The BEST episodes of The Rockford Files season 2
Every episode of The Rockford Files season 2, ranked from best to worst by thousands of votes from fans of the show. The best episodes of The Rockford Files season 2!
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 - Chicken Little is a Little Chicken
Season 2 - Episode 9 - Aired 11/14/1975
The situation is anything but heavenly when Rockford's old cellmate leads him to an underworld of gangsters and gambling. When the two become the target of a mob boss, they hope a fake funeral will be the answer to their prayers.
#2 - The Girl in the Bay City Boys Club
Season 2 - Episode 13 - Aired 12/19/1975
Posing as a newspaperman, Rockford goes undercover in a charity gambling operation that his client believes is rigged. When investigation leads him to the district attorney's office, Rockford realizes that the odds are stacked against him.
#3 - The Italian Bird Fiasco
Season 2 - Episode 19 - Aired 2/13/1976
Posing as an art dealer, Rockford purchases a rare sculpture of a bird for a client. When he is attacked leaving the auction, he realizes that he's just flown into a flock of trouble.
#4 - The No-Cut Contract
Season 2 - Episode 15 - Aired 1/16/1976
Rockford finds himself in a fixed game when a small-time pro quarterback implicates him in a blackmail ploy. Wanted by both the feds and the mob, Rockford struggles to clear his name.
#5 - The Hammer of C Block
Season 2 - Episode 14 - Aired 1/9/1976
Gandy Fitch, Rockford's former cellmate, is released from prison after serving twenty years for the murder of his wife. Still claiming his innocence, he hires Rockford to track down the real killer.
#6 - The Real Easy Red Dog
Season 2 - Episode 7 - Aired 10/31/1975
Nothing is as it seems when Rockford is duped by a beautiful private eye who uses him as a decoy to deceive the police. What starts off as a suicide investigation leads to stolen jewels, missing babies and murder.
#7 - The Reincarnation of Angie
Season 2 - Episode 12 - Aired 12/5/1975
Believing that her stockbroker brother has been abducted by the mob, a bookkeeper hires Rockford. But once he's on the case, Rockford finds himself the object of another investigation, the feds'.
#8 - In Hazard
Season 2 - Episode 18 - Aired 2/6/1976
When she finds herself in jail, Beth realizes that her clients have ties to the underworld. With her life in danger, she desperately turns to Rockford for help.
#9 - The Great Blue Lake Land and Development Company
Season 2 - Episode 6 - Aired 10/17/1975
While stranded in a desert town, Rockford has $10,000 — money for a client's bail — stolen. He turns to his father and Fast Harry, an ex-con friend, to help him find both the money and the thief, and in the process they uncover an intricate real estate swindle.
#10 - The Farnsworth Stratagem
Season 2 - Episode 2 - Aired 9/19/1975
When Dennis is conned into investing in a hotel for mobsters, Jim impersonates a Texas Oil Man to get his friends money back.
#11 - A Portrait of Elizabeth
Season 2 - Episode 16 - Aired 1/23/1976
Beth's latest beau hires Rockford to investigate the disappearance of cashier's checks. What begins as a routine job leads Rockford and his friend into a world of music, art...and murder.
#12 - The Deep Blue Sleep
Season 2 - Episode 5 - Aired 10/10/1975
Beth hires Jim to investigate the death of her friend, a fashion model and the connection between the fashion house and organized crime.
#13 - A Bad Deal in the Valley
Season 2 - Episode 22 - Aired 3/19/1976
Nothing is as it seems when Rockford's old flame, a real estate tycoon, hires him to deliver a package that turns out to contain $100,000 in counterfeit money. She claims not to have known and is then mysteriously kidnapped.
#14 - Foul on the First Play
Season 2 - Episode 21 - Aired 3/12/1976
After learning that the parole officer who hired him is actually a private detective, Rockford works to even the score in this case about a basketball franchise and the would-be owner who refuses to play by the rules.
#15 - Where's Houston?
Season 2 - Episode 20 - Aired 2/20/1976
Rockford searches for the missing granddaughter of a family friend. What starts as a kidnapping investigation soon reveals a shady real estate scheme run by crooks who will stop at nothing to get what they want.
#16 - Resurrection in Black & White
Season 2 - Episode 8 - Aired 11/7/1975
Following her "gut feelings," a magazine writer hires Rockford to help her prove the innocence of a man who's been convicted of homicide. Although skeptical at first, Rockford follows the trail that eventually makes him a believer...and leads him to a shootout at sea.
#17 - Joey Blue Eyes
Season 2 - Episode 17 - Aired 1/30/1976
An ex-convict looks to Rockford to help him remain on the straight and narrow when the mob shows an interest in his legitimate restaurant business. Can Rockford help him keep too many cooks out of his kitchen?
#18 - Gearjammers (2)
Season 2 - Episode 4 - Aired 10/3/1975
In this exciting conclusion to this two-part episode, the mob boss continues to hunt for Rocky, while Rockford teams up with the police to solve the trucking case, which is speeding towards disaster.
#19 - Gearjammers (1)
Season 2 - Episode 3 - Aired 9/26/1975
After witnessing a mob payoff that is part of a big-rig hijacking scheme, Rockford's father becomes the target of assassins. Working to protect his dad, Rockford learns that the man's life contains secrets that he never imagined.
#20 - Pastoria Prime Pick
Season 2 - Episode 11 - Aired 11/29/1975
Rockford takes a quick dislike to the small town he's visiting when a bogus repair bill is followed by phony criminal charges. Aided by his father and attorney, Rockford takes on the hamlet's corrupt mayor, sheriff and prosecuting attorney.
#21 - 2 into 5.56 Won't Go
Season 2 - Episode 10 - Aired 11/21/1975
While investigating the death of his former Army commander, Rockford uncovers military corruption and arms smuggling.
#22 - The Aaron Ironwood School of Success
Season 2 - Episode 1 - Aired 9/12/1975
Rockford welcomes home his childhood foster brother, who has struck it rich as the result of a shaky pyramid scheme. On the run from both the mob and the feds, the failing millionaire asks Rockford to temporarily take ownership of his company - the ironically named School of Success.