The RV family from hell decides to set up camp next door to Jim's trailer, just when he's got the recovery of a stolen diamond on his mind.The RV family from hell decides to set up camp next door to Jim's trailer, just when he's got the recovery of a stolen diamond on his mind.The RV family from hell decides to set up camp next door to Jim's trailer, just when he's got the recovery of a stolen diamond on his mind.
Noah Beery Jr.
- Joseph 'Rocky' Rockford
- (as Noah Beery)
Hunter von Leer
- Skip Speece
- (as Hunter Von Leer)
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- TriviaWhen he says "use your loaf" (= use your head), the character Ginger, an English gangster in the Michael Caine mould, employs Cockney rhyming slang, not an idiom many American viewers would be familiar with. Cockney rhyming slang originated in London among the criminal underworld as a form of spoken cipher, replacing words with unrelated but rhyming phrases, which were then often shortened to remove the rhyming element, e.g. loaf (loaf of bread) = head, dog (dog and bone) = telephone, syrup (syrup of figs) = wig, trouble (trouble and strife) = wife, brown bread = dead, septic (septic tank) = Yank, etc.
- GoofsTowards the end, when Ginger is trying to get Carl Wronko to pull the RV over, Jim recognizes the man in the back seat as having been at the attempted ransom exchange. However, both ransomers had been wearing masks; Jim never saw their faces. (Note: It was Kalifer who Rockford had recognized, who Ginger had kidnapped).
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Jim Rockford: This is Jim Rockford. At the tone leave your name and message, I'll get back to you.
Grace: [Beeep] Jim, it's Grace at the bank. I checked your Christmas Club account. You don't have five hundred dollars, you have fifty... Sorry! Computer foul-up!
- ConnectionsReferences Flying Leathernecks (1951)
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10-4, Rockford
This episode has just about everything I like for this show, namely how Rockford portrays both a funny and angry side, several Firebird shots, and many excellent shots of sunny California. It is a pleasing episode to watch, and has interesting aspects revolving around a visiting family from Indiana, and a diamond heist. Ken Swafford stars as the ambitious rv driver, who, along with his quirky family decide to embark on a major trip to the west coast(guess who they end up parking next to?); Swafford has the distinction of starring in the final Rockford Files episode that was filmed, in 1979. There's a seriously funny scene when the daughter needs to use Jim's bathroom; you have to see his face as he sits on the steps waiting for her, as her mother tells her to spray when she's done. Anyway, Rockford is hired as a consultant with an insurance man(George Wyner)trying to make a deal with the men who stole the diamond, but things go awry, and now another crew is after the jewel, led by a man with a strange accent which appeared slightly out of place, but I digress. Watch as Rockford operates a cb(remember them?)when trying to locate the family, and adds a phony accent to make it even funnier. Lastly, there's a cool scene with Dennis and Chapman interrogating Jim and the insurance man, when Jim gets thrown into the drink while the other man walks away, much to the bewilderment of Jim. Add a bbq and Rocky and we have a winner here.
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