Episode
The Rockford Files: Local Man Eaten by Newspaper
Overview
Jim could use some saintly guidance when he goes undercover on a scandal rag that is getting confidential medical information on a doctor's famous, and infamous, patients.
Details
- Series
- The Rockford Files
- Season
- Season 5
- Episode
- Episode 12
- Air date
- 1978-12-08
- Runtime
- 48 min
Episode context
Local Man Eaten by Newspaper is Episode 12 in Season 5 of The Rockford Files. It aired on 1978-12-08. The runtime is 48 min.
Previous / Next
Episode 11: A Fast Count
Jim puts up his dukes and steps forward to help a boxing coach who has been framed with bribery and murder.
Episode 13: With the French Heel Back, Can the Nehru Jacket Be Far Behind?
A fashion model friend of Jim is found dead on the ground below her balcony. The police believe it's suicide, but having gotten a desperate phone call from her, Jim believes it's murder.
More episodes from this season
Episode 10: Black Mirror: Part 2
Rockford's investigation of psychologist Megan Dougherty's stalker leads him to one of her patients who may have a split personality - one of which is a paid killer.
Episode 14: The Battle-Ax and the Exploding Cigar
Ignorant that he's been driving a hot Cadillac with an illegal stash of guns in the trunk, leads Jim into rubbing shoulders with the FBI and the Company.
Episode 9: Black Mirror: Part 1
A blind psychologist, who is being terrorized by an unknown stalker, turns to Jim for help.
Episode 15: Guilt
Jim finds his guilty conscience being manipulated by a former fiancee, who asks him to find out who is threatening her life.
Episode 8: A Good Clean Bust with Sequel Rights
Jim is forced to babysit Chicago ex-cop, now celebrity, "Frank Falcone," who has a television show and toy line. Falcone isn't easy to babysit, and things get dicey when some old Chicago "friends" of Falcone show up to complicate things.
Episode 16: The Deuce
Having Jim doing jury duty leads to a mistrial and his being hired to investigate the case of pedestrian hit by a drunk-driver that brought the accused to court.
Episode 7: Three Day Affair with a Thirty Day Escrow
After being strong-armed by an Arab sheik and his goons, and getting no help from the police, Jim decides to track down the two people who caused his trouble: a soft-voiced gigolo and the sheik's naive daughter.
Episode 17: The Man Who Saw the Alligators
If having the IRS wanting to do an audit isn't bad enough, a gangster Jim helped put in prison is out on parole and wants a pound of his flesh in revenge.
Episode 6: The Empty Frame
At a swank party, attended by some of LA's high society and police dept. VIPs, in honor of Angel's brother-in-law, Aaron, being made Chief of Police, a robbery takes place, while Lt. Doug Chapman is in charge of security. Desperate to get back into good graces with his superiors, Chapman swallows his pride and asks Rockford to help him.
Episode 18: The Return of the Black Shadow
A gang of bikers beat up Jim and assault John Cooper's sister, leading Coop to seek vengeance by returning to a darker period in his past when he was in a biker gang.