Comments on: Retro TV Themes Revisited :: The Rockford Files

by: x files theme song

Wed, 23 Jul 2008 09:30:07 +0000

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by: PellesReality

Tue, 15 Jan 2008 15:19:44 +0000

Thanks for the mp3.Thats great.

by: will

Thu, 10 Jan 2008 22:32:32 +0000

I second the Barney Miller request.

by: hugo

Wed, 09 Jan 2008 19:05:37 +0000

I fully expect the theme to Barney Miller to appear here soon.

by: KURT

Wed, 09 Jan 2008 18:47:19 +0000

I have really enjoyed the retro theme songs. Thanks! Could you post the theme song for The Bob Newhart show (the 70’s one). It’s the perfect driving to the grocery store theme song.

by: swope

Tue, 08 Jan 2008 20:54:50 +0000

yea, it’s a drag that KDOC here in LA opted out of airing “Rockford” nightly in it’s winter schedule! ’twas a good summer ‘07 indeed…

by: Robert

Tue, 08 Jan 2008 19:54:56 +0000

sorry for the typo..that would be Bret Maverick

by: Robert

Tue, 08 Jan 2008 19:50:41 +0000

…and who can forget Bret Maverivk?
Garner was also quite active in auto racing.He did his own stunt work on the Brands Hatch sequence in which the car exploded in flames at the finish line in the movie Grand Prix.Lloyds of London canceled his insurance for the last two months of shooting after that.He also drove the pacecar in the 75,77 and 85 INDY 500.

by: Robin Hall

Tue, 08 Jan 2008 16:49:10 +0000

“Rockford Files” is worth checking out in reruns, especially if you live (or have lived) in LA. It is the only television show that I can think of that presented Los Angeles in brown and beige tones, which is how I think of it. (Of course, that could be the old film print.)
Also, for someone like me who lived in Venice, it was great because it seemed like Rockford was always driving straight from PCH onto Lincoln Blvd. -Robin

by: dc

Tue, 08 Jan 2008 15:37:54 +0000

life is actually one of the more decent shows debuted this year…along with mad men, pushing daisies & flight of the conchords.

by: DerekSunshine

Tue, 08 Jan 2008 13:42:10 +0000

Am I the only one who picks up a similarity between this and The Go! Team?

by: Philco Brothers

Tue, 08 Jan 2008 13:08:07 +0000

The Rockford Files theme sounds very similar to Billy Preston’s 1973 hit Space Race. I remembered this song from when it was on the radio but I couldn’t remember the title. I finally figured it out last year after reading about another Preston tune called Outa-Space (which he played with the Stones) and bought the song on itunes. Everyone I played it for thought it was The Rockford Files theme.