The Rockford Files

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The Rockford Files is an American television drama series starring James Garner aired on the NBC network between September 13, 1974 and January 10, 1980, and remains in syndication for today. Garner portrays a Los Angeles-based private investigator Jim Rockford with Noah Beery Jr., in the supporting role of his father, a retired truck driver dubbed "Rocky".

The show was made by Roy Huggins and Stephen J. Cannell. Huggins created the Maverick television show (1957-1962), which starred Garner, and he wanted to reclaim the magic in a "modern" detective setting. He worked with Cannell, who had written for the production of Jack Webb such as Adam-12 and Chase (1973-1974, NBC) to create The Rockford Files . The event is credited as "A Public Arts/Roy Huggins Production" along with Cherokee Productions in collaboration with Universal Television. Cherokee is owned by Garner, with partners Meta Rosenberg and Juanita Bartlett, who doubled as story editor for most of The Rockford Files.

In 2002, The Rockford Files ranked No. 39 on TV Guide's 50 Greatest TV Shows of All Time.

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Premise

Producers Roy Huggins and Stephen J. Cannell discovered the Rockford character as a significant departure from the usual television detective at the time, basically Bret Maverick as a modern detective. Rockford had served in San Quentin California Prison in the 1960s because of false beliefs. After five years, he was forgiven. His rare job as a private investigator hardly allowed him to keep his dilapidated (which also serves as his office) home in a parking lot on the coast of Malibu, California.

In the first episode of the first season, the Rockford trailer is located in the parking lot along the highway at 2354 Beach Boulevard (Pacific Coast Highway), Malibu and near the ocean; for the rest of the series, the trailer is at Paradise Cove (address 29 Cove Road), adjacent to the pier and restaurant ("The Sand Castle", now known as "Paradise Cove Beach Cafe"). In the 1994-99 television movies, Rockford lives in a large, extensively enlarged trailer.

Unlike most private television eyes, Rockford wears a low-budget "off the rack" outfit and does his best to avoid fights - though he will engage in fights when there is absolutely no other choice. He rarely brings his special Colt Detective handgun, which is not allowed, preferring to speak out of trouble. He worked on cold cases, missing persons investigations, and low-cost insurance fraud, and repeatedly stated that he did not handle "open cases" to avoid problems with the police. (The self-imposed ruling of Rockford's relaxed in the season.) He has become P.I. since 1968, and the cost is usually $ 200 per day plus the cost ($ 200 at the start of the series' in September 1974 was the adjusted inflation equivalent of $ 986 in March 2018).

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Cast

Listed on opening credits:

James Garner as Jim Rockford
Noah Beery Jr. as Joseph "Rocky" Rockford, Jim's father, a retired truck driver. (This role was played by actor Robert Donley in the 1974 pilot episode.)
Joe Santos as Sergeant Dennis Becker, Jim's friend at the Los Angeles Police Department; he was promoted to lieutenant in season 5.

Recurring cast:

Stuart Margolin as Evelyn "Angel" Martin, a former Jim's prison friend. Angel is an untrustworthy and pathologically untrue liar, whose plan always keeps Jim in trouble, but Jim remains his friend.
Gretchen Corbett as Elizabeth "Beth" Davenport, Jim's lawyer and sometimes her boyfriend (season 1-4).
James Luisi as Lieutenant Douglas J. "Doug" Chapman (season 3-6), Becker's superiors (until Becker's promotion). He and Jim hate each other.
Tom Atkins as Lieutenant Alex/Thomas Diehl, Becker's superiors (seasons 1-2 and 4) who also have an antagonistic relationship with Rockford.

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Pat Finley as Peggy Becker, wife of Sergeant Becker
Isaac Hayes as Gandolph "Gandy" Fitch, a brutal and cruel acquaintance of Rockford from his days in prison. He almost always calls Jim "Rockfish". Jim helps prove Fitch is not committing the crime he was imprisoned. Both became friendly. In subsequent episodes, Fitch tagged with an unscrupulous investigator, Marcus Hayes (Louis Gossett, Jr.) trying to monetize one of the Rockford cases; and needs Jim's help dealing with the mafia who is connected to the ex-husband of his new girlfriend (played by Dionne Warwick). Jim remained in good touch with Fitch, in the direction he seemed to be displaying an almost naive blind spot even though Fitch refused to accept Jim's "no" for answers, and his lack of intent on using force, including sometimes on the recalcitrant Jim.
Bo Hopkins as John "Coop" Cooper, Jimmy's lawyer friend who was fired (Season 5).
Tom Selleck as Lance White, a successful private investigator with a non-cynical approach to business. Liked and admired by everyone except Jim, who found him naive and lucky and tended to cause others to be hurt.
Dennis Dugan as Richie Brockelman, a young, idealistic, naive looking private investigator who seeks Jim's help from time to time. Because of Jim's cynicism and his physical toughness, Richie remains a sharp operator who uses the personality of the "hero" from the outside to cover his persistent wit. This character is separated for short-lived Richie Brockelman, Private Eyes .
Kathryn Harrold as Dr. Megan Dougherty, a blind psychiatrist who employs Jim. Their relationship eventually evolved into romance. Jim is upset in the next episode to find out that he's been engaged to another man.
Simon Oakland as Vern St. Cloud, a diligent, arrogant, and often unreliable private detective. St. Cloud and Rockford reluctantly accept their help from time to time, trafficking insults along the way.
Louis Gossett Jr. as Marcus Aurelius "Gabby" Hayes, a P.I. which is almost always the crowd, usually for the misfortune of Rockford. Gossett first appeared in Foul on the First Play wearing a full wig with sideburns, appearing in the following season in Only Polish Wedding Others without it.
Rita Moreno as Rita Capkovic, an occasional call girl and police informant targeted by a billionaire businessman for her friendship with an elderly widow. In subsequent episodes he is accused of murder of a client; and when he tries to leave his profession and hide with Rockford, he infuriates his former sadistic pimp. It was never made explicit if Jim and Rita had been romantically involved, apart from their close friendship.
Al Stevenson as L.J., a friend from Rocky, who often does a side job for Rocky (in one episode, Jim finds him alone in Rocky's house fixing the shower faucet). L.J. closer to Jim's age than Rocky, and they probably met during his last career as a truck driver.
Hunter von Leer (credited as Hunter Von Leer) as Skip Spence, an enterprising beachgoer, is looking for money placed on the beach near Jim's trailer. Jim finds Skip unpleasant, but Skip occasionally provides useful information for him. In one episode, Skip gives information to gangsters who are looking for Jim.

Supporting characters

Dennis Becker : The chase of the Rockford case often causes difficulties with his friend in LAPD, Sgt. Dennis Becker (Joe Santos), a homicide detective who struggles to advance in the department under a series of arrogant lieutenants. The two most famous are Alex/Thomas Diehl (Tom Atkins) during the first, second and fourth season and Doug Chapman (James Luisi) in the third to sixth seasons. The taller ones always liked Rockford (and private researchers generally) because of their perception that he was interfering in an open case or trying to make the LAPD appear incompetent in handling closed cases. Furthermore, Rockford often calls Becker asking for help, such as running a license plate through the California Department of Motor Vehicles (DMV) computer system, often harassing overworked police. In the fifth season, Becker was promoted to lieutenant; it is stated in the episode in which Becker promoted that Becker's relationship with Rockford, considered by the LAPD brass as a former former contract, has hampered Becker's chances for promotion. Chapman really did not like it when Becker became "parallel". In the 6th episode of The Big Cheese, the third to the last of the series, Rockford got a degree of revenge when Chapman accidentally made incriminating statements about tax evasion before an IRS agent disguised with Rockford. Becker appeared in 89 of 123 episodes.

Joseph Rocky Rockford Rockford's father Rocky Rockford is a former Seabee driver, semi-retired, semi-truck who whines his son for a stable (and less dangerous) job, often urges him to follow in his footsteps as a truck driver (especially early in the season). The father and son relationship is an integral part of the show. Rocky appears in 101 episodes, and usually becomes involved (like it or not) in the case of his son. Occasionally, he hired Jim himself.

Jim Rockford's mother was never shown or named, and very rarely mentioned. Although never directly stated, the way Jim and Rocky talk about him seems to indicate he's dead (before the series begins).

Rocky is described by Noah Beery, Jr. (nephew of actor Wallace Beery) except in the 1974 pilot film, where he was described by Robert Donley. Although most of the backstory characters are the same, in the Rocky pilot described as more than a small grifter and operator - at one point, working with partners, Rocky did not manage to try to run a minor scam on Jim, son. This Rocky character element will mostly be lowered when the series begins, and Beery's version of Rocky is honest and reliable, though sometimes gullible and over-believing.

Angel Martin : Rockford's longtime cousin, San Quentin, Evelyn "Angel" Martin is a comic character character played by Stuart Margolin. Jim employs Angel as an operating agent from time to time, often to collect street level information, or to help him access newspaper files where Angel works as a low-level filing clerk. Keeping this work is Angel's condition of parole; nevertheless, it is doubtful that an ever-changing Angel will be able to do so, except that his brother-in-law has the paper. Jim also used Angel on several occasions to play a supporting role in the elaborate game con he arranged to sting a very difficult enemy.

Angel himself has been running some kind of con game (usually very bottom), and is consistently ready to sell anyone at once for his own benefit - and often. By doing so, Angel almost always keeps Rockford in trouble, usually by involving him in rough scams... often unbeknownst to Jim, and never with his consent. As often as not, Angel's antics result in the capture of Angel, Jim, and/or others, and/or is placed on a person's target list. Despite this, Jim considers Angel to be one of his best friends, if the most annoying. Toward the end of the series, there is a noticeable cooling in Jim's attitude to Angel in their often-broken relationship; However, the crack appears to have been fixed at the reunion movie.

Beth Davenport : Rockford has a close relationship with his lawyer, Elizabeth "Beth" Davenport (Gretchen Corbett) who is an idealist and tenacious. In the second season episode of "A Portrait of Elizabeth", it is explained that Beth and Rockford have been dating for a while (before the start of the series), but he soon realizes his emotional unavailability and lack of interest in the long run. relationships, and realize that they will be better as friends (though both seem to be still casually dated on occasions during the early season).

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After Corbett was removed from the show after the fourth season (allegedly due to a contract dispute between Universal, who owns his contract, and Cherokee Productions, Garner's company), new legal counsel (John "Coop" Cooper, fired lawyer who befriends Jim), and romantic interest (Kathryn Harrold as Dr. Megan Dougherty) for Rockford added. Megan Dougherty is a very independent psychiatrist, who made three appearances in the fifth and sixth seasons. Rockford has a romantic relationship with many women, but nothing is permanent.

Garner's brother, Jack Garner, made 23 playing performances (at various times) a policeman, a gas station attendant, and a stranger in the bathroom. Jack's most frequently played character is the police "Captain McEnroe" several times in the last season.

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Credit

Writers
The event pilot was written by Cannell, who also wrote 36 episodes and was co-creator of the event. Juanita Bartlett, one of Garner's show producers and partners at Cherokee Productions, wrote 34 episodes. He also writes for Scarecrow and Mrs. King , America's Largest Hero , and In the Night Heat . David Chase wrote 16 episodes; he then goes on to Northern Exposure and The Sopranos . The creator of the co-show, Roy Huggins, also wrote for the show during the first season, always using the pen name John Thomas James. However, Huggins's contribution to the show ended in the first half of the season, after he submitted a rewritable rewritten script to arrange when the episode was filming, without getting approval from other writers or producers. Garner, trying to work with the material on set, felt the rewrite was unsatisfactory, and did not know why it had been approved for shooting. When he discovered that neither Cannell nor any other production staff member knew anything about rewrites, Garner issued a lead that Cannell, not Huggins, had the final decision on all the script material. Although Huggins is credited as the producer for the entire series, it effectively ends his creative engagement with the show, as he does not submit any further material to The Rockford Files and does not involve himself on that day. -to-day run series.
Board of Directors
Frequent directors include William Wiard (23 episodes), Lawrence Doheny (10 episodes), and Ivan Dixon (formerly regular on Hogan's Heroes) (9 episodes). Veteran actor James Coburn directs an episode. Coburn has starred Garner in the classic movie The Great Escape (1963) and The Americanization of Emily (1964). Other actors who directed the episodes included Jackie Cooper (3 episodes) Richard Crenna and Dana Elcar (1 episode each). Co-creator Stephen J. Cannell directs several episodes; Regular series Stuart Margolin and executive producer Meta Rosenberg each led 2; and James Garner directed an episode in the second season, "The Girl in The Bay City Boys' Club". That's just Garner who directs credits in his 50-year film career; in his autobiography, The Garner Files Garner stated he was only taking on the job because the scheduled director was suddenly unavailable at the last minute.
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Vehicles

Pontiac Firebird Esprit
Familiar with viewers is Jim Rockford's Pontiac Firebird Esprit. One of the most common elements of the show is the famous "Jim Rockford turn-around" (also known as the J-turn or "moonshiner substitution" - generally used as a dodge driving technique taught to the Secret Service). Garner explains his steps in his autobiography 2011 The Garner Files : "When you are about to retreat about 35 miles per hour, you get out of the gas pedal, left hard, and pull the emergency brake" It locks the wheel and throws the end front to round. Then you release everything, hit the gas, and go in the opposite direction. "James Garner stated in a DVD interview of Season One that he performed this action during the duration of the series.The plate of the car was 853 OKG, though plates in some early episodes featured 835 OKG Garner wrote in his autobiography that he believed that the OKG letters meant "Oklahoma Garner" but he did not know the origin of the 853 digit.
Starting with the 1974 model, Rockford will get the Pontiac Firebird's new year model each year throughout the series. The Firebirds used have a "copper fog" color identical to the exterior and interior of the Esprit. Although Firebird is dubbed as Esprits, they are actually high-performance "Formula" models with no twin scoops. Garner needed a Rockford car to look like a lower-class "Esprit" model, a car that Rockford could buy, but had the performance required for the series of pursuits in the show. To achieve this, the show features a badged and re-hooded Pontiac Firebird Formulas to look like an "Esprit" model. The "Formula" model was developed to provide top-level performance "Trans Am" in a less luxurious form. Formulas do not have Shaker chopsticks, side vents, graphics or letters used on Trans Am, but they have higher horsepower engines and drive train, larger front and rear anti-roll bars, rigid springs and shocks, and hoods twin spoon. (The keen-eyed car audience can see the twin exhaust and anti-roll rear bar on the car used on the show, an option that is not part of the "Esprit" package, as well as where different year-old model cars are used in various pursuit scenes that are different from the scene at the actual episode, especially in the next season). Although the series went on until the early 1980s, no Firebird was used past the 1978 model because Garner was reportedly unhappy with the demolished front of the 1979 model and then Firebird and thus did not want them to appear on the show (although the answering machine was in an episode in the last season showed his car was 1979 Firebird).
GMC Sierra Classic Pickup
Joseph "Rocky" Rockford steered a GMC Sierra Classic pickup truck across the series. The truck has a 400-cubic-inch engine, a Turbo 400 automatic transmission, and a 4-wheel drive factory setup. The special exterior paint is silver with maroon panels and orange pinstriping. In addition, the truck uses a variety of accessories after the market is added by California customizers and off-road drivers, Vic Hickey, including winches, brush protectors, dop covers, roadside pedal plates, additional gas tanks, special steering wheel, rear rolls, CibiÃƒÆ' Ã‚ Â© headlamps are installed in the front bumper/rear roll bar, and the Pace CB radio.
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Theme song
The theme song of the show titled "The Rockford Files" was written by famous theme music composers, Mike Post and Pete Carpenter. It appears in the opening and end of each episode with different settings. Throughout the show, the theme song went through many evolutions with newer versions containing different electric guitar bridge sections.
The theme song was released as a single and spent two weeks at No. 10 on Billboard Hot 100, in August 1975. B-side (or "flip-side") song titled "Dixie Lullabye" Also composed by Post and Carpenter. The single remained on the chart for 16 weeks and won the 1975 Grammy Award for Best Instrumental Setting.
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Answering machine recognition
Each episode begins with an image of the Rockford answering machine, and the opening title sequence is accompanied by someone who left Rockford a message on the Ansafone 660 remote Dictaphone. As the camera focuses on the phone, which number 555-2368, it rings twice and then the sound of Rockford recording sounds by giving following speech:
The messages are usually unrelated to the episodes. They are a fun tool that invites viewers to return to the unique and humbling world of Jim Rockford. Messages are usually associated with a creditor, a loser client, or just an eccentric sketch. Many famous celebrities and contemporary public figures are used in the recording. Despite a distinctive and clever entry device, the message becomes difficult for writers to create. Suggestions from staff and crew are welcome and often used.
In total, 122 different messages were created through a series of six original series. Eight CBS TV movies (also called season 8) feature a unique message. However, the syndication episode as James Rockford, Personal Investor uses the same message; taken from episode 507, "A Three-Day Affair with Thirty Days".
Each message is a stand-alone gag that often gives a little biographical detail about Rockford, the people he knows and the activities that take place in his life as a Private Investigator. Only very rarely (as in episode No. 209, "Little Chick is a Little Chicken", in which Rockford house and cat sit for a non-existent Beth) is the contents of an answering machine message in any way connected to the plot or situation of the episode itself.
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End
The hiatus event was late 1979 when Garner was told by his doctor to take time off due to numerous knee injuries and back problems, as well as ulcers. He retained his previous condition mainly because of his urges to do most of his own actions, especially those involving boxing fights or chasing cars. Due to his physical pain, Garner finally chose not to continue the show a few months later, and NBC canceled the program in mid-season. It has been alleged that Rockford has become very expensive to produce, mainly due to the location of filming and the use of high-end actors as guest stars. According to sources, NBC and Universal claimed that the event resulted in a deficit of several million dollars, a staggering amount for the evening show at the time, although Garner and his production team, Cherokee Productions, claimed the show was profitable. Garner tells his story to Johnny Carson about The Tonight Show that the studio once paid a $ 700 carpenter to build shipping crates for shooting at the ship dock, even though there was a delivery chest on the dock. Scripts often call Garner to damage his car, so the car can be sold, repaired, and bought back for each episode.
Aftermath
Later in the 1980s, Garner engaged in a legal dispute with Universal about the benefits of Rockford Files that lasted more than a decade. The dispute caused significant bad intentions between Garner and the studio. The dispute was settled out of court as Garner intended, but the conflict meant that the Rockford character would not reappear until 1994.
Universal began to syndicate the show in 1979 and aggressively market it to local stations until the early and mid-1980s. This account is for almost everywhere on the afternoon and late night schedule of the day. From the show, developed followers with younger viewers, with continued momentum throughout the 1990s and 2000s (a decade) on cable. (The Ben Folds The five songs of "Battle of Who Could Care Less," in which The Rockford Files is mentioned, are one example of the new show coming out of the event; then, Rockford Files i> theme song is played at the end of the band concert.)
In 2006, the show was broadcast for several months at the WGN Superstation. In 2007, the Retro Television Network began broadcasting national programs, as did the Sleuth digital cable channel and the Chicago WWME-CA TV station. ION Television has the rights to the show and it is scheduled for future broadcasts. In the fall of 2009, the show reappeared in Canada on Deja View. The series is broadcast in the UK on BBC1 and has since been repeated on BBC2 and ITV as well as in Granada Plus, which later became ITV3, although there is no channel that repeats the season. In Australia, the series runs Monday - Friday on cable and satellite channels, Fox Classics, and on 7Mate. The series airs in the United States on Me-TV's digital sub-channel network until September 2, 2016, this series is available on Netflix until January 1, 2017, with the first three seasons available on Hulu Plus.
The Rockford style affects a number of detective characters, notably Tom Selleck as Thomas Magnum at Magnum, P.I. . Tenspeed and Brown Shoes , also created by Cannell, is another detective who mimics the Rockford character. Selleck made two guest appearances in Rockford in the private comic investigator role Lance White, a character all Rockford is not - rich, highly educated, debonair, unbearable for women, and ethical for mistakes. The Rockford producer will knock Selleck after Rockford's cancellation for Universal Magnum, PI , where he plays similar characters in many ways for Rockford, albeit in a healthy, patriotic tone in context and plot. Some episodes of Magnum refer to the character of Lance White.
In 1986, Rockford will appear in episode 7 of the First Season Magnum, P.I. titled "A.A.P.I." where Cannell is the guest star. (The plot involves killing at a private investigator's award ceremony.) However, a dispute between Garner and Universal (Garner reportedly refusing to set foot on any Universal movie set until solved) meant that the planned cameo appearance was dropped.
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Episode
The pilot series aired on NBC March 27, 1974, as a 90 minute film made for television. In the pilot, Lindsay Wagner also starred in and then made an appearance again. The pilot was titled Backlash of the Hunter for syndication.
Four episodes of Season 6 written but not induced are mentioned in the "Thirty Years of Rockford Files" by Ed Robertson (2005). Not mentioned these episodes were filmed. Apparently this is the source of unfounded rumors that four episodes of the film but not sequentially Rockford were destroyed in a fire in 1980.
Episodes with Angel Martin
Pilot

1974: "Hunters Reject"

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1975: "Counter Gambit"

1975: "The Four Pound Brick"

Season 2

1975: "Farnsworth Stratagem"

1975: "Small Chick Is A Small Chick"

1975: "Girls in Bay City Boys Club"

1976: "Non-Cut Contract"

1976: "Joey Blue Eyes"

Season 3

1976: "The Fourth Man"

1976: "Rattlers Class '63"

1976: "Help Me, Lord"

1976: "Drought on the Indianhead River"

1976: "Family Hours"

1977: "Dirty Money, Black Lights"

1977: "The Becker Connection"

1977: "There is One in Every Port"

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1977: "Pensiun Paksa"

1977: "Hotel of Fear"

1977: "Komite Walikota dari Deer Lick Falls"

1977: "The Dog and Pony Show"

1977: "Kesempatan Kedua"

1978: "The Empty Frame"

Season 5

1978: "Black Mirror: Part 1"

1978: "Black Mirror: Part 2"

1979: "Do not Send Boy King to Do Men's Job: Part 1"

1979: "Do not Send Boy King to Do Men's Job: Part 2"

1979: "A Material Difference"

1979: "Man Sees Alligator"

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1979: "The Big Cheese"

1979: "No Fault Affair"

1979: "The Hawaiian Headache"

1979: "Singa, Macan, Monyet, dan Anjing: Bagian 1"

1979: "Singa, Macan, Monyet, dan Anjing: Bagian 2"

1979: "Paradise Cove"

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Angel Martin ada di semua film.

Episode dengan Gandolph Fitch
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1975: "The Hammer of C Block"

Season 3

1977: "Just Another Polish Wedding"

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1977: "Kesempatan Kedua"

Episode dengan Marcus Aurelius "Gabby" Hayes
Season 2

1976: "Foul on First Play"

Season 3

1977: "Just another Polish Wedding"

Episodes with Richie Brockelman
Season 4

1978: "House on Willis Avenue: Part 1"

1978: "House on Willis Avenue: Part 2"

Season 5

1979: "Do not Send Boy King to Do Men's Job: Part 1"

1979: "Do not Send Boy King to Do Men's Work: Part 2"

Episodes with Rita Capkovic
Season 4

1978: "Paper Castle"

Season 5

1978: "Rosendahl and Gilda Stern Are Dead"

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1979: "No Fault Affair"

Film
The eight Rockford Files TV reunions were made from 1994 to 1999, aired on the CBS network (whereas the original series aired on NBC) and united most of the performers from the original show. Beery died on November 1, 1994, so the first of these films, aired later that month, stated, "This photo is dedicated to the memory of Noah Beery, Jr. We love you and miss you, Pidge." ("Pidge" is a Beery nickname.)
The films took almost 15 years later from where the show ended. In the early films, Rocky was referenced as live, but off-screen; he died (in series continuity) sometime before the third movie.
Garner, Santos, and Margolin appear in every movie. Other Rockford regular players who appeared in several films include Luisi, Atkins, Corbett, and Jack Garner (as Capt. McEnroe). Recurring players of the series are brought back for a single re-appearance including Rita Moreno (as Rita Kapkovic); Kathryn Harrold (as Megan Daugherty); and Pat Finley (as Peggy Becker).
Also added to the cast in a small and recurring role is Gerry Gibson as Critch, the owner of the Sandcastle restaurant across from Jim's trailer; and Shirley Anthony as Sally, a friendly and cheerful grandmother who often visits the police station to (falsely) confess evil, and knit sweaters while waiting.
Spinoff

The restricted-run series, Richie Brockelman, Private Eye is technically not a spinoff of The Rockford Files , as the character Richie Brockelman, played by Dennis Dugan, first appeared in a 1976 TV movie produced by Cannell. However, Brockelman did appear in the 1978 Rockford episode of "The House on Willis Avenue", which was broadcast the previous week Richie Brockelman, Private Eye started the five-week process at The Rockford Files time slot. Character Richie Brockelman returned to Rockford in the 1979 episode, "Do not Send The Boy King To Do A Man's Work."

Universal creates a back door pilot featuring Gandolph's "Gandy" Fitch and Marcus "Gabby" Hayes (played by Isaac Hayes and Lou Gossett, Jr., respectively) titled Gabby & amp; Gandy . The series never worked, but the pilot was broadcast as an episode of Rockford called "Just Another Polish Wedding".

The second back door pilot was made for the series which will feature Greg Antonacci and Gene Davis as Eugene Conigliaro and Mickey Long, two incompetent funny characters introduced in "The Rock Bounce" Rockford episode " same-name characters are used in both episodes but they are distinctly different because both and Rockford do not know each other in the second episode, "Just A Coupla Guys"). The pilot series involved them trying to take their way to the mass of New Jersey and aired as the last episode of The Rockford Files. David Chase, who wrote both episodes, will later create The Sopranos, centered on the mass of New Jersey. Greg Antonacci, who once played Conigliaro, played the role of underboss from a rival family in Sopranos.

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Rating

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Awards
Penghargaan Golden Globe
Emmy Primetime Award
Author of Guild of America
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DVD release
Universal Studios Home Entertainment has released all six seasons of The Rockford Files on DVD in Region 1. On November 3, 2009, they released The Rockford Files Collection, Volume 1 , displaying the first 4 telefilms post-series. On May 26, 2015, they released Movie Collection, Volume 2 , five and a half years after the release of volume 1. They also released a full 34 series collection of discs on the same day.
On April 18, 2016, it was announced that Mill Creek Entertainment had acquired the rights to the series; they then re-released the first two seasons on DVD in Region 1 on July 5, 2016. On June 13, 2017, Mill Creek re-released The Rockford Files: The Complete Series on DVD and also released the full series on Blu -ray for the first time.
Universal Playback has released the first 5 seasons on DVD in Region 2. The pilot for The Rockford Files is in season 2 sets

Blu-ray release
On June 27, 2017, Mill Creek Entertainment will release The Bluestay Bluestay â„¢ Blu-ray in Region 1 for the first time.

Remake
In 2009, NBC, Universal Media Studios, and Carousel Television from Steve Carell produced a revival of the event. David Shore, the creator of House , was hired to lead the series. In February 2010, it was announced that Dermot Mulroney was playing Jim Rockford, Alan Tudyk was cast as Det. Dennis Becker, Melissa Sagemiller plays Beth Davenport, and Beau Bridges plays Rocky. A pilot was filmed but never aired. Initial viewers showed that the pilot was not well directed. On May 13, 2010, the remake of Rockford Files was canceled by NBC.
The feature adaptation is produced by Universal Pictures in 2012, with Vince Vaughn linked to this project as a producer and star. After the death of actor James Garner in 2014, the film adaptation was postponed, but Vaughn hopes to get the film project made.

References

External links
Stephen J. Cannell's script for the pilot episode of The Rockford Files

The Rockford Files - in the Broadcast Communications Museum

Interview with Stephen J. Cannell's Archive of the American Television explanation of the Huggins approach

The Rockford Files - in Thrilling Detective

Rockford Files - in Sandbox

Answering machine Message Rockford - in Sandbox (full transcription)

Robertson, Ed. (2005). Thirty Years "The Rockford Files": An Inside View on America's Largest Detective Series. Lincoln, NE: ASJA Press. 497 pages. (List all the answering machine handles).

The Sandbox.net displays messages from the Rockford answering machine - Retrieved December 8, 2007.

That's Eric Alper - You can now download Jim Rockford Answering Messages

IMDb:

Original: Rockford Files on IMDb

2010: The Rockford Files on IMDb

The Rockford Files on TV.com

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