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List Price: $39.98
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Avg. Customer Rating:  (based on 9 reviews)
Sales Rank: 94
Category: DVD
Author: Rockford Files
Publisher: Universal Studios
Studio: Universal Studios
Manufacturer: Universal Studios
Label: Universal Studios
Format: Box Set, Color, Dolby, Full Screen, Subtitled, Ntsc
Languages: English (Original Language), English (Subtitled)
Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Media: DVD
Number Of Items: 3
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.7
Dimensions (in): 7.5 x 5.5 x 1.1
UPC: 025192647222
EAN: 0025192647222
ASIN: B000BF0C8E
Release Date: June 13, 2006 (New: Last 30 Days)
Theatrical Release Date: September 13, 1974
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Editorial Reviews:
Description
Jim Rockford is back and better than ever in all 22 Season Two episodes of the celebrated detective hit The Rockford Files. Join James Garner in his breakout Emmy-winning role as the cool, calm and collected ex-con-turned-detective who loves to mouth off but avoids using his fists at all costs. He takes his time, but always solves the crime - whether it be blackmail, theft, scams or murder! Along for the ride on this five-time Emmy-winning series are such stellar guest stars as Rob Reiner, Louis Gossett Jr., Linda Evans, Isaac Hayes and Dick Butkus. Also included for the first time on DVD is the original series pilot. With his no-nonsense approach and wisecracking wit, its no mystery that Rockford always gets his man.
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Customer Reviews: Read 4 more reviews...
Season 2-excellent....but with a grain of salt June 19, 2006
0 out of 2 found this review helpful
I got season 2 delivered by Amazon just two days after it was released, and I watched all 23 shows over three days.
First, these are great episodes,Garner is even better, his character has more depth, and more backstory is given for Rockford, and his friends-angel, dennis, beth- all are used more in the show, and they are also made deeper characters. These episodes should please most fans, but the series dipped here a little (and rebounded the next 3 1/2 seasons), and there are reasons why.
I had been warned that season two was the weak season of the series, by reading the book 30 years of the Rockford Files (sold by Amazon). Normally, when something is brand new on DVD (like, I'm catching up on two seasons of Lost and House), I will avoid all television previews, print, TV guides, etc, so nothing is spoiled. I barely remember the specific plots for Rockford anyways (I was in Junior High and High School), so it's like a new show. However, my eyes wandered past season 1 in the book (a great book), and drifted to season two behind the scenes stories. Perhaps this was good, because I was prepared for some of the weaknesses of these season 2 eppies, but pleasantly surprised that they overcame some of the problems.
Basically, with Stephen Cannell at the helm without Roy Huggins, who left the show after season 1, things slipped from the tried and true format of season 1. The balance, for me, of humor, well-paced action, and a little violence, drifted towards more (silly) humor, less action.
The scripts are overall outstanding, however, much more complicated plots and better writing for most of the episodes. But, a lot of the car chases, kidnapped by the goons in wide ties in the big 70's cars, punches in the gut are gone. It may be Stephen Cannell and his more "A-Team" personality coming out, and it is also probably the networks and the FCC enforcing the "less violence" and "family viewing" pressures of the 1970s.
But, buy these DVDS and wonder why James Garner didn't win the Emmy every year in row !!! I looked up the Emmy Awards history for Best Actor, 1974 - 1980, and Garner did have some good company-he lost to Peter Falk and Ed Asner, and some guy in a show that lasted only one season. But come on, only winning his Best Actor once? I don't think the show won, either. But then, the Odd Couple was a low rated show when it aired, and it exploded during syndication (and Star Trek's cancellation and success later on is legendary).
Buy the dvds and let's hope Season 3 doesn't take until December 2006 to be issued !!
ROCKFORD FILES RULES! June 18, 2006
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
Awesome 70's detective series continues the second season 1975-76 with a much improved disc package and the original 1974 pilot, Backlash of the Hunter with the ever so lovely Lindsay Wagner in some later episodes of the series and famous for her role as The Bionic Woman, also look for tough guy/biker actor William Smith as a bad dude hit man driving a very cool 1974 Eldorado convertible! Great stories, intelligent and witty scripts ,top notch performances from all,excellent music score. plus super scenery from Malibu canyons, beaches, coast highways ,wealthy estates,golf clubs, to down and out dockfronts, warehouses, and gritty LA streets, on out to the california and nevada deserts and fantastic car chase scene"s, lots of cool cars,film noir type con men and ladies, and realistic police scenarios Look for actors/musician Louis Gossett jr and Isaac Hayes in standout performances plus a slew of other charactor and familiar face actors! FIVE STAR RATING! buy and own it now! Peace!
It's Classic TV at its best June 16, 2006
4 out of 5 found this review helpful
The Season Two DVD Package is a big step forward from the Season One two-sided cheapies. Six Discs are better. Quality is great thanks to Universal's much better effort. The Series itself is full of wacky interesting characters and fine performances from many different actors. There's five star value here.
Rockford Files - Season 2 June 13, 2006
7 out of 8 found this review helpful
Universal did a lot better job of producing the season 2 DVDs. They got rid of the 2 sided "flipper" discs and replaced them with single sided DVDs. So instead of 3 "flipper" DVDs you get 6 single sided DVDs. It's nice to have one side printed so you can set these down on that side and not have to worry about scratching the data side. It's also nice to be able to easily read the label instead of the tiny one around the hole like in the season 1 DVDs. Also the DVD package looks better than the Season 1 DVD package. The package is one case that folds out to a tri-fold and contains all 6 discs. And unlike the Season 1 cases, the interior is not blank but contains scenes from the show. This Set of DVDs includes the series pilot "Backlash of the Hunter" with Lindsay Wagner, Stuart Margolin, Bill Mumy(of LOST IN SPACE and BABYLON 5 fame), William Smith(who took over for James MacArthur in the last season of HAWAII 5-0), and Robert Donley as Joseph Rockford, Jim's dad. In the rest of the series this was switched to Noah Berry Jr. as Jim's dad. This was a good switch because Berry plays Jim's dad with a lot more charisma. The DVD package includes a 9 minute interview with Stephen J. Cannell, the Co-Creater and producer of the show.
Can't Get Enough of James Garner/Rockford May 30, 2006
11 out of 12 found this review helpful
James Garner is probably the hardest working television
actor of them all. My favorite shows are Columbo, Mission: Impossible and the Rockford Files, but as an actor, Garner outclasses them all. As good as Columbo is, Peter Falk is puts in uneven performances. In Mission:Impossible, the focus continually shifts from one character to another, so no one
actor is on the spot all the time. In "Rockford Files", the story revolves around Jim so he is on screen much of the time,
yet he NEVER puts in a bad performance, in spite of what must
have been an exhausting schedule, putting out a new show week after week. Of course, the outstanding writing and directing add to the charm of the program. I was in college in Southern California while the show was being produced so I can attest to how well the show reflected the slightly wacky society of the time and in the various odd types of people Jim encounters.
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