Q 01/05

The Rockford Files ran from September 1974 to January 1980 on which network, before 1990s reunion movies moved elsewhere?

A) CBS

B) ABC

C) Fox

D) NBC

Answer · why

D) NBC

NBC aired the original run from 1974 to 1980; the 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

Stephen J. Cannell had written for Jack Webb's Adam-12 before co-creating the series with Roy Huggins and scripting the 1974 pilot, 'Backlash of the H...

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

Huggins conceived Rockford as a modern Bret Maverick, trading the Old West gambler he had created for Garner in 1957 for a Los Angeles private investi...

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

Rockford served five years in San Quentin for a crime he did not commit and was pardoned, not paroled, a distinction the plots repeatedly stress.

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 trailer sat in the Paradise Cove parking lot at 29 Cove Road, beside the pier and the Sand Castle restaurant; early season-one episodes placed it ...