Q 01/05

On which network did The Rockford Files originally air, from 1974 to 1980?

A) CBS

B) ABC

C) PBS

D) NBC

Answer · why

D) NBC

The eight reunion TV movies of the 1990s moved to CBS.

Q 02/05

Which prolific TV producer co-created The Rockford Files with Roy Huggins and wrote its pilot?

A) Glen A. Larson

B) Stephen J. Cannell

C) Aaron Spelling

D) Steven Bochco

Answer · why

B) Stephen J. Cannell

Cannell had written for Jack Webb's Adam-12 and went on to write 36 episodes; Huggins had created Maverick, Garner's breakthrough series.

Q 03/05

Rockford was conceived as a modern-day version of which earlier James Garner character?

A) Bret Maverick

B) Wyatt Earp

C) Philip Marlowe

D) Sam Spade

Answer · why

A) Bret Maverick

The idea was to swap the Old West gambler for a Los Angeles investigator.

Q 04/05

Where had Jim Rockford served five years before being pardoned?

A) Folsom

B) Alcatraz

C) San Quentin

D) Leavenworth

Answer · why

C) San Quentin

The distinction that he was pardoned rather than paroled comes up repeatedly in the plots.

Q 05/05

For most of the series, Rockford's trailer sits at which Malibu location?

A) Paradise Cove

B) Zuma Beach

C) Point Dume

D) Topanga Beach

Answer · why

A) Paradise Cove

The address was 29 Cove Road, next to a pier and the Sand Castle restaurant; early season-one episodes put it at 22878 Pacific Coast Highway.