The Best Episodes of The Rockford Files Season 3

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

Director: Jeannot Szwarc

Writer: Juanita Bartlett

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

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

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

Director: William Wiard

Writer: Stephen J. Cannell

Beth turns to Jim for help when she finds herself being mentally harassed by a mysterious man while trying to win an important trial.

Director: Reza Badiyi

Writer: Juanita Bartlett

Rockford finds himself getting unwanted attention from the media and police, when a popular psychic fingers him as having important information on the disappearance of two people.

Director: Russ Mayberry

Writer: David Chase

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

Director: William Wiard

Writer: Gordon T. Dawson

Rockford's newest case is to clear his friend Dennis Becker, who is suspected of selling drugs to deal with his financial problems.

Director: Reza Badiyi

Writer: Juanita Bartlett

Rockford tries to keep a woman on the run out of the hands of two Minette hoods (and her revenge minded ex-fiancé) but the bungling interference of a disturbed police groupie threatens to get them both killed.

Director: William Wiard

Writer: David Chase

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.

Director: William Wiard

Writer: Juanita Bartlett

Rocky is forced to sign oil lease rights he owns away, leading Jim to investigate who and why someone wanted Rocky's seemingly worthless leases so badly.

Director: Russ Mayberry

Writer: Don Carlos Dunaway

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

Director: Lawrence Doheny

Writer: Juanita Bartlett

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

Director: William Wiard

Writer: David Chase

Angel is working a con involving the sale of a landfill, and unknown to him or Jim, it happens to be the location of a dead body from an unsolved case from twelve years before. The people who put it there don't want it found.

Director: Meta Rosenberg

Writer: David Chase

Jim helps a friend who wants to pay back money he stole three years earlier when his daughter then gets kidnapped leading to problems for Jim with the kidnappers and the police.

Director: Russ Mayberry

Writer: Stephen J. Cannell

Jim gets used by an old Army buddy in an insurance recovery case.

Director: Bruce Kessler

Writer: Walter Dallenbach

Beth's nerdy cousin Warren drags Jim into his mounting troubles.

Director: Christian I. Nyby II

Writer: Juanita Bartlett

Jim is hired by a Vietnamese refugee to find her missing brother.

Director: Jeannot Szwarc

Writer: David Taylor