In the series finale, Jim Rockford drives off into a California sunset in his wounded Firebird, after being ensnared in a small-town council battle with big implications. While trout fishing in the mountains, the vacationing PI becomes the emergency proxy for a fellow angler, an environmentalist councilman, felled by appendicitis. But the seemingly-innocuous proposition for a Parma city park, attracts a trailer load of New Jersey mobsters who urge Rockford to keep his vote green, or sleep with the fishes. Meanwhile, this town council in the land of endless propositions, acts to force their temporary member Rockford to go fishing under the moonlight, but not in Parma.
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Complete story — includes the ending
While on a fishing trip Rockford gets swindled into casting a proxy vote on a law that would sneak legalized gambling into the town of Parma. Jim finds himself with his hands full having to deal with an unseasoned journalist looking for a story, a corrupt sheriff who runs him out of town, and two sets of gangsters on opposite sides of the issue, both leaning on him to vote their way. With Jerry Hardin, Henry Beckman, Ben Piazza, Michael Cavanaugh, J. Edward McKinley, Virgil Frye, Gary Grubbs, Joseph Sirola and Sandra Kerns.