescott, phones, and asks him to help give her protection from 2 hoods chasing her. He soon discovers there's a missing undercover cop, which puts him up against an arrogant Cpt. Highland, as well.

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    7.5/10(2 votes)

    #13 - The Fourth Man

    S3:E19/24/1976

    Jim helps a friend who works in the airline industry, who's apparently being pursued by a hit man, and she's no idea why she's being targeted.

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    7.3/10(9 votes)

    #14 - The Longjohn Flap

    S1:E192/17/1973

    The camp suffers from the severe cold, except for Hawkeye who has received some long john's from his father. They get passed around from person to person, as a gift, a gambling stake, a trade, a bribe, stolen, given up to Father Mulcahy, who gives them to Henry, who returns them to Hawkeye as thanks for taking out his appendix.

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    7.0/10(6 votes)

    #15 - Kim

    S2:E610/20/1973

    Everyone wants to mother a wounded and apparently orphaned boy.

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    7.0/10(2 votes)

    #16 - Bronzefinger

    S2:E1212/3/1966

    Max has to learn about art in order to try to capture an art thief.

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    7.0/10(2 votes)

    #17 - The Whole Tooth and . . .

    S2:E1412/24/1966

    While carrying plans for a nuclear reactor, Max runs into KAOS Agents, so he must hide the plans. Max later has to pretend to be a convict and go to jail to get them back.

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    7.0/10(2 votes)

    #18 - The Man from YENTA

    S2:E191/28/1967

    Max is assigned to protect an Arabian Prince.

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    6.7/10(9 votes)

    #19 - Henry Please Come Home

    S1:E911/19/1972

    Henry receives a citation for the camp achieving the best efficiency rating, and then General Hammond reassigns him to Tokyo. Frank then changes the camp to be more military, and he confiscates Hawkeye's and Trapper's still. They use forged passes to go to Tokyo to convince Henry to come back and end up pretending Radar is sick.

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    6.5/10(6 votes)

    #20 - L.I.P. (Local Indigenous Personnel)

    S2:E710/27/1973

    Hawkeye cuts through red tape to help a GI marry his child's Korean mother, and cuts romantic ties with a bigoted nurse.

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    6.5/10(2 votes)

    #21 - Gearjammers (2)

    S2:E410/3/1975

    Killers pursue Rocky, as Becker and Rockford investigate a hijacking operation.

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    6.5/10(2 votes)

    #22 - No Minor Vices

    S5:E511/4/1976

    A nice, normal 16-year-old hooker keeps having her johns turn up dead; Dan is particularly horrified by the case.

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    6.0/10(2 votes)

    #23 - The Decoy

    S2:E710/29/1966

    CONTROL makes KAOS believe that Max is carrying a secret code.

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    5.5/10(2 votes)

    #24 - Till Death Do Us Part

    S5:E711/18/1976

    Stone must protect a former book keeper's wife, in order to have her testify against several high profile mobsters who want her dead because of the evidence she has against them.

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    2.0/10(1 votes)

    #25 - The Deep Blue Sleep

    S2:E510/10/1975

    The trail of a missing model leads to murder and an underworld operation within a high-fashion studio.

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