Box set: Rockford Files, The Complete Collection

The Rockford Files: Season 1
Universal Studios (1974)
TV Series  /  Crime, Mystery
In Collection
#3676
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Seen ItNo
(09/11/2015)
025192293597
IMDB   8.2
1156 mins USA / English
DVD  Region 1
James Garner Jim Rockford
James Luisi Lt. Doug Chapman
Stuart Margolin Evelyn Martin
Joe Santos Det. Dennis Becker
Noah Beery Jr. Joseph Rockford
Gretchen Corbett Beth Davenport
William Smith Jerry Grimes
Nita Talbot Mildred Elias
Lindsay Wagner Sara Butler
Tom Atkins Lt. Alex Diehl
Robert Donley Joseph Rockford
Michael Lerner Coroner Ruben Seelman
Bill Mumy Nick Butler
Pat Renella Morrie Talbot
Director
Richard T. Heffron
Producer Stephen J. Cannell
Meta Rosenberg
Writer Roy Huggins
Stephen J. Cannell
Musician Pete Carpenter
Episodes
    Seen it: Yes   60 mins    13/09/1974  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 Kogan,  Abe Vigoda, Sandy DeBruin, Dino Seragusa, Fred Lerner, Melissa Mahoney
    Seen it: Yes   60 mins    20/09/1974  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 Brooke,  Tom BowerMarc Alaimo
    Seen it: Yes   60 mins    27/09/1974  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    04/10/1974  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    11/10/1974  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    18/10/1974  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    18/10/1974  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    25/10/1974  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. 
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    01/11/1974  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 Ark, Paul Michael Glaser, Richard Drout Miller, Joseph Stern, James Lydon,  Adrian Ricard, Jean Allison
    Seen it: Yes   60 mins    08/11/1974  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    15/11/1974  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    06/12/1974  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 Bieri, Richard Schaal, William Traylor,  Sid Haig, Rudy Challenger, Don Eichner, Robert Ginty, Robert Ellenstein
    Seen it: Yes   60 mins    20/12/1974  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 Carter, Joe E. Tata, J. Jay Saunders, Paul Jenkins,  Michael Lerner
    Seen it: Yes   60 mins    27/12/1974  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 Carter, Joe E. Tata, J. Jay Saunders
    Seen it: Yes   60 mins    03/01/1975  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    17/01/1975  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 McRaney, Lara Parker, Pat Delaney, Allan Miller, John Steadman, Howard Curtis, Wayne Wynne
    Seen it: Yes   60 mins    24/01/1975  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    31/01/1975  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 CooperLane Smith, M.P. Murphy, Douglas Fowley
    Seen it: Yes   60 mins    07/02/1975  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 
Guest starring:  Hector Elizondo, Pamela Hensley,  Ken Swofford, Katherine Woodville, Thayer David, Regis Cordic, Len Lesser, Clint Young, Beverly Gill, Vince Cannon
    Seen it: Yes   60 mins    14/02/1975  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 Spielberg, Warner Anderson,  Diana Muldaur, Eddie Firestone, Mel Stewart, Zekial Marko
    Seen it: Yes   60 mins    21/02/1975  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 Atwater, William Watson, Jess Walton, Paul Carr,  John Quade, Jack Knight, Bruce Tuthill, Frank Campanella, John Furlong
    Seen it: Yes   60 mins    28/02/1975  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 Patterson, Steven Keats, David Spielberg, Fred Sadoff1, E.J. Peaker, Joey Aresco, Oliver Clark, Alan Bergmann, Millie Slavin, Beatrice Colen, Michael Fox, Gordon Jump, Fritzi Burr, Sal Acquisto, Susan Keller
    Seen it: Yes   60 mins    07/03/1975  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. Tata,  George Wyner, Robert Ward, Fred Lerner, Chuck Hicks
Edition Details
Edition Complete Collection
Series Rockford Files, The
Distributor Universal
Release Date 26/05/2015
Packaging Box Set
No. of Discs/Tapes 1
Personal Details
Purchase Date 05/11/2015
Location Main DVD Shelving
Owner Carl Taylor
Store Amazon.ca
Purchase Price $69.99
Condition Still Sealed
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Tags 701-4526277-5813827, Amazon.ca, Box Set (Part of), Need Cover Scans, Original Disc
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