Jim gets used by an old Army buddy in an insurance recovery case.Jim gets used by an old Army buddy in an insurance recovery case.Jim gets used by an old Army buddy in an insurance recovery case.
Noah Beery Jr.
- Joseph 'Rocky' Rockford
- (as Noah Beery)
Norman Burton
- Markell
- (as Normann Burton)
Chuck Wassil
- Kevin Lindsey
- (as Chuck Winters)
Michael Alldredge
- Cab Driver
- (as Michael Alldridge)
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- TriviaIn real life, Stabila's yacht was the Zopilote, a 48-foot Pacemaker Sportsfisherman which had been extended by two feet and equipped with a whopping $85,000 in electronics (in 2016 dollars). Zopilote belonged to director and one-time race driver Bruce Kessler, who directed this episode. The yacht is extensively profiled in a five-page article in the November 1976 issue of Motor Boating & Sailing magazine. By 1985, Kessler had replaced his Pacemaker with the identically-named Zopilote, a 70-foot Delta Marine yacht in which he and his wife Joan Freeman circumnavigated the globe. After the second Zopilote foundered off the coast of Alaska in May 1993, Kessler tipped his hat at his earlier yachts with the 64-foot Spirit of Zopilote, the first yacht launched by Northern Marine.
- GoofsRockford writes down the license number of a car leaving Stabila's house as 436 LJN, but the license appears to be 874 MET. Also, a previous page in his notebook seems to have the license number written down already.
- Quotes
Jim Rockford: This is Jim Rockford. At the tone leave your name and message, I'll get back to you.
Tompkins: [Beeep] Tompkins at Guaranteed Insurance. About your burglary claim? Major loss alright. Funny you remembered to file... you didn't remember to pay your premium.
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Contacts and Connections
Jim Rockford seems to have formed lasting associations in two places where men are thrown together not at their own volition, the Korean War and prison. In this episode his old sergeant Ned Beatty shows up and asking for help.
Only he's not being quite truthful. He wants use of the Rockford PI license to allow him to hunt. To James Garner he's looking for a missing person, Veronica Hamel's sister to be precise. But what it's really all about is a missing Chinese Ming vase appraised at 3 million dollars which Beatty traced to the Pacific coast.
Where Beatty is a nobody and he needs the Rockford contacts and connections. In fact there are all kinds of players in this game looking for the finders fee of 300 grand the insurance company is offering.
James Garner in this series had a knack for attracting all kinds of interesting and sleazy people. Beatty in a fine performance fits beautifully into the sleaze category.
Only he's not being quite truthful. He wants use of the Rockford PI license to allow him to hunt. To James Garner he's looking for a missing person, Veronica Hamel's sister to be precise. But what it's really all about is a missing Chinese Ming vase appraised at 3 million dollars which Beatty traced to the Pacific coast.
Where Beatty is a nobody and he needs the Rockford contacts and connections. In fact there are all kinds of players in this game looking for the finders fee of 300 grand the insurance company is offering.
James Garner in this series had a knack for attracting all kinds of interesting and sleazy people. Beatty in a fine performance fits beautifully into the sleaze category.
- bkoganbing
- Dec 22, 2014
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