Jim goes undercover to expose an illegal gambling club and gets help from a young D.A.Jim goes undercover to expose an illegal gambling club and gets help from a young D.A.Jim goes undercover to expose an illegal gambling club and gets help from a young D.A.
Noah Beery Jr.
- Joseph 'Rocky' Rockford
- (voice)
- (as Noah Beery)
Joe Santos
- Dennis Becker
- (credit only)
Chuck Hicks
- Bell
- (uncredited)
- Director
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- TriviaThis was the first and only episode that James Garner directed. He agreed to do so because the original director was unavailable at the last moment.
- GoofsEarly in the episode when meeting with his client Rockford says, "that they break out a new deck of Bicycles every few hands." In the poker scenes, the actors are actually playing with a deck of Bee playing cards, a higher-end product of the same company.
- Quotes
Angel Martin: Your beef is with Jimmy, I had nothing to do with this...
Thompkins: Shut up.
Angel Martin: I'm just an innocent bystander!
Thompkins: They're usually the ones who get shot!
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You don't mess around with Jim
This was a decent, but not great, episode which has Rockford going undercover to see if a poker game is rigged, and as we all know, he plays a mean game of poker on the table and in his job. The most notable aspects were that this episode was directed James Garner, and a very young Blair Brown plays a deputy district attorney who's also interested in this illegal card game, where one member is stealing union funds, and bad stuff all around is going on behind the scenes. Rockford was hired by Kate's(Brown)partner, who's also a deputy district attorney, but he's crooked and was involved in the rigged poker game and winds up being murdered. The bad guys eventually learn of Rockford's true identity, and are naturally out to kill him, and somehow, Angel(Stuart Margolin)gets involved in this mess; he and Garner are terrific together with great chemistry. There isn't too much in terms of action, but there's a cool sequence when the baddies chase an obviously limping Rockford(Garner always had bad knees during this show)and Kate in what looks like a school gymnasium, and he makes some nifty choices to keep the hoods at bay, until he wisely pulls a fire alarm which eventually has the fire company and police there to save the day and arrest the bad men. Other nice touches included a few scenes with the Firebird, and some cool shots of the pier near the trailer.
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- Sep 28, 2012
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- Jack in the Box - 6551 Lankershim Blvd, North Hollywood, Los Angeles, California, USA(Jim asks the take out window people to call the police)
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