The Rockford Files: Season 5

Rocky (Noah Beery Jr.) is forced off the road while delivering a shipment of sausages in a friend's rig. When the load turns out to be smuggled in from Mexico, Rocky stands to lose his union card as well as his driver's license. Rockford looks into it further, but having nothing else to go on connects with the country & western singer Charlie Strayhorn (Taylor Lacher) who stars in the TV commercials for the sausages. Strayhorn, who is frustrated from the divorce proceedings he's going through at

Rita Capkovic (Rita Moreno), still working as a professional escort, is accused of the murder of a prominent surgeon. When the police refuse to follow up on any of her claims as to who actually did it, Rockford, sometimes with Rita in tow, steps in to investigate. It has them crossing paths with a medical devices salesman (Robin Gammell), the dead surgeon's partner (Robert Loggia) and his martini-swilling wife (Sharon Acker), and a vengeful mobster (Abe Vigoda) who is in great pain. With John Ka

Rockford is the prime suspect in the murder of a friend of Rocky's new neighbors, stupid punks from New Jersey who aspire to becoming successful criminals. As Beth Davenport no longer works for the law firm that represents Rockford, Jim is sent Wade Ward (Sorrell Booke) to be his defense attorney. However Ward is much more interested in an anti-trust case he's also working on. Jim instead gets help from John Cooper (Bo Hopkins), a disbarred lawyer now working as a legal researcher. With Greg Ant

While two hoods do their best to make an aging ex-mobster (Peter Brocco) comfortable aboard an abandoned ship in the harbor, Rockford is called in to investigate the kidnapping of the daughter of the head of a weapon systems manufacturer. To Rockford's chagrin, also called in is Lance White (Tom Selleck), an investigator whose starry-eyed all-American manner Rockford has no time for, especially since Lance somehow always solves his cases, gets paid, and gets the girl. With Jason Evers, Bill Quin

Dennis Becker (Joe Santos), about to take his lieutenant's exam, is assigned a potentially career-ruining case. He has to investigate the murder of the wife of the deputy police chief (Byron Morrow), which will require him to ask embarrassing questions about their private lives. Becker's wife, Peggy (Pat Finley), gets Jim to help, but everything he discovers points to the deputy chief. With Ed Harris in his first notable role, also with W.K. Stratton, Nancy Parsons, Don Diamond, Frank McRae, Rob

Rockford's retainer agreement requires him to watch over Frank Falcone (Hector Elizondo), a headstrong ex-policeman turned actor/writer around whom a line of new toys is about to be launched. However Falcone attracts controversy with everything he does, and when he assaults his policeman ex-partner things fall apart and Rockford loses the yearly income. There's more involved than mere commerce, at least two hitmen have a contract in town, and there is a connection to Falcone. With Nicolas Coster

Several Arabs abduct Rockford in the middle of the night and take him to their hotel room to find out where one of his recent clients is. Rockford escapes and tells the police, but Lieutenant Chapman (James Luisi) wants nothing to do with it. Rockford tries to track down the client, Sean Innis (Richard Romanus), thinking he might be in danger, but Innis gets wind of it and sends a thug to assault Rockford and find out what's up. It's about an expensive property sale and the Arab woman, Khedra Az

A swanky party of the city's elites is interrupted by three revolution-spouting, well armed radicals who strip the male guests of their pants before making off with some choice paintings. The host, fearful that the embarrassed police are anxious to bury the case (as many of the force's top officers, including Lieutenant Chapman, were providing security at the party), hires Rockford to investigate. Jim had also attended, thanks to an invitation by Angel, who has become very well connected. While

A blind psychologist, who is being terrorized by an unknown stalker, turns to Jim for help.

Rockford's investigation of psychologist Megan Dougherty's stalker leads him to one of her patients who may have a split personality - one of which is a paid killer.

Used car mogul and TV personality Ruth Beetson-White (Mary Frann) is the power broker in the local boxing scene. Rockford owns a 5% share in promising young fighter Jesus Hernandez (Steven Bauer), but since Jesus is shut out of the televised matches the investment is worthless. When Rockford complains to Hernandez's trainer-manager, Morry Hawthorne (Kenneth McMillan), he learns that Morry is up to his neck in fraud and bribery allegations. Rockford comes to believe the troubles are all part of a

A doctor to the stars hires Rockford to investigate how a National Enquirer-like publication got its hands on the private medical information of some of his clients. Rockford takes a job under a fake name as a reporter for the tabloid, but his cover gets blown. Shortly afterwards the doctor is killed when his office is broken into while with Rockford; the paper prints all the negative information it has about Rockford afterwards. The paper had previously run a story that a leading local mobster

Carol, a fashion model ex-girlfriend of Rockford, telephones him panic-stricken one night, but by the time he gets to her hotel room she is dead in what the police decide was a suicide. Rockford strongly disagrees, but Dennis Becker cannot look into the case because he is tied up in the same-night murder of another model. Leaving the police station, Rockford hears a woman (Erin Gray) angrily disputing that Carol killed herself, and the two become friends. Rockford is hired by a pompous fashion d

Rockford is left facing the rap when, returning from a losing gambling trip in Las Vegas that was so bad a casino is holding onto his car, he accepts a ride from a windbag, Bernard Petrankus (Sully Boyar), and is behind the wheel of his Cadillac when it is pulled over by police and its trunk is found full of illegal weapons. When Rockford tries to clear himself he learns there is no record of his arrest statement and the stenographer who took it is missing. Jim teams up with Mrs. Bateman (Marge

Valerie Pointer (Pat Crowley), an old girlfriend of Rockford, is being terrorized and Jim feels obligated to help. Rockford turns up several men within Valerie’s circle who have reason to dislike her, but also learns she has a manner that invites domestic drama. With Elisabeth Brooks, Ted Shackelford, Rita Gam, Eldon Quick, Robert Quarry and James Carroll.

A woman’s death is made to look like an accident caused by drunk driver George Bassett (Mills Watson). Rockford is on the jury hearing the case, and despite intense peer pressure votes not guilty, so a second trial is scheduled. Bassett and his wife hire Jim to clear his name, which draws the ire of the prosecutor. Rockford discovers how the death was staged, and soon both he and Bassett get targeted for murder. With Margaret Blye, Richard Kelton, Sharon Spelman, James Karen, Joe Maross, Ed McCr

Twisted hitman Anthony Gagglio (George Loros) has been released from prison, and he is obsessed with killing Rockford. He and his partner Syl (Luke Andreas) catch up with Jim, Jim's tax advisor (Sharon Acker) and Angel (Stuart Margolin) at a remote cabin. As Gagglio and Rockford argue two mobsters show up gunning for Gagglio. When they shoot Syl it forces Jim and Gagglio to work together to get rid of the hoods, and only then will they be able to tangle with each other. With Joseph V. Perry, Jul

Rockford's friend John Cooper (Bo Hopkins) goes after the motorcycle gang that brutally assaulted his sister when she and Jim were on a road trip. While Cooper plots his revenge, the gang's leader (Paul Koslo) has his own plans to run riot over a picnic hosted by his ex-buddies from the gang's old days, who have become respectable businessmen and have forcibly told him to shut it down. With Dennis Burkley, Noah Keen, Sandra de Bruin, Joseph Burke, Andy Jarrell, Ken A. Anderson and Jerry Ayres.

Angel (Stuart Margolin) figures he has come up with a great con, he will pretend to be a hitman and then disappear after receiving the front money. When the first contract goes bad the people Angel cheated try to find him through Rockford, and then when someone does get killed the two of them are implicated in the murder. To clear himself Jim, dragging Angel along, has to deal with Russian spies who are very interested in blue jeans, and an unusually equipped dentist's office. Meanwhile agents f

Richie's father has been swindled by a man named Coombs. Jim assembles together a disparate group of con-artists in a complicated scheme using Coombs' anxieties, and even the "Curse" of King Tut, to save Mr. Brockelman from ruin.

The con continues and proves successful when one of the fellow con-artists appears to make of with the check.

Inspired by Coma. Recovering from an accident in the hospital, Rockford sees a cadaver's arm moving just as an organ is being removed from elsewhere in the body. When Rockford questions it his doubts are almost assuaged by the operating surgeon, the charming Dr. Lee Yost (John Considine). Still, Rockford wonders why Yost's organ clinic is a for-profit operation, and investigates further. Rockford's car develops a problem, which may have been an attempt to kill him. Then Jim talks to Yost’s adopt