Episode

The Rockford Files: The Fourth Man

Name: The Rockford Files: The Fourth Man
Released: 1976-09-24
Duration: 43 min
Cast: James Garner, Noah Beery Jr., Joe Santos, Gretchen Corbett, Stuart Margolin

The Rockford FilesSeason 31976-09-24

Overview

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.

Details

Series: The Rockford Files
Season: Season 3
Episode: Episode 1
Air date: 1976-09-24
Runtime: 43 min

Episode context

The Fourth Man is Episode 1 in Season 3 of The Rockford Files. It aired on 1976-09-24. The runtime is 43 min.

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Episode 2: The Oracle Wore a Cashmere Suit 1976-10-01 | 43 min 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.

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Episode 3: The Family Hour 1976-10-08 | 48 min Jim and Rocky find an abandoned young girl that leads to Jim finding and helping her father.

Episode 4: Feeding Frenzy 1976-10-15 | 43 min 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.

Episode 5: Drought at Indianhead River 1976-11-05 | 48 min Jim finds out there's a hit out on Angel and runs into trouble with the mob bailing him out.

Episode 6: Coulter City Wildcat 1976-11-12 | 43 min 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.

Episode 7: So Help Me God 1976-11-19 | 48 min Jim gets called before a grand jury where he promptly gets thrown into jail for contempt.

Episode 8: Rattlers' Class of '63 1976-11-26 | 43 min 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.

Episode 9: Return to the 38th Parallel 1976-12-10 | 43 min Jim gets used by an old Army buddy in an insurance recovery case.

Episode 10: Piece Work 1976-12-17 | 43 min While investigating an insurance claim Jim accidentally stumbles into a gun smuggling operation.

Episode 11: The Trouble with Warren 1976-12-24 | 43 min Beth's nerdy cousin Warren drags Jim into his mounting troubles.

Episode 12: There's One in Every Port 1977-01-07 | 48 min After being conned by friends Jim sets them up to settle the score and save himself.