Quickie Nirvana (11 Nov. 1977)

Rockford ends up regretting allowing an eccentric hippie woman to use his address temporarily, when her ex-boss sends a pair of thugs after her to retrieve some money he put in her care.

Director:

Meta Rosenberg

Writers:

Roy Huggins (creator), Stephen J. Cannell (creator),

Stars:

James Garner, Noah Beery Jr., Joe Santos

Cast

Episode cast overview, first billed only:
James Garner	...	Jim Rockford
Noah Beery Jr.	...	Joseph 'Rocky' Rockford (as Noah Beery)
Joe Santos	...	Dennis Becker
Valerie Curtin	...	Jane Patten / Sky Aquarian / Gopi / Hester
Kip Gilman	...	Alan Bayliss (as Kenneth Gilman)
Quinn K. Redeker	...	Gordon Borchert (as Quinn Redeker)
Dick Anthony Williams	...	Maceo Prentiss
Lawrence Cook	...	Dijan (as Larry Cook)
James Luisi	...	Lt. Doug Chapman
Patricia Pearcy	...	Pavarthi
Carl W. Crudup	...	Eddie McBrair (as Carl Crudup)
Elta Blake	...	Ann
Aesop Aquarian	...	Cook
Michael Grandcolas	...	Panhandler
Dan Magiera	...	Conga Drummer

Storyline

Rockford ends up regretting allowing an eccentric hippie woman to use his address temporarily, when her ex-boss sends a pair of thugs after her to retrieve some money he put in her care.

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Genres:

Crime | Drama | Mystery | Thriller

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Details

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Release Date:

11 November 1977 (USA)

Filming Locations:

Stage 30, Universal Studios - 100 Universal City Plaza, Universal City, California, USA

Company Credits

Production Co:

Roy Huggins-Public Arts Productions, Cherokee Productions, Universal TV

Technical Specs

Runtime:

60 min

Sound Mix:

Mono

Color:

Color (Technicolor) Color

Aspect Ratio:

1.33 : 1

Did You Know?

Trivia

During the scene where Rockford and Jane are eating hamburgers and arguing about spirituality, Jane says she is 32 but Rockford corrects her saying he's seen her driver's license and that she is 40 and that there is nothing she can do about it despite her claims that she is "youthing" herself. In fact, at the time the episode was filmed, the actress playing Jane, Valerie Curtin was 32 years old.

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Goofs

When Rockford is trying to find Sky at the ashram, Pavarthi tells him that they had gone to Sunfire Institute for "...the Spring Solstice...". Any New Ager worth her crystals should know that the Solstices are the summer and winter events with the extremes of daylight (summer) and darkness (winter) while the spring and summer events are the Equinoxes (or Equinoctes), when day and night are of equal length. This may have been intended by the writers to emphasize Pavarthi's actual lack of conviction.

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Quotes

Jane Patten: You're an unusual blend, Jim. You know, you're sweet, kind of losing it, kind of fascist.

User Reviews

Space Cadet

I'm not sure the number of Rockford Files episodes where James Garner just does a simple favor for a friend and winds up in a jackpot. This one has to be one of the best of them.

Valerie Curtin plays a neighbor of Rockford's who asks that her job's last paycheck be delivered to him as she's moving up to some commune. Seems like she missed making a payment that her boss Kip Gilman asked her to make on some Venice pier and the money's gone too. Now two nasty dudes come calling on Rockford asking where their loot is.

This episode truly belongs to Valerie Curtin who has taken up Buddhism in a big way mostly as Garner remarks to avoid responsibility of any kind. She is one true space cadet.

Anyway those thugs and Gilman who is a record producer and attorney tie into an R&B artist played by Dick Anthony Williams who was doing a little blackmail payoff to silence a witness who saw him run down someone deliberately in a parking lot. Later on said witness gets silenced the old fashioned way.

James Luisi as Lieutenant Chapman is his usual hostile self to Garner and Joe Santos is upset that Garner is blowing a potential stakeout on an unrelated incident. All in a day's work for the California coast's number one PI.