Box set: Rockford Files, The Complete Collection

The Rockford Files: Season 5
Universal Studios (1978)
TV Series  /  Drama, Adventure, Thriller, Crime, Mystery, Action
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IMDB   8.2
1101 mins USA / English
DVD  Region 1
James Luisi
James Garner Jim Rockford
Noah Beery Jr. Joseph "Rocky" Rockford
Joe Santos Police Det. Dennis Becker
Stuart Margolin Evelyn "Angel" Martin
Bo Hopkins John Cooper
Joe Santos Det. Dennis Becker
Tom Atkins Alex Diel
Norman Alden Roland Eddy
James Luisi Lt. Doug Chapman
Gretchen Corbett Beth Davenport
Luis Delgado Officer Billings
Herb Armstrong Norman
Don Barry Shorty McCall
George Cheung Harry Lee
Director
Harry Falk
Alexander Grasshoff
Producer Stephen J. Cannell
Juanita Bartlett
Writer Roy Huggins
Stephen J. Cannell
Musician Pete Carpenter
Mike Post

Emmy® winner James Garner stars as the offbeat Jim Rockford, an ex-con-turned-private-investigator who would rather fish than fight but whose instinct on closed cases is more golden than his classic Pontiac Firebird. From his mobile home in Malibu, this wisecracking private eye takes you on the cases of the lost and the dispossessed, chasing down seemingly long-dead clues in the sun-baked streets and seamy alleys of Los Angeles.
Episodes
    Seen it: Yes   60 mins    22/09/1978  1.  Heartaches of a Fool
When Rocky is hi-jacked and injured while delivering sausages, Jim investigates the sausage company through their spokesperson; a country and western singer...
Director:  William Wiard  Writer:  Stephen J. Cannell 
Guest starring:  James Shigeta, Lynne Marta, Taylor Lacher, James Jater
    Seen it: Yes   60 mins    29/09/1978  2.  Rosendahl and Gilda Stern Are Dead
Jim helps Rita prove her innocence when she is accused of murdered a prominant doctor when in fact she witnessed the parties who committed the crime...
Director:  William Wiard  Writer:  Juanita Bartlett 
Guest starring:  Rita Moreno,  Abe VigodaRobert Loggia, Sharon Acker,  Robin Gammell, John Karlen, Clint Young, Ron Gilbert, JoAnne Meredith, William Joyce, George Planko, Jason Wingreen, Rick Goldman, Rod Masterson
    Seen it: Yes   60 mins    06/10/1978  3.  The Jersey Bounce
Jim stands accused of murdering one of Rocky's neighbours party guests when matters get out of hand, but Jim's counsel seems pre-occupied so puts his fate in the hands of legal researcher John Cooper...
Director:  William Wiard  / David Chase  Writer:  David Chase 
Guest starring:  Bo Hopkins, Sorrell Booke, Greg Antonacci, Eugene Davis, Luke Andreas, Elta Blake, Jim Scott, Doney Oatman, George Planko, Anthony Brand, Walter Olkewicz, Paul Teschke
    Seen it: Yes   60 mins    20/10/1978  4.  White on White and Nearly Perfect
Jim works with Lance White, a fellow who is so perfect it seems unreal, when investigating the kidnapping of the daughter of a prominant weapons industrialist...
Director:  Stephen J. Cannell  Writer:  Stephen J. Cannell 
Guest starring:  Tom Selleck, Jason Evers, Bill Quinn, Eddie Fontaine, Frank R. Christy, Peter Brecco, Raynold Gideon, Jay Rasumny, Karen Austin, Carolyn Calcote, Julienne Welles, Freddye Chapman, Frank Christi
    Seen it: Yes   60 mins    27/10/1978  5.  Kill the Messenger
Jim helps Dennis who, while studying for his promotion to Lieutenant , is handed the murder investigation of the Deputy Police Cheif's wife...
Director:  Ivan Dixon  Writer:  Juanita Bartlett 
Guest starring:  Ed Harris, W.K. Stratton,  Byron Morrow, Alex Colon, Tony Crupi, Don Diamond, Lee Farr, Robert Cleaves, Nancy Parsons,  Frank McRae, Michael LaGuardia, Sterling Swanson, Bucklind Beery, Tiger Williams, Joey Miller
    Seen it: Yes   60 mins    03/11/1978  6.  The Empty Frame
After the police and most prominant members of the community are literaly caught with thier trousers down by a group of Art theives, Jim is hired by the owners to locate the missing pictures. Meanwhile Angel is exherting new influences after his borther in law is named a Police Chief...
Director:  Corey Allen  Writer:  Stephen J. Cannell 
Guest starring:  Lee Delano
    Seen it: Yes   60 mins    10/11/1978  7.  Three Day Affair with a Thirty Day Escrow
Jim is taken before a family of Arabs who want to know why his client hired him to find thier missing daughter. JIm must find the client, the daughter and figure how the cas eis contected to a Real Estate broker...
Director:  Ivan Dixon  Writer:  David Chase 
Guest starring:  Janis Paige,  Richard Romanus, Robert Alda, Maria Grimm, Gilbert Green, Joshua Bryant, Andrew Masset, Maurice Sherbanee, Socorro Swan, Richard Moll, James Gavin
    Seen it: Yes   60 mins    17/11/1978  8.  A Good Clean Bust with Sequel Rights
Jim is hired by a toy manufacturer asks babysit a a cop turned tv writer who keeps falling into trouble and is desperate to solve one last big case involving a mob hit...
Director:  William Wiard  Writer:  Rudolph Borchert 
Guest starring:  Hector ElizondoJames Sikking, Nicolas Coster,  James Murtaugh, Jerry Douglas, Louisa Moritz, Patricia Donahue, Hank Brandt, Joanna Lipari, Jenny Sherman, Derek Murcott, Marland Proctor, Loni Ackerman, Richard Seff, Paul Carr
    Seen it: Yes   60 mins    24/11/1978  9.  Black Mirror (1)
PART 1 Jim falls for Megan, a blind psychologist with a dangerously psychotic patient who is tormenting her...
Guest starring:  Peter Tomarken, Kathryn Harrold, Allan Arbus, John Pleshette, Carol Franklin, Denny Miller
    Seen it: Yes   60 mins    24/11/1978  10.  Black Mirror (2)
PART 2 Jim tries to trace Megan's stalker, who is a patient with a dual personality...
Guest starring:  Kathryn Harrold, Allan Arbus, John Pleshette, Carol Franklin
    Seen it: Yes   60 mins    01/12/1978  11.  A Fast Count
A murder investigation leads Jim to a TV personality who is trying to frame a boxer's manager...
Director:  Reza Badiyi  Writer:  Gordon Dawson 
Guest starring:  Kenneth McMillan, Mary Frann,  Steven Bauer, Lawrence Casey, Bert Kramer, Carl Anderson, Woody Eney, Don Starr, John Kerry, Frederic Franklyn, John Yates, Tamara Eliot, Lisa Marie Effler, Rosa Turich, Tamara Elliot
    Seen it: Yes   60 mins    08/12/1978  12.  Local Man Eaten by Newspaper
While investigsting a tabloid newspaper who are stealing medical information on celebrities, Jim recieves some bad press after his client, the celebrity doctor is shot dead...
Director:  Meta Rosenberg  Writer:  Juanita Bartlett 
Guest starring:  Bo HopkinsScott BradyKenneth Tigar, Scott Marlowe, Rose Gregorrio, Joe E. Tata, Ed Crick, Bill Cross, Joseph Hindy, Gianni Russo, Pat Renella, Harley McBride, Dallas Mitchell, Marland Proctor, Rose Gregorio
    Seen it: Yes   60 mins    05/01/1979  13.  With the French Heel Back, Can the Nehru Jacket Be Far Behind?
While investigating the death of a young model, Jim keeps stumbling into the murder of a jet setting model and the connection between them and a fashion house about to sport a new line...
Director:  Ivan Dixon  Writer:  Rudolph Borchert 
Guest starring:  Erin Gray, W.K. Stratton,  Rene Auberjonois, Marisa Pavon, Howard Witt, Chris DeRose, Chris Palmer, Jim B. Smith,  John Zenda, Albert Carrier, Margarite Rae,  Michael Des Barres, Frederick Castellano, Sandy DeBruin, Suzanne Copeland
    Seen it: Yes   60 mins    12/01/1979  14.  The Battle-Ax and the Exploding Cigar
Have Jim and a passenger are arrested after guns are found in a car Jim is suprised to learn his passenger has got off scott free and enlists the help of a Secretary who is concerned about the disapearance of one of her staff...
Director:  Ivan Dixon  / Mann Rubin  Writer:  Rogers Turrentine 
Guest starring:  Marge Redmond, Sully Boyar,  Lane Smith, Charles Weldon, Lawrence Casey, Glenn Corbett, Mitzi Hoag, Dawson Mays, Nancy Burnett, Lindsay V. Jones, Antonie Becker, Roscoe Born, James McAlpine, Dennis Holahan, Joe Bratcher
    Seen it: Yes   60 mins    19/01/1979  15.  Guilt
Jim aids his former fiance whose life has been threatened by a mystery figure...
Director:  William Wiard  Writer:  Juanita Bartlett 
Guest starring:  Pat Crowley, Ted Shackelford, Rita Gam, Robert Quarry, Elisabeth Brookes, Eldon Quick, Timothy Wayne, James Lough, Al Stephenson, Ben Young, Patricia Crowley, Al Stevenson
    Seen it: Yes   60 mins    26/01/1979  16.  The Deuce
After serving on a jury of a drunk driver, Jim is hired by the defedant to help proove his innocence...
Director:  Bernard McEveety  Writer:  Gordon Dawson 
Guest starring:  Richard Kelton,  Mills Watson, Patricia Hindy,  Margaret Blye, Sharon Spelman, Robert Sampson, Edward Walsh, Joe Maross, James Karen, Ray Stewart, Michael O'Dwyer, Ed McCready, Nancy Bond, Frank Downing
    Seen it: Yes   60 mins    10/02/1979  17.  The Man Who Saw the Alligators
When a hit-man Jim helped imprison is released threatening revenge, Jim goes into hiding, but Angel unfortunately reveals his friends hideout...
Director:  Corey Allen  Writer:  Roy Huggins 
Guest starring:  George Loros, Sharon Acker,  Joseph Sirola
    Seen it: Yes   60 mins    17/02/1979  18.  The Return of the Black Shadow
John Cooper goes after the biker gang which attacked Jim and his date Gail - Coop's sister...
Director:  William Wiard  Writer:  Stephen J. Cannell 
Guest starring:  Bo Hopkins, Paul Koslo, Dennis Burkley, Laurie Jefferson, Andy Jarrel, Jerry Ayres, Ken A, Anderson, Noah Keen, Paul Mays, Sandra De Bruin, Scott Walker
    Seen it: Yes   60 mins    24/02/1979  19.  A Material Difference
Angel poses a high priced hitman but Jim must help when he collects his fee without making his hit, but the victim is apparently still killed, whilst Naval Intellegence and the Russians take an interest in the case and blue jeans...
Director:  William Wiard  Writer:  Rogers Turrentine 
Guest starring:  Michael McGuire, Joshua Bryant, David Tress, Rod Browning, Michael Alldridge, John Davey, Donald Bishop, Paul Chambers, Alex Rodan, Ari Barakar, Ron McCabe, Vance Davis, Lydia Kristen, Cynthia Nye, Michael McGuirre
    Seen it: Yes   60 mins    03/03/1979  20.  Never Send a Boy King to Do a Man's Job (1)
PART 1 Jim helps Ritchie Brockleman set up a big con in order to retrieve money which the villain extorted from Ritchie's father...
Guest starring:  Trisha Noble, Dennis Dugan,  Kim HunterRobert Webber, Todd Martin,  Harold Gould, Salt Walther
    Seen it: Yes   60 mins    03/03/1979  21.  Never Send a Boy King to Do a Man's Job (2)
The con continues and proves sucessful when one of the fellow one artists appears to make of with the cheque...
Guest starring:  Dennis Dugan,  Kim HunterRobert Webber, Trisha Noble, Todd Martin,  Harold Gould
    Seen it: Yes   60 mins    13/04/1979  22.  A Different Drummer
Hospitalized by an accident, Jim is convinced he sees a doctor perform an organ extraxion on a live patient...
Director:  Reza Badiyi  Writer:  Rudolph Borchert 
Guest starring:  John Considine, Jesse Welles, Fritzi Burr, Will Gill, Jr.,  Carmen Argenziano, Walter Brooke,  David S. Cass Sr.Reni Santoni, Harland Warde, Patrick Culletin, Sandy Freeman, Anne Bellamy, Ray Stricklyn, Lesley Woods
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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