Seasons & episodes
S5 · E7Three Day Affair with a Thirty Day Escrow 1978-11-10 · 47 min
After being strong-armed by an Arab sheik and his goons, and getting no help from the police, Jim decides to track down the two people who caused his trouble: a soft-voiced gigolo and the sheik's naive daughter.
S5 · E8A Good Clean Bust with Sequel Rights 1978-11-17 · 48 min
Jim is forced to babysit Chicago ex-cop, now celebrity, "Frank Falcone," who has a television show and toy line. Falcone isn't easy to babysit, and things get dicey when some old Chicago "friends" of Falcone show up to complicate things.
S5 · E9Black Mirror: Part 1 1978-11-24 · 48 min
A blind psychologist, who is being terrorized by an unknown stalker, turns to Jim for help.
S5 · E10Black Mirror: Part 2 1978-11-24 · 48 min
Rockford's investigation of psychologist Megan Dougherty's stalker leads him to one of her patients who may have a split personality - one of which is a paid killer.
S5 · E11A Fast Count 1978-12-01 · 43 min
Jim puts up his dukes and steps forward to help a boxing coach who has been framed with bribery and murder.
S5 · E12Local Man Eaten by Newspaper 1978-12-08 · 48 min
Jim could use some saintly guidance when he goes undercover on a scandal rag that is getting confidential medical information on a doctor's famous, and infamous, patients.
S5 · E13With the French Heel Back, Can the Nehru Jacket Be Far Behind? Air date unannounced · 43 min
A fashion model friend of Jim is found dead on the ground below her balcony. The police believe it's suicide, but having gotten a desperate phone call from her, Jim believes it's murder.
S5 · E14The Battle-Ax and the Exploding Cigar 1979-01-12 · 43 min
Ignorant that he's been driving a hot Cadillac with an illegal stash of guns in the trunk, leads Jim into rubbing shoulders with the FBI and the Company.
S5 · E15Guilt 1979-01-19 · 48 min
Jim finds his guilty conscience being manipulated by a former fiancee, who asks him to find out who is threatening her life.
S5 · E16The Deuce 1979-01-25 · 43 min
Having Jim doing jury duty leads to a mistrial and his being hired to investigate the case of pedestrian hit by a drunk-driver that brought the accused to court.
S5 · E17The Man Who Saw the Alligators 1979-02-10 · 49 min
If having the IRS wanting to do an audit isn't bad enough, a gangster Jim helped put in prison is out on parole and wants a pound of his flesh in revenge.
S5 · E18The Return of the Black Shadow 1979-02-17 · 49 min
A gang of bikers beat up Jim and assault John Cooper's sister, leading Coop to seek vengeance by returning to a darker period in his past when he was in a biker gang.
S5 · E19A Material Difference 1979-02-24 · 49 min
Jim finds himself being dragged into a complicated situation when Angel's con job as a hit man for hire goes awry.
S5 · E20Never Send a Boy King to Do a Man's Job: Part 1 1979-03-03 · 49 min
Richie's father has been swindled by a man named Coombs. Jim assembles together a disparate group of con-artists in a complicated scheme using Coombs' anxieties, and even the "Curse" of King Tut, to save Mr. Brockelman from ruin.
S5 · E21Never Send a Boy King to Do a Man's Job: Part 2 1979-03-03 · 49 min
The con continues and proves successful when one of the fellow con-artists appears to make of with the check.
S5 · E22A Different Drummer 1979-04-13 · 43 min
While in hospital after a car accident, Jim stumbles across a black market for vital organs.
S6 · E1Paradise Cove 1979-09-28 · 43 min
Jim's Malibu neighborhood becomes the site of a treasure hunt for a stash of gold bullion, stolen fifty years earlier.
S6 · E2Lions, Tigers, Monkeys and Dogs (1) 1979-10-12 · 42 min
Jim rubs shoulders with royalty when a princess hires him because she believes someone is trying to kill her friend (Lauren Bacall).
S6 · E3Lions, Tigers, Monkeys and Dogs (2) 1979-10-12 · 41 min
Jim traces a killer via a barman, florist and gangster in order to establish who ordered the Princess' friend killed…
S6 · E4Only Rock 'n Roll Will Never Die (1) 1979-10-19 · 47 min
Jim senses something is out of tune while looking into the disappearance of a rock star's producer.
S6 · E5Only Rock 'n Roll Will Never Die (2) 1979-10-26 · 47 min
While consoling his morose love-lorn friend Eddie, Jim continues to look for the missing producer. He eventually finds his body but the presumed killer is not whom he had expected.
S6 · E6Love Is the Word 1979-11-19 · 47 min
Jim reconnects with Dr. Megan Dougherty and discovers she is engaged to another man. When she believes he is missing Jim agrees to help her, despite the fact he disapproves of her engagement and for his feelings for Megan.
S6 · E7Nice Guys Finish Dead 1979-11-16 · 43 min
The special guest of a P.I. convention dinner is found murdered in the restroom, and Jim unhappily finds himself once more having to team up with flawless Lance White (Tom Selleck), while accident prone Freddie Beamer tags along.
S6 · E8The Hawaiian Headache 1979-11-23 · 43 min
Jim is tricked into believing he's won a trip to Hawaii, when it really turns out to be doing a favor for an old army pal in the CIA.