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The Rockford Files: Season 03
Running Time: 60 min.
James Garner won an Emmy for his continuing performance as disheveled, cynically humorous ex-convict turned private detective Jim Rockford during season three of The Rockford Files. This honor may very well have been due to Garner's work in the season's best and most pungent episode, "So Help Me God," in which Rockford finds himself enmeshed in a maze of governmental bureaucracy when he is forced to testify before a grand jury -- a nightmarish situation which, as noted in the episode's closing titles, could happen to anyone in the audience! Also in the cast this season are familiar supporting players Noah Beery Jr., as Jim's dad Rocky; Gretchen Corbett as Jim's attorney girlfriend Beth Davenport; Stuart Margolin as Rockford's humorously untrustworthy former cellmate Angel Martin; and Joe Santos as Rockford's police department pal (and severest critic), Detective Dennis Becker. New to the cast is James Luisi as Dennis' superior Lt. Doug Chapman, who, like his predecessor Alex Diehl, seems to have a permanent grudge against the insouciant Mr. Rockford. As for the season's guest stars, Sharon Gless -- long before Queer as Folk -- makes a return appearance in the opening episode "The Fourth Man"; Burt Young of Rocky fame is seen in "The Family Hour"; Veronica Hamel (Hill Street Blues) and Ned Beatty are in "Return to the 38th Parallel"; Oscar-winner Strother Martin plays the title character in the two-part "The Trees, the Bees, and T.T. Flowers"; comic actress Joyce Van Patten is cast against type as a dangerous obstreperous "police groupie" in another two-parter, "To Protect and Serve," and finally, "The Becker Connection" serves to reunite James Garner with his former Maverick co-star Jack Kelly. Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide
The Rockford Files: Season 03 Cast and Crew:
 James Garner - (Jim Rockford) |
 Noah Beery, Jr. - (Joseph "Rocky" Rockford) |
 Joe Santos - (Det. Dennis Becker) |
| Gretchen Corbett - (Beth Davenport) |
| Stuart Margolin - (Angel Martin) |
| James Luisi - (Lt. Doug Chapman) |
Production Credits:
Mike Post (Composer (Music Score))
Pete Carpenter (Composer (Music Score))
Meta Rosenberg (Executive Producer)
David Chase (Producer)
Chas. Floyd Johnson (Producer)
Stephen J. Cannell (Supervising Producer)
The Rockford Files: Season 03 Episodes:
The Rockford Files: The Fourth Man
The Rockford Files: The Oracle Wore a Cashmere Suit
The Rockford Files: The Family Hour
The Rockford Files: Feeding Frenzy
The Rockford Files: Drought at Indianhead River
The Rockford Files: Coulter City Wildcat
The Rockford Files: So Help Me God
The Rockford Files: Rattlers' Class of '63
The Rockford Files: Return to the Thirty-Eighth Parallel
The Rockford Files: Piece Work
The Rockford Files: The Trouble With Warren
The Rockford Files: There's One in Every Port
The Rockford Files: Sticks and Stones May Break Your Bones, But Waterbury Will Bury You
The Rockford Files: The Trees, the Bees and T.T. Flowers, Part 1
The Rockford Files: The Trees, the Bees and T.T. Flowers, Part 2
The Rockford Files: The Becker Connection
The Rockford Files: Just Another Polish Wedding
The Rockford Files: New Life, Old Dragons
The Rockford Files: To Protect and Serve, Part 1
The Rockford Files: To Protect and Serve, Part 2
The Rockford Files: Crack Back
The Rockford Files: Dirty Money, Black Light
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