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Secrets From the Set of ‘The Rockford Files’ 50 Years After the Detective Drama Premiered
As the detective drama The Rockford Files celebrates 50 years since it premiered, stars and James Garner's daughter tell Closer about secrets from the set.
The series about charming everyman private detective Jim Rockford would run six seasons, from 1974 to 1980, and lift its star James Garner to four Emmy nominations and one win. Getty ImagesEven if Rockford did get punched in the face most episodes, he almost always caught the bad guy through a combination of quick thinking, tenaciousness and keen observation. Rockford , a wrongfully convicted ex-con, was conceived as a variation of the genial conman character James had played on TV’s Maverick in the early 1960s.
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