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Rockford Files Season 2 |
| Episode 1 - [The Aaron Ironwood School Of Success] |
| Details : 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. |
| Guest Cast and Crew : James Hampton as Aaron Ironwood | Ken Swofford as FBI Agent Patrick | Jonathan Goldsmith as Nino (as Jonathan Lippe) | Gretchen Corbett as Beth Davenport | Director : Lou Antonio | |
| Air Date : Sep. 12, 1975 |
| Episode 2 - [The Farnsworth Stratagem] |
| Details : 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. |
| Guest Cast and Crew : Linda Evans as Audrey Wyatt | H.M. Wynant as Danzi | Paul Jenkins as Simon Lloyd | John Crawford as Christian | Eric Server as William MacKenzie | Gerald McRaney as Manager | Al Hansen as Guardell | Gretchen Corbett as Beth Davenport | Pat Finley as Peggy Becker | Stuart Margolin as Angel Martin | Director : Lawrence Doheny | |
| Air Date : Sep. 19, 1975 |
| Episode 3 - [Gearjammers Part 1] |
| Details : 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. |
| Guest Cast and Crew : Rosemary DeCamp as Mary Ramsey (as Rosemary De Camp) | Ted Gehring as Johnny Lo Salvo | Peter Brocco as Hodges | Charles Cooper as Jack | Scott Brady as Hammel | Robert F. Hoy as Scheib | Director : William Wiard | |
| Air Date : Sep. 26, 1975 |
| Episode 4 - [Gearjammers Part 2] |
| Details : 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. |
| Guest Cast and Crew : Jack Kruschen as John Koenig | Scott Brady as Hammel | Joe E. Tata as Willie | Robert F. Hoy as Scheib | Director : William Wiard | |
| Air Date : Oct. 03, 1975 |
| Episode 5 - [The Deep Blue Sleep] |
| Details : 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. |
| Guest Cast and Crew : Robert Webber as Bob Coleman | Michael Conrad as George Macklan | Janet MacLachlan as Fashion Designer Adrienne Clarke | Ric Mancini as Ray Porter | Melendy Britt as Millie | Doria Cook-Nelson as Margo Adams (as Doria Cook) | Robert Hays as Darren Weeks (as Robert B. Hays) | Gretchen Corbett as Beth Davenport | Director : William Wiard | |
| Air Date : Oct. 10, 1975 |
| Episode 6 - [The Great Blue Lake Land And Development Company] |
| Details : When his car breaks down in a small town Jim leaves $10000 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. |
| Guest Cast and Crew : Richard B. Shull as Fast Harry DeNova | Dennis Patrick as Walter Hart | Dana Elcar as Sheriff Mitchell | Mary Ann Chinn as Billie Carlton (as Mary Ann Chinn) | Bob Hastings as Paul Tanner (as Bob Hastings) | Noble Willingham as B.J. | Director : Lawrence Doheny | |
| Air Date : Oct. 17, 1975 |
| Episode 7 - [The Real Easy Red Dog] |
| Details : 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. |
| Guest Cast and Crew : Stefanie Powers as Christine Dusseau | Bruce Kirby as Aaron Friedler | Sherry Jackson as Jennifer Sandstrom | Wayne Grace as Deek | Tom Atkins as Alex Diel | Director : Ivan Dixon | |
| Air Date : Oct. 31, 1975 |
| Episode 8 - [Resurrection In Black And White] |
| Details : Convinced a convicted murderer is actually innocent a journalist looking for a scoop hires Jim to investigate a six year old murder. |
| Guest Cast and Crew : Joan Van Ark as Susan Alexander | William Prince as Arnold Newcomb | Sandra Smith as Shirley Atwater | Milton Selzer as Patrick Elber | John Lawlor as Dave Kruger | Director : Russ Mayberry | |
| Air Date : Nov. 07, 1975 |
| Episode 9 - [Chicken Little Is A Little Chicken] |
| Details : 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. |
| Guest Cast and Crew : Ray Danton as Chester Sierra | Frank Campanella as Marty Frishette | Stuart Margolin as Angel Martin | Director : Lawrence Doheny | |
| Air Date : Nov. 14, 1975 |
| Episode 10 - [2 Into 5 56 Won't Go] |
| Details : 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. |
| Guest Cast and Crew : Jesse Welles as Shana Bowie | Charles Napier as Sheriff Billy Webster | Mitchell Ryan as Colonel Hopkins | Director : Jeannot Szwarc | |
| Air Date : Nov. 21, 1975 |
| Episode 11 - [Pastoria Prime Pick] |
| Details : 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 ? |
| Guest Cast and Crew : Warren J. Kemmerling as Vern Soper (as Warren Kemmerling) | Richard Herd as Sheriff Cliff Gladish | William Lucking as Police Officer Pete Kolodny | Kathie Browne as Mayor Karen Sanders | Gretchen Corbett as Beth Davenport | Bruce Tuthill as Bomb Squad Officer / Officer / Club Attendant / Murray Gaines | Director : Lawrence Doheny | |
| Air Date : Nov. 28, 1975 |
| Episode 12 - [The Reincarnation Of Angie] |
| Details : 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. |
| Guest Cast and Crew : Elayne Heilveil as Angela Perris | David Huddleston as Sherm | Sharon Spelman as Susan Miller | Wayne Tippit as Agent Dan Shore | Director : Jerry London | |
| Air Date : Dec. 05, 1975 |
| Episode 13 - [The Girl In The Bay City Boys Club] |
| Details : Jim goes undercover to expose an illegal gambling club and gets help from a young D.A. |
| Guest Cast and Crew : Blair Brown as Kate Flanders / Dep. DA Kate Doyle | Joel Fabiani as Thompkins | Stewart Moss as Dep. DA Burton Kimball / Mr. Phelps | Paul Stevens as George Welles | William Phipps as Sergeant | William Bryant as Paul Flanders | Stuart Margolin as Angel Martin | Director : James Garner | |
| Air Date : Dec. 19, 1975 |
| Episode 14 - [The Hammer Of C Block] |
| Details : 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. |
| Guest Cast and Crew : James A. Watson Jr as Police Officer Arthur Bingham | Annazette Chase as Debbie Bingham | Jack Somack as Oliver Prey | Isaac Hayes as Gandolph Fitch | Director : Jerry London | |
| Air Date : Jan. 09, 1976 |
| Episode 15 - [The No-Cut Contract] |
| Details : A minor league football player drags Jim into his troubles. |
| Guest Cast and Crew : Dick Butkus as Dick Butkus | Rob Reiner as Larry 'King' Sturtevant | Gretchen Corbett as Beth Davenport | Stuart Margolin as Angel Martin | Director : Lou Antonio | |
| Air Date : Jan. 16, 1976 |
| Episode 16 - [A Portrait Of Elizabeth] |
| Details : A client of Beth's hires Jim misleadingly to check on his company. |
| Guest Cast and Crew : John Saxon as Dave Delaroux | Wayne Tippit as Agent Dan Shore | Cynthia Sikes as Susan Valero | Katherine Woodville as Karen Silver (as Kate Woodville) | Robert Riesel as Mickey Silver | Ned Wilson as Arnold Adams | James Murtaugh as Tom Hanson | Joe E. Tata as Solly Marshall | Tom Atkins as Alex Diel | Gretchen Corbett as Beth Davenport | Director : Meta Rosenberg | |
| Air Date : Jan. 23, 1976 |
| Episode 17 - [Joey Blue Eyes] |
| Details : Jim helps one of Beth's clients who is being swindled out of his business. |
| Guest Cast and Crew : Michael Ansara as Joseph DiMinna | Suzanne Charny as Paulette DiMinna | Robert Yuro as Gannon | James Luisi as Burt Stryker | Eddie Fontaine as Sweet Tooth London | Jimmy Lydon as Barrow (as James Lydon) | Gretchen Corbett as Beth Davenport | Stuart Margolin as Angel Martin | Director : Lawrence Doheny | |
| Air Date : Jan. 29, 1976 |
| Episode 18 - [In Hazard] |
| Details : Beth has trouble and is nearly killed by a client with tax trouble. |
| Guest Cast and Crew : Joseph Campanella as Arnold Bailey | Ben Frank as Howard Nystrom | Richard Venture as Fred Metcalf | Joe E. Tata as Solly Marshall | Gretchen Corbett as Beth Davenport | Bruce Tuthill as Bomb Squad Officer / Officer / Club Attendant / Murray Gaines | Director : Jackie Cooper | |
| Air Date : Feb. 05, 1976 |
| Episode 19 - [The Italian Bird Fiasco] |
| Details : Jim gets hired by a diamond smuggler posing as an art dealer causing trouble for Jim with LAPD and other smugglers. |
| Guest Cast and Crew : William Daniels as Thomas Caine | Camilla Sparv as Evelyn Stoneman | William Jordan as Jeffers | Peter Palmer as Stack | Ron Silver as Ted Haller | Director : Jackie Cooper | |
| Air Date : Feb. 12, 1976 |
| Episode 20 - [Where's Houston] |
| Details : Rocky's friend is killed thinking his Granddaughter was kidnapped leading Jim with the help of Rocky to untangle a crooked real estate deal. |
| Guest Cast and Crew : Lane Bradbury as Houston Preli | Robert Mandan as Charles Blackhorn | Del Monroe as Charlie | Dabbs Greer as Peter Preli | Tom Atkins as Alex Diel | Gretchen Corbett as Beth Davenport | Director : Lawrence Doheny | |
| Air Date : Feb. 20, 1976 |
| Episode 21 - [Foul On The First Play] |
| Details : 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. |
| Guest Cast and Crew : Louis Gossett Jr. as Marcus Aurelius Hayes / O'Brien (as Lou Gossett) | Richard Davalos as Manny Stickells (as Dick Davalos) | David White as Martin Eastman | Pepper Martin as Greg Smith | Director : Lou Antonio | |
| Air Date : Mar. 12, 1976 |
| Episode 22 - [A Bad Deal In The Valley] |
| Details : 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. |
| Guest Cast and Crew : Susan Strasberg as Karen Stiles | Jack Colvin as Preacher | Veronica Hamel as Sandy Lederer | David Sabin as Murray Slauson | Rod Cameron as Jack Chilson | John Lupton as Tony Lederer | Gordon Jump as Appleby | Gretchen Corbett as Beth Davenport | Director : Jerry London | |
| Air Date : Mar. 19, 1976 |