The Rockford Files/Local Man Eaten by Newspaper

Local Man Eaten by Newspaper
Season 5, Episode 12
Airdate	December 8, 1978
Written by	Juanita Bartlett
Directed by	Meta Rosenberg
Produced by	Chas. Floyd Johnson and David Chase
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The Rockford Files — Season Five

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Local Man Eaten by Newspaper is the twelfth episode of the fifth season of The Rockford Files, and the one hundred first episode overall.

Starring: James Garner (Jim Rockford)

Also Starring: Noah Beery (Joseph "Rocky" Rockford), Joe Santos (Sgt. Dennis Becker)

Guest Stars: Scott Marlowe (Augie Arnow), Rose Gregorio (Natalie Cotton Arnow), Joseph Hindy (Leo Cotton), Gianni Russo (Johnny Bongard), Kenneth Tigar (Jerry Simpson), Joe E. Tata (Sal)

and Bo Hopkins (John Cooper)

Special Guest Star: Scott Brady (Harold Witbeck)

Co-Starring: Pat Renella (Vincent), Harlee McBride (Monica), Dallas Mitchell (Dr. Hagens)

with Ed Crick (Ken McNaughton), Bill Cross (Security Guard), Marland Proctor (Policeman), Luis Delgado (Officer Billings)

Plot Overview

Rockford poses as a reporter to gain access to a gossip magazine's office, suspecting that someone at the rag broke into his doctor client's office and stole information on his influential patients, but when mobsters are maligned in the paper, Rockford becomes their target.