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"The Rockford Files" Return to the 38th Parallel (1976)
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10 December 1976
(Season 3, Episode 9)
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Jim gets used by an old Army buddy in an insurance recovery case. | add synopsis
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(Episode Cast overview, first billed only) | James Garner | ... | Jim Rockford |
 | Noah Beery Jr. | ... | Joseph 'Rocky' Rockford #2 |
 | Joe Santos | ... | Police Det. Dennis Becker |
 | Ned Beatty | ... | Al Brennan |
| Veronica Hamel | ... | Marcy Brownell |
| Paul Stevens | ... | John Stabila |
| Norman Burton | ... | Markell (as Normann Burton) |
| Robert Karnes | ... | Capt. Hulette |
| James Congdon | ... | Alvin Thomas |
| Jeff David | ... | Funeral Director Martin |
| Michael Ebert | ... | Lee Nejman |
| John Mahon | ... | Lt. Hayes |
| Bart Burns | ... | Fire Chief |
| Charles Winters | ... | Kevin Lindsay (as Chuck Winters) |
| Tom Stewart | ... | Aarons |
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These people are regular cast members. Were they in this episode? | James Luisi | ... | Lt. Doug Chapman |
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Tompkins: [Beeep] Tompkins at Guaranteed Insurance. About your burglary claim? Major loss alright. Funny you remembered to file... you didn't remember to pay your premium.
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Tompkins: [Beeep] Tompkins at Guaranteed Insurance. About your burglary claim? Major loss alright. Funny you remembered to file... you didn't remember to pay your premium.
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*** This comment may contain spoilers ***
Ned Beatty returns to the series as a totally different character than his memorable Leon Fielder from "Profit and Loss". This time Beatty plays Al Brennan, an old Korean war buddy of Jim's who shows up one morning at the trailer. This character is much more comic and bumbling than Fielder, but still turns out to have a dark side.
Brennan gets Rockford involved with Marcy Brownell (Veronica Hamell, who was in season two's "A Bad Deal in the Valley" and would go on to greater success on "Hill Street Blues") a woman who wants them to find her missing sister. The next thing you know, Jim is beat up and shot at and in the middle of a search for a $3 million dollar missing Shan-Yin vase.
There's some good lines in this episode and a nice scene on the train that is coupled with a funny Rockford-esquire ending, but this episode feels a little thin. I think Beatty is better when he plays it powerful, and the rest of the episode is not intriguing enough or funny enough or clever enough to rank it among the better episodes.