Ex-con-turned-private-investigator Jim Rockford would rather fish than fight but his instinct on closed police cases is more golden than his classic Pontiac Firebird. From his mobile trailer-home in Malibu (complete with phone-answer machine), this wisecracking private eye takes on cases of the lost and dispossessed, chasing down seemingly long-dead clues in the sun-baked streets and seamy alleys of L.A. - for $200 a day...plus expenses.