NaN/100 votesLoading...#1 - The House on Willis Avenue
Season 4 Episode 22 - Aired 2/24/1978
Part two of episode. Originally aired as 1 2-hour episode.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
NaN/100 votesLoading...#2 - Never Send a Boy King to Do a Man's Job: Part 2
Season 5 Episode 21 - Aired 4/13/1979
Conclusion
Director: William Wiard
Writer: Rudolph Borchert
NaN/100 votesLoading...#3 - A Different Drummer
Season 5 Episode 22 - Aired 4/13/1979
While in hospital after a car accident, Jim stumbles across a black market for vital organs.
Director: Reza Badiyi
Writer: Rudolph Borchert
NaN/100 votesLoading...#4 - 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
6.2/10266 votesLoading...#5 - 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
6.9/10231 votesLoading...#6 - 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
7.2/10257 votesLoading...#7 - The Gang at Don's Drive-In
Season 4 Episode 15 - Aired 1/13/1978
An author suffering from writers block tells Jim he thinks he has the next best seller in an old murder case from 1961.
Director: Harry Falk
Writer: James Crocker
7.2/10231 votesLoading...#8 - The Battle-Ax and the Exploding Cigar
Season 5 Episode 14 - Aired 1/12/1979
Ignorant that he's been driving a hot Cadillac with an illegal stash of guns in the trunk, leads Jim into rubbing shoulders with the FBI and the Company.
Director: Ivan Dixon
Writer: Rogers Turrentine
7.2/10237 votesLoading...#9 - Lions, Tigers, Monkeys and Dogs (2)
Season 6 Episode 3 - Aired 10/12/1979
No description available
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
7.3/10241 votesLoading...#10 - A Fast Count
Season 5 Episode 11 - Aired 12/1/1978
Jim puts up his dukes and steps forward to help a boxing coach who has been framed with bribery and murder.
Director: Reza Badiyi
Writer: Gordon T. Dawson
7.3/10239 votesLoading...#11 - Local Man Eaten by Newspaper
Season 5 Episode 12 - Aired 12/8/1978
Jim could use some saintly guidance when he goes undercover on a scandal rag that is getting confidential medical information on a doctor's famous, and infamous, patients.
Director: Meta Rosenberg
Writer: Juanita Bartlett
7.4/10289 votesLoading...#12 - Trouble in Chapter 17
Season 4 Episode 2 - Aired 9/23/1977
Jim is reluctantly drawn into being bodyguard for a famous author, who believes her popular book on the perfect wife is the cause of death threats against her.
Director: William Wiard
Writer: Juanita Bartlett
7.4/10254 votesLoading...#13 - 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
7.4/10234 votesLoading...#14 - 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
7.5/10421 votesLoading...#15 - This Case Is Closed
Season 1 Episode 6 - Aired 10/18/1974
While investigating the fiance of Warren Jamison's daughter, Jim experiences some strange events which include kidnapping by the mob and the FBI who are anxious to get a statement - it all relates back to Jim recent trip to Newark...
Director: Bernard L. Kowalski
Writer: Stephen J. Cannell
7.5/10344 votesLoading...#16 - Claire
Season 1 Episode 17 - Aired 1/31/1975
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.
Director: William Wiard
Writer: Stephen J. Cannell, Edward J. Lakso
7.5/10273 votesLoading...#17 - Where's Houston?
Season 2 Episode 20 - Aired 2/20/1976
Rocky's friend is killed thinking his Granddaughter was kidnapped leading Jim with the help of Rocky to untangle a crooked real estate deal.
Director: Lawrence Doheny
Writer: Don Carlos Dunaway
7.5/10258 votesLoading...#18 - New Life, Old Dragons
Season 3 Episode 18 - Aired 2/25/1977
Jim is hired by a Vietnamese refugee to find her missing brother.
Director: Jeannot Szwarc
Writer: David Taylor
7.5/10239 votesLoading...#19 - Three Day Affair with a Thirty Day Escrow
Season 5 Episode 7 - Aired 11/10/1978
After being strong-armed by an Arab sheik and his goons, and getting no help from the police, Jim decides to track down the two people who caused his trouble: a soft-voiced gigolo and the sheik's naive daughter.
Director: Ivan Dixon
Writer: David Chase
7.5/10265 votesLoading...#20 - The Man Who Saw the Alligators
Season 5 Episode 17 - Aired 2/10/1979
If having the IRS wanting to do an audit isn't bad enough, a gangster Jim helped put in prison is out on parole and wants a pound of his flesh in revenge.
Director: Corey Allen
Writer: David Chase
7.5/10248 votesLoading...#21 - 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
7.6/10482 votesLoading...#22 - The Dark and Bloody Ground
Season 1 Episode 2 - Aired 9/20/1974
Jim reluctantly agrees to work for Beth Davenport. His job is to help her prove her client, Ann Calhoun, is innocent of the crime she is accused of; murdering her husband Kevin Calhoun. Jim's investigation takes him to the town of Parker, Arizona, where the Calhouns are from. He digs up info someone doesn't want found out and is almost killed trying to return to L.A. Socialites Clyde Russell and Elizabeth Gorman, who were throwing a party the Calhouns attended, are also investigated. Jim's investigation is making someone nervous as another attempt is made on his life.
Director: Michael Schultz
Writer: Juanita Bartlett
7.6/10476 votesLoading...#23 - The Countess
Season 1 Episode 3 - Aired 9/27/1974
Jim is helping a Countess avoid a blackmailer but is then charged for the Blackmailer murder...
Director: Russ Mayberry
Writer: Stephen J. Cannell
7.6/10404 votesLoading...#24 - Exit Prentiss Carr
Season 1 Episode 4 - Aired 10/4/1974
Jim finds the murdered body of Prentiss Carr in his hotel room and after reporting the incident to the police learns it has been classified as suicide...
Director: Alexander Grasshoff
Writer: Juanita Bartlett
7.6/10353 votesLoading...#25 - Charlie Harris at Large
Season 1 Episode 19 - Aired 2/14/1975
Charlie Harris, Rockford's former cell mate, is suspected of murdering his rich wife and is on the run. He calls on Rockford to find his alibi witness, a mystery woman with whom he was having an affair.
Director: Russ Mayberry
Writer: Zekial Marko
The Worst Episodes of The Rockford Files
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Network:NBC
Worst Episodes Summary
"The House on Willis Avenue" is the worst rated episode of "The Rockford Files". It scored N/A/10 based on 0 votes. Directed by N/A and written by N/A, it aired on 2/24/1978. This episode scored NaN points lower than the second lowest rated, "Never Send a Boy King to Do a Man's Job: Part 2".