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
Did you know
- 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)
A few of you mention this episode containing a glimpse of David Chase's work on Sopranos. I agree. But I think we have been seeing that on every episode he wrote since season 3. Maybe even season 2. All of the gangster, hoods and hit men are always very well realized and definitely not the normal TV clichés of those types. There is always a sense with Chase episodes that you could follow these guys home and see Sopranos 1970s style.
I notice David Chase also liked to add an awareness of youth culture in his episodes, many of which tend to incorporate something of youth concerns and climate back then, particularly one episode comes to mind when Jim helped the Hare Krishna girl. That episode was scathing of the "Me Decade," while again also giving the sense of characters who really live in that world. Other writers on the show seem more concerned with the mystery hat trick while Chase liked the subtle observation and comedy of his characters.
- bpvalentine
- Nov 11, 2012