Plot summary
T.T. Flowers ( Strother Martin ) is an eccentric older friend of Rocky. Flowers is committed against his will to a psychiatric institution and given drugs by a complicit doctor to make him paranoid and delusional, so that his daughter (Karen Machon) and son-in-law ( Alex Rocco ) can take control of his estate, which includes ten acres of prime development property. When Rockford intervenes they try to kill him. Out of options and desperate, Jim's last resort is to break Flowers out of the institution. With Scott Brady, Richard Venture, Roy Jenson, Jack Stauffer, Bob Hastings, Paul Sylvan and Fred Stuthman.
Credits
Adapted from Wikipedia contributors, The Rockford Files season 3. HTML formatting and reference markers removed.