The second half of this two parter is equally as strong as the first as Jim attempts to get T.T. Flowers (Strother Martin) out of the sanitarium and declared competent so he can save "Freedom", his property.
Other than Rockford fooling the cops at the top of this episode, there's precious little comedy as Rockford tries to talk T.T. out of facing down the SWAT team at Freedom. However, there is far more of the fetching Gretchen Corbett as Beth Davenport in this episode, and that to me is always a bonus! The writing however is a bit lacking again, such as when Rockford and Davenport hear a maid say she assumed some goons were real estate men because she overheard one saying something about the old man "buying the farm". And if this wasn't bad enough, Rockford actually EXPLAINS this to Beth--"that means they're going to kill him". Please. That's not the kind of crisp dialog we expect from a Rockford show. There's also an endless scene of explanation at the end of the episode as Jim, Beth, Rocky and T.T. explain to Mullerd's lawyer Tom Brockmyer (and the audience) what's going on.
Also in the cast are Jack Stauffer as Brubaker, the clueless guard at the sanitarium (he would go on to play Captain Bojay on "Battlestar Galactica"--the old, bad version) and Tom Rosqui as Tom Brockmyer. Rosqui played Rocco Lampone in "The Godfather".
Other than Rockford fooling the cops at the top of this episode, there's precious little comedy as Rockford tries to talk T.T. out of facing down the SWAT team at Freedom. However, there is far more of the fetching Gretchen Corbett as Beth Davenport in this episode, and that to me is always a bonus! The writing however is a bit lacking again, such as when Rockford and Davenport hear a maid say she assumed some goons were real estate men because she overheard one saying something about the old man "buying the farm". And if this wasn't bad enough, Rockford actually EXPLAINS this to Beth--"that means they're going to kill him". Please. That's not the kind of crisp dialog we expect from a Rockford show. There's also an endless scene of explanation at the end of the episode as Jim, Beth, Rocky and T.T. explain to Mullerd's lawyer Tom Brockmyer (and the audience) what's going on.
Also in the cast are Jack Stauffer as Brubaker, the clueless guard at the sanitarium (he would go on to play Captain Bojay on "Battlestar Galactica"--the old, bad version) and Tom Rosqui as Tom Brockmyer. Rosqui played Rocco Lampone in "The Godfather".