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The Best Episodes of The Rockford Files Season 6

Every episode of The Rockford Files Season 6 ranked from best to worst. Discover the Best Episodes of The Rockford Files Season 6!

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

Season 6 Ratings Summary

"Paradise Cove" is the best rated episode of "The Rockford Files" season 6. It scored 8.7/10 based on 314 votes. Directed by Stephen J. Cannell and written by Stephen J. Cannell, it aired on 9/28/1979. This episode is rated 0.9 points higher than the second-best, "Lions, Tigers, Monkeys and Dogs (1)".

  • Paradise Cove
    8.7/10314 votes

    #1 - 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

  • Lions, Tigers, Monkeys and Dogs (1)
    7.8/10309 votes

    #2 - Lions, Tigers, Monkeys and Dogs (1)

    Season 6 Episode 2 - Aired 10/12/1979

    Jim rubs shoulders with royalty when a princess hires him because she believes someone is trying to kill her friend (Lauren Bacall).

    Director: William Wiard

    Writer: Juanita Bartlett

  • Lions, Tigers, Monkeys and Dogs (2)
    7.2/10237 votes

    #3 - Lions, Tigers, Monkeys and Dogs (2)

    Season 6 Episode 3 - Aired 10/12/1979

    No description available

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • Only Rock 'n Roll Will Never Die (1)
    6.9/10231 votes

    #4 - Only Rock 'n Roll Will Never Die (1)

    Season 6 Episode 4 - Aired 10/19/1979

    Jim senses something is out of tune while looking into the disappearance of a rock star's producer.

    Director: William Wiard

    Writer: David Chase

  • Only Rock 'n Roll Will Never Die (2)
    7.4/10254 votes

    #5 - Only Rock 'n Roll Will Never Die (2)

    Season 6 Episode 5 - Aired 10/26/1979

    While consoling his morose love-lorn friend Eddie, Jim continues to look for the missing producer. He eventually finds his body but the presumed killer is not whom he had expected.

    Director: William Wiard

    Writer: David Chase

  • Love Is the Word
    8.7/10369 votes

    #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

  • Nice Guys Finish Dead
    7.5/10248 votes

    #7 - Nice Guys Finish Dead

    Season 6 Episode 7 - Aired 11/16/1979

    The special guest of a P.I. convention dinner is found murdered in the restroom, and Jim unhappily finds himself once more having to team up with flawless Lance White (Tom Selleck), while accident prone Freddie Beamer tags along.

    Director: John Patterson

    Writer: Stephen J. Cannell

  • The Hawaiian Headache
    7.4/10234 votes

    #8 - The Hawaiian Headache

    Season 6 Episode 8 - Aired 11/23/1979

    Jim is tricked into believing he's won a trip to Hawaii, when it really turns out to be doing a favor for an old army pal in the CIA.

    Director: William Wiard

    Writer: Stephen J. Cannell

  • No Fault Affair
    8.1/10225 votes

    #9 - No Fault Affair

    Season 6 Episode 9 - Aired 11/30/1979

    Rita Capkovic (Rita Moreno) comes to Jim for help after her former pimp has beaten her up for refusing to work for him again. As Jim helps Rita recover she begins to see him as more than just as a friend, to the concern of everyone.

    Director: Corey Allen

    Writer: Juanita Bartlett

  • The Big Cheese
    6.2/10266 votes

    #10 - The Big Cheese

    Season 6 Episode 10 - Aired 12/7/1979

    Rockford gets a phone call telling him to expect a package in the mail. Two hoods then murder the caller and go to Rockford's trailer to await the package's arrival. When the package is a wheel of cheese the mystery only gets deeper.

    Director: Joseph Pevney

    Writer: Shel Willens

  • Just a Coupla Guys
    7.6/10243 votes

    #11 - Just a Coupla Guys

    Season 6 Episode 11 - Aired 12/14/1979

    Rockford flies to Newark for a case and is robbed, leaving him stranded at the police station. Jim is caught in the middle of a mob war when 2 mooks, looking to make a name for themselves, get involved and complicate everything.

    Director: Ivan Dixon

    Writer: David Chase

  • Deadlock in Parma
    NaN/100 votes

    #12 - Deadlock in Parma

    Season 6 Episode 12 - Aired 1/10/1980

    In the series finale, Jim Rockford drives off into a California sunset in his wounded Firebird, after being ensnared in a small-town council battle with big implications. While trout fishing in the mountains, the vacationing PI becomes the emergency proxy for a fellow angler, an environmentalist councilman, felled by appendicitis. But the seemingly-innocuous proposition for a Parma city park, attracts a trailer load of New Jersey mobsters who urge Rockford to keep his vote green, or sleep with the fishes. Meanwhile, this town council in the land of endless propositions, acts to force their temporary member Rockford to go fishing under the moonlight, but not in Parma.

    Director: Winrich Kolbe

    Writer: Rudolph Borchert, Donald L. Gold, Lester Wm. Berke