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The Rockford Files was one of the most successful detective dramas of its time, and remains in syndication even 40 years after its conclusion. Today, we're taking a look at the Rockford Files cast then and now to see how they've changed through the years.
00:00 - Intro
0:19 - Jack Garner as Captain McEnroe
1:23 - James Luisi as Lt. Doug Chapman
2:29 - Gretchen Corbett as Beth Davenport
3:35 - Tom Atkins as Lietenant Alex/Thomas Diehl
4:40 - Stuart Margolin as Angel Martin
5:47 - Joe Santos as Sergeant Dennis Becker
6:50 - Noah Beery Jr. as Joseph 'Rocky' Rockford
7:55 - James Garner as Jim Rockford
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The Rockford Files is an American detective drama television series starring James Garner that aired on the NBC network between September 13, 1974, and January 10, 1980, and has remained in syndication to the present day. Garner portrays Los Angeles–based private investigator Jim Rockford, with Noah Beery Jr. in the supporting role of his father, Joseph Rockford, a retired truck driver nicknamed "Rocky". The show was created by Roy Huggins and Stephen J. Cannell. Huggins created the television show Maverick (1957–1962), which starred Garner, and he wanted to recapture that magic in a "modern day" detective setting. In 2002, The Rockford Files was ranked No. 39 on TV Guide's 50 Greatest TV Shows of All Time.
In contrast to most television private eyes, Rockford wears low-budget "off the rack" casual clothing and does his best to avoid physical altercations (although he is more than able to hold his own in a fistfight). He rarely carries his Colt Detective Special revolver, for which he has no permit, and prefers to talk his way out of trouble. He works on cold cases, missing persons investigations, and low-budget insurance scams, and repeatedly states that he does not handle "open cases" to avoid trouble with the police. (This self-imposed rule of Rockford's was relaxed in later seasons.) He has been a P.I. since 1968, and his usual fee is $200 per day plus expenses($200 at the series' beginning in September 1974 was the inflation-adjusted equivalent of $986 by March 2018).
The show went into hiatus late in 1979 when Garner was told by his doctors to take time off because of numerous knee injuries and back trouble, as well as an ulcer. He sustained the former conditions largely because of his insistence on performing most of his own stunts, especially those involving fist fights or car chases. Because of his physical pain, Garner eventually opted not to continue with the show some months later, and NBC cancelled the program in mid-season. It was alleged that Rockford had become very expensive to produce, mainly due to the location filming and use of high-end actors as guest stars. According to sources, NBC and Universal claimed the show was generating a deficit of several million dollars, a staggering amount for a nighttime show at the time, although Garner and his production team Cherokee Productions claimed the show turned a profit. Garner told a story to Johnny Carson on The Tonight Show that the studio once paid a carpenter $700 to build a shipping crate for a shoot-out on a boat dock, though there were shipping crates on the dock. The script often called for Garner to damage his car, so the car could be sold, repaired, and repurchased for each episode.
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