The Rockford Files: Punishment and Crime

Because James Garner's original production company, Cherokee Productions ceased operations after1980, due to Garner's lawsuit with Universal Studios, Garner formed a new production company to produce the 1990's Rockford movies. The name of the new production company was MGB Productions. MGB was a British-made sports coupé, manufactured by MG, fitting in with Mr Garners love of automobile, and also fit in nicely with the names the initials stand for; "M" for Meta Rosenberg, "G" for James Garner,, and "B" for Juanita Bartlett. Meta Rosenberg was his long-time agent/producer, who also directed a few episodes of the original series. Juanita Bartlett was also a long time writer, producer during production of The Rockford Files (1974), who started writing for Garner shows all the way back during Nichols (1971).

It is clearly established in dialogue several times (as well as in a flashback sequence) that the character of Megan Dougherty was 15 in 1971. This would have made the character 22 years old -- yet somehow already a fully qualified Ph.D. psychiatrist with a long-established, thriving practice -- when she first appeared in the 1978 Rockford Files episode Black Mirror (1978).

Followed by The Rockford Files: Shoot-Out at the Golden Pagoda (1997)