The BEST episodes of The Rockford Files season 5
Every episode of The Rockford Files season 5, ranked from best to worst by thousands of votes from fans of the show. The best episodes of The Rockford Files season 5!
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 - White on White and Nearly Perfect
Season 5 - Episode 4 - Aired 10/20/1978
Jim works with Lance White, a fellow who is so perfect it seems unreal, when investigating the kidnapping of the daughter of a prominant weapons industrialist...
#2 - Never Send a Boy King to Do a Man's Job (1)
Season 5 - Episode 20 - Aired 3/3/1979
Jim helps Ritchie Brockleman set up a big con in order to retrieve money which the villain extorted from Ritchie's father.
#3 - Never Send a Boy King to Do a Man's Job (2)
Season 5 - Episode 21 - Aired 3/3/1979
The con continues and proves successful when one of the fellow con-artists appears to make of with the check.
#4 - The Empty Frame
Season 5 - Episode 6 - Aired 11/3/1978
After the police and most prominant members of the community are literaly caught with thier trousers down by a group of Art theives, Jim is hired by the owners to locate the missing pictures. Meanwhile Angel is exherting new influences after his borther in law is named a Police Chief...
#5 - A Material Difference
Season 5 - Episode 19 - Aired 2/24/1979
Angel poses a high priced hitman but Jim must help when he collects his fee without making his hit, but the victim is apparently still killed, whilst Naval Intellegence and the Russians take an interest in the case and blue jeans...
#6 - Three Day Affair with a Thirty Day Escrow
Season 5 - Episode 7 - Aired 11/10/1978
Jim is taken before a family of Arabs who want to know why his client hired him to find their missing daughter. Jim must find the client, the daughter and figure how the case is connected to a real estate broker...
#7 - Heartaches of a Fool
Season 5 - Episode 1 - Aired 9/22/1978
When Rocky is hi-jacked and injured while delivering sausages, Jim investigates the sausage company through their spokesperson; a country and western singer...
#8 - Kill the Messenger
Season 5 - Episode 5 - Aired 10/27/1978
Jim helps Dennis who, while studying for his promotion to Lieutenant , is handed the murder investigation of the Deputy Police Cheif's wife...
#9 - Rosendahl and Gilda Stern Are Dead
Season 5 - Episode 2 - Aired 9/29/1978
Jim helps Rita prove her innocence when she is accused of murdered a prominant doctor when in fact she witnessed the parties who committed the crime...
#10 - With the French Heel Back, Can the Nehru Jacket Be Far Behind?
Season 5 - Episode 13 - Aired 1/5/1979
While investigating the death of a young model, Jim keeps stumbling into the murder of a jet setting model and the connection between them and a fashion house about to sport a new line...
#11 - A Good Clean Bust with Sequel Rights
Season 5 - Episode 8 - Aired 11/17/1978
Jim is hired by a toy manufacturer asks babysit a a cop turned tv writer who keeps falling into trouble and is desperate to solve one last big case involving a mob hit...
#12 - The Deuce
Season 5 - Episode 16 - Aired 1/26/1979
After serving on a jury of a drunk driver, Jim is hired by the defedant to help proove his innocence...
#13 - Guilt
Season 5 - Episode 15 - Aired 1/19/1979
Jim aids his former fiance whose life has been threatened by a mystery figure...
#14 - The Battle-Ax and the Exploding Cigar
Season 5 - Episode 14 - Aired 1/12/1979
Have Jim and a passenger are arrested after guns are found in a car Jim is suprised to learn his passenger has got off scott free and enlists the help of a Secretary who is concerned about the disapearance of one of her staff...
#15 - Black Mirror (1)
Season 5 - Episode 9 - Aired 11/24/1978
Jim falls for Megan, a blind psychologist with a dangerously psychotic patient who is tormenting her.
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#16 - A Fast Count
Season 5 - Episode 11 - Aired 12/1/1978
A murder investigation leads Jim to a TV personality who is trying to frame a boxer's manager...
#17 - A Different Drummer
Season 5 - Episode 22 - Aired 4/13/1979
Hospitalized by an accident, Jim is convinced he sees a doctor perform an organ extraxion on a live patient...
#18 - The Man Who Saw the Alligators
Season 5 - Episode 17 - Aired 2/10/1979
When a hit-man Jim helped imprison is released threatening revenge, Jim goes into hiding, but Angel unfortunately reveals his friends hideout...
#19 - Black Mirror (2)
Season 5 - Episode 10 - Aired 11/24/1978
Jim tries to trace Megan's stalker, who is a patient with a dual personality.
#20 - The Jersey Bounce
Season 5 - Episode 3 - Aired 10/6/1978
Jim stands accused of murdering one of Rocky's neighbours party guests when matters get out of hand, but Jim's counsel seems pre-occupied so puts his fate in the hands of legal researcher John Cooper...
#21 - Local Man Eaten by Newspaper
Season 5 - Episode 12 - Aired 12/8/1978
While investigsting a tabloid newspaper who are stealing medical information on celebrities, Jim recieves some bad press after his client, the celebrity doctor is shot dead...
#22 - The Return of the Black Shadow
Season 5 - Episode 18 - Aired 2/17/1979
John Cooper goes after the biker gang which attacked Jim and his date Gail - Coop's sister...