James Garner credited as playing...
Jim Rockford
- Jim Rockford: This is Jim Rockford. At the tone leave your name and message, I'll get back to you.
- Bookie: You really want Shim in the seventh? C'mon, that nag couldn't go a mile on a pickup truck. Call me!
- Joseph 'Rocky' Rockford: Did you know that there's only 3 Rockfords in the phonebook? There's you and there's me, and there's that guy from Detroit who got beat up because they thought he was you.
- Jim Rockford: The little guy with the broken glasses?
- Joseph 'Rocky' Rockford: Uh-huh.
- Jim Rockford: I don't know what's goin' on, but believe me I don't want any trouble.
- Torrance Beck: You already got trouble. The only question is whether you're going to wake up tomorrow breathing air or dirt.
- Warner Jameson: Pity we aren't the same age. I could take you out behind the wood shed and we could bash it around for a while.
- Jim Rockford: Well I don't go in for that kind of thing...
- Taxi driver: Add another $5 and you got a deal.
- Jim Rockford: You and my father are gonna get along real good.
- Jim Rockford: You want me because we get along so good, is that it?
- Warner Jameson: Well, you won't take anything from me, you probably won't take anything from anybody else. I think you know what you're doing.
- Jim Rockford: [Looking in refrigerator] I had a piece of steak in here. What happened to it?
- Joseph 'Rocky' Rockford: Oh, I had it last night. I was hungry.
- Jim Rockford: I also had eggs in here. Three eggs. What happened to them?
- Joseph 'Rocky' Rockford: Well, I had steak and eggs.
- Jim Rockford: [Getting really annoyed] While we're at it, how about that bottle of scotch!
- Joseph 'Rocky' Rockford: [a little angrily] Well, you never said I couldn't snack!
- Jim Rockford: No charge, huh? I coulda hired professional house cleaners for a lot less. Do you know how much T-bone steak costs?
- Joseph 'Rocky' Rockford: [Chuckles] You bet I do. I ain't no dummy.
- Jim Rockford: You sure ain't.
- Taxi driver: [Rockford and cabbie get out of taxi] $10.45.
- Jim Rockford: [Rockford hands over cash] Keep the change.
- Taxi driver: Ten buck tip. What do I gotta do for it?
- Jim Rockford: There's a trailer parked by the beach. 2354 Pacific Coast Highway. I want ya to go inside and you'll find a very crotchety old man tied up. Untie him.
- Taxi driver: You're kiddin'.
- Jim Rockford: He's my father.
- Taxi driver: There's a punchline, right?
- Jim Rockford: Whatever you got on the meter, you get from him. You keep the $10 tip.
- Taxi driver: Add another five and you got a deal.
- Jim Rockford: [Smiles and hands over another five bucks] You and my father ate gonna get along reeaal good.