Rockford Files - The Complete Fifth Season
The Rockford Files DVDs

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The Rockford Files, in case you haven't seen it, is one of the best examples of dramatic television in the 1970's (if you have seen it you already know that). The Rockford Files was/is a witty, well written "detective" show, a genre that was extremely popular in the 70's and 80's. If you like Magnum P.I. or Simon and Simon or any other show like that then you'll like The Rockford Files. Rockford did the same thing before they did it, only better.

James Garner was absolutely perfect as Jim Rockford. It's just about impossible to imagine anyone else in the role. The show's writers and producers managed to find a perfect balance of drama and comedy (with the comedy coming in the form of dry, sarcastic one liners, usually coming from Rockford) without hurting the dramatic impact of the stories.

The fifth season of the show found those writers and producers on a roll. The Rockford Files was one of those shows that never saw a slip in quality. It was a great show from start to finish. And now nearly the entire run of the series is available on DVD.

Watching the DVD's is almost like going back in time - these episodes (for the most part) haven't looked this good since they first aired back in the 70's. It's nice, too, to be able to watch uncut episodes (as a couple minutes from each episode of shows from that era are cut for additional ad time when shown on TV in syndication). Unless you watched the shows in the 70's you might not even know what you were missing when watching the shows in syndication - but now you will get to see those scenes previously deleted for commercial time.

If you're a fan of detective shows with a wry sense of humor then The Rockford Files is for you.

 

Season 5

Ep.#	Airdate	Title
501	1978-09-22	“Heartaches of a Fool”
502	1978-09-29	“Rosendahl and Gilda Stern are Dead”
503	1978-10-06	“The Jersey Bounce”
504	1978-10-20	“White on White and Nearly Perfect”
505	1978-10-27	“Kill the Messenger”
506	1978-11-03	“The Empty Frame”
507	1978-11-10	“A Three-Day Affair with a Thirty-Day Escrow”
508	1978-11-17	“A Good Clean Bust with Sequel Rights”
509	1978-11-24	“Black Mirror” — two-hour episode Syndicated as two one-hour episodes. The original version appears on the Region 1 DVD.
510	1978-12-01	“A Fast Count”
511	1978-12-08	“Local Man Eaten by Newspaper”
512	1979-01-05	“With the French Heel Back, Can the Nehru Jacket Be Far Behind?”
513	1979-01-12	“The Battle-Ax and the Exploding Cigar”
514	1979-01-19	“Guilt”
515	1979-01-26	“The Deuce”
516	1979-02-10	“The Man Who Saw the Alligators” — 90-minute episode Syndicated as a single one-hour episodes. The original version appears on the Region 1 DVD.
517	1979-02-17	“The Return of the Black Shadow”
518	1979-02-24	“A Material Difference”
519	1979-03-03	“Never Send a Boy King to Do a Man’s Job” — two-hour episode Syndicated as two one-hour episodes. The original version appears on the Region 1 DVD.
520	1979-04-13	“A Different Drummer”