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. 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.
Jim's girlfriend suddenly disappears with no clue as to how or why. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. Jim is hired to pass on an inheritance to a young woman in Las Vegas, who acts very strangely and appears not to really want the money Aaron Ironwood, a childhood friend of Jim's, comes to town with a business deal that is just too good to be true.
He finally agrees to the deal as he thinks Aaron might be in some kind of trouble. He's is - with both the FBI and the mob. 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. 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. 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?
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".
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. Christine Dusseau, a female private eye, first blindsides Rockford, then joins him in tracking down the murderer in a case the police have dismissed as a suicide.
Convinced a convicted murderer is actually innocent, a journalist looking for a scoop hires Jim to investigate a six year old murder. 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. 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.
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? Jim's protective of the naive 25 year old bookkeeper, despite the tiny fee, because he fears her brother is dead, and she can't accept that her only relative, who's always taken care of her, may be mixed up in a securities scam. Jim goes undercover to expose an illegal gambling club and gets help from a young D. 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.
A minor league football player drags Jim into his troubles. A client of Beth's hires Jim misleadingly to check on his company. Jim helps one of Beth's clients, who is being swindled out of his business. Beth has trouble and is nearly killed by a client with tax trouble. Jim gets hired by a diamond smuggler posing as an art dealer causing trouble for Jim with LAPD and other smugglers.
Rocky's friend is killed thinking his Granddaughter was kidnapped leading Jim with the help of Rocky to untangle a crooked real estate deal. Jim can't figure which jock-sucker, the motor mouth Marc works for, but whoever it is, they keep bringing Jim the pain and costing him way-too-many non-reimbursed expenses. Rockford finds himself in the middle of a bad deal indeed when he agrees to help an old girlfriend and ends up with a suitcase full of counterfeit money and under arrest by the F.
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. 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.
Jim and Rocky find an abandoned young girl that leads to Jim finding and helping her father. Jim helps a friend who wants to pay back money he stole three years earlier when his daughter then gets kidnapped leading to problems for Jim with the kidnappers and the police. Jim finds out there's a hit out on Angel and runs into trouble with the mob bailing him out.
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. Jim gets called before a grand jury where he promptly gets thrown into jail for contempt.
Angel is working a con involving the sale of a landfill, and unknown to him or Jim, it happens to be the location of a dead body from an unsolved case from twelve years before.
The people who put it there don't want it found. Jim gets used by an old Army buddy in an insurance recovery case. While investigating an insurance claim Jim accidentally stumbles into a gun smuggling operation.
Beth's nerdy cousin Warren drags Jim into his mounting troubles. After being conned by friends Jim sets them up to settle the score and save himself. When several of Jim's fellow P. Jim helps a friend Strother Martin of Rocky's who's being forced off his property. Jim helps a friend of Rocky's who's being forced off his property. Rockford's newest case is to clear his friend Dennis Becker, who is suspected of selling drugs to deal with his financial problems.
Jim gets Gandy Isaac Hayes a job with his P. Jim is hired by a Vietnamese refugee to find her missing brother. Rockford is hired to find a missing woman, only to discover that she is also being sought by a New York crime family. Beth turns to Jim for help when she finds herself being mentally harassed by a mysterious man while trying to win an important trial.
Jim becomes very concerned when Rocky starts receiving thousands of dollars through the mail. 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 Jim is reluctantly drawn into being bodyguard for a famous author, who believes her popular book on the perfect wife is the cause of death threats against her. Jim finds himself in an explosive situation when the gun he hides in his cookie jar is used in a murder.
Helping a young woman with a history of mental illness leads Jim into crossing paths with the Mob and federal intelligence. A washed-up comedian finds out about a Mob family member's secret, and gets Jim in trouble by framing him for a murder. 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.
Rockford gives himself a headache trying to solve the connection between a 30 year old murder, a valuable missing painting and Nazi Germany. 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. Accidently witnessing a murder makes Angel Martin the police's prime witness in the trial of the murderer.
Beth's old college friend is in trouble when her company that is developing an submersible robot explorer becomes the target of some shady businessmen.
Jimmy Joe Meeker comes to her rescue. 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. Jim is unwittingly involved in a bizarre experiment when hired to find a man's missing wife. An unexplained break-in at Rocky's new diner has connections with the FBI fifty years ago.
An author suffering from writers block tells Jim he thinks he has the next best seller in an old murder case from A prostitute Rita Moreno hires Jim to find out who has been sending her death threats. A threat to the wrong phone number has Jim scrambling to find out who it was meant for. 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.
Jim winds up in a funny farm when he gets too close to the truth about an elite health club. When the son of an old friend goes missing, Jim goes to the young man's college to try and find out what happened. When a fellow P. Part two of episode. Originally aired as 1 2-hour episode. 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. 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.
Wrongly accused of beating a man to death, Jim discovers the best legal advice he can find is from disbarred lawyer John Cooper. Handsome, charmed PI Lance White Tom Selleck may speak lines that sound like they're from a s B movie, but everyone is so attracted to him they hang on his every word. That is, everyone except Jim. When an already overly stressed Dennis Becker is lumped with the unwelcome task of finding out who murdered Deputy Chief Towne's unfaithful wife, Jim decides to lend a hand in the investigation.
Jim is forced to babysit Chicago ex-cop, now celebrity, "Frank Falcone," who has a television show and toy line. Rockford is hired to find a woman's identity. In Pursuit of Carol Thorne. Rockford follows an ex-con to find stolen money. The Dexter Crisis.
Rockford must watch a rich executive's lover. Caledonia, It's Worth a Fortune! A convict's wife needs to find a hidden fortune. Profit and Loss. Rockford is told to forget a kidnapping. Rockford investigates the abduction of a client. Aura Lee, Farewell. Rockford investigates a boutique owner's death. Sleight of Hand. Rockford searches for a vanished girlfriend. Counter Gambit. An ex-con hires Rockford to find his lost lover. Rockford does a favor for his former fiancee.
Say Goodbye to Jennifer. Police seek a model connected with a murder. Charlie Harris at Large. Ex-cellmate is accused of killing his rich wife. The Four Pound Brick. A rookie cop's mother thinks he was murdered. Just by Accident. Rockford looks into a race-car driver's death. Rockford goes to Las Vegas to deliver a check. Cast and Crew.
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