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(1976-1977) “This is Jim Rockford. At the tone, leave your name and message, I'll get back to you.” James Garner is back as the ex-con turned private eye for another season of cases in the best detective show of the seventies. Noah Beery Jr. is his retired Pop, Joe Santos his friend Detective Dennis Becker, Gretchen Corbett and Stuart Margolin have recurring roles, and guest stars this season include Veronica Hamel, Ron Rifkin, and Burt Young. From Maverick creator Roy Huggins and Stephen J. Cannell.

(1975-1976) “This is Jim Rockford. At the tone, leave your name and message, I'll get back to you.” James Garner is Jim Rockford, the ex-con turned private eye with a smart mouth, a quick wit, and a habit of winding up on the wrong end of a fist. For $200 a day, he’ll slip through the gray area between the cops and the crooks and dig into the cases that the police have closed. And if he’s lucky, he even collects on his fee. Garner is the quintessential low-rent P-I -- living in a trailer home a fly fishing cast away from the beach where his retired Pop (Noah Beery Jr.) ends up his as his unofficial answering service -- in the best detective show of the seventies. Joe Santos co-stars as friend Detective Dennis Becker, Gretchen Corbett has a recurring role as defense attorney Beth Davenport and Stuart Margolin is Rockford's sometime partner in scam Evelyn 'Angel' Martin. From Maverick creator Roy Huggins and Stephen J. Cannell. 22 episodes on 6 discs, plus the elusive feature length pilot film Backlash of the Hunter from 1974.

The fourth season of the series about an ex-con-turned-private-investigator named Jim Rockford who would rather run away than fight and would rather go fishing than work. He isn't a coward, and he isn't lazy--just a bit on the cautious side, that's all. And he bears a very strong resemblance to Western TV hero Bret Maverick. Rockford is sometimes aided (and sometimes deterred) in his cases by friends Dennis Becker (a police detective), Angel (his cowardly former cellmate) and pretty Beth Davenport (his lawyer).

James Garner returns in his Primetime Emmy®-winning role as detective Jim Rockford, an ex-con whose instinct for solving cases is as cool as his Pontiac Firebird. From his mobile home in Malibu, this wisecracking private eye takes on the cases of the lost and the dispossessed.