The Rockford Files: Season 6
Season 6 Lore Primer
Key plot threads, lore context, and character stakes you need to remember before diving into this season.
- Directly follows the overarching narrative developments of The Rockford Files Season 5.
- Faction dynamics and core character alliances shift under escalating external stakes.
- Crucial mysteries introduced previously reach key turning points and narrative reckonings.
- Sets up serialized story arcs that build directly toward the climactic season finale.
Episode Guide
Season 6 Progress Shield
Paradise Cove
Sep 28, 1979 · 43 min
Jim's Malibu neighborhood becomes the site of a treasure hunt for a stash of gold bullion, stolen fifty years earlier.
Lions, Tigers, Monkeys and Dogs (1)
Oct 12, 1979 · 42 min
Jim rubs shoulders with royalty when a princess hires him because she believes someone is trying to kill her friend (Lauren Bacall).
Lions, Tigers, Monkeys and Dogs (2)
Oct 12, 1979 · 41 min
Jim traces a killer via a barman, florist and gangster in order to establish who ordered the Princess' friend killed…
Only Rock 'n Roll Will Never Die (1)
Oct 19, 1979 · 47 min
Jim senses something is out of tune while looking into the disappearance of a rock star's producer.
Only Rock 'n Roll Will Never Die (2)
Oct 26, 1979 · 47 min
While consoling his morose love-lorn friend Eddie, Jim continues to look for the missing producer. He eventually finds his body but the presumed killer is not whom he had expected.
Love Is the Word
Nov 19, 1979 · 47 min
Jim reconnects with Dr. Megan Dougherty and discovers she is engaged to another man. When she believes he is missing Jim agrees to help her, despite the fact he disapproves of her
Nice Guys Finish Dead
Nov 16, 1979 · 43 min
The special guest of a P.I. convention dinner is found murdered in the restroom, and Jim unhappily finds himself once more having to team up with flawless Lance White (Tom Selleck)
The Hawaiian Headache
Nov 23, 1979 · 43 min
Jim is tricked into believing he's won a trip to Hawaii, when it really turns out to be doing a favor for an old army pal in the CIA.
No Fault Affair
Nov 30, 1979 · 47 min
Rita Capkovic (Rita Moreno) comes to Jim for help after her former pimp has beaten her up for refusing to work for him again. As Jim helps Rita recover she begins to see him as mor
The Big Cheese
Dec 7, 1979 · 43 min
Rockford gets a phone call telling him to expect a package in the mail. Two hoods then murder the caller and go to Rockford's trailer to await the package's arrival. When the packa
Just a Coupla Guys
Dec 14, 1979 · 46 min
Rockford flies to Newark for a case and is robbed, leaving him stranded at the police station. Jim is caught in the middle of a mob war when 2 mooks, looking to make a name for the
Deadlock in Parma
Jan 10, 1980 · 43 min
In the series finale, Jim Rockford drives off into a California sunset in his wounded Firebird, after being ensnared in a small-town council battle with big implications. While tro