[Dr. Sivana]

Rockford Files is a classic if you can overlook the overplayed car chases. Sometimes it seems like the plot show was a bit too short so they added some extra car chase scenes to pad the hour.

The car chase scenes are great and Garner often did his own driving.

The show has used other types of filler. I just saw a Season One episode called “The Big Ripoff” which opens in Europe with Rockford purposefully boxing Suzanne Somers’ car in so he cane be the big hero and help her get in her car, all planned so he could get to know her and get info out of her.

Not a word was spoken, and completely unnecessary for the time lot, but utterly charming, giving insight into the Rockford character, and how he can charm people into providing info.

[morphing libertarian]

Garner did at least one car racing movie as I recall. He was a fan of racing. Met him at the holiday Inn wth Alan Carpenter circa 1969 across from the Daytona Speedway. Fun guys to talk to.