The Rockford Files - Season Four
by James Garner, Richard Crenna, James Coburn, Harry Falk, Bruce Kessler
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Actor: James Garner, James LuisiDirector: Bruce Kessler, Harry Falk, James Coburn, James Garner, Richard Crenna
Brand: NBC Universal
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Subtitled); English (Original Language)
Format: Box set, Color, DVD, Full Screen, NTSC, Subtitled
Picture Format: 1.33:1
Running Time: 1076 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2007-05-15
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Studio: Universal Studios
DVD Reviews of The Rockford Files - Season Four
DVD Review: Last Season With Beth Davenport!
Summary: 4 Stars
This 1977-78 Season was a wonderful season of THE ROCKFORD FILES along with the fact that the 4th Season of this detective drama was probably the 2nd best season of The Rockford Files as well, since it was the last season with Rockford's foxy attorney girlfriend Beth Davenport(Gretchen Corbett)and Becker's pessimistic superior officer Lt. Diehl(Tom Atkins) along with the fact that Beth made the episodes of Rockford more interesting.
Unfortunately Gretchen Corbett quit the show in the Winter of 1978 due to a salary dispute Corbett had over her contract with Universal leaving us mourning the loss of Beth on this private detective drama which was such a shame on her departure in the second half of Rockford's Fourth Season in January of 1978 leaving no Beth in the last 2 seasons, which made it less interesting and less dramatic since the often fastidious Jim Rockford(James Garner) didn't have Beth defending him anymore to be a buffer between him and Becker's hard-nosed superior officer Lt. Chapman(James Luisi)a.k.a. "Chappy" whenever Rockford got arrested and/or in hot water in the Fifth and Sixth Seasons along with the fact that the last 2 seasons didn't have that chemisty kind of client/attorney relationship along with Becker's fondness and support towards Beth as well along with the fact that Beth always seemed to have a way of making people pay more attention and listen to her whenever Rockford was in trouble or arrested, even with Becker's superior fellow officers(Lt. Chapman and Lt. Diehl), which obviously despised Rockford very much & constantly kept looking for excuses to bust Rockford & to get his P.I. license cancelled yet Beth still seemed to manage finding a way to make Chapman & Diehl listen to her, despite all the friction that Becker's association with Rockford caused him along with the fact that this was the last season with Diehl.
Unfortunately, when Beth departed the show, especially in the Fifth Season, Chappy didn't seem to pay much attention to Rockford's reasons or logics whenever Rockford was arrested and/or in hot water, since Rockford didn't have Beth to back him up anymore, which really sucked and was a tad similar to how it was when Amy Allen(Melinda Culea) departed from THE A-TEAM in the second half of The A-Team's 2nd Season when Culea was fired from that show.
I also noticed Rockford's 4th Season was that both the inclusive Beth and Rockford's sleazy but funny ex-con buddy Angel Martin(Stu Margolin) started coming out less and less often in the 4th Season and that Chapman didn't seem to come out much in this season either and that Chappy started coming out quite a bit more often in the following season(1978-79 Season)with Beth gone even though Angel continued to appear less and less episodes in the remaining 2 seasons of this private detective show as well.
Therefore, Beth and Angel came out a lot more often in the first 3 seasons of this show than they did in the last 3 seasons of Rockford along with the fact that Beth was no longer on the show anymore and made her last appearance in "The Attractive Nuisance" episode, since Beth supposedly moved away and started a law office of her own in the second half of Rockford's Fourth Season when she had given Rockford and Angel the news in the "Forced Retirement" episode that she was resigning from the Hartcourt & Lowe firm.
Now that The Rockford Files Fourth Season and Fifth Season are on DVD, I hope to see Rockford's Sixth Season released on DVD by the end of this year(2008)along with the fact that The Rockford Files-Season 6 would be a great X-Mas gift for this year if it were released by late November and early December of 2008.
I also thought it was interesting seeing guest stars like
-Singers Dionne Warwick & Isaac Hayes in the "Second Chance" episode
-Gerald McRaney in the "Hotel Fear" episode before his co-starring days as the gonzo private investigator(Rick Simon) on SIMON & SIMON and before his co-starring days on MAJOR DAD, TOUCHED BY AN ANGEL, & PROMISED LAND.
-Larry Hagman in the "Forced Retirement" episode after his co-starring days as Major Nelson on I DREAM OF JEANNIE days and before his co-starring days as J.R. Ewing on DALLAS.
-Singer Rick Springfield in the "Dwarf In A Helium Hat" episode before his teen idol days as a musician before he got famous from his song "Jessie's Girl".
-Larry Linville in the "Deadly Maze" episode during his co-starring days on M.A.S.H.
-George Wyner in the "Queen Of Peru" episode before his co-starring days on the detective drama MATT HOUSTON and on the police drama HILL STREET BLUES.
-James Whitmore, Jr. in the "Beamer's Last Case" episode way before his co-starring days as Hunter and McCall's incompetent fellow officer(Detective Bernie Terwiller) on the police drama HUNTER.
-Lance LeGault in the "A Deadly Maze" episode before his co-starring days as the A-Team's tough-as-nails Army nemesis(Col.Decker)on THE A-TEAM and before his co-starring days as Magnum's skeptical Naval nemesis(Col. Buck Green) on MAGNUM, P.I.
-Dennis Fimple in "The Prisoner Of Rosemont Hall" episode before his co-starring days on MATT HOUSTON.
-Quinn Redekker in the "Quickie Nirvana" episode before his co-starring days as Rex Sterling on THE YOUNG & THE RESTLESS
-Oscar nominee(Rita Moreno) in "The Paper Palace" episode
-Bill Boyett in "The Competitive Edge" episode after his co-starring days as Sgt. MacDonald on ADAM-12
In addition to why this 1977-78 Season DVD of Rockford was so cool, I thought it was cool how The Rockford Files-Season 4 DVD provided a bonus episode from Rockford's 5th Season by adding the "White On White & Nearly Perfect" episode on it, which was from the 1978-79 Season of Rockford on NBC, which by the way was one of my favorite episodes of Rockford along with the fact that the "White On White & Nearly Perfect" episode was almost like a preminition of Tom Selleck's days on the detective drama MAGNUM, P.I.
It was also interesting watching THE ROCKFORD FILES taking us back to the days when Joe Santos played Rockford's often irritated cop buddy(Sgt. Dennis Becker) before Joe Santos became a part-time co-star in the last 2 seasons of MAGNUM, P.I. as Magnum's cop buddy(Lt. Nolan Page) from Honolulu P.D. which was probably what helped inspire creator(Don Bellasario) for Joe Santos part-time role on MAGNUM, since Joe Santos did such a good job with his co-starring role on THE ROCKFORD FILES.
Therefore, I would also have to say that Rockford's Fourth Season was definitely one of my favorite season throughout The Rockford Files whole 6-year run on NBC.
The one thing I don't understand is on the bonus features on this DVD when the producers and critics of The Rockford Files were all talking about this show and looking back on it during the days when The Rockford Files was a big hit TV show in the 1970's, they had exaggerrated when they had explained that Rockford was the one private investigator that just could not fight, since he used to get beat up a lot, but that I know that was not true, because the only time Rockford would get beat up was when there were 2 or more people ganging up on Rockford, but Rockford would usually beat up the goones that jumped him if Rockford was fighting them in a fair fight, especially when Rockford fought his opponents one on one or one at a time.
Therefore, the truth of the matter is even though Rockford would get beat up quite a bit throughout THE ROCKFORD FILES whole 6-year run on NBC, Rockford would kick a lot of ass too and was not too bad of a fighter either, but this show kind of reminded me of the detective show MANNIX, since it was quite similar to THE ROCKFORD FILES along with the fact that Mannix(Michael Connors) used to get beat up a lot too along with the fact that MANNIX took place in the L.A. Area on top of that.
Something else I noticed about this 1977-1978 Season was Rockford's Firebird wasn't quite the same Firebird he used in the first 3 seasons of THE ROCKFORD FILES, because I noticed that in the last 3 seasons of this show that the grill on Rockford's gold Firebird was different and more slanted than the grill was from Season 1-3, even though Rockfords Firebird was supposedly the same car throughout THE ROCKFORD FILES whole 1974-80 run on NBC.
This was also probably one of Rockford's better years since this was the season before James Garner's health issues and newer more popular shows like THE DUKES OF HAZZARD had led to THE ROCKFORD FILES cancellation on NBC in January of 1980.
It was also a lot better & nicer to watch these episodes of Rockford complete & uncut like they were originally shown on their original air-dates on NBC unlike they were shown in reruns on A&E, TNN, TV Land, and WGN since they edited each episode with too many deleted scenes to allot more time for more commercial interruptions.
So now that Universal has released just about all 6 seasons of THE ROCKFORD FILES out on DVD, we can now look forward to the private detective drama MATT HOUSTON-Season 1 being releasing on DVD on Tuesday March 9th, 2010 and the detective drama SIMON & SIMON-Season 4 being released on DVD on Tuesday April 6th, 2010 which gives us 2 new classic private detective dramas to look forward to for the Spring of 2010.
Description of The Rockford Files - Season Four
Open an exciting new file from one of the most celebrated TV detective shows as all 21 Season Four episodes of The Rockford Files come to DVD! James Garner returns in his Primetime Emmy Award-winning role as Jim Rockford, the wisecracking ex-con turned private investigator who solves the biggest crimes in Los Angeles from his no-frills mobile home in Malibu. From identity theft to death threats, Rockford uses his experience behind bars to get an inside edge on crooks even the police can't find. Along for the ride this season are such celebrated guest stars as Robert Loggia, Larry Hagman, Rita Moreno and more. Also included is a bonus episode from Season Five, starring Tom Selleck in a role that ultimately became the foundation for the hit TV show Magnum P.I. Starring: James Garner, Noah Beery, Jr., Stuart MargolinBestsellers in DVD
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