This is the original pilot for one of television's most popular private-eye series. Living in a trailer, ex-con Jim Rockford (James Garner) and his grumpy dad (Robert Donley) get involved in a suspicious death case when a young woman (a pre-Bionic Woman Lindsay Wagner) asks him to check whether her skid-row father really died from natural causes. A Seventies gem, with a cracking script and a wicked theme-tune to boot.

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