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.
Guest Stars:
Stuart Margolin, John McMartin, Sharon Gless, Michael Bell, Gretchen Corbett
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.
Guest Stars:
James Luisi, Robert Webber, Pepe Serna, Robert Walden, James Hong
Jim and Rocky find an abandoned young girl that leads to Jim finding and helping her father.
Guest Stars:
Stuart Margolin, Burt Young, Ken Swofford, Kim Richards, Paul Koslo
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.
Guest Stars:
Susan Howard, Eddie Firestone, Luke Askew, Pepper Martin, Richard LePore
Jim finds out there's a hit out on Angel and runs into trouble with the mob bailing him out.
Guest Stars:
Stuart Margolin, Robert Loggia, Vincent Baggetta, Gretchen Corbett, Antony Carbone
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.
Guest Stars:
John Anderson, Dennis Burkley, Patricia Stich, Noble Willingham, Jerry Hardin
Jim gets called before a grand jury where he promptly gets thrown into jail for contempt.
Guest Stars:
Stuart Margolin, William Daniels, Sandy Ward, Ted Gehring, Jason Wingreen
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.
Guest Stars:
Stuart Margolin, James Luisi, Elayne Heilveil, Avery Schreiber, Gerald McRaney
Jim gets used by an old Army buddy in an insurance recovery case.
Guest Stars:
Ned Beatty, Veronica Hamel, Paul Stevens, Norman Burton, Robert Karnes
While investigating an insurance claim Jim accidentally stumbles into a gun smuggling operation.
Guest Stars:
James Luisi, Michael Lerner, Ned Wilson, Simon Scott, Ben Frank
Beth's nerdy cousin Warren drags Jim into his mounting troubles.
Guest Stars:
James Luisi, Ron Rifkin, Paul Jenkins, Joe Maross, John Dullaghan
After being conned by friends Jim sets them up to settle the score and save himself.
Guest Stars:
Stuart Margolin, Joan Van Ark, John Dehner, Steve Landesberg, John Mahon
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.
Guest Stars:
Cleavon Little, Val Bisoglio, Anthony Costello, Simon Oakland, Robert Riesel
Jim helps a friend (Strother Martin) of Rocky's who's being forced off his property.
Guest Stars:
Richard Venture, Karen Machon, Strother Martin, Scott Brady, Alex Rocco
Jim helps a friend of Rocky's who's being forced off his property.
Guest Stars:
Karen Machon, Strother Martin, Scott Brady, Robert DoQui, Alex Rocco
Rockford's newest case is to clear his friend Dennis Becker, who is suspected of selling drugs to deal with his financial problems.
Guest Stars:
Stuart Margolin, James Luisi, Jack Carter, Bert Kramer, William Jordan
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.
Guest Stars:
Louis Gossett Jr., Pepper Martin, Walter Brooke, Dennis Burkley, Isaac Hayes
Jim is hired by a Vietnamese refugee to find her missing brother.
Guest Stars:
Kathleen Nolan, Irene Yah-Ling Sun, Charles Napier, Charles Siebert, Luke Askew
Rockford is hired to find a missing woman, only to discover that she is also being sought by a New York crime family.
Guest Stars:
James Luisi, Joyce Van Patten, Leslie Charleson, Jon Cypher, Pat Finley
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.
Guest Stars:
James Luisi, Joyce Van Patten, Leslie Charleson, Jon Cypher, Lou Frizzell
Beth turns to Jim for help when she finds herself being mentally harassed by a mysterious man while trying to win an important trial.
Guest Stars:
Joseph Mascolo, Howard McGillin, John Calvin, Sondra Blake, Conchata Ferrell