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1	* TheDanza:
2	** Creator/JamesGarner as Jim Rockford.
3	** Creator/RitaMoreno as Rita Capkovic.
4	* DirectedByCastMember:
5	** Creator/StuartMargolin called the shots on two episodes (and two of the TV movies).
6	** Creator/JamesGarner directed "The Girl in the Bay City Boys' Club" (his only directing job).
7	** Occasional guest star Creator/DanaElcar directed "The Attractive Nuisance".
8	** In a sense, Creator/JamesWhitmoreJr would count here as well. He played the recurring role of Freddie Beamer in "Beamer's Last Case" and "Nice Guys Finish Dead". After Whitmore was fully established as a director, he directed the first TV movie, "I Still Love L.A.".
9	* HeAlsoDid: Garner's fellow cast member in ''Film/TheAmericanizationOfEmily'' and ''Film/TheGreatEscape'' Creator/JamesCoburn, while never appearing on the show, took ''his'' only turn in the director's chair with "Irving the Explainer."
10	* LifeImitatesArt: Fiscal Dynamics in "Profit and Loss", [[spoiler: a company with no real value and seemingly successful through "cooking the books", accurately predicted the Enron scandal by nearly three decades.]]
11	* TheOtherDarrin: Rocky was played by Robert Donley in the pilot, before Creator/NoahBeeryJr took over the role for the series proper.
12	** Creator/JohnRandolph played Richie Brockelman's father in the series about Richie, but when the character turned up in a Rockford episode, Creator/HaroldGould took over the role.
13	* RealLifeRelative: Creator/JosephCampanella and his brother Frank appear together in "In Hazard".
14	** And of course, Creator/JamesGarner's brother Jack appeared quite a few times in small roles.
15	* TyopOnTheCover: In the credits for the episode "Find Me If You Can", Creator/JoanVanArk is credited as Joan Van Arc.
16	* UnderageCasting: In "Say Goodbye to Jennifer", Creator/HectorElizondo plays Rockford's friend, John 'Mitch' Micelli, who was a buddy of Rockford's from the Korean War. While Garner, born in 1928, was old enough to serve in Korea (and did so in real life), Elizondo, born in 1936, would have been 14 or 15 in real life at the height of the Korean conflict.
17	* YouLookFamiliar: Creator/JamesGarner's brother, Jack, appeared throughout the show's run as a number of different characters, one of which (Police Captain [=McEnroe=]) was a semi-regular in the final season and appeared in each of the reunion movies.

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