Where was The Rockford Files filmed?
1974 TV show.
- Leo Carrillo State Park
The story is set in Los Angeles, about 40 miles (64 km) from where it was filmed.
Where it’s set vs. where it was filmed
- Set in
- Los Angeles
- Filmed in
- Leo Carrillo State Park
- Distance
- About 40 miles (64 km) between Los Angeles and the nearest filming location.
About The Rockford Files
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- First aired
- 1974
- Cast
- James GarnerNoah Beery Jr.Joe SantosGretchen CorbettStuart Margolin
- Genre
- DetectiveCrime
The story
Huggins and Cannell devised the Rockford character as a departure from typical television detectives, essentially Bret Maverick as a modern detective.
In the series storyline, James Scott "Jim" Rockford had served time in California's San Quentin Prison in the 1960s due to a wrongful conviction.
After five years, he was pardoned (not paroled, a distinction frequently mentioned in plot points).
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