When I was younger I probably spent too much time wanting to be Jim Rockford sitting outside his trailer in Malibu. I don’t think I would have been very good at the private detective bit but I would have enjoyed talking to Rocky a lot
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R.I.P. Stuart Margolin
We have half-planning to do some sort of post on Stuart Margolin (1940-2022) for many years and postponing. As happens, his death today at age 82 forced the issue.
Most people of a certain age know him best as “Angel” on The Rockford Files (1974-79), a role for which he won two Emmys. It was emblematic of the kind of parts he played: shifty-eyed, oily, untrustworthy, but also somehow likeable…
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As evidence of how distracted and turned around I've been it wasn't till today that I realized that there isnt going to be a reboot of The Rockford Files with Pedro Pascal.
I have a degree in Media Criticism people.
Nobody should be letting me operate heavy machinery for awhile.
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"The records office doesn't open 'til 4pm." *BLAMM!!*
Just this once, I wish Jim had just started to blow people away. As soon as anyone gives him any shit, starts hinting at some stupid conspiracy he didn't want to know anything about in the first place, just BLANG!!
Yet another asshole shows up while he's already getting ready to GTFO of town. "I know your whole criminal record, and I can have your P.I. license held up if you don't leave town." Whoever he is, *BLAAAMM!!* right in the face.
"We're taking you back to town. Boss don't care what the sheriff said." *BBBLAAAHAMMMM!*
"We know you didn't do it, but we're gon' hold ya in jail 'til things go our way." *BLAM! BLAMM!! BLAMMM!!!*
"I'm fixin' your carburetor, what's it look like?" *BLANGG!*
"You'll find the best fishing ever over at Beaver Fork." *BLAM*
"Hello? You got a minute? I hope I'm not interrupting anything. I'm a doing a news story about trout fishing." *BANG!*
"Please, I might not make it out of the hospital. Take my proxy to the mayor, who's also the pharmacist." "Fuck this!" *BLAPP!*
"Hoo, boy, this pain in my stomach is gettin' to me again..." *BLAP!*
And punch the fucking mechanic in the face and nuts at the end.
The Rockford Files, season 6, episode 12
"Deadlock in Parma"
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