The Best Episodes Written By Stephen J. cannell

Vinnie and Sonny's right hand man, Tony Grecco, has a run-in with the cops causing Vinnie to be arrested. The Steelgraves find that guns are being exported illegally using their pier and decide to take possession of the guns and sell them back to the owner.

Director: Rod Holcomb

Writer: Stephen J. Cannell

A psychopathic murderer posing as Sonny's nephew double-crosses Sonny and holds Vinnie's girlfriend Gina hostage.

Director: Larry Shaw

Writer: Stephen J. Cannell

Jim is helping a Countess avoid a blackmailer but is then charged for the Blackmailer murder...

Director: Russ Mayberry

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

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

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

Director: Meta Rosenberg

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

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

Ralph reconsiders his suit of powers after a flying mistake almost takes out a bus full of tourists. Bill also reconsiders his job path when one of his heroes is suspected of plotting out the theft of a precious diamond.

Director: Gabrielle Beaumont

Writer: Stephen J. Cannell

Hunter & McCall make a pact of protectiveness and loyalty toward each other when she is nearly killed by her old partner after she tries to stop him from a killer-for-hire assignment.

Director: Bruce Kessler

Writer: Stephen J. Cannell

Rockford is hired by Larry Kirkoff to find the identity of his parents killer. There are a number of possible suspects including Travis Buckman and Tawnia Baker who were lovers of Mrs. and Mr. Kirkoff respectively. The police actually suspect Larry of the crime, but, lack of evidence prevents them from making a case against him. Rockford's investigation runs him afoul of some pretty bad men who want everyone to go on thinking Larry killed them.

Director: Lou Antonio

Writer: Stephen J. Cannell

Jim tails a woman just released from prison. She was involved in a robbery of a Marine Payroll. The mastermind of the crime and his henchman follow her as well. They search for the remaining robber who wound up with the loot.

Director: Charles S. Dubin

Writer: Stephen J. Cannell

A private investigator uses Rockford to divert police attention from her insurance case.

Director: Ivan Dixon

Writer: Stephen J. Cannell

Ralph Hinkley, an average school teacher, is given a suit with amazing powers by aliens. Now, Ralph must decide if he'll use his new powers to fight crime, even though he already lost the suit's instruction manual.

Director: Rod Holcomb

Writer: Stephen J. Cannell

Det. Reno Raines becomes a fugitive from justice when his investigation of illicit police activity leads a corrupt lieutenant to frame him for murder.

Director: Ralph Hemecker

Writer: Stephen J. Cannell

Reno runs a bully (Pete Koch) out of a small town, but the man spots Reno's picture on a wanted poster and informs the police of his whereabouts.

Director: N/A

Writer: Stephen J. Cannell

Vinnie is released from prison where he has been for two years to establish his cover. He meets his boss, Frank McPike and gets to see his coach and mentor, Jerry Greco. Greco is killed and Vinnie demands to be put in to finish the investigation. He uses his ingenuity to get a foothold in the Steelgrave crime family, but it will take a while to finish this job.

Director: Rod Holcomb

Writer: Stephen J. Cannell

The Police Commissioner is the main suspect in the murder of his wife.

Director: Bill Duke

Writer: Stephen J. Cannell

The cook from the A-Team's POW camp gives them a tip about a drug deal between the camp's former commander and a prisoner who had sold out to him.

Director: Bernard McEveety

Writer: Stephen J. Cannell

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

Director: Lawrence Doheny

Writer: Stephen J. Cannell

Hoods snatch a stockbroker, and his sister hires Rockford for $23.64, because Jim's in the yellow pages and her big brother instructed her not to dial the cops. Jim's protective of the naive 25 year old bookkeeper, despite the tiny fee, because he fears her brother is dead, and she can't accept that her only relative, who's always taken care of her, may be mixed up in a securities scam.

Director: Jerry London

Writer: Stephen J. Cannell

A minor league football player drags Jim into his troubles.

Director: Lou Antonio

Writer: Stephen J. Cannell

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

When the son of an old friend goes missing, Jim goes to the young man's college to try and find out what happened.

Director: Ivan Dixon

Writer: Stephen J. Cannell

Jim finds that a country music star, corrupt union boss and Chinese triad all have one thing in common with why Rocky ended in hospital after his rig was forced off the road: sausages.

Director: William Wiard

Writer: Stephen J. Cannell