“Really want Shim in the seventh? C’mon, that nag couldn’t go a mile in the back of a pickup truck. Call me.”
Category: TV
Yep, TV stuff. I like watching TV. Not all TV, but some shows.
Rockford Files Answerphone messages: Episode 105
“It’s Laurie at the trailer park. A space opened up. Do you want me to save it or are the cops going to let you stay where you are?”
Rockford Files Answerphone messages: Episode 104
“It’s Maury. Got a call from Davis at the IRS. You were right. They bounced your return. Call me.”
Rockford Files Answerphone messages: Episode 103
“Hey Rockford, very funny. I ain’t laughing. You’re gonna get yours.”
Rockford Files Answerphone messages: Episode 102
“Hey Jim, this is Louie down at the fish market. You going to pick up these halibut or what?”
Rockford Files Answerphone messages: Episode 101
“Jim, it’s Norma at the market. It bounced. You want me to tear it up, send it back, or put it with the others?”
Rockford Files Answer phone messages: Pilot
“Billings. LAPD. You know Thursday is Chapman’s 20th year, and we’re giving a little surprise party at the Captain’s. I think you should come. By the way, we need five bucks for the present.”
So I finished season one of the Rockford Files
I finished watching all 6 DVDs of season 1. What a great show the Rockford files was. Loads of fun. Never too serious, just enjoyable. It mostly followed a pattern, but not too much of a pattern to get dull. I dare say that season 2 will be more of the same, but there’s nothing wrong with that.
So season 2, here we go.
Jim Rockford’s answer machine messages
I’ve liked the Rockford files for as long as I can remember, and the Christmas before last I got seasons 1 and 2. There are 6 seasons in all I believe, and once I’ve finished the first 2 I may well move on and watch the lot. However, one thing that I always loved about the show was Jim Rockford’s answerphone message at the start of every show. They never seemed to have very much to do with the episode, but they were always funny and gave you something of Jim Rockford too.
So I thought I would post all of them, yes, all of them, here. Not all at once you understand, but maybe one a day. That’s the plan anyway.
Peladon Tales
In my ongoing plan to slowly acquire all of the 3rd Doctor DVDs, these are the two I bought next. Anyone who knows the third doctor will realise that I’m not doing this in any kind of order at all. At least, not so far. It has been a bit random, but I’ll probably start collecting in order quite soon.
However, these two stories came as a boxed set, so there was little choice in that.
The Curse of Peladon is the earlier story, and the first time that the 3rd Doctor visits Peladon. It’s a good story by any standards. Of course the production values are early 70s TV and that probably doesn’t stand the test of time. However, I really enjoyed it, especially because one of the main characters is played by the son of the second Doctor.
The second story was right at the end of Mr Pertwee’s time as the Doctor. It is another good one, in my view, and again, I enjoyed it a lot.
At some point I’m going to go through all of the 3rd Doctor stories in order, when I’ve got them of course, and that will be truly epic.
I am Ashley Elsdon 