8.9/10386 votesLoading...#1 - So Help Me God
Season 3 Episode 7 - Aired 11/19/1976
Jim gets called before a grand jury where he promptly gets thrown into jail for contempt.
Director: Jeannot Szwarc
Writer: Juanita Bartlett
8.9/10424 votesLoading...#2 - White on White and Nearly Perfect
Season 5 Episode 4 - Aired 10/20/1978
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
8.7/10411 votesLoading...#3 - The Hammer of C Block
Season 2 Episode 14 - Aired 1/9/1976
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
8.7/10362 votesLoading...#4 - The House on Willis Avenue
Season 4 Episode 21 - Aired 2/24/1978
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
8.7/10315 votesLoading...#5 - Paradise Cove
Season 6 Episode 1 - Aired 9/28/1979
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
8.7/10370 votesLoading...#6 - Love Is the Word
Season 6 Episode 6 - Aired 11/19/1979
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
8.6/10335 votesLoading...#7 - A Portrait of Elizabeth
Season 2 Episode 16 - Aired 1/23/1976
A client of Beth's hires Jim misleadingly to check on his company.
Director: Meta Rosenberg
Writer: Stephen J. Cannell
8.6/10337 votesLoading...#8 - There's One in Every Port
Season 3 Episode 12 - Aired 1/7/1977
After being conned by friends Jim sets them up to settle the score and save himself.
Director: Meta Rosenberg
Writer: Stephen J. Cannell
8.6/10291 votesLoading...#9 - Dirty Money, Black Light
Season 3 Episode 22 - Aired 4/1/1977
Jim becomes very concerned when Rocky starts receiving thousands of dollars through the mail.
Director: Stuart Margolin
Writer: David Taylor
8.6/10318 votesLoading...#10 - The Competitive Edge
Season 4 Episode 19 - Aired 2/10/1978
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
8.6/10344 votesLoading...#11 - A Material Difference
Season 5 Episode 19 - Aired 2/24/1979
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
8.5/10391 votesLoading...#12 - 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
8.5/10366 votesLoading...#13 - 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
8.5/10319 votesLoading...#14 - Sticks and Stones May Break Your Bones, But Waterbury Will Bury You
Season 3 Episode 13 - Aired 1/14/1977
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
8.5/10331 votesLoading...#15 - The Trees, the Bees and T.T. Flowers: Part 1
Season 3 Episode 14 - Aired 1/21/1977
Jim helps a friend (Strother Martin) of Rocky's who's being forced off his property.
Director: Jerry London
Writer: Gordon T. Dawson
8.5/10287 votesLoading...#16 - Kill the Messenger
Season 5 Episode 5 - Aired 10/27/1978
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
8.4/10395 votesLoading...#17 - 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
8.4/10357 votesLoading...#18 - 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
8.4/10342 votesLoading...#19 - 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
8.4/10359 votesLoading...#20 - Pastoria Prime Pick
Season 2 Episode 11 - Aired 11/28/1975
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 ?
Director: Lawrence Doheny
Writer: Gordon T. Dawson
8.4/10341 votesLoading...#21 - Drought at Indianhead River
Season 3 Episode 5 - Aired 11/5/1976
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
8.4/10304 votesLoading...#22 - The Trees, the Bees and T.T. Flowers: Part 2
Season 3 Episode 15 - Aired 1/28/1977
Jim helps a friend of Rocky's who's being forced off his property.
Director: Jerry London
Writer: Gordon T. Dawson
8.4/10266 votesLoading...#23 - A Good Clean Bust with Sequel Rights
Season 5 Episode 8 - Aired 11/17/1978
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
8.3/10363 votesLoading...#24 - Counter Gambit
Season 1 Episode 16 - Aired 1/24/1975
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
8.3/10304 votesLoading...#25 - Gearjammers (2)
Season 2 Episode 4 - Aired 10/3/1975
Killers pursue Rocky, as Becker and Rockford investigate a hijacking operation.
Director: William Wiard
Writer: Don Carlos Dunaway
The Best Episodes of The Rockford Files
Every episode of The Rockford Files ranked from best to worst. Let's dive into the Best Episodes of The Rockford Files!
Cranky but likable L.A. PI Jim Rockford pulls no punches (but takes plenty of them). An ex-con sent to the slammer for a crime he...
Genres:CrimeDramaMystery
Network:NBC
Best Episodes Summary
"So Help Me God" is the best rated episode of "The Rockford Files". It scored 8.9/10 based on 386 votes. Directed by Jeannot Szwarc and written by Juanita Bartlett, it aired on 11/19/1976. This episode scored 0.0 points higher than the second highest rated, "White on White and Nearly Perfect".