Wrongly accused of beating a man to death, Jim discovers the best legal advice he can find is from disbarred lawyer John Cooper.Wrongly accused of beating a man to death, Jim discovers the best legal advice he can find is from disbarred lawyer John Cooper.Wrongly accused of beating a man to death, Jim discovers the best legal advice he can find is from disbarred lawyer John Cooper.
- Joseph 'Rocky' Rockford
- (as Noah Beery)
- Dennis Becker
- (credit only)
- Mickey Long
- (as Eugene Davis)
- Angel Martin
- (voice)
- (uncredited)
Storyline
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- TriviaJim has a new lawyer in this episode: Wade G. Ward, played by Sorrell Booke. It is mentioned several times that Ward works at the same law firm (Harcourt & Lowe) as Jim's previous lawyer Beth Davenport, and that Beth is not with the firm anymore. Though it was established in a previous episode that Beth was leaving Harcourt & Lowe to establish her own firm, it is never made clear in the context of the series why Jim - a long-time personal friend of Beth's - did not follow Beth to her new firm. In real life, the reason for the switch was that Gretchen Corbett (who played Beth Davenport) had left the series.. She did return for the reunion movies of the 1990's stepping back into the role of Beth.
- GoofsThe case of Utah V. Leggett is cited by Jim's lawyer Ward. The judge then states that the case referred to an attack by Comanches against Leggett. But the Comanche Nation was never located in Utah. The Comanche Nation coincided western Texas, eastern New Mexico, western Oklahoma, southwestern Kansas, and southeastern Colorado. So an attack by Comanches against a Utah resident resulting in said Utah resident being brought to court by the State Of Utah could never have occurred.
- Quotes
Jim Rockford: [looks at the hostile young punks around him] You wanta have a go, huh, so that all of you can jump me? Is that whatcha want? Nah, I gotta better idea. We will dance... one at a time.
Eugene Conigliaro: You threatenin' us?
Jim Rockford: Am I ever...
Eugene Conigliaro: You don't frighten me.
Jim Rockford: Oh, yes I do... you keep listening to that little voice way down inside you, Eugene. The one that keeps screaming 'bounce back to Jersey'.
- ConnectionsFeatures Frankenstein (1931)
But I gotta say, they scored big bringing in Bo Hopkins as disbarred lawyer John "Coop" Cooper. Not only does Hopkins cut a dashing figure in his own right, but he shows instant chemistry with James Garner. The producers must have known it, too, because the epilogue includes an exchange between Hopkins and Garner that sets up Coop to be Garner's legal advisor from there on out. Anybody in development at a studio who saw that episode the first night it aired must have been calling Hopkins' agent. His disbarred lawyer character should have been the lead on its own primetime series. He was decades ahead of Saul Goodman, or even Lionel Hutz.
David Chase wrote the episode. The plot involves a couple of Jersey transplants who set up Rockford for a murder. They have the patter down. Later put to full effect on Chase's Sopranos. At one point, one of the jabronis refers to the mob boss (Johnny Nodzak, or something) as ''Johnny Nutsack." Man, I laughed.
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