Stephen J. Cannell — Writer

Episodes 34

The Kirkoff Case

87%
September 13, 197450m
1x1

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.

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The Countess

90%
September 27, 197450m
1x3

Jim is helping a Countess avoid a blackmailer but is then charged for the Blackmailer murder...

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Tall Woman in Red Wagon

0%
October 11, 197450m
1x5

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...

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This Case Is Closed

0%
October 18, 19741h 29m
1x6

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...

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In Pursuit of Carol Thorne

85%
November 8, 197450m
1x9

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.

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Profit and Loss (1)

60%
December 20, 197450m
1x12

Jim investigates a large corporation when one of its executives is kidnapped and the wife of another executive claims the company murdered her husband.

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Profit and Loss (2)

90%
December 27, 197450m
1x13

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.

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Sleight of Hand

75%
January 17, 197550m
1x15

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.

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Claire

75%
January 31, 197549m
1x17

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.

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The Aaron Ironwood School of Success

70%
September 12, 197549m
2x1

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.

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The Real Easy Red Dog

80%
October 31, 197550m
2x7

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.

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Resurrection in Black & White

80%
November 7, 197549m
2x8

Convinced a convicted murderer is actually innocent, a journalist looking for a scoop hires Jim to investigate a six year old murder.

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Chicken Little Is a Little Chicken

90%
November 14, 197550m
2x9

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.

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2 Into 5.56 Won't Go

0%
November 21, 197550m
2x10

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.

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The Reincarnation of Angie

80%
December 5, 197550m
2x12

Hoods snatch a stockbroker, and his sister hires Rockford for $23.64, because Jim's in the yellow pages and her big brother instructed her not to dial the cops. 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.

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The No-Cut Contract

80%
January 16, 197649m
2x15

A minor league football player drags Jim into his troubles.

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A Portrait of Elizabeth

90%
January 23, 197650m
2x16

A client of Beth's hires Jim misleadingly to check on his company.

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Foul on the First Play

0%
March 12, 197650m
2x21

Jim's shackled to his ex-parole officer Marcus Aurelius (Louis Gossett Jr.), now a PI himself, when a no-holds barred competition for a new NBA franchise ensnares both sleazes. 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. As a PO, slick Marc tried to send Jim back up the river; as a PI, he runs Jim dizzy dodging bullets.

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Feeding Frenzy

0%
October 15, 197649m
3x4

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.

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Drought at Indianhead River

0%
November 5, 197649m
3x5

Jim finds out there's a hit out on Angel and runs into trouble with the mob bailing him out.

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There's One in Every Port

90%
January 7, 197749m
3x12

After being conned by friends Jim sets them up to settle the score and save himself.

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Just Another Polish Wedding

80%
February 18, 197749m
3x17

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.

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Beamer's Last Case

0%
September 16, 197749m
4x1

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...

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The Attractive Nuisance

70%
January 6, 197849m
4x14

An unexplained break-in at Rocky's new diner has connections with the FBI fifty years ago.

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Dwarf in a Helium Hat

0%
January 27, 197849m
4x17

A threat to the wrong phone number has Jim scrambling to find out who it was meant for.

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The Prisoner of Rosemont Hall

80%
February 17, 197849m
4x20

When the son of an old friend goes missing, Jim goes to the young man's college to try and find out what happened.

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The House on Willis Avenue

90%
February 24, 19781h 38m
4x21

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.

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Heartaches of a Fool

80%
September 22, 197849m
5x1

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.

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White on White and Nearly Perfect

90%
October 20, 197848m
5x4

Handsome, charmed PI Lance White (Tom Selleck) may speak lines that sound like they're from a 1940s B movie, but everyone is so attracted to him they hang on his every word. That is, everyone except Jim.

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The Empty Frame

0%
November 3, 197848m
5x6

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.

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The Return of the Black Shadow

0%
February 17, 197950m
5x18

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.

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Paradise Cove

0%
September 28, 197949m
6x1

Jim's Malibu neighborhood becomes the site of a treasure hunt for a stash of gold bullion, stolen fifty years earlier.

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Nice Guys Finish Dead

0%
November 16, 197949m
6x7

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.

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The Hawaiian Headache

0%
November 23, 197949m
6x8

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.

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