The WORST episodes of The Rockford Files
Every episode of The Rockford Files ever, ranked from worst to best by thousands of votes from fans of the show. The worst episodes of The Rockford Files!
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 - Just a Coupla Guys
Season 6 - Episode 11 - Aired 12/14/1979
Jim travels to New Jersey to help a reformed mob boss, who two punks are trying to get into the mob through.
#2 - No Fault Affair
Season 6 - Episode 9 - Aired 11/30/1979
Rita Capkovic stays with Jim after she is beaten up by her pimp when she wants to find a new line of work...
#3 - 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...
#4 - The Gang at Don's Drive-In
Season 4 - Episode 15 - Aired 1/13/1978
A beleaguered author asks Rockford to look into the cold case of a murdered high school girl and the suspects who want the case permanently put on ice.
#5 - The Queen of Peru
Season 4 - Episode 12 - Aired 12/16/1977
A dangerous beachside transaction between Rockford and some jewel thieves has a change of fortune when a family barbecuing nearby happens upon the priceless gems.
#6 - 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...
#7 - The Attractive Nuisance
Season 4 - Episode 14 - Aired 1/6/1978
The past refuses to stay buried when a retired FBI agent comes to the truck-stop café seeking revenge against Rocky's old partner in crime.
#8 - Second Chance
Season 4 - Episode 4 - Aired 10/14/1977
An illustrious singer is in the spotlight when Rockford and his former cellmate, Gandy, work to find the person who wants her silenced forever.
#9 - 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...
#10 - Paradise Cove
Season 6 - Episode 1 - Aired 9/28/1979
Although he is trying to be evicted from Paradise Cove and is subject to an audit for a Court Judgment, Jim investigates an old mystery involving whiskey and gold bullion...
#11 - 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...
#12 - The Prisoner of Rosemont Hall
Season 4 - Episode 20 - Aired 2/17/1978
Hazing rituals at a local fraternity get fatally out of control when Rockford's young friend and an Arab student are murdered.
#13 - The Battle of Canoga Park
Season 4 - Episode 3 - Aired 9/30/1977
Danger appears on Rockford's doorstep when a gun he hid in a cookie jar appears at the scene of a brutal crime.
#14 - 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...
#15 - 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...
#16 - Trouble in Chapter 17
Season 4 - Episode 2 - Aired 9/23/1977
Rockford must read between the lines when he investigates mysterious death threats against a best-selling author.
#17 - 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.
#18 - Only Rock 'n Roll Will Never Die (2)
Season 6 - Episode 5 - Aired 10/26/1979
Jim finds a missing Record Producer murdered and believes it is linked to a talent agency ran by organised crime...
#19 - Deadlock in Parma
Season 6 - Episode 12 - Aired 1/10/1980
Jim gets in trouble when while on a fishing trip he agrees to cast a proxy vote for a friend who sold his deciding vote out to both sides.
#20 - Love is the Word
Season 6 - Episode 6 - Aired 11/9/1979
Jim meets with Megan who asks for his help in clearing her fiance of murder charges.
#21 - The Family Hour
Season 3 - Episode 3 - Aired 10/8/1976
Rockford and his father become the unlikely babysitters of a wandering nine-year-old girl when her father goes missing.
#22 - South by Southeast
Season 4 - Episode 18 - Aired 2/3/1978
There's trouble south of the border when Rockford is mistakenly abducted by federal agents and then asked to help them protect an international playgirl. .
#23 - 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...
#24 - 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...
#25 - New Life, Old Dragons
Season 3 - Episode 18 - Aired 2/25/1977
What begins as a missing-person case turns into a job involving a kidnapping plot, the CIA, and $500,000 stolen from American payrolls in Saigon.