The BEST episodes of The Rockford Files season 1
Every episode of The Rockford Files season 1, ranked from best to worst by thousands of votes from fans of the show. The best episodes of The Rockford Files season 1!
Emmy® winner James Garner stars as the offbeat Jim Rockford, an ex-con-turned-private-investigator who would rather fish than fight but whose instinct on closed cases is more golden than his classic Pontiac Firebird. From his mobile home in Malibu, this wisecracking private eye takes you on the cases of the lost and the dispossessed, chasing down seemingly long-dead clues in the sun-baked streets and seamy alleys of Los Angeles.
#1 - Counter Gambit
Season 1 - Episode 17 - Aired 1/24/1975
Jim is hired by a former prison mate to recover a pearl necklace stolen by his girlfriend, and after locating it, Jim is charged with stealing it and so must ask the victim and his old friend Angel to help him out...
#2 - Profit and Loss (1)
Season 1 - Episode 13 - Aired 12/20/1974
PART 1 - PROFIT Jim is mystified after he is charged for filing a false police report when he witnesses the kidnapping of a computer programmer from his trailer...
#3 - Tall Woman in Red Wagon
Season 1 - Episode 5 - Aired 10/11/1974
Jim helps a journalist trace the whereabouts of her friend and has to adopt a series of covers in order to obtain the information, as well as contend with a mobster's goons and a Treasury Agent...
#4 - The Dark and Bloody Ground
Season 1 - Episode 2 - Aired 9/20/1974
Jim is hired by Beth Davenport to help clear her female client accused of murdering her husband.
#5 - The Kirkoff Case
Season 1 - Episode 1 - Aired 9/13/1974
A wealthy but dislikable young man hires Jim to solve the mystery of the death of his parents - the crime for which he stands accused.
#6 - This Case is Closed (2)
Season 1 - Episode 7 - Aired 10/18/1974
Jim is ordered off the case but this proves difficult after the fiancé Jim was investigating is found dead and the mob and the FBI still want answers, so Jim must track the real killer...
#7 - Find Me if You Can
Season 1 - Episode 9 - Aired 11/1/1974
Rockford is hired by a secretive woman who refuses to tell him anything about herself, and gives him an unusual task – to simply find her. Soon, Jim is embroiled in the mysterious woman's life, including the mobster who is after her.
#8 - This Case is Closed (1)
Season 1 - Episode 6 - Aired 10/18/1974
While investigating the fiancé 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's recent trip to Newark...
#9 - Claire
Season 1 - Episode 18 - Aired 1/31/1975
Jim has some trouble with gangsters and an ill-tempered police captain when he helps his old girlfriend Claire....
#10 - In Pursuit of Carol Thorne
Season 1 - Episode 10 - Aired 11/8/1974
Jim has been hired to find an elderly couple's missing son, and assumes several guises to check out the man's former girlfriend, who has just been released from prison. But it is a complex case where everybody concerned is conning everyone else.
#11 - 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's murder.
#12 - The Big Ripoff
Season 1 - Episode 8 - Aired 10/25/1974
A life insurance investigation becomes more complicated than it first appeared when Jim believes the insuree is still alive...
#13 - Sleight of Hand
Season 1 - Episode 16 - Aired 1/17/1975
Jim is confused when his girlfriend disappears after they return from a trip and her young daughter is convinced her mother never came home with them...
#14 - Charlie Harris at Large
Season 1 - Episode 20 - Aired 2/14/1975
Jim's old cellmate Charlie is accused of murdering his wife, but Jim must find Charlie's alibi - a mystery woman who he met on the beach....
#15 - Say Goodbye to Jennifer
Season 1 - Episode 19 - Aired 2/7/1975
Hired by Mitch, a photographer friend, Jim must travel to Seattle to find a missing model who stands accused of shooting a gang member...
#16 - Aura Lee, Farewell
Season 1 - Episode 15 - Aired 1/3/1975
Sara Butler hires Jim again to investigate the death of her friend Aura Lee Benton who died of a drug overdose despite her not being a drug user...
#17 - 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...
#18 - The Dexter Crisis
Season 1 - Episode 11 - Aired 11/15/1974
Jim is hired by a wealthy business tycoon to find his mistress who has disappeared with 'property' belonging to him. Accompanied by the girl's roommate, the trail leads to Las Vegas, but things soon develop into much more than a simple missing person case.
#19 - Just by Accident
Season 1 - Episode 22 - Aired 2/28/1975
Jim invesitgates the death of a man on behlaf of his mother, an old friend, but stumbles into a insurance scam...
#20 - The Four Pound Brick
Season 1 - Episode 21 - Aired 2/21/1975
Jim investigates the death of a rookie police officer on behalf of his mother, a good friend of Rocky's...
#21 - Profit and Loss (2)
Season 1 - Episode 14 - Aired 12/27/1974
PART 2 - LOSS After being charged with filing a false police report, Jim and Rocky continue to investigate Fiscal Dynamics Incorporated...
#22 - Roundabout
Season 1 - Episode 23 - Aired 3/7/1975
Jim is hired to pass on an inheritance to a young woman in Las Vegas, who acts very strangely and appears not to really want the money...
#23 - Caledonia – It's Worth a Fortune!
Season 1 - Episode 12 - Aired 12/6/1974
Hired by Jolene Hyland, Jim helps her try and locate a fortune buried somewhere in Caledonia by her terminally ill husband Gerry, whose former partner Leonard wants a piece of the action...