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"The Rockford Files" (1974)Original Air Date:
9 January 1976 (Season 2, Episode 14)Plot:
A friend from Jim's time in prison after getting out, needs help clearing himself from the crime he was put into prison for. | add synopsisUser Comments:
The Rockfish Files moreCast
(Episode Credited cast) | James Garner | ... | Jim Rockford |
 | Noah Beery Jr. | ... | Joseph 'Rocky' Rockford (credit only) (as Noah Beery) |
 | Joe Santos | ... | Police Det. Dennis Becker |
 | Isaac Hayes | ... | Gandolph Fitch |
 | James A. Watson Jr. | ... | Police Officer Arthur Bingham |
| Annazette Chase | ... | Debbie Bingham |
| Jack Somack | ... | Oliver Prey |
 | Lynn Hamilton | ... | Eunice Charles Bingham |
 | Allan Rich | ... | Charles 'Pebbles' Runkin |
| Bill Walker | ... | Rosie |
 | Sandra de Bruin | ... | Receptionist (as Sandy deBruin) |
| Hank Stohl | ... | Wino |
Series Cast
These people are regular cast members. Were they in this episode? | James Luisi | ... | Lt. Doug Chapman |
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*** This comment may contain spoilers ***
Loosely based on Raymond Chandler's "Farewell My Lovely", this episode is one of the very best in the series. Isaac Hayes plays Gandolph Fitch (the Moose Malloy part), who just got out of prison. He was doing 20 years for killing his girlfriend Lila but claims he was innocent. Rockford owes him $1500 from a poker game, so his choice is to help him find Velma--I mean Eunice (Lynn Hamilton, who played Redd Foxx's regular girlfriend Donna on "Sanford and Son"), Lila's best friend who's testimony sent Gandy up the river.
Isaac Hayes is terrific as Gandy, displaying a quiet menace throughout. Yet he has a soft underbelly: his feelings for Lila. And he knows he needs Rockford to do what he doesn't know how: find out what happened.
Hayes' Gandy character was so popular he was brought back for two more episodes, "Just Another Polish Wedding" (where he teamed with Lou Gossett Jr.) and "2nd Chance".
Also in the cast are Annazette Chase, who co-starred with Hayes in "Truck Turner" and James Watson Jr. Watson and Bill Walker, who played Rosie co-starred in the same "Love American Style" episode, and I believe Watson also did a lot of the blackouts on the show, along with Stuart Margolin. Also putting in good performances are Allan Rich as Gandy's old boss, Pebbles Rankin and Jack Somack as Gandy's old attorney, Oliver Prey.
The script is well written with a good mystery flavored by a good amount of the series' sense of humor. If you don't like this episode, you don't like the Rockford Files.
As an added bonus, Hayes sings (and wrote) the opening song "Gandy's Theme" which is re-prised at the end of the episode.