The Rockford Files
S3 E13 • Sticks and Stones May Break Your Bones, But Waterbury Will Bury You
Episodes

The Fourth Man
7.5Jim 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.
43 min

The Oracle Wore a Cashmere Suit
7.0Rockford 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.
43 min

The Family Hour
8.0Jim and Rocky find an abandoned young girl that leads to Jim finding and helping her father.
48 min

Feeding Frenzy
6.0Jim 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.
43 min

Drought at Indianhead River
9.0Jim finds out there's a hit out on Angel and runs into trouble with the mob bailing him out.
48 min

Coulter City Wildcat
8.0Rocky 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.
43 min

So Help Me God
Jim gets called before a grand jury where he promptly gets thrown into jail for contempt.
48 min

Rattlers' Class of '63
8.0Angel 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.
43 min

Return to the 38th Parallel
8.0Jim gets used by an old Army buddy in an insurance recovery case.
43 min

Piece Work
8.0While investigating an insurance claim Jim accidentally stumbles into a gun smuggling operation.
43 min

The Trouble with Warren
8.0Beth's nerdy cousin Warren drags Jim into his mounting troubles.
43 min

There's One in Every Port
9.0After being conned by friends Jim sets them up to settle the score and save himself.
48 min

Sticks and Stones May Break Your Bones, But Waterbury Will Bury You
When several of Jim's fellow P.I.'s lose their licenses under circumstances that are suspiciously similar, he begins to suspect that someone is targeting independent investigators and systematically putting them out of business.
43 min

The Trees, the Bees and T.T. Flowers: Part 1
9.0Jim helps a friend (Strother Martin) of Rocky's who's being forced off his property.
43 min

The Trees, the Bees and T.T. Flowers: Part 2
9.0Jim helps a friend of Rocky's who's being forced off his property.
44 min

The Becker Connection
8.0Rockford's newest case is to clear his friend Dennis Becker, who is suspected of selling drugs to deal with his financial problems.
43 min

Just Another Polish Wedding
8.0Jim gets Gandy (Isaac Hayes) a job with his P.I. buddy Marcus Hayes (Louis Gossett Jr.) who promptly then tries to steal the case.
48 min

New Life, Old Dragons
8.0Jim is hired by a Vietnamese refugee to find her missing brother.
48 min

To Protect and Serve: Part 1
8.0Rockford is hired to find a missing woman, only to discover that she is also being sought by a New York crime family.
48 min

To Protect and Serve: Part 2
Rockford tries to keep a woman on the run out of the hands of two Minette hoods (and her revenge minded ex-fiancé) but the bungling interference of a disturbed police groupie threatens to get them both killed.
48 min

Crack Back
8.0Beth turns to Jim for help when she finds herself being mentally harassed by a mysterious man while trying to win an important trial.
47 min

Dirty Money, Black Light
9.0Jim becomes very concerned when Rocky starts receiving thousands of dollars through the mail.
43 min