Post #494275 by JOHN-O on Tue, Nov 17, 2009 8:49 AM

On 2009-11-16 23:53, midnite wrote:
*Watching The Rockford Files right now. *

Nobody was cooler in the 1970's than James Scott Rockford. No-body.

To me, Rockford seemed like a Navy Grog kind of fellow.

That's a bold statement. :)

The 1970's were a great decade for coolness. Jim Rockford was a nice guy but the 1970's were the time for Blaxploitation and Kung Fu fighting. During that time no white TV cop/PI was cooler that Ron "Superfly" O'Neal, Richard "John Shaft" Roundtree, Sonny "The Street Figher" Chiba, and of course the late great Bruce Lee. Also I think Pam Grier could have kicked Jim Rockford's ass.

And if you want to talk about white TV cops, Starsky and Hutch might have been cooler than Rockford but Baretta definitely was. Their opening themes were way cooler than Rockford's hokey "progressive rock" music.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a2458hQ5EDc

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qRa9uhiAPBs

I'll give him this credit though, Jim Rockford was a bourbon guy. He would have considered a tropical cocktail kind of swishy.

[ Edited by: JOHN-O 2009-11-17 09:12 ]