(1975-1976) “This is Jim Rockford. At the tone, leave your name and message, I'll get back to you.” James Garner is Jim Rockford, the ex-con turned private eye with a smart mouth, a quick wit, and a habit of winding up on the wrong end of a fist. For $200 a day, he’ll slip through the gray area between the cops and the crooks and dig into the cases that the police have closed. And if he’s lucky, he even collects on his fee. Garner is the quintessential low-rent P-I -- living in a trailer home a fly fishing cast away from the beach where his retired Pop (Noah Beery Jr.) ends up his as his unofficial answering service -- in the best detective show of the seventies. Joe Santos co-stars as friend Detective Dennis Becker, Gretchen Corbett has a recurring role as defense attorney Beth Davenport and Stuart Margolin is Rockford's sometime partner in scam Evelyn 'Angel' Martin. From Maverick creator Roy Huggins and Stephen J. Cannell. 22 episodes on 6 discs, plus the elusive feature length pilot film Backlash of the Hunter from 1974.
