We’re All in Rockford’s Files Now

Townhall.com ^ | April 7, 2022 | Connor Martin

[SaveFerris]

(The Rockford Files)

Tune into a hit FM radio station in the 1970s and the theme song would come on.

Good times back then.

[Rummyfan]

And while Garner’s career spanned multiple decades on both the big and little screen, it was The Rockford Files where he shined...

Loved that show and have the first two seasons on DVD.

[OttawaFreeper]

A&E’s best times were back in the ‘90s when it aired Rockford daily, along with other 1970s mystery shows Banacek, McMillan and Wife, McCloud, Columbo, Delvecchio, City of Angels, and O’Hare US Treasury.

[TornadoAlley3]

I’m remembering the instrumental theme song.

[Kevmo]

Yup, excellent. I even notice that 50 years later, it’s cool to dress like him.

Did ya ever see the episode where Tom Selleck got his start on TV? Very humorous. It turns out I won a radio call-in contest by knowing that little tidbit. Got to treat my wife to a date.

[Psalm 73]

Nice post - big James Garner fan.

Will watch Rockford File episodes over and over. Had a huge crush on his attorney "Beth".

[BBQToadRibs2]

Always enjoyed The Rockford Files. Very smartly written, unlike todays crap.

[Dr. Sivana]

We might all be part of Rockford’s Files, but it is getting harder to find those Pontiac Firebirds, and in a few years they will all be EVs.

[cymbeline]

“I’m remembering the instrumental theme song.”

That and its arrangements used throughout the shows was excellent.

Some of the plots are silly but Garner keeps the shows amusing.

[OttawaFreeper]

I recall reading an interview with Tom Selleck in which he mentioned that the very good way he saw Garner treat everyone (including the production assistants) while filming Rockford inspired him to be the same way when he starred in Magnum PI.

[gundog]

Ya left out Hec Ramsey. :)

[Sans-Culotte]

The Rockford Files was created by Roy Huggins, who also created Maverick. Many of the plots for Rockford were recycled from old Maverick scripts.

[OttawaFreeper]

She (Gretchen Corbett) also guested on a 1970s episode of Columbo.

[Steely Tom]

Had a huge crush on his attorney "Beth".

Gretchen Corbett. I always get her mixed up with Kay Lenz.

No purple, blue, or pink hair in Rockford, I don't think. No nose rings or other piercings or tattoos either that I can recall. Maybe a bad guy had an earring once in a while, or a rat tail.

[ProtectOurFreedom]

I was born in 1951, so James Garner was and will always be Bret Maverick on the 1957-1962 TV show. I never saw a single episode of Rockford Files!

There were so many great westerns on in the late 50s and early 60s: Sugarfoot, Cheyenne, Maverick, Rawhide, Wagon Train, Gunsmoke, Bat Masterson, Tales of Wells Fargo, Tombstone Territory, Wanted: Dead or Alive (with McQueen’s “Mare’s Leg”), The Rifleman.

Sigh, back when TV celebrated America, celebrated white men, didn’t fill the airwaves with LGBTABCXYZ crapola and try to subvert our kids.

[ifinnegan]

“...throw a few casts into the surf...”

What does this mean?

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Article makes me interested in the show.

I neve really watched it or when I did never got in to it.

[real saxophonist]

Mike Post was the King of theme songs through the ‘70s and ‘80s.

[gundog]

Shiftiest sidekick, ever.

[spacejunkie2001]

I’m all hopped up on Rockford right now. Been watching an episode per day for about a month. He was a really devoted lib but I bet he’d turn over in his grave if he knew what the dem party was like now.