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Normal Episodes: 22
TV Specials: 0
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	5x01 Heartaches of a Fool When Rocky is hi-jacked and injured while delivering sausages, Jim investigates the sausage company through their spokesperson; a country and western singer...	Sep. 22, 1978
	5x02 Rosendahl and Gilda Stern are Dead Jim helps Rita prove her innocence when she is accused of murdered a prominant doctor when in fact she witnessed the parties who committed the crime...	Sep. 29, 1978
	5x03 The Jersey Bounce Jim stands accused of murdering one of Rocky's neighbours party guests when matters get out of hand, but Jim's counsel seems pre-occupied so puts his fate in the hands of legal researcher ...	Oct. 06, 1978
	5x04 White on White and Nearly Perfect Jim works with Lance White, a fellow who is so perfect it seems unreal, when investigating the kidnapping of the daughter of a prominant weapons industrialist...	Oct. 20, 1978
	5x05 Kill the Messenger Jim helps Dennis who, while studying for his promotion to Lieutenant , is handed the murder investigation of the Deputy Police Cheif's wife...	Oct. 27, 1978
	5x06 The Empty Frame Angel Martin catches hs brother-in-law Aaron Kiel in an affari and holds it over his head. When Kiel gets appointed police commissioner Angel thinks he's in tall cotten and begins influence ...	Nov. 03, 1978
	5x07 A Three-Day Affair With a Thirty-Day Escrow Jim is taken before a family of Arabs who want to know why his client hired him to find thier missing daughter. JIm must find the client, the daughter and figure how the cas eis contected ...	Nov. 10, 1978
	5x08 A Good Clean Bust With Sequel Rights Jim is hired by a toy manufacturer asks babysit a a cop turned tv writer who keeps falling into trouble and is desperate to solve one last big case involving a mob hit...	Nov. 17, 1978
	5x09 Black Mirror (1) PART 1 Jim falls for Megan, a blind psychologist with a dangerously psychotic patient who is tormenting her...	Nov. 24, 1978
	5x10 Black Mirror (2) PART 2 Jim tries to trace Megan's stalker, who is a patient with a dual personality...	Nov. 24, 1978
	5x11 A Fast Count A murder investigation leads Jim to a TV personality who is trying to frame a boxer's manager...	Dec. 01, 1978
	5x12 Local Man Eaten by Newspaper While investigsting a tabloid newspaper who are stealing medical information on celebrities, Jim recieves some bad press after his client, the celebrity doctor is shot dead...	Dec. 08, 1978
	5x13 With the French Heel Back, Can the Nehru Jacket Be Far Behind? While investigating the death of a young model, Jim keeps stumbling into the murder of a jet setting model and the connection between them and a fashion house about to sport a new ...	Jan. 05, 1979
	5x14 The Battle-Ax and the Exploding Cigar Have Jim and a passenger are arrested after guns are found in a car Jim is suprised to learn his passenger has got off scott free and enlists the help of a Secretary who is concerned ...	Jan. 12, 1979
	5x15 Guilt Jim aids his former fiance whose life has been threatened by a mystery figure...	Jan. 19, 1979
	5x16 The Deuce After serving on a jury of a drunk driver, Jim is hired by the defedant to help proove his innocence...	Jan. 26, 1979
	5x17 The Man Who Saw the Alligators When a hit-man Jim helped imprison is released threatening revenge, Jim goes into hiding, but Angel unfortunately reveals his friends hideout...	Feb. 10, 1979
	5x18 The Return of the Black Shadow John Cooper goes after the biker gang which attacked Jim and his date Gail - Coop's sister...	Feb. 17, 1979
	5x19 A Material Difference Angel poses a high priced hitman but Jim must help when he collects his fee without making his hit, but the victim is apparently still killed, whilst Naval Intellegence and the Russians ...	Feb. 24, 1979
	5x20 Never Send a Boy King to Do a Man's Job (1) PART 1 Jim helps Ritchie Brockleman set up a big con in order to retrieve money which the villain extorted from Ritchie's father...	Mar. 03, 1979
	5x21 Never Send a Boy King to Do a Man's Job (2) The con continues and proves sucessful when one of the fellow one artists appears to make of with the cheque...	Mar. 03, 1979
	5x22 A Different Drummer Hospitalized by an accident, Jim is convinced he sees a doctor perform an organ extraxion on a live patient...	Apr. 13, 1979

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Season 5 Characters

Jim Rockford	played by James Garner
Dennis Becker	played by Joe Santos
Joseph 'Rocky' Rockford	played by Noah Beery Jr.
Officer Billings	played by Luis Delgado
Angel	played by Stuart Margolin
Lt. Doug Chapman	played by James Luisi
John Cooper	played by Bo Hopkins
Nurse	played by Anne Bellamy
Janitor	played by Jack Garner
Receptionist	played by Shirley Anthony
Maggie	played by Freddye Chapman
Joseph 'Rocky' Rockford #2	played by Noah Beery Jr.
Harold Jack Coombs	played by Robert Webber
Police Sgt. Frank Dusenberg	played by W.K. Stratton
Danny Green	played by John Pleshette
Jackie Tetuska	played by John Pleshette
Odette Lependieu	played by Trisha Noble
Vincent	played by Frank Christi
Roger Orloff	played by Carl Franklin
Myron Katzin	played by Allan Arbus
Larry Litrell	played by Gary Crosby
Norman	played by Denny Miller
Dr. Carl Rainer	played by Alan Manson

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Season 5 Quotes

	Season 5 / Episode 1: - Heartaches of a Fool Jim Rockford: How do you like that? Your Cripple Creek sausages are being distributed by a Chinese noodle company. That oughta knock the old down home country image right in the head.
	Season 5 / Episode 5: - Kill the Messenger Jim Rockford: This is Jim Rockford. At the tone leave your name and message, I'll get back to you. Chet: [beeep] Jim? Chet returning your call. Sorry I missed you, but I appreciate you calling back. If you call again and I'm not in just leave your message and I'll get back to YOU!

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Season 5 Trivia

Episode 17 - At the beginning Rockford has just had dental surgery which concludes a running gag about his dental troubles. On several earlier shows, the recorded telephone messages concern his failures to keep his dental appointments which eventually results in his dental surgery.
Episode 22 - Goof (continuity error): After Dr Yost rigged the exhaust in Rockford's rental car causing Rockford to nearly lose consciousness while driving, Rockford jumped out of the car just before it went off the cliff. However, the Lincoln Continental he jumped out of was a late 1980's model; the car that flew off
Episode 12 - Goof (audio/visual unsynchronized): On the steps, Cooper yells, "Dive Jim!" and you see Jim lay down behind a tree. When the camera shows Cooper again, he grabs his chest and falls down, but you don't hear a gun shot until after he has fallen.
Episode 20 - When Jimmy Joe Meeker buys Larry Litrell's car, he pays him from a large wad of bills; those that can be seen are of the $1,000 denomination.
Episode 16 - Goof (continuity error): When Jim visits the office of Horvath and Horvath, he is carrying a briefcase, but when he leaves, he is not carrying the case.

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