User Reviews

While most reviews were positive, they were so with some caveats. At least some of the reviews.

Personally, I thoroughly enjoyed it. The script was wonderful, the guest cast was good, and once more Ivan Dixon turned out a quite good episode.

Yes, it was a feel-good/humorous episode in the same vein as that one earlier this season with Tom Selleck. Personally, I've never cared for Selleck; not did I care for that episode.

This one, however, seems worthy of a 9-star rating!

This is one of those episodes that I felt started out slowly, but eventually regained form and gained steam towards the conclusion of the show. I would like to add that I wouldn't be in a major hurry to watch this again, as it isn't a favorite of mine, but there's enough interesting characters and developments which kept my interest. This time around, Rockford is on the search for a guy named Sean Innis(Richard Romanus), who is a whiny dude that wealthy women are oddly attracted to; one of those women is Miriam, played by Janis Page, who has a few funny lines and basically kicks Sean out of her mansion. I thought the chemistry between he and Rockford was surprisingly good, considering the guy does nothing but complain, and yet keeps telling Jim how great he is at attracting wealthy women, including one woman who's a married wealthy Arabian princess; her family is looking for her and Sean, and naturally, Rockford is involved. The best scene for me is after the 3 are detained by the powerful family, the woman is just about put on trial by her own father in front of several others, as he's disgraced by her affair and I believe she is sentenced to death in her country; it turns out that her husband was murdered by a crooked real estate agent, who's also detained. All the parties involved are aboard a plane headed to another country, while Rockford(give him credit for originality)sees an aerosol spray can and cooks it in a microwave before anyone is wise to him; soon after, the can explodes, the father supposedly dies of a heart attack perhaps, and everyone escapes by jumping out of the parked plane. As I said above, I liked the latter half much better, as it had more effective scenes. There's some nice shots of the Firebird, nice mansions, Dennis and Chapman, Night Court's Richard Moll, and one of those familiar faces in actor Joshua Bryant(Salem's Lot), who has a minor role as Chief Gorman, and you'll see him in several episodes of this great show. I need to mention a scene which seemed slightly lame, and that was at the beginning when Jim is kidnapped and taken to a hotel, where the wealthy father and his hoods were questioning him, yet Rockford does the usual "throw-one-guy-into-another" in order to escape, and when they chase him, he uses a hotel fire hose and knocks them to the ground. This is still a fairly solid episode with some interesting scenes which should make a fan of the show happy for the most part.

This is a busy episode that manages to cover a lot of ground as far as different topics go. The main-story itself might be more common than we realize,who knows ? There is quite a large cast of characters here,and many of these actors are very familiar from being in other episodes of Rockford Files.

Years ago when I was working for the NYS Crime Victims Board I got the claim for a double homicide, two brothers, one of whom was having an affair with a married woman. Unfortunately for them both, they were done in by the father of the woman and they were a traditional Arab family. Someone forgot to tell them where they were and such things are not countenanced in the good old USA. And this particular papa did not have the resources that this Azziz family does.

All this goes back to Robert Alda who is a rich real estate broker who hires pretty girls and pretty boys as the case may be to break up marriages so he can sell the expensive Beverly Hills homes for these rich people. One of those pretty boys is Richard Romanus. But when he gets involved with the daughter of Gilbert Green, a rich Arab sheik all those Azziz family values about honor enter the picture.

There are these folks that want to kill Romanus and then there's James Garner whom he seeks help from. And then there's Alda who thinks a deal can be worked out about anything.

If we didn't need their oil who would want to be involved with these rather warped and misogynistic and chauvinistic people?