The Rockford Files Episode Rating Graph
Sep 1974 - Jan 1980
Sep 1974 - Jan 1980
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Browse episode ratings trends for The Rockford Files. Simply click on the interactive rating graph to explore the best and worst of The Rockford Files's 122 episodes.
S4 Ep22
8.3
24th Feb 1978
Part two of episode. Originally aired as 1 2-hour episode.
S3 Ep5
8.2
5th Nov 1976
Jim finds out there's a hit out on Angel and runs into trouble with the mob bailing him out.
S4 Ep21
8.1
24th Feb 1978
When a fellow P.I. is killed on the Ventura freeway, Jim and Richie Brockelman team up to find out if it really was an accident.
S2 Ep2
8.1
19th Sep 1975
Dennis pleads with Jim to untangle him from a timeshare con, without Dennis' boss, Jim's nemesis Lt. Diehl, finding out he's a victim too. Rockford's a lot more interested when a friend of Dennis' who's also an unhappy vacation homeowner, proves very helpful, and happens to be a gorgeous single blonde. Jim recruits his father and Angel to out-scam the scammers.
S3 Ep7
8.0
19th Nov 1976
Jim gets called before a grand jury where he promptly gets thrown into jail for contempt.
S3 Ep12
8.0
7th Jan 1977
After being conned by friends Jim sets them up to settle the score and save himself.
S4 Ep19
8.0
10th Feb 1978
Jim winds up in a funny farm when he gets too close to the truth about an elite health club.
S3 Ep2
8.0
1st Oct 1976
Rockford finds himself getting unwanted attention from the media and police, when a popular psychic fingers him as having important information on the disappearance of two people.
S2 Ep6
8.0
17th Oct 1975
When his car breaks down in a small town Jim leaves $10,000 in a land company's safe. The next morning the money - and the man who locked the money up - are gone. When the man turns up dead the sheriff thinks Rockford did it.
S6 Ep7
8.0
16th Nov 1979
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.
S2 Ep17
8.0
29th Jan 1976
Jim helps one of Beth's clients, who is being swindled out of his business.
S4 Ep10
8.0
2nd Dec 1977
Accidently witnessing a murder makes Angel Martin the police's prime witness in the trial of the murderer.
S2 Ep4
7.9
3rd Oct 1975
The Rockfords work with Sgt. Becker to solve Rocky's friend's murder. When 6 tractor trailers from the same depot are hijacked by a gang, there must be a connection with the killing, but who desperately needs tons of ladies' underwear, grapefruit and dynamite ? The proud Rocky resents Jim taking care of him, making the slew of hit-men even harder to combat for Dennis and a very confused LAPD.
S5 Ep3
7.9
6th Oct 1978
Wrongly accused of beating a man to death, Jim discovers the best legal advice he can find is from disbarred lawyer John Cooper.
S3 Ep19
7.9
11th Mar 1977
Rockford is hired to find a missing woman, only to discover that she is also being sought by a New York crime family.
S2 Ep9
7.9
14th Nov 1975
Angel asks Jim to help him collect some money from someone who supposedly welshed on a deal. Not surprisingly he hasn't told Jim the whole truth, which includes two very angry hoods who want money Angel owes them.
S5 Ep1
7.9
22nd Sep 1978
Jim finds that a country music star, corrupt union boss and Chinese triad all have one thing in common with why Rocky ended in hospital after his rig was forced off the road: sausages.
S5 Ep6
7.9
3rd Nov 1978
At a swank party, attended by some of LA's high society and police dept. VIPs, in honor of Angel's brother-in-law, Aaron, being made Chief of Police, a robbery takes place, while Lt. Doug Chapman is in charge of security. Desperate to get back into good graces with his superiors, Chapman swallows his pride and asks Rockford to help him.
S5 Ep2
7.9
29th Sep 1978
A doctor's murder has direct connections to the Mob, and Jim comes to the assistance of hooker friend Rita Capcovik (Rita Moreno) when she finds herself entangled in it.
S3 Ep14
7.9
21st Jan 1977
Jim helps a friend (Strother Martin) of Rocky's who's being forced off his property.
S3 Ep1
7.9
24th Sep 1976
Jim helps a friend who works in the airline industry, who's apparently being pursued by a hit man, and she's no idea why she's being targeted.
S4 Ep1
7.9
16th Sep 1977
Rockford returns from vacation in Puerto Rico to discover someone has been using his identity, his trailer and totaled his Firebird. And that's just the beginning of his problems...
S2 Ep3
7.9
26th Sep 1975
Rocky is targeted for death after seeing a meeting between a truck dispatcher and a crooked executive. Jim wants desperately to protect his father but discovers he hasn't been keeping up with Rocky enough to even find him on a typical day. The dispatcher was giving the supposedly-retired Rocky work as a trucker, so when Jim discovers the dispatcher dead in a crate bound for Malaysia, the police figure the elusive Rocky knows why.
S2 Ep8
7.9
7th Nov 1975
Convinced a convicted murderer is actually innocent, a journalist looking for a scoop hires Jim to investigate a six year old murder.
S1 Ep1
7.9
13th Sep 1974
Rockford is hired by Larry Kirkoff to find the identity of his parents killer. There are a number of possible suspects including Travis Buckman and Tawnia Baker who were lovers of Mrs. and Mr. Kirkoff respectively. The police actually suspect Larry of the crime, but, lack of evidence prevents them from making a case against him. Rockford's investigation runs him afoul of some pretty bad men who want everyone to go on thinking Larry killed them.
S2 Ep16
7.9
23rd Jan 1976
A client of Beth's hires Jim misleadingly to check on his company.
S5 Ep20
7.9
3rd Mar 1979
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.
S2 Ep13
7.9
19th Dec 1975
Jim goes undercover to expose an illegal gambling club and gets help from a young D.A.
S3 Ep21
7.8
25th Mar 1977
Beth turns to Jim for help when she finds herself being mentally harassed by a mysterious man while trying to win an important trial.
S2 Ep19
7.8
12th Feb 1976
Jim gets hired by a diamond smuggler posing as an art dealer causing trouble for Jim with LAPD and other smugglers.
S3 Ep10
7.8
17th Dec 1976
While investigating an insurance claim Jim accidentally stumbles into a gun smuggling operation.
S4 Ep9
7.8
25th Nov 1977
Jim is hired by some small-town businessmen to help them buy a fire engine; they really want him to assassinate someone who could bring the IRS down on them.
S2 Ep5
7.8
10th Oct 1975
After a late night phone call Beth hires Jim to look for a missing friend who eventually turns up dead. The dead woman worked for a fashion designer who is unknowingly in up to her neck with some very bad "fellas".
S2 Ep14
7.8
9th Jan 1976
A friend (Isaac Hayes) from Jim's time in prison after getting out, needs help clearing himself from the crime he was put into prison for.
S2 Ep10
7.8
21st Nov 1975
When an army colonel is murdered after contacting Rockford, Rockford is forced into the middle of a conflict involving military police, military thieves and the colonel's daughter.
S3 Ep6
7.8
12th Nov 1976
Rocky is forced to sign oil lease rights he owns away, leading Jim to investigate who and why someone wanted Rocky's seemingly worthless leases so badly.
S6 Ep5
6.9
26th Oct 1979
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 Ep11
6.9
14th Dec 1979
Rockford flies to Newark for a case and is robbed, leaving him stranded at the police station. Jim is caught in the middle of a mob war when 2 mooks, looking to make a name for themselves, get involved and complicate everything.
S6 Ep9
7.0
30th Nov 1979
Rita Capkovic (Rita Moreno) comes to Jim for help after her former pimp has beaten her up for refusing to work for him again. As Jim helps Rita recover she begins to see him as more than just as a friend, to the concern of everyone.
S5 Ep10
7.2
24th Nov 1978
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.
S6 Ep6
7.2
19th Nov 1979
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 Ep12
7.2
10th Jan 1980
In the series finale, Jim Rockford drives off into a California sunset in his wounded Firebird, after being ensnared in a small-town council battle with big implications. While trout fishing in the mountains, the vacationing PI becomes the emergency proxy for a fellow angler, an environmentalist councilman, felled by appendicitis. But the seemingly-innocuous proposition for a Parma city park, attracts a trailer load of New Jersey mobsters who urge Rockford to keep his vote green, or sleep with the fishes. Meanwhile, this town council in the land of endless propositions, acts to force their temporary member Rockford to go fishing under the moonlight, but not in Parma.
S1 Ep22
7.3
7th Mar 1975
An insurance company hires Rockford to locate a missing woman who is due an inheritance. He finds her in Las Vegas where she is an unwitting pawn in a money laundering operation.
S5 Ep17
7.3
10th Feb 1979
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.
S1 Ep6
7.3
18th Oct 1974
While investigating the fiance of Warren Jamison's daughter, Jim experiences some strange events which include kidnapping by the mob and the FBI who are anxious to get a statement - it all relates back to Jim recent trip to Newark...
S1 Ep7
7.3
25th Oct 1974
Suspecting her ex-lover was killed by his wife, a woman hires Rockford to jet to Europe to compile evidence. After a fling with the widow, Rockford suspects Steve Nelson faked his death.
S1 Ep21
7.3
28th Feb 1975
A race car driver dies in an apparent accident that his mother, an old friend of Jim's, thinks was no accident. It turns out he was part of an insurance scam outfit and they soon have a similar plan for Rockford.
S6 Ep1
7.3
28th Sep 1979
Jim's Malibu neighborhood becomes the site of a treasure hunt for a stash of gold bullion, stolen fifty years earlier.
S5 Ep22
7.3
13th Apr 1979
While in hospital after a car accident, Jim stumbles across a black market for vital organs.
S6 Ep2
7.3
12th Oct 1979
Jim rubs shoulders with royalty when a princess hires him because she believes someone is trying to kill her friend (Lauren Bacall).
S4 Ep7
7.3
11th Nov 1977
Rockford ends up regretting allowing an eccentric hippie woman to use his address temporarily, when her ex-boss sends a pair of thugs after her to retrieve some money he put in her care.
S5 Ep12
7.3
8th Dec 1978
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 Ep7
7.3
10th Nov 1978
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.
S1 Ep18
7.3
7th Feb 1975
John Micelli's an old war buddy of Jim', who's now a fashion photographer. He hires Jim to track down a beautiful fashion model, whom the authorities claim is dead; killed in a fiery multi-car accident, but, he thinks otherwise. As Jim starts to look into this, he runs into several intimidating figure who want to make certain she stays that way.
S6 Ep4
7.4
19th Oct 1979
Jim senses something is out of tune while looking into the disappearance of a rock star's producer.
S4 Ep3
7.4
30th Sep 1977
Jim finds himself in an explosive situation when the gun he hides in his cookie jar is used in a murder.
S3 Ep17
7.4
18th Feb 1977
Jim gets Gandy (Isaac Hayes) a job with his P.I. buddy Marcus Hayes (Louis Gossett Jr.) who promptly then tries to steal the case.
S4 Ep5
7.4
21st Oct 1977
Helping a young woman with a history of mental illness leads Jim into crossing paths with the Mob and federal intelligence.
S2 Ep11
7.4
28th Nov 1975
A farming hub has more business than it can handle, including giving Rockford the business. The PI's car breaks down near the boomtown, after a source Rockford contacts in a divorce case steers Rockford there. While his car is being worked on, Rockford is quickly entangled between an underage motel worker and her jealous cop boyfriend, and in a double-cross over a narcotics deal. Is it just another tricky day for unlucky Jim, or is bucolic New Pastoria a sunny sin city ?
S3 Ep18
7.4
25th Feb 1977
Jim is hired by a Vietnamese refugee to find her missing brother.
S4 Ep18
7.4
3rd Feb 1978
Mistaken identity by federal agents has Jim being sent to South America to help them contact a heiress, who has been isolated by her possessive husband.
S3 Ep20
7.4
18th Mar 1977
Rockford tries to keep a woman on the run out of the hands of two Minette hoods (and her revenge minded ex-fiancé) but the bungling interference of a disturbed police groupie threatens to get them both killed.
S5 Ep15
7.5
19th Jan 1979
Jim finds his guilty conscience being manipulated by a former fiancee, who asks him to find out who is threatening her life.
S6 Ep10
7.5
7th Dec 1979
Rockford gets a phone call telling him to expect a package in the mail. Two hoods then murder the caller and go to Rockford's trailer to await the package's arrival. When the package is a wheel of cheese the mystery only gets deeper.
S1 Ep11
7.5
6th Dec 1974
When knowledge of a critically ill convict's hidden fortune comes to light, Rockford becomes involved in helping the con's wife find the treasure before his former partner arrives and demands his share.
S3 Ep9
7.5
10th Dec 1976
Jim gets used by an old Army buddy in an insurance recovery case.
S4 Ep4
7.5
14th Oct 1977
When the life of Gandy Fitch's (Isaac Hayes) girlfriend is in danger, he turns to Rockfish for help.
S4 Ep8
7.5
18th Nov 1977
Rockford gives himself a headache trying to solve the connection between a 30 year old murder, a valuable missing painting and Nazi Germany.
S4 Ep12
7.5
16th Dec 1977
The RV family from hell decides to set up camp next door to Jim's trailer, just when he's got the recovery of a stolen diamond on his mind.
S5 Ep9
7.5
24th Nov 1978
A blind psychologist, who is being terrorized by an unknown stalker, turns to Jim for help.
S1 Ep14
7.5
3rd Jan 1975
Jim's old friend Sara Butler hires him to find out the real reason her employee Aura Lee Benton died. The police believe it was a drug overdose but Sara is convinced she was murdered.
S1 Ep15
7.5
17th Jan 1975
Jim's girlfriend suddenly disappears with no clue as to how or why. Lt. Diel thinks Rockford is probably responsible for her disappearance and orders him to stay away from the case. But Jim can't stop until he finds out what happened.
S1 Ep1
7.9
13th Sep 1974
Rockford is hired by Larry Kirkoff to find the identity of his parents killer. There are a number of possible suspects including Travis Buckman and Tawnia Baker who were lovers of Mrs. and Mr. Kirkoff respectively. The police actually suspect Larry of the crime, but, lack of evidence prevents them from making a case against him. Rockford's investigation runs him afoul of some pretty bad men who want everyone to go on thinking Larry killed them.
S1 Ep2
7.6
20th Sep 1974
Jim reluctantly agrees to work for Beth Davenport. His job is to help her prove her client, Ann Calhoun, is innocent of the crime she is accused of; murdering her husband Kevin Calhoun. Jim's investigation takes him to the town of Parker, Arizona, where the Calhouns are from. He digs up info someone doesn't want found out and is almost killed trying to return to L.A. Socialites Clyde Russell and Elizabeth Gorman, who were throwing a party the Calhouns attended, are also investigated. Jim's investigation is making someone nervous as another attempt is made on his life.
S1 Ep3
7.6
27th Sep 1974
Jim is helping a Countess avoid a blackmailer but is then charged for the Blackmailer murder...
S1 Ep4
7.6
4th Oct 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...
S1 Ep5
7.7
11th Oct 1974
Jim helps a journalist trace the whereabouts of her friend and has to adopt a series of covers in order to obtain the information, as well as contend with a mobsters goons and a Treasury Agent...
S1 Ep6
7.3
18th Oct 1974
While investigating the fiance of Warren Jamison's daughter, Jim experiences some strange events which include kidnapping by the mob and the FBI who are anxious to get a statement - it all relates back to Jim recent trip to Newark...
S1 Ep7
7.3
25th Oct 1974
Suspecting her ex-lover was killed by his wife, a woman hires Rockford to jet to Europe to compile evidence. After a fling with the widow, Rockford suspects Steve Nelson faked his death.
S1 Ep8
7.6
1st Nov 1974
Rockford reluctantly takes a unique assignment: a beautiful mystery woman wants him to find her, to see if someone she fears could also track her down. With a check poised to bounce, the ex-con PI needs the retainer to balance his always-challenged checking account. When Rockford checks with a local police department, he worms out a chilling piece of data: she's been dating Denver Mafia capo-regime, hot-tempered Ralph Correll. But the more Barbara Kelbaker strings along Jim Rockford, the more he's charmed into helping the desperate 30 something.
S1 Ep9
7.8
8th Nov 1974
Jim tails a woman just released from prison. She was involved in a robbery of a Marine Payroll. The mastermind of the crime and his henchman follow her as well. They search for the remaining robber who wound up with the loot.
S1 Ep10
7.7
15th Nov 1974
Rockford ends up in the Nevada desert (starting with the bright lights of Las Vegas) searching for a rich guy's mistress and her suitcase of precious "documents."
S1 Ep11
7.5
6th Dec 1974
When knowledge of a critically ill convict's hidden fortune comes to light, Rockford becomes involved in helping the con's wife find the treasure before his former partner arrives and demands his share.
S1 Ep12
7.5
20th Dec 1974
Jim investigates a large corporation when one of its executives is kidnapped and the wife of another executive claims the company murdered her husband.
S1 Ep13
7.7
27th Dec 1974
Rockford discovers the investment firm Fiscal Dynamics is a financial fraud and its president Leon Fielder will do anything to prevent him from destroying his company.
S1 Ep14
7.5
3rd Jan 1975
Jim's old friend Sara Butler hires him to find out the real reason her employee Aura Lee Benton died. The police believe it was a drug overdose but Sara is convinced she was murdered.
S1 Ep15
7.5
17th Jan 1975
Jim's girlfriend suddenly disappears with no clue as to how or why. Lt. Diel thinks Rockford is probably responsible for her disappearance and orders him to stay away from the case. But Jim can't stop until he finds out what happened.
S1 Ep16
7.7
24th Jan 1975
Two former cons hire Rockford to find an old girlfriend. They actually want her valuable pearl necklace and implicate him as the thief. With Angel's help, he'll get the pearls back and square himself with the police.
S1 Ep17
7.7
31st Jan 1975
Jim's old girlfriend, Claire Prescott, phones, and asks him to help give her protection from 2 hoods chasing her. He soon discovers there's a missing undercover cop, which puts him up against an arrogant Cpt. Highland, as well.
S1 Ep18
7.3
7th Feb 1975
John Micelli's an old war buddy of Jim', who's now a fashion photographer. He hires Jim to track down a beautiful fashion model, whom the authorities claim is dead; killed in a fiery multi-car accident, but, he thinks otherwise. As Jim starts to look into this, he runs into several intimidating figure who want to make certain she stays that way.
S1 Ep19
7.6
14th Feb 1975
Charlie Harris, Rockford's former cell mate, is suspected of murdering his rich wife and is on the run. He calls on Rockford to find his alibi witness, a mystery woman with whom he was having an affair.
S1 Ep20
7.7
21st Feb 1975
A cop dies in an accident that his mother refuses to accept. Rocky offers Jim's services free of charge. After begrudgingly accepting the case he discovers that dirty cops might be involved which then pits him against a very angry Lt. Diel.
S1 Ep21
7.3
28th Feb 1975
A race car driver dies in an apparent accident that his mother, an old friend of Jim's, thinks was no accident. It turns out he was part of an insurance scam outfit and they soon have a similar plan for Rockford.
S1 Ep22
7.3
7th Mar 1975
An insurance company hires Rockford to locate a missing woman who is due an inheritance. He finds her in Las Vegas where she is an unwitting pawn in a money laundering operation.
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The first episode of The Rockford Files aired on September 13, 1974.
The last episode of The Rockford Files aired on January 10, 1980.
There are 122 episodes of The Rockford Files.
There are 6 seasons of The Rockford Files.
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The Rockford Files has ended.