The Rockford Files

Season 3

1976 22 Episodes
Episode 1
E1

The Fourth Man

43 min Sep 24, 1976 7.5

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.

Episode 2
E2

The Oracle Wore a Cashmere Suit

43 min Oct 01, 1976 7.0

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.

Episode 3
E3

The Family Hour

48 min Oct 08, 1976 8.0

Jim and Rocky find an abandoned young girl that leads to Jim finding and helping her father.

Episode 4
E4

Feeding Frenzy

43 min Oct 15, 1976 6.0

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.

Episode 5
E5

Drought at Indianhead River

48 min Nov 05, 1976 9.0

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

Episode 6
E6

Coulter City Wildcat

43 min Nov 12, 1976 8.0

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.

Episode 7
E7

So Help Me God

48 min Nov 19, 1976

Jim gets called before a grand jury where he promptly gets thrown into jail for contempt.

Episode 8
E8

Rattlers' Class of '63

43 min Nov 26, 1976 8.0

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.

Episode 9
E9

Return to the 38th Parallel

43 min Dec 10, 1976 8.0

Jim gets used by an old Army buddy in an insurance recovery case.

Episode 10
E10

Piece Work

43 min Dec 17, 1976 8.0

While investigating an insurance claim Jim accidentally stumbles into a gun smuggling operation.

Episode 11
E11

The Trouble with Warren

43 min Dec 24, 1976 8.0

Beth's nerdy cousin Warren drags Jim into his mounting troubles.

Episode 12
E12

There's One in Every Port

48 min Jan 07, 1977 9.0

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

Episode 13
E13

Sticks and Stones May Break Your Bones, But Waterbury Will Bury You

43 min Jan 14, 1977

When several of Jim's fellow P.I.'s lose their licenses under circumstances that are suspiciously similar, he begins to suspect that someone is targeting independent investigators and systematically putting them out of business.

Episode 14
E14

The Trees, the Bees and T.T. Flowers: Part 1

43 min Jan 21, 1977 9.0

Jim helps a friend (Strother Martin) of Rocky's who's being forced off his property.

Episode 15
E15

The Trees, the Bees and T.T. Flowers: Part 2

44 min Jan 28, 1977 9.0

Jim helps a friend of Rocky's who's being forced off his property.

Episode 16
E16

The Becker Connection

43 min Feb 11, 1977 8.0

Rockford's newest case is to clear his friend Dennis Becker, who is suspected of selling drugs to deal with his financial problems.

Episode 17
E17

Just Another Polish Wedding

48 min Feb 18, 1977 8.0

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.

Episode 18
E18

New Life, Old Dragons

48 min Feb 25, 1977 8.0

Jim is hired by a Vietnamese refugee to find her missing brother.

Episode 19
E19

To Protect and Serve: Part 1

48 min Mar 11, 1977 8.0

Rockford is hired to find a missing woman, only to discover that she is also being sought by a New York crime family.

Episode 20
E20

To Protect and Serve: Part 2

48 min Mar 18, 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.

Episode 21
E21

Crack Back

47 min Mar 25, 1977 8.0

Beth turns to Jim for help when she finds herself being mentally harassed by a mysterious man while trying to win an important trial.

Episode 22
E22

Dirty Money, Black Light

43 min Apr 01, 1977 9.0

Jim becomes very concerned when Rocky starts receiving thousands of dollars through the mail.