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Release Date:
13 September 1974 (USA)
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Plot:
The cases of an easy going private investigator.
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Awards:
Nominated for 4 Golden Globes.
Another 6 wins
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17 nominations
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User Comments:
Reality Private Investigating
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| William Wiard | | (28 episodes, 1975-1979) |
| Lawrence Doheny | | (12 episodes, 1974-1976) |
| Ivan Dixon | | (9 episodes, 1975-1979) |
| Jerry London | | (8 episodes, 1974-1977) |
| Russ Mayberry | | (7 episodes, 1974-1977) |
| Reza Badiyi | | (7 episodes, 1977-1979) |
| Meta Rosenberg | | (6 episodes, 1976-1978) |
| Lou Antonio | | (5 episodes, 1974-1976) |
| Jackie Cooper | | (5 episodes, 1975-1976) |
| Jeannot Szwarc | | (3 episodes, 1975-1977) |
| Stephen J. Cannell | | (3 episodes, 1977-1979) |
| Corey Allen | | (3 episodes, 1978-1979) |
| Stuart Margolin | | (2 episodes, 1974-1977) |
| Alexander Grasshoff | | (2 episodes, 1974) |
| Harry Falk | | (2 episodes, 1978) |
| Arnold Laven | | (2 episodes, 1978) |
| John Patterson | | (2 episodes, 1979) |
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| Lawrence Dobkin | | (unknown episodes) |
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| Stephen J. Cannell | | (122 episodes, 1974-1980) |
| Roy Huggins | | (122 episodes, 1974-1980) |
| Juanita Bartlett | | (35 episodes, 1974-1979) |
| David Chase | | (20 episodes, 1976-1979) |
| Gordon T. Dawson | | (9 episodes, 1975-1979) |
| Rudolph Borchert | | (5 episodes, 1975-1980) |
| Chas. Floyd Johnson | | (4 episodes, 1975-1978) |
| Don Carlos Dunaway | | (4 episodes, 1975-1976) |
| Edward J. Lakso | | (4 episodes, 1975-1976) |
| Lester Wm. Berke | | (3 episodes, 1976-1980) |
| Donald L. Gold | | (3 episodes, 1976-1980) |
| Walter Dallenbach | | (2 episodes, 1976) |
| James Crocker | | (2 episodes, 1977-1978) |
| William R. Stratton | | (2 episodes, 1977) |
| David Taylor | | (2 episodes, 1977) |
| Rogers Turrentine | | (2 episodes, 1979) |
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| Marshall Lindemann | | (unknown episodes) |
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| Stephen J. Cannell | .... | supervising producer / producer (107 episodes, 1974-1979) |
| Meta Rosenberg | .... | executive producer (107 episodes, 1974-1979) |
| Chas. Floyd Johnson | .... | producer / associate producer / ... (86 episodes, 1975-1980) |
| David Chase | .... | producer / supervising producer (63 episodes, 1976-1980) |
| John David | .... | associate producer (18 episodes, 1978-1980) |
| J. Rickley Dumm | .... | associate producer (16 episodes, 1978-1979) |
| William F. Phillips | .... | associate producer (12 episodes, 1974-1975) |
| Juanita Bartlett | .... | producer / supervising producer (10 episodes, 1978-1979) |
| Jo Swerling Jr. | .... | supervising producer / associate executive producer (6 episodes, 1974-1975) |
| Lane Slate | .... | producer (3 episodes, 1975-1976) |
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| Charles Waldo | .... | costumes / costumes: women (26 episodes, 1974-1976) |
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| Richard Belding | .... | editorial supervision / editorial supervisor (23 episodes, 1974-1976) |
| Steve Johnson | .... | colorist (23 episodes, 1974-1975) |
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| Juanita Bartlett | .... | executive story consultant / creative consultant / ... (90 episodes, 1974-1979) |
| Jack Cole | .... | main title design / title designer: main titles (24 episodes, 1974-1977) |
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Additional Details
Also Known As:
"Jim Rockford, Private Investigator" (USA) (syndication title)
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Runtime:
60 min (123 episodes)
Color:
Color (Technicolor)
Aspect Ratio:
1.33 : 1
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Fun Stuff
Trivia:
David Chase, a writer/producer for "Rockford," went on to create
"The Sopranos" (1999). An episode from "The Sopranos" first season shows a scene in a retirement home where the inhabitants are watching television. We can't see what they're watching but we can hear the theme to "Rockford" playing clearly.
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Goofs:
Factual errors: Throughout the series, the Los Angeles Police Department responds to calls at Rockford's trailer in Malibu although it is not part of their jurisdiction. The Los Angeles County Sheriff would be the proper agency.
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Quotes:
Jim Rockford:
What's wrong?
Joseph 'Rocky' Rockford:
I am THROUGH talking to you! Look at you, an inch or two to the right and you'd be missing that eye!
Jim Rockford:
Yeah, but look at it this way, an inch or two to the left and he'd have missed me completely.
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Soundtrack:
The Rockford Files
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This show destroyed the Private Detective show formula.
At the time, most TV PI's had cutie pie secretaries (Mannix' secretary Gail and Barnaby Jones' ex Miss America Lee Meriweather in particular), Jim Rockford had an answering machine...
All TV PI's had nice offices with dark wood paneling, Rockford's office was the living room of his decaying mobile home parked in the lot outside a diner...
It took at least 3 guys fighting dirty to subdue the average TV PI, even short, fat, aging Cannon. Jimmy was always the one getting his head handed to him unless he figured a way to sucker punch his opponent...
At the climax, other TV PI's would pull their guns, shoot it out with the baddies and save the day. Rockford's gun, often as not was still at home in his cookie jar...
TV PI's always had a friend on the police force who would gladly do favors, looking up DMV records, etc. Rockford's friend on the force was always getting in trouble for even knowing Rockford. The Captains & Lieutenants on the force universally viewed Jim as low life scum & not worth the time of day...
The average detective would go about his business, assembling clues to solve this weeks mystery. That is the way it was with Rockford except that he was always dealing with hustlers, con men, ex-convicts and the occasional ex-girlfriends, every one of whose purpose in life seemed to be the bedevilment and aggravation of Jim Rockford. Not to mention the recurring role of Jim's dad Rocky (deftly played by that Trojan actor, Noah Beery) who was always after Jim to give up PIing and do something "respectable" like truck driving.
When this show appeared on TV, every other PI looked dull and one by one they disappeared as they lost ground in the ratings.
This is also the show that put Steven J Cannell on the map. Nothing that he ever did subsequently equaled this. In fact most of it was crappy formula detective shows.
The Rockford Files is the REAL DEAL!
Simon Sez, CHECK IT OUT!