The Best Episodes of The Rockford Files

Jim gets called before a grand jury where he promptly gets thrown into jail for contempt.

Director: Jeannot Szwarc

Writer: Juanita Bartlett

Handsome, charmed PI Lance White (Tom Selleck) may speak lines that sound like they're from a 1940s B movie, but everyone is so attracted to him they hang on his every word. That is, everyone except Jim.

Director: Stephen J. Cannell

Writer: Stephen J. Cannell

When a fellow P.I. is killed on the Ventura freeway, Jim and Richie Brockelman team up to find out if it really was an accident.

Director: Hy Averback

Writer: Stephen J. Cannell

Jim finds himself being dragged into a complicated situation when Angel's con job as a hit man for hire goes awry.

Director: William Wiard

Writer: Rogers Turrentine

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

Director: Stephen J. Cannell

Writer: Stephen J. Cannell

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.

Director: John Patterson

Writer: David Chase

A friend (Isaac Hayes) from Jim's time in prison after getting out, needs help clearing himself from the crime he was put into prison for.

Director: Jerry London

Writer: Gordon T. Dawson

A client of Beth's hires Jim misleadingly to check on his company.

Director: Meta Rosenberg

Writer: Stephen J. Cannell

After being conned by friends Jim sets them up to settle the score and save himself.

Director: Meta Rosenberg

Writer: Stephen J. Cannell

Jim becomes very concerned when Rocky starts receiving thousands of dollars through the mail.

Director: Stuart Margolin

Writer: David Taylor

Jim winds up in a funny farm when he gets too close to the truth about an elite health club.

Director: Harry Falk

Writer: Gordon T. Dawson

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

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

Director: Lawrence Doheny

Writer: Stephen J. Cannell

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 ?

Director: Lawrence Doheny

Writer: Gordon T. Dawson

When several of Jim's fellow P.I.'s lose their licenses under circumstances that are suspiciously similar, he begins to suspect that someone is targeting independent investigators and systematically putting them out of business.

Director: Jerry London

Writer: David Chase

Jim helps a friend (Strother Martin) of Rocky's who's being forced off his property.

Director: Jerry London

Writer: Gordon T. Dawson

When an already overly stressed Dennis Becker is lumped with the unwelcome task of finding out who murdered Deputy Chief Towne's unfaithful wife, Jim decides to lend a hand in the investigation.

Director: Ivan Dixon

Writer: Juanita Bartlett

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

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

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

Director: Lawrence Doheny

Writer: Juanita Bartlett

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

Director: Lawrence Doheny

Writer: Stephen J. Cannell

Jim helps a friend of Rocky's who's being forced off his property.

Director: Jerry London

Writer: Gordon T. Dawson

Jim is forced to babysit Chicago ex-cop, now celebrity, "Frank Falcone," who has a television show and toy line. Falcone isn't easy to babysit, and things get dicey when some old Chicago "friends" of Falcone show up to complicate things.

Director: William Wiard

Writer: Rudolph Borchert

Two former cons hire Rockford to find an old girlfriend. They actually want her valuable pearl necklace and implicate him as the thief. With Angel's help, he'll get the pearls back and square himself with the police.

Director: Jackie Cooper

Writer: Juanita Bartlett, Howard Berk

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

Director: William Wiard

Writer: Don Carlos Dunaway