The Rockford Files Season 2

September. 12,1975      TV-PG
Rating:
8.2
Trailer Synopsis

Cranky but likable L.A. PI Jim Rockford pulls no punches (but takes plenty of them). An ex-con sent to the slammer for a crime he didn't commit, Rockford takes on cases others don't want, aided by his tough old man, his lawyer girlfriend and some shady associates from his past.

Episode 22 : A Bad Deal in the Valley
March. 19,1976
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.B.I.
Episode 21 : Foul on the First Play
March. 12,1976
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.
Episode 20 : Where's Houston?
February. 20,1976
Rocky's friend is killed thinking his Granddaughter was kidnapped leading Jim with the help of Rocky to untangle a crooked real estate deal.
Episode 19 : The Italian Bird Fiasco
February. 12,1976
Jim gets hired by a diamond smuggler posing as an art dealer causing trouble for Jim with LAPD and other smugglers.
Episode 18 : In Hazard
February. 05,1976
Beth has trouble and is nearly killed by a client with tax trouble.
Episode 17 : Joey Blue Eyes
January. 29,1976
Jim helps one of Beth's clients, who is being swindled out of his business.
Episode 16 : A Portrait of Elizabeth
January. 23,1976
A client of Beth's hires Jim misleadingly to check on his company.
Episode 15 : The No-Cut Contract
January. 16,1976
A minor league football player drags Jim into his troubles.
Episode 14 : The Hammer of C Block
January. 09,1976
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.
Episode 13 : The Girl in the Bay City Boys Club
December. 19,1975
Jim goes undercover to expose an illegal gambling club and gets help from a young D.A.
Episode 12 : The Reincarnation of Angie
December. 05,1975
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.
Episode 11 : Pastoria Prime Pick
November. 28,1975
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 ?
Episode 10 : 2 Into 5.56 Won't Go
November. 21,1975
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.
Episode 9 : Chicken Little Is a Little Chicken
November. 14,1975
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.
Episode 8 : Resurrection in Black & White
November. 07,1975
Convinced a convicted murderer is actually innocent, a journalist looking for a scoop hires Jim to investigate a six year old murder.
Episode 7 : The Real Easy Red Dog
October. 31,1975
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.
Episode 6 : The Great Blue Lake Land and Development Company
October. 17,1975
When his car breaks down in a small town Jim leaves $10,000 in a land company's safe. 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.
Episode 5 : The Deep Blue Sleep
October. 10,1975
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".
Episode 4 : Gearjammers, Part 2
October. 03,1975
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 ? The proud Rocky resents Jim taking care of him, making the slew of hit-men even harder to combat for Dennis and a very confused LAPD.
Episode 3 : Gearjammers, Part 1
September. 26,1975
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.
Episode 2 : The Farnsworth Stratagem
September. 19,1975
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.
Episode 1 : The Aaron Ironwood School of Success
September. 12,1975
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.

Seasons

Season 6
Season 6 1979
Season 5
Season 5 1978
Season 4
Season 4 1977
Season 3
Season 3 1976
Season 2
Season 2 1975
Season 1
Season 1 1974

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