The Best Episodes Written By Stephen J. cannell

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1. #1 Fan Favorite
   

   9.5/10(2 votes)

   #1 - White on White and Nearly Perfect

   S5:E410/20/1978

   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.

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   #2 - Dwarf in a Helium Hat

   S4:E171/27/1978

   A threat to the wrong phone number has Jim scrambling to find out who it was meant for.

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   #3 - The Countess

   S1:E39/27/1974

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

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   #4 - Profit and Loss (2)

   S1:E1312/27/1974

   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.

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   #5 - Drought at Indianhead River

   S3:E511/5/1976

   Jim finds out there's a hit out on Angel and runs into trouble with the mob bailing him out.

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   #6 - There's One in Every Port

   S3:E121/7/1977

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

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   #7 - The Prisoner of Rosemont Hall

   S4:E202/17/1978

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

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   #8 - The House on Willis Avenue (1)

   S4:E212/24/1978

   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.

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   #9 - The Jersey Bounce

   S5:E310/6/1978

   Wrongly accused of beating a man to death, Jim discovers the best legal advice he can find is from disbarred lawyer John Cooper.

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    8.7/10(3 votes)

    #10 - The Kirkoff Case

    S1:E19/13/1974

    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.

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    #11 - My Heroes Have Always Been Cowboys

    S1:E64/29/1981

    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.

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    #12 - In Pursuit of Carol Thorne

    S1:E911/8/1974

    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.

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    8.3/10(3 votes)

    #13 - The Real Easy Red Dog

    S2:E710/31/1975

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

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    8.2/10(4 votes)

    #14 - The Road to Hope

    S4:E410/29/1985

    Hannibal poses as a wino to avoid being caught by the Army and stumbles onto a racket that involves killing the derelicts.

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    8.2/10(6 votes)

    #15 - The Greatest American Hero

    S1:E13/18/1981

    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.

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    8.0/10(3 votes)

    #16 - Mind Games

    S4:E811/26/1985

    Face quits the A-Team after receiving a full government pardon and quickly becomes a celebrity, the rest of the A-Team keeps an eye on him suspecting the pardon's not 100% legit.

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    8.0/10(4 votes)

    #17 - Waiting for Insane Wayne

    S4:E162/18/1986

    When Murdock gets mistaken for an insane mercenary the A-Team is drawn into a fight over property rights and an oil well.

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    8.0/10(1 votes)

    #18 - Pilot / Renegade

    S1:E19/19/1992

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

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    #19 - Hunting Accident

    S1:E29/26/1992

    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.

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    8.0/10(1 votes)

    #20 - The Reincarnation of Angie

    S2:E1212/5/1975

    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.

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    #21 - The No-Cut Contract

    S2:E151/16/1976

    A minor league football player drags Jim into his troubles.

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    #22 - Just Another Polish Wedding

    S3:E172/18/1977

    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.

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    8.0/10(2 votes)

    #23 - Heartaches of a Fool

    S5:E19/22/1978

    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.

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    7.8/10(4 votes)

    #24 - The Big Squeeze

    S3:E141/15/1985

    The A-Team opens its own restaurant to lure a ruthless loan shark who has other restaurant owners terrified.

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    7.7/10(28 votes)

    #25 - Double Exposure

    S3:E412/16/1973

    A filmmaker kills one of his clients. in a break, during the screening of a new ad campaign

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