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 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.
#4 - 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...
#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 - 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.
#8 - 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.
#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 - 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.
#11 - 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...
#12 - 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...
#13 - 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...
#14 - 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.
#15 - 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.
#16 - 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.
#17 - Crack Back
Season 3 - Episode 21 - Aired 3/25/1977
Attorney Beth Davenport hires Rockford to help her locate a witness who can help prove her football player client innocent—but the rules of the game change when she herself becomes the target of a stalker.
#18 - 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.
#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 - There's One in Every Port
Season 3 - Episode 12 - Aired 1/7/1977
Lady Luck is not on his side when Rockford is swindled in a poker game by a father-daughter con team, and he decides to take whatever steps are necessary to get back his stolen cash.
#22 - 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...
#23 - 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. .
#24 - 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.
#25 - The Hawaiian Headache
Season 6 - Episode 8 - Aired 11/23/1979
Jim is lured to Hawaii and tricked into helping his former Army commander with a CIA related investigation...