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.
Counselor Beth Davenport hires Rockford to find a missing witness who can provide an alibi for her client, a football player who is charged with homicide, when she is suddenly harassed by phone calls and pornographic gifts.
Police groupie Sweeney jeopardizes the lives of Rockford and Patsy Fossler, the woman he is shielding from hit men, when she tells the thugs where Jim is hiding her. Part 2 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.
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.
Composer-singer Isaac Hayes, who won an Oscar in 1971 for the theme song from "Shaft," will make his second guest-star appearance as ex-con Gandy Fitch, one half of a team of private detectives competing with Rockford on a finder's fee case.
When Det. Becker is suspended on suspicions of dealing in dope, Rockford investigates and uncovers a narcotics ring complete with a crooked cop. Jack Kelly and Jack Carter guest-star.
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.
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.
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'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 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.
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 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.
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.
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).
Jim Rockford’s troubles with police and the underworld mount when a psychic, Clementi, points to him during an investigation of the slaying of a dope pusher.
Lori, a stewardess friend of investigator Jim Rockford, is the target of an assassin in an airport parking lot and Rockford soon discovers the prime suspect is a cold-blooded "hit” man.