The Rockford Files (TV Series)

With the French Heel Back, Can the Nehru Jacket Be Far Behind? (1979)

James Garner: Jim Rockford

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• Jim Rockford : This is Jim Rockford. At the tone leave your name and message, I'll get back to you.

  John Cooper : [beeep]  Jim, Coop. I'm at that address you wrote down for that poker game tonight. This is a gas station, it's closed, there's no one around and now my car is stalled! You gotta call me at four six six

  [click!] 

  John Cooper : ...

• Masters : [examining Rockford's business card]  Private detective - now there's a really creepy occupation.

  Jim Rockford : Well, we can't all be fortunate enough to sell old French paratrooper pants to fashion-conscious Middle America.

  Masters : Don't knock what sells, buddy.

• Jim Rockford : Is there a chance that Berucci's in trouble with loan sharks?

  Masters : Loan sharks? - don't be ridiculous.

  Jim Rockford : Well, I know they're very active in the garment center - there are a lot of high-risk businesses. You know, they have very direct ways of protecting investments.

  Masters : We're talking about haute couture, not some sleazy ready-to-wear manufacturer.

  Jim Rockford : Well, there's an expression - no matter how you cut it, it's still the rag business.

• Jim Rockford : [as Alta sets soup and crackers before him]  What's that?

  Margaret 'Alta' Hatch : Dinner - I'll get mine.

  Jim Rockford : Oh, well, that'll be a real energy boost - I'll just wolf this right down and go out and stop a freight train.

  Margaret 'Alta' Hatch : That, my dear sir, is a fashion model's feast. Go easy on the wheat thins.

  Jim Rockford : That's gastronomically impossible.

  Margaret 'Alta' Hatch : Well, a real fashion model would have had saltless crackers - but what the hell - let's splurge.