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| CATEGORY: | DVD |
| THEATRICAL RELEASE DATE: | 13 September, 1974 |
| MANUFACTURER: | Universal Studios |
| MPAA RATING: | NR (Not Rated) |
| FEATURES: | Box set, Color, Dolby, Full Screen, Subtitled, NTSC |
| TYPE: | Drama, Movie, TV Shows, Television |
| MEDIA: | DVD |
| # OF MEDIA: | 3 |
| UPC: | 025192647222 |
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Customer Reviews of The Rockford Files - Season Two
The Agony and the Ecstasy First, congratulations to Universal for finally waking up and treating this great, great show with the respect it deserves. True, there are still no voice-over commentaries and no "Rockford Remembered" documentaries. And the only extra we get(besides the Pilot) is a short interview with the always obnoxious Stephen J. Cannell. But, this season's eps are on 6 discs rather than 3. And the artwork, this time, is very handsome. <
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>The season itself is strange and magnificent. As Ed Robertson has detailed in his terrific book, this was a rather problematic year for Rockford. Always on the verge of cancellation or the loss of Garner(for creative reasons), the insecurity is obvious. And it results in a collection of episodes which can only be described as schizophrenic. How else explain the greatness of "The Farnsworth Stratagem", "Chicken Little is a Little Chicken", "Hammer of C Block" and "Portrait of Elizabeth" right next to -- and sometimes alternating week-by-week -- with the absolute dreck of "Real Easy Red Dog", "Resurrection in Black and White", "The Italian Bird Fiasco"(indeed) or the truly horrible "Deep Blue Sleep"? <
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Season 2-excellent....but with a grain of salt
I got season 2 delivered by Amazon just two days after it was released, and I watched all 23 shows over three days.
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>First, these are great episodes,Garner is even better, his character has more depth, and more backstory is given for Rockford, and his friends-angel, dennis, beth- all are used more in the show, and they are also made deeper characters. These episodes should please most fans, but the series dipped here a little (and rebounded the next 3 1/2 seasons), and there are reasons why.
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>I had been warned that season two was the weak season of the series, by reading the book 30 years of the Rockford Files (sold by Amazon). Normally, when something is brand new on DVD (like, I'm catching up on two seasons of Lost and House), I will avoid all television previews, print, TV guides, etc, so nothing is spoiled. I barely remember the specific plots for Rockford anyways (I was in Junior High and High School), so it's like a new show. However, my eyes wandered past season 1 in the book (a great book), and drifted to season two behind the scenes stories. Perhaps this was good, because I was prepared for some of the weaknesses of these season 2 eppies, but pleasantly surprised that they overcame some of the problems.
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>Basically, with Stephen Cannell at the helm without Roy Huggins, who left the show after season 1, things slipped from the tried and true format of season 1. The balance, for me, of humor, well-paced action, and a little violence, drifted towards more (silly) humor, less action.
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>The scripts are overall outstanding, however, much more complicated plots and better writing for most of the episodes. But, a lot of the car chases, kidnapped by the goons in wide ties in the big 70's cars, punches in the gut are gone. It may be Stephen Cannell and his more "A-Team" personality coming out, and it is also probably the networks and the FCC enforcing the "less violence" and "family viewing" pressures of the 1970s.
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>But, buy these DVDS and wonder why James Garner didn't win the Emmy every year in row !!! I looked up the Emmy Awards history for Best Actor, 1974 - 1980, and Garner did have some good company-he lost to Peter Falk and Ed Asner, and some guy in a show that lasted only one season. But come on, only winning his Best Actor once? I don't think the show won, either. But then, the Odd Couple was a low rated show when it aired, and it exploded during syndication (and Star Trek's cancellation and success later on is legendary).
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>Buy the dvds and let's hope Season 3 doesn't take until December 2006 to be issued !!
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ROCKFORD FILES RULES!
Awesome 70's detective series continues the second season 1975-76 with a much improved disc package and the original 1974 pilot, Backlash of the Hunter with the ever so lovely Lindsay Wagner in some later episodes of the series and famous for her role as The Bionic Woman, also look for tough guy/biker actor William Smith as a bad dude hit man driving a very cool 1974 Eldorado convertible! Great stories, intelligent and witty scripts ,top notch performances from all,excellent music score. plus super scenery from Malibu canyons, beaches, coast highways ,wealthy estates,golf clubs, to down and out dockfronts, warehouses, and gritty LA streets, on out to the california and nevada deserts and fantastic car chase scene"s, lots of cool cars,film noir type con men and ladies, and realistic police scenarios Look for actors/musician Louis Gossett jr and Isaac Hayes in standout performances plus a slew of other charactor and familiar face actors! FIVE STAR RATING! buy and own it now! Peace!