Jim Garner plays the rough and tumble private eye Jim Rockford in this hit 70s serial mystery show. The popularity of “The Rockford Files” launched the careers of producer Stephen Cannell and writer David Chase (“The Sopranos”).
Susan Strasberg guest-stars as a sophisticated real estate woman who uses her old flame, Rockford, to deliver escrow papers to another agent -- but the package contains $100,000 in bogus money.
Rockford is towed into the small town of Pastoria and this is where his troubles begin. The Mayor, sheriff, and prosecutor are collaborating in a crime operation under the guise of progress.
Rockford, summoned before the Grand Jury concerning the alleged kidnapping of a union official, is cited for contempt and put In a Federal prison.
A Vietnamese beauty hires Rockford to find her missing brother and the investigation uncovers a bizarre kidnap plot involving three ex-soldiers, a CIA agent, and $500,000 stolen from American payrolls in Saigon.
Rockford enters the case after his father, Rocky, vacationing in Hawaii, receives huge sums of money in the mail at home, and suddenly both the mob and Federal agents are interested in his good fortune.
Rockford's former cellmate, Angel, suckers him into being best man at his wedding, which turns out to be part of Angel's scheme to swindle an Armenian family in a real estate deal.
After being taken by a father-daughter swindle team, Rockford puts his own con game in motion while trying to recover $200,000 stolen from him and others in the robbery of a private poker party.
Rockford is hired by an insurance company to check out an accident claim and uncovers a gun-running caper that makes him the target of both the underworld and federal agents.
Jim Rockford and his father inadvertently become custodians of a 9-year-old girl, Marin, who is looking for her father (who is trying hard not to be found).
Rocky's luck is short-lived after he hits a bonanza in an oil rights lottery.
Rockford poses as a newspaper publisher when he infiltrates a "charity" club for a mysterious client who suspects a rigged gambling operation.
Jim Rockford succumbs to the pleas of his father, Rocky, to help get their old friend, T.T. Flowers, out of a senior citizens hospital, where his daughter and son-in-law have committed him. Part 1 of 2.
Police buff Lianne Sweeney causes problems for Detective Becker when she involves herself in Rockford's search for a mobster lawyer's missing fiancée. Part 1 of 2.
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Rockford's clients are fellow private investigators who are being illegally forced out of business by a conglomerate agency which goes to elaborate means, including homicide, to stamp out competition.
Jim Rockford's effort to return $500,000 stolen from an oil company by his fiancée's repentant father runs into complications.
Former NYU basketball star Lou Gossett guest-stars as a parole officer turned private detective whose efforts to "use" his old friend Rockford in helping a client obtain a new basketball franchise takes a strange turn.
Rockford attempts to rescue T.T. from a senior citizens hospital but the old gentleman escapes and barricades himself at Freedom Farm. Part 2 of 2.
An old army buddy inveigles Rockford into accepting a client who says she is looking for her missing sister, but the trail leads to a stolen art object.
Rockford's attorney, Beth Davenport, pressures him into helping her brilliant cousin who is suspected of slaying his boss, and Jim's investigation uncovers a web of bribery and conspiracy.
Rockford's friend Angel suddenly becomes wealthy and big in real estate, but the price for his affluence includes an unholy alliance with the underworld.
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