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Season 3
46 :03x01 - The Fourth Man (Sep/24/1976)
Lori Jenevan, an employee of TCA, chats with a regular traveler, but the man claims she has mistaken him for someone else. When Lori leaves for home, someone stalks her through the airport parking lot. She tries to run, but the dark-suited man cuts her off. Another car turns on headlights, and Lori flees towards it, dropping her bag. She makes it back to the safety of the terminal where she calls on her friend Jim Rockford, who helps her past her terror. The airport police search the area, but find nothing. Then someone makes more attempts on the woman’s life. Jim must discover who wants her dead and why, and his only clue is the traveler whose appearance started Lori’s nightmare.
Special Guest Stars: Gretchen Corbett as Beth Davenport, | Guest Stars: John McMartin as Tim Farrell, Sharon Gless as Lori Jenevan, Michael Bell (1) as Stehler, Stuart Margolin as Evelyn "Angel" Martin, | Co-Guest Stars: Jack Garner as Mailman, Dianne Harper as Farrell's Associate, Candace Howerton as Airline Clerk, Barbara Collentine as Maid
Director: William Wiard
Writer: Juanita Bartlett
 
47 :03x02 - The Oracle Wore a Cashmere Suit (Oct/01/1976)
The sound of heavy machinery awakens Jim at six o’clock one morning. Police and a man in an expensive suit supervise excavation of the beach near Jim’s trailer. The man in the suit is psychic Roman Clementi, here to assist the police in their search for Rick Richards and Allison Curry. The psychic claims they’re dead, and lying near a body of water. On top of that, Rocky arrives with a new tiller – he’s going ahead with his plans for a new truck garden, and he wants help from Jim with the heavy lifting. Jim’s day starts off badly, and then Clementi decides Jim has information relevant to the case, earning him unwanted attention from drug peddlers and the police, both of whom very much want to find $80,000 in missing drug money.
Special Guest Stars: Robert Walden as Barry Silverstein, Gretchen Corbett as Beth Davenport, | Guest Stars: Robert Webber (1) as Roman Clementi, Pepe Serna as Ray Ochoa, James Luisi as Lt. Doug Chapman, | Co-Guest Stars: Terrence O'Connor as Eileen, Diane Sommerfield as Secretary, John Furlong as Detective Caselli, James Hong as Forensics Expert, Bonnie Bartlett as Casey Patterson
Director: Russ Mayberry
Writer: David Chase
 
48 :03x03 - The Family Hour (Oct/08/1976)
Stuart Gaily tells his daughter pulls his daughter out of class and takes her to the beach. Then two men arrive, and when Gaily sees them, he tells his daughter to wait for her Aunt Cecil, then sends her to wash her face. When she disappears into the restroom, he runs and the men chase after him. Hours later, the girl waits for her Aunt Cecil outside Jim’s trailer. When he and Rocky arrive to collect gear for their Baja fishing trip, Rocky extracts part of the girl’s story, and then shames Jim into helping the child. To do that, he has to discover who’s chasing her father and why – and the girl is remarkably unhelpful, refusing to share even her name...
Guest Stars: Burt Young as Stuart Gaily, Ken Swofford as Al Jollett, Kim Richards as Marin Rose Gaily, Paul Koslo as Dittson, Stuart Margolin as Evelyn "Angel" Martin, | Co-Guest Stars: Janice Carroll as Duty Clerk, Marged Wakeley as Cecil Goss, Adrian Ricard as Receptionist
Director: William Wiard
Writer: Gordon Dawson
 
49 :03x04 - Feeding Frenzy (Oct/15/1976)
Rockford’s ex-girlfriend Sandy Baylock asks him to meet her for dinner. Rockford’s smart enough to guess she needs help, and he’s almost right: her father needs the help. Jim doesn’t understand what kind of problems “good old Charlie Baylock, the friendly bait salesman” might have. Soon enough, Jim learns. Three years ago, Charlie was a low echelon executive for an oil conglomerate, en route to a broken marriage and alcoholism – a different man. More by reflex than by plan, Charlie found a safe containing cash and pushed it out the window. Later, sober and terrified, Charlie put the money in a safety deposit box and quit his job to become a bait salesman. Now the statute of limitations has expired and Charlie wants to return the money. Jim agrees to help, and that pits him against kidnapping mobsters and obnoxious policemen – in particular, Lieutenant Dan Hall, who with a bit of legal chicanery just might link Jim to the original crime!
Guest Stars: Susan Howard as Sandra Baylock, Eddie Firestone as Charlie Baylock, Luke Askew as Al, Pepper Martin as Mickey Wannamaker, Richard LePore as Lieutenant Dan Hall, William Phipps as Richard Livingston, | Co-Guest Stars: George Wyner as Max Steinberg, Roger Aaron Brown as Officer, Carmen Argenziano as Orin Wilson, Jon Cedar as Agent Raval, Joseph Della Sorte (1) as Lucy Carbone, John Dennis Johnston (1) as Grady, Jack Garner as Accountant, | Uncredited: Tony Epper as Sherm
Director: Russ Mayberry
Story: Donald L. Gold, Lester William Berke | Teleplay: Stephen J. Cannell
 
50 :03x05 - Drought at Indianhead River (Nov/05/1976)
Jim’s friend Angel has dropped out of sight – it’s been three months since Jim saw him. Then he has lunch with his wiseguy friend David, and David says something strange: that Angel died. Shocked, Jim asks when and David tells him, “Tomorrow. Wednesday at the latest.” So Jim goes to Angel’s place and finds out Angel has moved to a penthouse in the Sunset Arms Apartments! Sure enough, there’s Angel in new, fancy clothes and at a new, fancy address. Jim digs, and learns Angel is sixty percent owner of the Indianhead River Land Development Company. More digging and a run-in with a mobster only reveal more questions. Who told Angel that some fertile land is dry and useless, and why? Why is an insurance man talking as though Angel were already dead? And how does it all fit together? Before long, Jim finds himself sought in connection with a murder – if he can’t puzzle this one out, Angel will die and Jim will end up back in the box!
Guest Stars: Robert Loggia as Dominic Marcone, Vincent Baggetta as David Marcone, Stuart Margolin as Evelyn "Angel" Martin, | Co-Guest Stars: Antony Carbone as Brad Charlette, Ronda Copland as Delores, Nicholas Georgiade as Danny, Jerome Guardino as Carl Dorado, Laurence Haddon as Dr. Sager, Buddy Foster as Terry, Judith Searle as Norma, George Fisher (1) as Low-Ball Pete
Director: Lawrence Doheny
Writer: Stephen J. Cannell
 
51 :03x06 - Coulter City Wildcat (Nov/12/1976)
Rocky returns home to an unpleasant greeting: two goons who force him to sign away oil and mineral rights to a parcel of land! Jim later discovers his father has been speculating in an oil parcel lottery run by the government. To learn why goons left his father for dead, Jim goes to Coulter City to meet Claude Orzeck, Rocky’s broker. There he discovers a new parcel Rocky just won on which rests a well that produces a great deal of oil. He also discovers Rocky signed his land over to an old man named Anderson who is a staunch opponent of oil drilling! Nobody in town knows anything about that well, and some men who might be a drilling crew seem to have vanished. Jim returns to Orzeck’s office and finds the man dead. Then the sheriff arrests him on suspicion of Orzeck’s murder. Once again, Jim finds himself required to ferret out the real culprit or face prison.
Guest Stars: John Anderson (1) as Gerald O'Malley, Dennis Burkley as Howard, | Co-Guest Stars: Patricia Stich as Phyllis, Noble Willingham as Orzeck, Jerry Hardin as Link, Sharon Compton as Beehive, Hal Bokar as 2nd Bidder, John Clavin as 1st Bidder, Gordon Hurst as Willie, Richard Kennedy as 3rd Bidder, Ed Deemer as Detective
Director: Russ Mayberry
Writer: Don Carlos Dunaway
 
52 :03x07 - So Help Me God (Nov/19/1976)
Jim returns from a successful fishing trip to some bad news: a subpoena to United States District Court. It commands his appearance but offers no explanation; he can consult with a lawyer outside the courtroom, but cannot have a lawyer inside with him. Prosecutor Gary Bevins believes a man named Frank Sorvino contacted Jim, but Jim has no idea who Sorvino is. The prosecutor accuses Jim of perjury and holds him for contempt. Beth frees Jim on a technicality, where he runs afoul of two thugs also interested in Sorvino. Bevins commands another appearance, but Jim still cannot answer his questions and finally loses his temper, lambasting Bevins. Jim goes back to prison, where Bevins leaves him in revenge for his courtroom conduct. Two inmates try to silence Jim; he barely escapes. Jim finally obtains a picture of Sorvino, enabling him to answer Bevins’ questions. But another attack in the prison laundry room nearly kills him.
Guest Stars: William Daniels (1) as Gary Bevins, Sandy Ward as Peter Henshaw, Jason Wingreen as Clarence Rohrs, Stuart Margolin as Evelyn "Angel" Martin, | Co-Guest Stars: Ted Gehring as Warden Futrell, Vernon Weddle as Mike Prescott, Robert Ray Sutton (2) as Carl, John Lupton as Henry Franks, Lieux Dressler as Margaret Raucher, Cliff Carnell as Gordy, John Gowans as Doctor, Angelo Nazzo as Pervis, Jack Garner as Bailiff
Director: Jeannot Szwarc
Writer: Juanita Bartlett
 
53 :03x08 - Rattlers' Class of '63 (Nov/26/1976)
Jim gets invited to Angel’s wedding – a hour and a half before it occurs. Angel marries a lovely Armenian girl, Regine, but this is the first her family knows about the marriage. It’s not the first they’ve heard of Angel. He and his partner Eddie were running a con on the Boyajians, pretending to represent a company interested in purchasing their land in an arrangement that cost them thousands in phony fees. When Eddie winds up beaten to death, Angel figures the Boyajians killed him, and rushes to marry Regine to turn their wrath. But the timing is wrong – the murder occurred before the Boyajians learned they had been conned. So someone else killed Eddie. Worse, Angel dropped Jim’s name during the con, so now both men face bunko charges, and maybe murder charges. Jim’s only choice is to figure out who killed Eddie and why. To do that, he feigns interest in the property figuring that might draw the killer’s attention. And it does...
Special Guest Stars: James Wainwright as Gene "Gino" Chechik, | Guest Stars: Elayne Heilveil as Regine Boyajian, Avery Schreiber as Azie Boyajian, John Durren (1) as Leo Kale, Gerald McRaney as Jerryl, Stuart Margolin as Evelyn "Angel" Martin, | Co-Guest Stars: Rudy Ramos as Bobby Boyajian, Sandra Kerns as Robin Seidlitz, Stacy Keach, Sr. (2) as Reverend, Stanley Brock as Elliott Deutch, Ed Vasgersian as Hank Boyajian, Luis Delgado as Officer Billings
Director: Meta Rosenberg
Writer: David Chase
 
54 :03x09 - Return to the Thirty-Eighth Parallel (Dec/10/1976)
Old Army buddy Al Brennan drops in for a visit. The next day, Marcy Brownell visits, hoping Jim will find her missing sister. But Jim doesn’t take missing persons cases, saying that most of the time, people who go missing do so because they do not wish to be found. Brennan then offers to help, revealing that he’s between work at the moment and thinks he can help. Reluctantly involved, Jim soon realizes things are not as they appear, when he confronts a collector of stolen art. Then Jim drops in on Marcy and someone cold cocks him, and he learns that his old buddy really came out to get a line on some missing art for an insurance company. Is Jim’s pal Al just using Jim to sniff out the goods, so he can collect the reward, or has he gone crooked?
Guest Stars: Ned Beatty as Al Brennan, Veronica Hamel as Marcy Brownell, Paul Stevens as John Stabila, Norman Burton as Markell (as Normann Burton), James Congdon as Alvin Thomas, Jeff David as Funeral Director, | Co-Guest Stars: Robert Karnes as Captain Huelette, Michael Ebert as Lee Nejman, John Mahon as Lt. Hayes, Bart Burns as Fire Department Chief, Charles Winters as Kevin Lindsey, Tom Stewart (1) as Aarons, Michael Alldredge as Cab Driver, Sam Vlahos as Deck Hand, Ted Noose as Agent
Director: Bruce Kessler
Writer: Walter Dallenbach
 
55 :03x10 - Piece Work (Dec/17/1976)
Jim is investigating an insurance claim at a health club when a man named Murray Rosner guesses Jim might be a cop. And that makes Rosner nervous, because he’s working a deal with Ciro Lucas, the club’s owner. Lucas has Jim’s locker searched, and learns enough to send men to his home. Jim surprises them and they spattered him with a rock – which only serves to convince him that he’s stumbled onto something. Jim has just one lead: as he fell, he tore one attacker’s coat pocket and bottles of pills spilled out. The attackers failed to recover one bottle, giving Jim a name: Fred Molin. Jim follows Molin to the Beverly Sherwin Hotel where he collects Rosner. Jim follows the men quite a distance to a barn in the country, and there learns he’s stumbled into something worse than insurance scams: Rosner and Lucas are running guns! But as Jim digs, he discovers that Murray Rosner may be more than he appears.
Guest Stars: Michael Lerner (1) as Murray Rosner, James Luisi as Lt. Doug Chapman, Ned Wilson as Robert Spiker, Simon Scott (1) as Gregory McGill, Ben Frank as Fred Molin, Frank Maxwell as Ciro Lucas, | Co-Guest Stars: Jack Bannon (1) as Herbert Deane, Michael Mancini as Angie Pictaggi, Deborah Landes as Lillian Rossner, Harvey Vernon as Jerry Leedy, Ricky Powell as Junior Rosner, Luis Delgado as Officer Jack Billings
Director: Lawrence Doheny
Writer: Juanita Bartlett
 
56 :03x11 - The Trouble with Warren (Dec/24/1976)
A man crosses a parking garage, enters his car and begins to leave. Another car pulls behind him. A hand emerges from the second car, holding a pistol, and squeezes off several shots... Later, Beth’s nerdy cousin Warren finds Jim in a pool hall. Warren’s in “bad trouble” but before he can explain further, two men accost him. With a scream, Warren flees as Jim knocks the men down. Then Warren reveals that the men were police detectives! It seems the police want to question Warren about the death of Robert Bonner – a man with whom Warren had argued earlier that day. Jim has to deal with angry cops and with Beth, who pleads with him to look into the matter and clear her cousin’s name.
Guest Stars: Ron Rifkin as Warren Weeks, Paul Jenkins as Gareth Hudson, James Luisi as Lt. Doug Chapman, Joe Maross as Perry Lefcourt, John Dullaghan as Todd Alpine, Tom Bower (1) as Jeffrey Cooperman, | Co-Guest Stars: Anne Randall as Catherine Lefcourt (as Anne Randall Stewart), M. P. Murphy (1) as Janitor, Jan Stratton as Hilda, Tom Williams (1) as Wedding Guest, Ed Crick as Parking Attendant, Vince Howard as Kleinschmidt, Shirley Anthony as Secretary
Director: Christian I. Nyby, II
Writer: Juanita Bartlett
 
57 :03x12 - There's One in Every Port (Jan/07/1977)
Jim goes to visit his friend Eddie Marks, whose kidneys are failing. There Jim discovers the hospital has denied Eddie medical assistance for a dialysis machine. Jim met Eddie, a confidence man, while in prison. Jim meets Eddie’s daughter Christine, who offers to front him $10,000 if he can find a high-stakes card game. She proposes that Jim win the $50,000 she needs to buy her father a dialysis machine by playing cards. Jim finds a game, and during it, masked man break into the room and steal everyone’s money! Blast Gillette, another player, figures Jim for the bird dog and threatens to punch his ticket. A note from Eddie warns Jim he “should have seen it coming.” To stay alive, Jim has to find Eddie and Christine, and then run a game on them to get Gillette’s money back.
Special Guest Stars: Howard Duff as Edward J. Marks, | Guest Stars: Joan Van Ark as Christina Marks, John Dehner as Judge Lyman, Steve Landesberg as Kenny Hollywood, John Mahon as Victor Sherman, Jack Riley as Adrian Lyman, George Memmoli as Blast Gillette, Michael Delano as Sharkey, Ric Mancini (1) as Aaron, Stuart Margolin as Evelyn "Angel" Martin, | Co-Guest Stars: Byron Morrow as George Greenleaf / Ray Fahasateur aka Ray the Rat, Kenneth Tobey as Captain, Stanley Brock as Morris, Chris Winfield (2) as Waiter, Buddy Pantsari as Ski Mask
Director: Meta Rosenberg
Writer: Stephen J. Cannell
 
58 :03x13 - Sticks and Stones May Break Your Bones, But Waterbury Will Bury You (Jan/14/1977)
Jim returns from vacation and discovers Billy Merrihew watching his trailer. Billy was a private investigator until he lost his license, and now he needs help from Jim. Investigating, Jim turns up two other investigators who have accepted work from Odette Sorrell and suffered for it – one has lost his license, and one likely soon will. And when Jim tracks down "Odette Sorrell", really Susan Hanrahan, a couple of goons roust him. Since “Odette Sorrell” is burning private investigators, Jim wants to go slow. But while he’s devising a plan two of the men decide to try their own stake-out – and one of them dies, apparently the victim of a burglary. Jim has to find a floor that doesn’t exist inside the world’s second largest detective agency to solve this one.
Guest Stars: Simon Oakland as Vern St. Cloud, Cleavon Little as Billy Merrihew, Val Bisoglio as Marvin A. Potempkin, Anthony Costello as Ted Clair, Robert Riesel as Wass, James Storm as Officer Phil, George Pentecost as Carl Colavito, Linda Dano as Gwen Molinaro, | Co-Guest Stars: James Karen as John LaPointe, Jack Garner as Bartender, Katharine Charles as Susan Hanrahan, Fritzi Burr as Receptionist, Hank Stohl as Guard, Brian Libby as Garth McCreery, Henry G. Sanders (1) as Hardhat
Director: Jerry London (1)
Writer: David Chase
 
59 :03x14 - The Trees, the Bees and T.T. Flowers (1) (Jan/21/1977)
As Rocky visits his old friend T. T. Flowers, T. T.’s daughter and her husband arrive, along with people from Horizons Crest, a nursing home. They haul the old man away, claiming “diminished capacity.” Rocky wants Jim to investigate, but Jim considers it a family matter and legal. Finally, he agrees to look into it. After working his way around roadblocks, Jim visits T. T. at Horizons Crest and discovers him raving. Clearly, he has mental problems and may belong in an institution. So why, when Jim leaves Horizons Crest, does someone try to kill him? Returning to T. T.’s home, Jim discovers T. T.'s son-in-law ransacking the place, and a developer named Muellard who's also very interested in the properly. Jim has to figure out how all these people are related...
Special Guest Stars: Alex Rocco as Sherman Royle, | Guest Stars: Strother Martin as T. T. Flowers, Karen Machon as Cathy Royle, Scott Brady as Jack Muellard, Richard Venture as Dr. Ben Christ, Roy Jenson as Winchell, | Co-Guest Stars: Paul Sylvan as Steve Fisher, Fred Stuthman as Homer Hodgson, Jack Stauffer as Brubaker, Bob Hastings as Hank Gidley, Linda Ryan as Maid, Allen Williams as Dr. Fellows, June Whitley Taylor as Nurse, | Uncredited: David S. Cass, Sr. (1) as Mort, Fred Lerner as Lou
Director: Jerry London (1)
Writer: Gordon Dawson
 
60 :03x15 - The Trees, the Bees and T.T. Flowers (2) (Jan/28/1977)
Faced with no other choices, Jim sneaks T. T. Flowers out of Horizons Crest, barely bluffing his way past the police. Jim tells T. T. that he and Beth will visit the courthouse in the morning while T. T. hides, and straighten things out. But T. T. does not trust lawyers, so he returns to his home, Freedom, and barricades himself in to keep the developer out. Jim tries, but is unable to persuade T. T. to leave his home. Finally, T. T. surrenders when the bulldozer leaves – and then he and Jim discover that all charges have been dropped. Muellard’s sinister smile conveys the reason: his plans for the old man no longer involve the courts. A small explosive severs the brake line on T. T. Flowers’ truck, and the accident kills Jim and T. T., leaving Muellard in the clear and Rocky to read eulogies...
Special Guest Stars: Alex Rocco as Sherman Royle, | Guest Stars: Strother Martin as T. T. Flowers, Karen Machon as Cathy Royle, Scott Brady as Jack Muellard, Roy Jenson as Winchell, Robert DoQui as SWAT Commander Willis, | Co-Guest Stars: Tom Rosqui as Brockmeyer, Fred Stuthman as Homer Hodgson, Jack Stauffer as Brubaker, Dave Shelley as Division Commander, Linda Ryan as Maid, June Whitley Taylor as Nurse, Ric Carrott (1) as Attendant, Mike Laurence as Newscaster, Fred Lerner as Lou, David S. Cass, Sr. (1) as Mort (as Dave Cass)
Director: Jerry London (1)
Writer: Gordon Dawson
 
61 :03x16 - The Becker Connection (Feb/11/1977)
Dennis finds himself called back to the station after a long work day. There he discovers that heroin has disappeared from the evidence room. Some has found its way into Dennis’ spare tire. Money is tight for Becker so the internal affairs detectives have a motive. Dennis persuades Jim to take a look, and Jim uncovers Mickey Golden and Willie Hatton. Jim finds Becker moonlighting at Century Cab and runs the names. Becker hares off after Willie Hatton; Jim can’t follow right away. When he finds Willie, “The Hat” is face down in the bathtub. Then someone smashes a chair over Jim’s head, and when Jim comes to, there’s a matchbook from Century Cab on the floor near him. Someone’s building a frame around Dennis, and maybe around Jim at the same time.
Special Guest Stars: Jack Kelly (1) as Alex Kasajian, | Guest Stars: Jack Carter (1) as Marty Golden, Bert Kramer as Capt. O'Reilly, William Jordan (2) as Detective Andrew Dolan, Pat Finley as Peggy Becker, Stuart Margolin as Evelyn "Angel" Martin, | Co-Guest Stars: James Sikking as John Hicklin, Lal Baum as Joey Holbrook, Rita George as Officer Hasty, Luis Delgado as Officer Billings, Helen Schustack as Meter Maid, Warren Munson as Hotel Clerk, Bucklind Beery as Officer Al Mazursky
Director: Reza Badiyi
Story: Ted Harris, Chas Floyd Johnson | Teleplay: Juanita Bartlett
 
62 :03x17 - Just Another Polish Wedding (Feb/18/1977)
Jim’s old friend from “C” block, Gandolph Fitch, rolls back into his life. Fitch has lost his job as a bouncer for smacking around one too many folks, and wants to partner with Jim. But Jim doesn’t really need a hammer, so he hooks Fitch up with Marcus Hayes. Jim goes off to track down an heir for the county probate office. But Hayes uses what Fitch knows with his own skills to try for the same heir, figuring on a nice fat finder’s fee if he can get there first. Trouble is, no one thought to ask the most important question of all: where did the money originally come from? Asking that question might have prepared both detectives for the bent-nosed folks who really, really want their money back...
Special Guest Stars: Isaac Hayes as Gandolph "Gandy" Fitch, | Guest Stars: Louis Gossett, Jr. as Marcus Hayes (as Lou Gossett), Pepper Martin as Melvin, | Co-Guest Stars: Walter Brooke as Mr. Gertmainian, Dennis Burkley as Bartender, Anthony Charnota as Dancer, Barney McFadden as Fred Koska, Jack Collins (1) as Frank Martin / Finn O'Herlihy, George Skaff as Maitre'd, Melendy Britt as Musicians Union Secretary, Sidney Clute as Funeral Administrator, Raymond Singer as Johnny Goodbie, Alfred Dennis as Mr. Koska, Boni Enten as Hildy Mitchell, Holly Irving as Mrs. Martin, Jean LeBouvier as Mrs. Mitchell, Bruce Tuthill as Yacht Club Attendant
Director: William Wiard
Writer: Stephen J. Cannell
 
63 :03x18 - New Life, Old Dragons (Feb/25/1977)
In halting English, Pham Van Mai asks Jim to find her missing brother Vinh. Jim suggests the police, who are better equipped for finding the lost. Offered cash, Jim reluctantly agrees to help. Vinh’s sponsor’s address is a vacant lot, but Jim continues to probe, and gets a reaction: he returns home in time to catch two men fleeing. They hit Rocky and ransacked Jim’s trailer. When Jim asks Mai what she has gotten him into, she only offers more money. The next day the goons return to ask Jim questions. Pressed, Mai says she doesn’t know the men, but she might know their motive: Vinh worked for an Army ranger camp in Vietnam, and when a Viet Cong rocket attack killed many Rangers, the survivors blamed him. But the truth may be more complicated...
Guest Stars: Kathleen Nolan as Kathy Hartman, Irene Yah-Ling Sun as Pham Tan Mai, Charles Napier as Mitch Donner, Charles Siebert as Gary Stillman, Luke Askew as Benson Kelly / Robert Coffee, James T. Callahan (1) as Leslie Hartman (as James Callahan), | Co-Guest Stars: Clyde Kusatsu as Nuyen, Al Stevenson as L. J., Luis Delgado as Officer Billings, Bruce Tuthill as Officer, Jim Ishida as Pham Van Vinh, Herbe Kayde as Guard, Jay Gerber as Deputy Chief, Robert Phalen as Will Dunning
Director: Jeannot Szwarc
Story: Bernard Rollins, Leroy Robinson | Teleplay: David C. Taylor
 
64 :03x19 - To Protect and Serve, Part I (Mar/11/1977)
On a bright Los Angeles Tuesday, Dennis responds to a hostage situation and ends up having to shoot the suspect. Meanwhile, Jim’s trying to trace a missing woman who fled New York. A couple of goons also want to know what he’s learned, prompting Jim to guess she might have good reason to stay lost. But when Jim tries to quit, his client Michael Kelly threatens to kill him! Later, Dennis meets with Lt. Chapman about the shooting, but Chapman clumsily maneuvers the conversation around to Michael Kelly, in whom the NYPD is interested. Chapman wants Becker to find out why Kelly contacted Jim Rockford. And through it all, a police groupie named Lianne Sweeny inserts herself into the case with lies and half-truths, creating havoc and endangering lives and careers.
Guest Stars: Joyce Van Patten as Lianne Sweeny, James Luisi as Lt. Doug Chapman, Leslie Charleson as Patsy Fossler, Jon Cypher as Michael Kelly, George Loros as 'Anthony Boy' Gagglio, | Co-Guest Stars: Pat Finley as Peggy Becker, Luke Andreas as Syl, James Coleman (1) as Officer Haydu, Luis Delgado as Officer Billings, Charles Parks as Officer Drum, Jason Ledger as Sergeant Salcedo, Bob Peterson as Bartender
Director: William Wiard
Writer: David Chase
 
65 :03x20 - To Protect and Serve Part II (Mar/18/1977)
Jim has got himself in the middle of an attempt by mobsters to find Patsy Fossler, whom they believe knows far too much about their activities. They’ve sent one of their own, Michael Kelly, and a couple of goons out to look. Fossler turned around and hired Jim, who didn’t know what he was buying. The New York Police have contacted the Los Angeles Police because anything Michael Kelly does interests them both – Kelly’s client is Joseph Minnet, a powerful New York crime boss. And police groupie Lianne Sweeny continues to insert herself into the middle of it, causing trouble and endangering lives.
Guest Stars: Joyce Van Patten as Lianne Sweeny, James Luisi as Lt. Doug Chapman, Leslie Charleson as Patsy Fossler, Jon Cypher as Michael Kelly, George Loros as 'Anthony Boy' Gagglio, Lou Frizzell as Mr. Wesley, | Co-Guest Stars: Luke Andreas as Syl, Angus Duncan as John Fossler, Douglas Ryan (2) as Deputy, Bucklind Beery as Officer Mazursky, Charles Bateman as 1st Detective, Jack Lucarelli as Bowling Alley Customer, Nick Dimitri as Dorsey
Director: William Wiard
Writer: David Chase
 
66 :03x21 - Crack Back (Mar/25/1977)
Two masked men rob Gibby’s Place. Much later, Davey Woodhull has hired Beth to defend him. The police picked him up one day after the crime wearing a watch that matched the description of one stolen during the robbery. She believes the state has a good case but that Woodhull is innocent. Jim’s job is to find a key witness, Doreen Carpenter, whose testimony can clear Beth’s client. At the same time, the mysterious Harriet Beecher Foundation sends Beth strange gifts and harasses her. Jim eventually finds Doreen Carpenter and convinces her to testify, but a sniper kills her as they leave her apartment building! With Beth’s life and Davey Woodhull’s future on the line, Jim has to unravel this mess before the trial ends.
Guest Stars: Joseph Mascolo as Gibby, Howard McGillin as Davey Woodhull, John Calvin (1) as Preston Garnett, Sondra Blake as Doreen Carpenter, Conchata Ferrell as Ella Mae White, | Co-Guest Stars: Nick Ferris as Cab Driver, Bo Kaprall as Willie Gunter, Robert Miller Driscoll (3) as Prosecutor Rosecranz, Jack Garner as Court Deputy, Norman Bartold as Judge Carroll, Glenn Robards as Doorman, Robert Ward (2) as Reporter #1, Bill Woodard as Football Player, Gloria Dixon as Reporter #2, Bill Baldwin (1) as Jury Foreman
Director: Reza Badiyi
Writer: Juanita Bartlett
 
67 :03x22 - Dirty Money, Black Light (Apr/01/1977)
Two men break into Rocky’s house while Rocky’s on vacation. They’re looking for something and they don’t find it. The next day, Jim goes through Rocky’s mail looking for bills to pay and discovers an envelope containing $11,000 in cash! The envelopes keep coming, $11,000 each day without a note or a return address. Angel pinches a little bit of the money – too bad for him, since it’s marked money. Nabbed, he gives up Jim and Joseph right away. Federal agents come after the Rockfords, and so do some people who might be the original source of the money. And Jim can’t reach his father in Hawaii. Jim’s got to figure out what’s going on or Rocky faces fraud, tax evasion and murder charges!
Guest Stars: John P. Ryan as Dearborn, Wesley Addy as Agent Steiner, Roger E. Mosley as Electric Larry, Joshua Bryant as Agent Mike Wolf, John Chappell as Blake, Stuart Margolin as Evelyn "Angel" Martin, | Co-Guest Stars: Martin Kove as Harry Smick, Victor Argo as Jud Brown, Mike Lane (1) as Tony, Mary Carver as 1st Receptionist, Dick McGarvin as Bank Teller, Craig Wasson as Steve, Edward Knight (1) as Fed, Naomi Grumette as 2nd Receptionist, Charles Hutchins as Trainer, Dani Heath as Switchboard Operator
Director: Stuart Margolin
Writer: David C. Taylor
 
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