Here is my list of favorite episodes: The Rockford Files - what a great show I would not put "Chicken Little" quite that high. Top 20, perhaps.
Most Rockford fans know about Maverick, but few realize there was another direct predecessor: The Outsider, starring Darren McGavin as David Ross, an ex-con turned private eye. Created in 1968 by Roy Huggins (creator of Maverick) in the aftermath of Harper reviving the moribund private eye genre, it shares quite a bit with the later Rockford, especially the first "Chandler" season. There are a couple of episodes of The Outsider on YT (neither of them all that great). "I Can't Hear You Scream" features an Angel-type character, though interestingly he and Ross are not portrayed as friends . The other episode, linked below, is interesting as it includes a scene (fried chicken) that could have, indeed should have, been played by James Garner. FF to 1:57
I've just cracked the BluRay box of the six seasons of The Rockford Files: The Complete Series. I may say it sure cleaned up real nice. I was reading an online review that was observing/grousing about the lack of documentation in this box set. They recommended this Ed Robertson book from 2005: Thirty Years of the Rockford Files: An Inside Look at America's Greatest Detective Series.
He didn't care too much what his home looked like, but man was it important to him to have a great location! Primo spot! And fishing and a good restaurant were just a few steps away!
Yes, that is an updated and greatly expanded edition of Robertson's earlier book "This is Jim Rockford". It is pretty much THE book on the series.
One of the Pontiac Firebirds driven by Garner in the series just sold for $115,000 at Barrett-Jackson's Scottsdale auction: 1978 Pontiac from The Rockford Files is one famous Firebird 1978 PONTIAC FIREBIRD FORMULA 'THE ROCKFORD FILES' - Barrett-Jackson Auction Company - World's Greatest Collector Car Auctions
I'm doing a lot of back/forth watching right now, as I'm enjoying the scenery of Downtown Los Angeles. I caught the name of The Real Don Steele on a marquee in the pilot episode, "The Rockford Files" / "Backlash of the Hunter".
It was actually pretty homey on the inside. It also looked rather roomy inside for a single wide mobile home.
Interesting, there's an episode of Columbo from 1974 with a scene that was obviously filmed at this same location.
Columbo Episode: An Exercise In Fatality starring Robert Conrad as Milo Janus, the bad guy. As the first episode of season 4, it originally aired on September 15, 1974. That's two days after Rockford's first post-pilot episode aired on 9/13/74.
While looking up stuff for WilliamWes's excellent thread, 50th Anniversary: 1967 Monterey International Pop Festival: Performance-By-Performance, I came across this crowd shot : Is Stuart Margolin trying to find Tom Donahue?
Love the Rockford files as a teen...Haven't read the whole thread, but here is some more recent info on Stuart Margolin... Stuart Margolin: A Road Less Traveled
this is getting creepy. Harry-O is checking his watch waiting to shoot his scene. ps stuart margolin was on gilbert gotfrieds podcast a while back, lots of interesting stories
