The Rockford Files: Season 1
Universal Studios (1974)
TV Series  /  Crime, Mystery
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IMDB   8.2
1156 mins USA / English
DVD  Region 1   NR (Not Rated)
Noah Beery Jr. Joseph 'Rocky' Rockford
James Garner Jim Rockford
Joe Santos Dennis Becker
Gretchen Corbett Beth Davenport
Luis Delgado Luis Delgado
Stuart Margolin Angel Martin
Michael Lerner Dr. Ruben Seelman
Tom Atkins Alex Diel
Fred Lerner Freeman
Tony Regan Maitre d'
Leoda Richards Bus Passenger
Robert Hitchcock Bar Patron
Ned Beatty Leon Fielder
M. Emmet Walsh Edgar Burch
Bill Mumy Nick Butler
Warren J. Kemmerling Police Lt. Earl Furlong
Paul Michael Glaser Ralph Correll
Lindsay Wagner Sara Butler
Mills Watson Police Sergeant Larsen
Fred Sadoff Matt Springfield
Director
Vincent McEveety
Charles S. Dubin
Alexander Grasshoff
Michael Schultz
Producer Stephen J. Cannell
Meta Rosenberg
Chas. Floyd Johnson
William F. Phillips
Writer Leigh Brackett
Robert Hamner
Roy Huggins
Stephen J. Cannell
Cinematography Leonard J. South
Lamar Boren
Musician Pete Carpenter
Mike Post
Artie Kane
Dick DeBenedictis
Episodes
    Seen it: Yes   60 mins    9/13/1974  1.  The Kirkoff Case
A wealthy but dislikable young man hires Jim to solve the mystery of the death of his parents - the crime for which he stands accused.
Director:  Lou Antonio  / John Thomas James  Writer:  Stephen J. Cannell  / John Thomas James 
Guest starring:  Julie Sommars, Roger Davis,  James Woods, Philip Keneally,  Milt KoganAbe Vigoda, Sandy DeBruin, Dino Seragusa,  Fred Lerner, Melissa Mahoney
    Seen it: Yes   60 mins    9/20/1974  2.  The Dark and Bloody Ground
Jim is hired by Beth Davenport to help clear her female client accused of murdering her husband.
Director:  Michael Schultz  / John Thomas James  Writer:  Juanita Bartlett  / John Thomas James 
Guest starring:  Linden Chiles, Nancy Malone, Patricia Smith,  Walter BrookeTom BowerMarc Alaimo
    Seen it: Yes   60 mins    9/27/1974  3.  The Countess
Jim is helping a Countess avoid a blackmailer but is then charged for the Blackmailer murder...
Director:  Russ Mayberry  / John Thomas James  Writer:  Stephen J. Cannell  / John Thomas James 
Guest starring:  Susan Strasberg, Art Lund, Dick Gautier,  Harold J. Stone, Todd Martin,  James Cromwell, Florence Link, Jeanne LeBouvier, Mel Allen
    Seen it: Yes   60 mins    10/4/1974  4.  Exit Prentiss Carr
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...
Director:  John Thomas James  / Alex Grasshoff  Writer:  Juanita Bartlett  / John Thomas James 
Guest starring:  Corinne Comancho Michaels,  Warren J. KemmerlingMills Watson, Stephen McNally, William Jordan,  Wallace Rooney, Hank Rolike, Thomas Rubin, Roberta Collins, Heath Jobes
    Seen it: Yes   60 mins    10/11/1974  5.  Tall Woman in Red Wagon
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...
Director:  Jerry London  / John Thomas James  Writer:  Stephen J. Cannell  / John Thomas James 
Guest starring:  Sian Barbara AllenGeorge DiCenzoJohn Crawford, Susan Damante-Shaw, Angus Duncan, Ryan MacDonald, David Morick, Rudy Diaz, Robert Raymond Sutton,  James Murtaugh, Jack Stamberger
    Seen it: Yes   60 mins    10/18/1974  6.  This Case Is Closed (1)
Whilse 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...
Director:  Bernard L. Kowalski  / John Thomas James  Writer:  Stephen J. Cannell  / John Thomas James 
Guest starring:  Fred Sadoff, Sharon Gless,  Norman Bartold, Eddie Fontaine,  Joseph Cotten, Joseph Della Sorte, Del Munroe
    Seen it: Yes   60 mins    10/18/1974  7.  This Case Is Closed (2)
Jim is ordered off the case but this proves difficult after the fiance Jim was investigating is found dead and the mob and the FBI still want answers, so JIm must track the real killer...
Director:  Bernard L. Kowalski  / John Thomas James  Writer:  Stephen J. Cannell  / John Thomas James 
Guest starring:  Sharon Gless,  Norman Bartold, Eddie Fontaine,  James McEachin, Joseph Della Sorte
    Seen it: Yes   60 mins    10/25/1974  8.  The Big Ripoff
A life insurance investigation becomes more complicated than first appeared when Jim belives the insuree is still alive...
Director:  Vincent McEveety  / John Thomas James  Writer:  Robert Hamner  / Jo Swerling Jr.  / John Thomas James 
Guest starring:  Jill ClayburghNorman Burton, Fred Beir,  Bruce Kirby, Nedra Dean, Warren Vanders, Kelly Thordsen, Suzanne Somers, Christine Dixon, Jenny Maybrook
    Seen it: Yes   60 mins    11/1/1974  9.  Find Me If You Can
Jim is mysterious hired by a woman who asks him to ""find her"", and ends up embroiled with a Denver Gangster...
Director:  Lawrence Doheny  / John Thomas James  Writer:  Juanita Bartlett  / John Thomas James 
Guest starring:  Joan Van ArkPaul Michael Glaser, Richard Drout Miller,  Joseph Stern, James Lydon,  Adrian Ricard, Jean Allison
    Seen it: Yes   60 mins    11/8/1974  10.  In Pursuit of Carol Thorne
Jim follows a woman, a recent parolee, believing she will lead him to his client's son, little knowing that he is pawn in recovering stolen loot...
Director:  Charles S. Dubin  / John Thomas James  Writer:  Stephen J. Cannell  / John Thomas James 
Guest starring:  Lynette Mettey, Robert Symonds,  Jim Antonio, Bill Fletcher, Irene Tedrow, Sandy Ward, Vince Howard
    Seen it: Yes   60 mins    11/15/1974  11.  The Dexter Crisis
Jim is hired by Dexter, a wealthy businessman who believes his mistress has taken a suitcase of important 'documents' belonging to him...
Director:  Alex Grasshoff  Writer:  Gloryette Clark 
Guest starring:  Lee Purcell, Linda Kelsey,  Ron Soble, Tim O'Connor,  Joyce Jameson, Burke Byrnes,  Bing Russell
    Seen it: Yes   60 mins    12/6/1974  12.  Caledonia - It's Worth a Fortune!
Hired by Jolene Hyland, Jim helps her try and locate a fortune buried somewhere in Caledonia by her terminally ill husband Gerry, whose former partner Leonard wants a peice of the action...
Director:  Stuart Margolin  / John Thomas James  Writer:  Juanita Bartlett  / John Thomas James 
Guest starring:  Shelley FabaresRamon BieriRichard Schaal, William Traylor,  Sid Haig, Rudy Challenger, Don Eichner,  Robert GintyRobert Ellenstein
    Seen it: Yes   60 mins    12/20/1974  13.  Profit and Loss (1)
PART 1 - PROFIT Jim is mystified after he is charged for filed a false police report when e witnesses the kidnapp of a Computer Programmer from his Trailer...
Director:  Lawrence Doheny  / John Thomas James  Writer:  Stephen J. Cannell  / John Thomas James 
Guest starring:  Val Bisoglio,  Ned Beatty, Sharon Spelman, Priscilla Pointer,  John CarterJoe E. TataJ. Jay Saunders, Paul Jenkins,  Michael Lerner
    Seen it: Yes   60 mins    12/27/1974  14.  Profit and Loss (2)
PART 2 - LOSS After being charged with filing a false police report, Jim and Rocky continue to investigate Fiscal Dynamics Incorporated...
Director:  Lawrence Doheny  / John Thomas James  Writer:  Stephen J. Cannell  / John Thomas James 
Guest starring:  Ned Beatty, Sharon Spelman, Priscilla Pointer,  John CarterJoe E. TataJ. Jay Saunders
    Seen it: Yes   60 mins    1/3/1975  15.  Aura Lee, Farewell
Sara Bulter hires Jim again to investigate the death of her friend Aura Lee Benton who died of a drug overdose despite her not being a drug user...
Director:  Jackie Cooper  / John Thomas James  Writer:  Edward J. Lakso  / John Thomas James 
Guest starring:  Lindsay WagnerRobert Webber, Greg Mullavey, Kelly Lange,  Bill Mumy, Melissa Greene,  Henry Slate, Tom Scott, Linda Dano, Ed Crick
    Seen it: Yes   60 mins    1/17/1975  16.  Sleight of Hand
Jim is confused when his girlfriend diappears after they return from a trip and her young daughter is convinced her mother never came home with them...
Director:  William Wiard  Writer:  Jo Swerling  / Stephen J. Cannell 
Guest starring:  Gerald McRaneyLara Parker, Pat Delaney,  Allan MillerJohn Steadman, Howard Curtis, Wayne Wynne
    Seen it: Yes   60 mins    1/24/1975  17.  Counter Gambit
Jim hired by a former prison mate to recover a pearl necklace stolen by his girlfriend, and after locating it, Jim is charged with stealing it and so must ask the victim and his old friend Angel to help him out...
Director:  Jackie Cooper  Writer:  Juanita Bartlett  /  Howard Berk 
Guest starring:  Mary Frann, Eddie Fontaine,  Burr deBenningFord RaineyM. Emmet Walsh, Garry Walberg, Eric Server, Barbara Collentine
    Seen it: Yes   60 mins    1/31/1975  18.  Claire
Jim has some trouble with a gangsters and an ill-tempered Police Captain. when he helps his old girlfriend Claire....
Director:  William Wiard  Writer:  Stephen J. Cannell  / Edward J. Lakso 
Guest starring:  Linda Evans,  Lance LeGaultJackie Cooper, Lane Smith, M.P. Murphy,  Douglas Fowley
    Seen it: Yes   60 mins    2/7/1975  19.  Say Goodbye to Jennifer
HIred by Mitch, a photographer friend, Jim must travel to Seattle find a missing model who stands accused of shooting a gang member...
Director:  Jackie Cooper  / John Thomas James  Writer:  Juanita Bartlett  / Rudolph Borchert  / John Thomas James 
Guest starring:  Hector ElizondoPamela HensleyKen SwoffordKatherine WoodvilleThayer DavidRegis CordicLen LesserClint Young, Beverly Gill, Vince Cannon
    Seen it: Yes   60 mins    2/14/1975  20.  Charlie Harris at Large
Jim's old cellmate Charlie is accused of murdering his wife, but Jim must find Charlie's alibi - a mystery woman who he met on the beach....
Director:  Russ Mayberry  / John Thomas James  Writer:  Zekial Marko  / John Thomas James 
Guest starring:  Tony Musante,  David SpielbergWarner AndersonDiana Muldaur, Eddie Firestone,  Mel Stewart, Zekial Marko
    Seen it: Yes   60 mins    2/21/1975  21.  The Four Pound Brick
Jim invesitgates the death of a Rookie Police Officer on behalf the mother, a good friend of Rocky's...
Director:  Leigh Brackett  /  Lawrence Doheny  Writer:  Leigh Brackett  / Juanita Bartlett 
Guest starring:  Edith AtwaterWilliam Watson, Jess Walton,  Paul CarrJohn Quade, Jack Knight, Bruce Tuthill,  Frank Campanella, John Furlong
    Seen it: Yes   60 mins    2/28/1975  22.  Just by Accident
Jim invesitgates the death of a man on behlaf of his mother, an old friend, but stumbles into a insurance scam...
Director:  Jerry London  Writer:  Charles Sailor  / Eric Kalder 
Guest starring:  Neva PattersonSteven KeatsDavid Spielberg, Fred Sadoff1,  E.J. Peaker, Joey Aresco, Oliver Clark, Alan Bergmann, Millie Slavin, Beatrice Colen,  Michael FoxGordon Jump, Fritzi Burr, Sal Acquisto, Susan Keller
    Seen it: Yes   60 mins    3/7/1975  23.  Roundabout
Jim is hired to pass on the inheritance to a young woman in Las Vegas, who acts very strangly and appears not to really want the money...
Director:  Lou Antonio  / Mitchell Lindemann  Writer:  Edward J. Lakso  / Mitchell Lindemann 
Guest starring:  Jesse Welles,  Ron RifkinMills Watson, Frank Michael Liu, Virginia Gregg,  Joe E. TataGeorge Wyner, Robert Ward,  Fred LernerChuck Hicks
Edition Details
Edition Season 1
Series The Rockford Files
Distributor Universal Studios
Release Date 12/6/2005
Packaging Custom Case
Screen Ratio Fullscreen (4:3)
Subtitles English; French; Spanish
Audio Tracks Dolby Digital Stereo [English]
Layers Dual Side, Single Layer
No. of Discs/Tapes 3

Features
Disc 01 Includes James Garner reminiscing about the genesis of The Rockford Files and becoming Jim Rockford