Show Type: Detective Drama
First Telecast: September 13, 1974
Last Telecast: July 25, 1980
Theme Music: "The Rockford Files," by Mike Post and Peter Carpenter
Cast
Jim Rockford..... James Garner
Joseph "Rocky" Rockford (Pilot Only)..... Robert Donley
Joseph "Rocky" Rockford..... Noah Beery, Jr.
Detective Dennis Becker..... Joe Santos
Beth Davenport (1974-1978)..... Gretchen Corbett
Evelyn "Angel" Martin..... Stuart Margolin
John Cooper (1978-1979)..... Bo Hopkins
Lieutenant Alex Diehl (1974-1976)..... Tom Atkins
Lieutenant Doug Chapman (1976-1980)..... James Luisi
Lance White (1979-1980)..... Tom Selleck
SYNOPSIS
Jim Rockford was a private detective with one tiny difference - he was an ex-con. He was imprisoned for a crime he did not commit and was eventually exonerated when new evidence turned up.
He took cases that were closed - those the police were sure had been resolved. He had a real knack for turning up information that might reverse the already established guilty verdict and this did not endear him to the local police, particularly to Det. Dennis Becker with whom he had a love-hate relationship with.