The Rockford Files - Season One
by James Garner, Stuart Margolin, Lou Antonio, Stephen J. Cannell, Richard Crenna
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Actor: James Garner, Stuart MargolinDirector: James Garner, Lou Antonio, Richard Crenna, Stephen J. Cannell, Stuart Margolin
Brand: Universal
Primary Contributor: James Garner
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 2.0; English (Subtitled)
Format: Box set, Color, Dolby, DVD-Video, Full Screen, NTSC, Subtitled
Picture Format: 1.33:1
Running Time: 1156 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2005-12-06
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Studio: Universal Studios
DVD Reviews of The Rockford Files - Season One
DVD Review: This Should Say It All!
Summary: 5 Stars
I'm about 10 episodes into season one and can already tell that
The Rockford Files is going to be one of my favorite television
programs of all time. I was only 7 years old when the show came
out and while I remember watching it with my father, I have not
seen a single episode since and don't remember any of the story
lines.
It's going to be a great deal of fun watching the entire series
as if it were for the very first time. It should keep me busy
for the next year or so!
DVD Review: great acting
Summary: 5 Stars
Acting of Jimmy Garner is great. First i met him in the great
The Great Escape. He is one of very few actors who can express
the most fatal and funniest expression by his face.
The Rock Ford files are fantastic. Thank Amazonfor selling it.
But I like to mention that this disk technology ( both sides playable)
is not accurate. sometimes it gets stucked.
DVD Review: Viva la Rockford!
Summary: 4 Stars
This 1974-75 Season is the season that started it all and brings me all the way back to memory lane to when I used to watch The Rockford Files on NBC every Friday night during it's whole 6-year run, which ran from 1974 thru 1980.
Jim Rockford(James Garner)was a MANNIX like private detective who was an ex-con now private eye who was always getting himself into mischief by snooping around looking for leads and clues to his investigations and lived in a rusty trailer by the beach in Malibu and would often get beat up by goons and would often get his Firebird crashed a lot too.
In addition, Rockford would always have a different message on his answering machine at the beginning of each episode before the introduction would start, but most of Rockford's messages left on his answering machine at the beginning of each episode were bad news, but I used to get a kick out of them.
Rockford also had an ex-con buddy Angel Martin(Stewart Margolin) who often got him into hot water and a drop-dead gorgeous attorney girlfriend Beth Davenport(Gretchen Corbett)bailing him out of jail, plus Rockford had his often cynical cop buddy from the LAPD Sgt. Dennis Becker(Joe Santos) that would sometimes feed information to Rockford to help him solve his cases, which often caused lots of friction between Becker and his overzealous superior officers Lt. Chapman(James Luisi) and Lt. Diehl(Tom Atkins)who detested Rockford immensely and would always look for any excuse they could find to arrest Rockford and get his PI license revoked.
Rockford also had kind of a strange relationship with his father Joseph Rockford a.k.a. "Rocky"(Noah Beery, Jr.) who always argued with Rockford about his lifestyle and occupation about being a private investigator and would always try to get into the trucking business like Rocky used to do before he retired.
This season also takes me all the way back to memory lane to when I was 2 years old and was living in the Imperial Valley for the very first time along with the fact that I was raised in El Centro, CA, which by the way is an intensely hot and ultimately boring place.
DVD Review: Love the series, But some funny editing.
Summary: 5 Stars
Love the series, But some funny editing in "This Case Is Closed," did catch my attention. Twice for about 2 seconds they edited in his 1977-1978 Firebird from later series in place of his 1974 Firebird. Filmed in 1974-1975 there is no way that car should be in the first season(It was not built yet). I can not help but wonder what other things were edited in or out.DVD Review: The Rockford Files Season One DVD
Summary: 5 Stars
If you are a fan of James Garner or liked Rockford Files, then this should be in your DVD library. It is the start of his series and a well liked show in its time.
It is interesting to watch the old shows and see the changes in life styles and equipment. The car types, cell phones, and computers are just a few of the updates that you will notice as you watch.
Have fun watching the start of this neat series.
Description of The Rockford Files - Season One
The world's most unlikely detective comes to DVD for the first time ever in all 23 thrilling Season One episodes of The Rockford Files. Emmy(r) winner James Garner stars as the offbeat Jim Rockford, an ex-con-turned-private-investigator who would rather fish than fight, but whose instinct on closed cases is more golden than his classic Pontiac Firebird. From his mobile home in Malibu, this wisecracking private eye takes on the cases of the lost and the dispossessed, chasing down seemingly long-dead clues in the sun-baked streets and seamy alleys of Los Angeles. Including an interview with James Garner himself, this phenomenal DVD set contains 23 TV hours of classic Rockford action and includes such stellar guest stars as Lindsay Wagner, James Woods, Abe Vigoda, Suzanne Somers and Ned Beatty. The Rockford Files are now open and declassified for mystery fans everywhere!From the premiere of its first hour-long episode on September 13, 1974, The Rockford Files was a critical and commercial success that gained a large and loyal following. Like other private-eye shows of the 1970s (such as Columbo and David Janssen's Harry O), the series offered smart mystery plots in the hardboiled-sleuth traditions of Dashiell Hammett, Raymond Chandler, and Rex Stout, given a sunlit spin in contemporary California. But ex-convict turned private investigator Jim Rockford (who served time for a crime he didn't commit) was anything but a conventional gumshoe; for one thing, he rarely carried a gun, and resorted to violence only when he'd exhausted his options. As played to perfection by James Garner (in what would become his signature role, surpassing his previous success as Maverick), Rockford preferred wisecracks over violence, and his going rate ("$200 a day, plus expenses") was typically applied to cold cases, missing persons, and family disputes, frequently leading to entanglements with organized crime and L.A.P.D. Sergeant Dennis Becker (Joe Santos), whose friendship with Rockford lent the series one of its pivotal character relationships. As Rockford pursued the truth from his rusty trailer-home on the Pacific Coast Highway, his inherent warmth and compassionate sleuthing were further enhanced by engaging interplay with his retired ex-trucker father "Rocky" (Noah Beery, Jr.), his lawyer and on-and-off girlfriend Beth Davenport (Gretchen Corbett), and his weasely former cell-mate "Angel" Martin (Stuart Margolin), a trio of supporting players as memorably appealing as any in '70s television. As a loose-knit ensemble, they followed Garner's capable lead with intelligent dialogue (the best of it written by series cocreator Stephen J. Cannell and frequent contributor Juanita Bartlett) and occasionally burst of stunt-laden action, typically involving Rockford's expert driving of a versatile Pontiac Firebird. (As Garner fondly recalls in the disc 1 bonus interview, "That car could do anything.")
With a catchy Mike Post theme song, The Rockford Files began each week with a new message on Rockford's telephone answering machine, usually a humorous indication that Rockford's life was always in some kind of financial disarray. Garner played this angle to the hilt, portraying Rockford as a nice guy who knew all the scams and wasn't above using them if it aided his case. His portrayal, and the show's excellent writing, attracted a wide variety of new and established guest stars, and these 23 episodes (24 if you count the two-part "This Case Is Closed," originally broadcast as one 90-minute episode) feature appearances by Joseph Cotten, James Woods, Sharon Gless, Lindsay Wagner, James Cromwell, Suzanne Somers, Ned Beatty, and others, along with lesser-known but familiar TV regulars like Sian Barbara Allen and Mills Watson, all adding flavor to a series that was routinely hailed by mystery writers as one of the best private-eye shows in TV history. Speaking of mysteries, one can only wonder why Universal failed to include the series' 90-minute pilot (originally aired in March 1974), and while this reviewer experienced no playback problems with these three double-sided DVDs (four episodes per side), many consumers have reported DVD freeze-ups likely resulting from lower-quality players less capable of handling high-compression DVDs. These caveats aside, season 1 of The Rockford Files is a bona fide treat, setting the tone for even better episodes that followed in subsequent seasons. --Jeff Shannon
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