The Girl in the Bay City Boys Club

Star James Garner directs player James Garner in this episode of the Rockford Files where Jim Rockford is investigating a crooked poker game. Wonder of wonders, Rockford's client actually lies to him even as to his own identity.

Some big movers and shakers in the town of Bay City are involved in some heavy poker losses including the client who hires Rockford to investigate the game. But the whole thing doesn't ring true and it starts with Blair Brown tailing Garner. She's not very good at it and Garner catches her at it easily enough.

Rockford Files episodes are always more special when Stuart Margolin is in them. Angel plays only a peripheral role. I'd have loved it had we seen more of him with Margolin trying to fleece the fleecers in the poker game.

There's also quite a bit more to this than just a crooked poker game and Rockford's client Stewart Moss gets murdered. Just who and Brown are I won't reveal because that would tell the whole story. But the best scene is Garner and Moss after Garner has discovered who Moss really is.

Nicely done by director Garner.