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Awesome ‘Rockford Files’ diorama available on eBay
09.17.2014
11:43 am
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How incredible was the charm of James Garner? This is true: When I was a kid in the 1970s, my parents watched zero prime time TV programming, none; they were way too snobby for that, they looked down on TV. Back then there wasn’t anything good on TV, it would be said just constantly that TV was a cultural wasteland and there was nothing good on it. But such was the unsurpassed, easygoing likeability of James Garner that my parents did watch The Rockford Files. I’d be put to bed, and before nodding off I’d hear, from the next room over, that infectious theme song.......

Garner passed away in July, which makes this an excellent moment to indulge in this incredible diorama of Jim Rockford’s beachfront trailer situation, available on eBay. An enterprising Minnesotan put his or her blood, sweat, and tears into this beauty, and it can be all yours for ... well, we’ll see how much when the auction ends in a few days.

User toastiecoastie writes:
 

This is an HO scale diorama of the famous tv series The Rockford Files.The base is 12x12 inches.None of the details are attached to the base other than the rocks and foliage. This way you can set up the diorama any way you wish. All the details that you see in the photos are included. All is scratch built. The vehicles have been modified to represent those in the show. The figures are easily detached from their base as they are hobby tacked down.

 
I wonder if this diorama would be less alluring to me if I lived in Los Angeles…. the romance of a crappy trailer on the beach, it’s powerful stuff.
 

 

 

 

 

 
Here’s a supercut of all of the answering machine messages from the credits of Season 1:
 

 
via Stephen Thomas Erlewine

Posted by Martin Schneider
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09.17.2014
11:43 am
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