Goofs

Jim's car changes throughout the episode. Some scenes it is a 1974 model with the smaller rear window and in others it is the 1975 model with the wraparound rear window.

When Jerry goes to Gazzarri's, he is seen standing at the bar. However, it is the same bar that he was at in the previous location, The Mayfair Theatre, where he was waiting for Rockford to come out of the bathroom.

There was no soap on the back of Jerry's coat after he had been laying on the soapy floor in the bathroom of the theatre. What's more, he doesn't bother to change before he goes to another place to pick up a woman (in this case, Lyndsay Wagner). Maybe women in the 1970s like guys whose clothes were covered with dirt and hand soap.

During the car chase near the end of the show (just before the airplane shows up), the rear window of Rockford's car is missing and then reappears. The window continues to disappear and reappear several times.

When the city bus is driving to the beach, the driver is shown as a white man with short brown hair. When the bus arrives at the beach and the driver turns to tell the last passenger to get off, he is a young black male with a prominent black Afro.

Mrs. Elias beautiful house - shown in the first establishing exterior shot as a stoned, Tudor-style home, with sweeping views from a hill-side perspective, is in fact an example of modern architecture, in the Hollywood Hills. It's the Stahl Case House No° 22 - 1635 Woods Drive, Los Angeles, CA.

This reads more like a Trivia item than a Goof, but in any case the house Mrs. Elias lives in is *not* the famous Stahl House. Her house is one used by Universal many times in the 1960's, 70's, and 80's. It figured in three of Columbo's cases in seasons, two, and three.

The file folders Angel looks through for Rockford are all unlabeled.

When Jim and Sara drive to Las Vegas, they're shown going along a two-lane desert road. Since time was of the essence, they would've taken I-15, a major interstate highway between Los Angeles and Las Vegas.

The shots of Mrs. Elias' house is a stock photo with a crease in the middle.

There is no smoke seen immediately following Rockford's car exploding in the rocks. There should be a rising smoke trail.

There are no bullet impacts in the sand during most of the strafing runs in the desert, but in a couple of the shots there is, so there should be impacts seen from most of the runs.

It's hard to believe that Jim could somehow find an abandoned cement mixer out in the desert.

Jerry ordered a mixed drink at the bar but is seen with a beer mug.

During the climax in the desert Jim fires more than six shots from his revolver.

When Sara answers Rockford's phone call at her bikini shop she answers with a terse "Yes?" She had no way of knowing it was Rockford calling. A proprietor of a small shop would not answer the phone in such a rude manner.

During Rockford's first meeting with Sara, she explains that the police weren't able to help her, so they (Dennis Becker, specifically) referred him to her. Later in the episode, Rockford becomes disgruntled during the case, asking her who sicked her onto him. She answers "the cops", and he reacts as though he hadn't been aware of that.

In the gunfight scene with the airplane, Jim Rockford (James Garner) uses his non-dominant hand grasping his dominant wrist to steady his revolver. This is a common handgun handling error in many TV series of the time.

Experienced shooters do not hold their handguns that way two-handed. They hold them with the fingers of the non-dominant hand around fingers of their dominant hand with the non-dominant thumb next to the dominant thumb.