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"The Rockford Files" The Battle of Canoga Park (1977)
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"The Rockford Files" (1974)Original Air Date:
30 September 1977 (Season 4, Episode 3)Plot:
Jim finds himself in an explosive situation when the gun he hides in his cookie jar is used in a murder. | add synopsisUser Comments:
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(Episode Cast overview, first billed only) | James Garner | ... | Jim Rockford |
 | Noah Beery Jr. | ... | Joseph 'Rocky' Rockford #2 (as Noah Beery) |
 | Joe Santos | ... | Police Det. Dennis Becker |
| Nora Marlowe | ... | Viola Wenke |
| Adrienne Marden | ... | Lee Ronstadt |
 | John Dennis Johnston | ... | Henry Schlager |
| Tom Atkins | ... | Lt. Alex Diehl |
| Gretchen Corbett | ... | Beth Davenport |
 | Elliott Street | ... | Leonard Wenke |
| Ted Gehring | ... | Walt Chalco |
| John Perak | ... | Pete Semple |
 | Brion James | ... | Clamshell |
| Charles Hallahan | ... | Brian |
| James R. Parkes | ... | Records Clerk (as James Parkes) |
| Art K. Koustik | ... | 2nd Officer (as Art Koustik) |
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In this episode we learn Rockford served in the 5th Regimental Combat Team in Korea. moreQuotes:
Joseph 'Rocky' Rockford #2: Well anyone who keeps dirty laundry in their desk I think is pretty...Jim Rockford: I knew right where to find it didn't I?
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This is a solid episode in which Jim Rockford is involved in a murder when his gun turns up to be the one at a murder scene (again!). Jim immediately suspects his new maid Viola (Norma Marlowe, who played Flossie Brimmer on "The Waltons" before her untimely death at the end of 1977) or her lazy son Leonard. Tom Atkins returns after a long absence (was James Luisi unavailable?) as Lt. Diehl and is looking for a motive so he can pin this killing on Rockford and put him behind bars once and for all. So Jim has to clear himself by finding the real killer.
Jim uses his Jim Taggert alias, manages to get beat up and arrested and survives having a hand grenade (!) dropped into his trailer by a group of right wing extremists. There's some good moments where he gets to play frustrated with Viola and then later when he annoys Dennis by going along on an official police investigation. Tom Atkins is as obnoxious as ever as Diehl, the fetching Gretchen Corbett makes a brief appearance as Beth getting Jim out of jail once again, and Tom Gehring makes the last of his five appearances on the show, this time as Walt Chalco. Marlowe does a good job playing an annoying maid (pretty much the same part she played on "Bewitched" ten years earlier!) though one wonders why Jim doesn't fire her (Rocky talked him in to hiring her in the first place). But then again if he did, we wouldn't have this episode, now would we?