103-533: Bonnie Blair Brown (born April 23, 1946) is an American theater, film and television actress. She has had a number of high-profile roles, including in the play Copenhagen on Broadway (for which she won a Tony Award in 2000), the leading actress in the films Altered States (1980), Continental Divide (1981) and Strapless (1989), as well as a run as the title character in the comedy-drama television series The Days and Nights of Molly Dodd , which ran from 1987 to 1991. Her later roles include Nina Sharp on
206-512: A Mercedes-Benz 450SL . Police cars used during the series were usually the 1972-1973 AMC Matador , in real-life use by the LAPD during the 1970s. From the third season, the 1974 second-series, "coffin nose" Matador was also used, which was also the last AMC model used by California law enforcement agencies. The show's theme song, titled " The Rockford Files ", was written by noted theme music composers Mike Post and Pete Carpenter . It appears at
309-466: A Play (Blair Brown), and Best Direction of a Play (Michael Blakemore). But even for its success, Frayn admitted in an article that "A number of commentators expressed misgivings about the whole enterprise." Several critics noted that it was heavy with scientific dialogue, a little too heavy for the common audience. Though a writer from Physics World hailed it as "brilliant theatre ", Charles Spencer, of The Daily Telegraph , wrote, "I felt that my brain
412-552: A candy-apple red 1980 GMC C-10 Short Box pickup when his original vehicle is said to be in the shop for repair of damage from one of Jim's earlier adventures. Beth Davenport drove a yellow 1973 Porsche 914 in Season 1, before switching to an orange 1975 model in Season 2 (though in episode 202, "The Farnsworth Stratagem" she drove a 1972 Audi 100 C1 ) and using it through the first half of Season 3, last appearance in episode 311, "The Trouble With Warren". In Season 3, she switched to
515-480: A disbarred attorney, was added as a new adviser for the frequent legal problems in which Rockford would become entangled. A new romantic interest, Dr. Megan Dougherty ( Kathryn Harrold ), a blind but highly independent psychiatrist, appears in two episodes in seasons five and six ("Black Mirror" and "Love Is the Word", respectively) and the 1996 television movie The Rockford Files: Punishment and Crime . The show's pilot
618-407: A distinctive and clever entry device, the messages became difficult for the writers to create. Suggestions from staff and crew were welcome and often used. In total, 122 different messages were created through the run of the original six seasons. The eight CBS TV movies (also referred to as season 8) feature a unique message. However episodes syndicated as James Rockford, Private Investigator use
721-520: A game of poker by betting on a straight that he thought he had, but he really did not. That principle is applied to nuclear weaponry , suggesting that nations will act differently when they think that an opponent can produce nuclear arms, whether or not the opponent can. • Cap-Pistols, Land Mines and Nuclear Reactors – These fall into the Toy vs. Weapon theme and once again presents anecdotes of Bohr and Heisenberg's lives. Their fascination in playing with
824-514: A halt. Jungk published an extract from the letter in the Danish edition of the book in 1956 that made it appear as if Heisenberg was claiming to have sabotaged the German bomb project on moral grounds. Jungk omitted a critical sentence from Heisenberg: "I would not want this remark to be misunderstood as saying that I myself engaged in resistance to Hitler. On the contrary, I have always been ashamed in
927-528: A less ostentatious form. Formulas didn't have the Shaker hood scoop, side vents, graphics or lettering used on the Trans Am, but they had the same higher horsepower engines and drive trains, larger front and rear anti-sway bars, stiffer springs and shocks, and a twin scoop hood. (Sharp-eyed car connoisseurs can spot the twin exhausts and rear anti-sway bar on the cars used on the show, options that were not part of
1030-604: A monologue; and over the course of the show, there is a definite ambiguity as to whether they are speaking to one another or to the audience. The play was originally written in English, but the real people in the exchange may have had the conversation in Danish or German, but even with translation in mind, Frayn defends that the words in the script are those that the characters would actually say. In his post-script, he writes, "If this needs any justification, I can only appeal to Heisenberg himself." Understandably, Frayn needs to present
1133-615: A similar show in a modern-day detective setting. In 2002, The Rockford Files was ranked No. 39 on TV Guide ' s 50 Greatest TV Shows of All Time . Producers Roy Huggins and Stephen J. 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
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#17327985080631236-416: A staggering amount for a nighttime show at the time, although Garner and his production team Cherokee Productions claimed the show turned a profit. Garner told a story to Johnny Carson on The Tonight Show that the studio once paid a carpenter $ 700 to build a shipping crate for a shoot-out on a boat dock, though there were shipping crates on the dock. The script often called for Garner to damage his car, so
1339-761: A way that Margrethe will understand. Even for that effort, criticism arose about the complexity of the play and the difficulty for viewers to comprehend. A writer for The Commonweal commented on the Broadway premiere, saying that "the play's relentless cerebral forays can... be frustrating." London Premiere – 1998 Copenhagen opened in the National Theatre in London and ran for more than 300 performances, starring David Burke as Niels Bohr, Sara Kestelman as Margrethe Bohr, and Matthew Marsh as Werner Heisenberg. It
1442-547: Is 555-2368, it rings twice and then Rockford's recorded voice is heard providing the following greeting: This is Jim Rockford. At the tone, leave your name and message. I'll get back to you. [ Beep ] The messages were usually unrelated to the current episode, but were often related to previous events in earlier episodes. They were a humorous device that invited the viewer to return to the quirky, down-on-his-luck world of Jim Rockford. The messages usually had to do with creditors, deadbeat clients, or were just oddball vignettes. Though
1545-623: Is an embodiment of these principles. Because the concepts in physics and politics are at times very complicated or very abstract, Frayn uses several controlling images to better relate certain ideas to his audience. • Skiing and Table-Tennis – These two activities are referred to as a pastime of Bohr and Heisenberg's, and both demonstrate the competition between the two (representative of national competition.) They are also used to suggest Heisenberg's speed and recklessness which contrasts with Bohr's caution and tediousness. • Invisible Straight – An anecdote in which Bohr managed to bluff himself in
1648-555: Is based is somewhere between heaven and an atom. It can also be thought to exist "inside the heads" of the characters present. It is a subjective world, taking and manipulating history, picking apart some events and mashing others together to better compare them. The characters are all plagued by some form of guilt or another, particularly in reference to the atomic bomb, and they are trapped in this world, doomed to forever speculate on that evening in Copenhagen in 1941 to determine how
1751-485: Is consistently ready to sell anyone out at a moment's notice for his own benefit — and often does. In doing so, Angel almost always gets Rockford in trouble, usually by involving him in hare-brained scams ... often without Jim's knowledge, and never with his consent. As often as not, Angel's antics result in his, Jim's and/or others' arrests, and/or being placed on somebody's hit list. In spite of this, Jim considers Angel as one of his best, if most exasperating, pals. Towards
1854-496: Is experienced, observant, tenacious, quick-thinking, and has a faculty for impersonation and accents (usually Southern, drawing on Garner's Oklahoma background). He rarely carries his Colt Detective Special revolver, for which he has no permit and usually stores in a cookie jar; and prefers to talk his way out of trouble. He works on cold cases , missing persons investigations, and low-budget insurance scams, repeatedly stating that he does not handle "open cases" to avoid trouble with
1957-531: Is meddling in open cases or is trying to make the LAPD look incompetent in its handling of closed cases. Further, Rockford often calls Becker asking for favors, such as running license plates through the California Department of Motor Vehicles (DMV) computer system, often annoying the already overworked cop. By the fifth season, Becker is promoted to lieutenant; it was stated in the episode where Becker
2060-577: Is mentioned, is one example of the show's newfound youth following; furthermore, the Rockford Files theme song is played at the end of the band's concerts.) By 1989, the show had grossed $ 125,000,000 (equivalent to $ 307,000,000 in 2023) from network and syndicated runs. In 2006, the show was broadcast for a few months on the national Chicago Superstation WGN . In 2007, the Retro Television Network began broadcasting
2163-425: Is promoted that Becker's association with Rockford, considered by LAPD brass to be a shifty ex-con, had hampered Becker's chances for promotion. Chapman was irritated when Becker became his "equal". In season 6 episode The Big Cheese , the third-to-last of the series, Rockford gets a degree of revenge when Chapman inadvertently makes incriminating statements about his tax evasion before an undercover IRS agent who
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#17327985080632266-500: Is the content of the answering machine message in any way connected to the plot or situations of the episode itself. The show went into hiatus late in 1979 when Garner was told by his doctors to recuperate from numerous knee injuries and back trouble, as well as an ulcer. He sustained the former conditions largely because of the daily grind of an extremely physically demanding show, performing most of his own stunts for realism, especially those involving fist fights or car chases. Because of
2369-419: Is with Rockford. Becker appears in 89 of the 123 episodes. Joseph "Rocky" Rockford : Rockford's father, Joseph "Rocky" Rockford, is an ex- Seabee , semi-retired, semi-truck driver who nags his son to find stable (and less dangerous) employment, often urging him to follow in his footsteps as a truck driver (especially in early seasons), and often wishing Jim would get married. The relationship of father and son
2472-732: The BBC and presented on the Public Broadcasting Service (PBS) in the United States. Three spirits come together to try to apprehend and explain one simple question: "Why did Heisenberg go to Copenhagen?" The rest of the play details information around this subject through argument and interjections. Heisenberg – "No one understands my trip to Copenhagen. Time and time again I've explained it. To Bohr himself, and Margrethe. To interrogators and intelligence officers, to journalists and historians. The more I've explained,
2575-463: The CBS network (whereas the original series aired on NBC) and reuniting most of the cast from the original show. Beery died on November 1, 1994, so the first of these films, which aired later that month, stated, "This picture is dedicated to the memory of Noah Beery, Jr. We love you and miss you, Pidge." ("Pidge" was Beery's nickname.) The movies picked up nearly 15 years later from where the show ended. In
2678-850: The Fox television series Fringe and Judy King on the Netflix series Orange Is the New Black . Brown was born in Washington, D.C. Her mother was a teacher and her father worked for the Central Intelligence Agency. She graduated from The Madeira School in McLean, Virginia, and then pursued acting at the National Theatre School of Canada , graduating in 1969. She gained notice as a participating actor at
2781-512: The Kevin Bacon -directed Loverboy (2005) and The Sentinel (2006). Brown appeared in several television movies and miniseries, primarily during the 1980s. A high-profile role as Jacqueline Kennedy in the 1983 TV miniseries Kennedy earned her a second Golden Globe nomination, for Best Actress in a Mini-Series or Motion Picture Made for Television, as well as a BAFTA nomination. She also appeared in several other programs about
2884-533: The NBC network from September 13, 1974, to January 10, 1980. Garner portrays Los Angeles private investigator Jim Rockford , with Noah Beery Jr. in the supporting role of his father, Joseph "Rocky" Rockford, a retired truck driver. The show was created by Roy Huggins and Stephen J. Cannell . Huggins had created the American western TV show Maverick (1957–1962), which Garner also starred, and he wanted to create
2987-600: The Royale Theatre on 11 April 2000 and ran for 326 performances. Directed by Michael Blakemore , it starred Philip Bosco (Niels Bohr), Michael Cumpsty (Werner Heisenberg), and Blair Brown (Margrethe Bohr). It won the Tony Award for Best Play, Best Featured Actress in a Play, Blair Brown , and Best Direction of a Play (Michael Blakemore). In 2002, the play was adapted as a film by Howard Davies , produced by
3090-689: The Stratford Shakespeare Festival and spent several years working on the stage. Brown's first feature role was in the Oscar-winning 1973 film The Paper Chase ; her first major starring role was in The Choirboys in 1977. Among her other film credits were Altered States (opposite William Hurt ), One Trick Pony (with Paul Simon ), the film Stealing Home (opposite Mark Harmon) and A Flash of Green (1984). Her arguably highest profile film role to date
3193-405: The "Esprit" package, as well as spot the different model year cars used in various chase scenes that differed from those in an actual episode, especially in later seasons.) Although the series ran until early 1980, no Firebird was used past the 1978 model year as Garner reportedly was displeased with the restyled front end of the 1979 and later Firebird models and as such did not wish them featured on
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3296-464: The 1960s due to a wrongful conviction. After five years, he was pardoned (not paroled, a distinction frequently mentioned in plot points). His jobs as a private investigator barely allow him to maintain his weathered mobile home (which doubles as his office) in a parking lot on a beach in Malibu, California . In early episodes of the first season, Rockford's trailer is located in a parking lot alongside
3399-634: The Brain , a documentary on Aimee Semple McPherson , which aired in April 2007, and a 2006 PBS documentary about Marie Antoinette . In April, 2010, she co-narrated the PBS special The Buddha with Richard Gere . Brown had a relationship with actor Richard Jordan , whom she met while filming the miniseries Captains and the Kings in 1976. The couple lived together from 1976 to 1985; their son Robert Anson Jordan III
3502-462: The British football team Tranmere Rovers have used the Rockford theme as walk-out music for most games. Occasionally it has been dropped, and then restored by popular demand. Each episode began with the image of Rockford's answering machine , and the opening title sequence was accompanied by a message on a Dictaphone remote Ansafone 660 . As the camera focuses on the telephone, whose number
3605-589: The Kennedys, including the 1996 miniseries A Season in Purgatory , which was a thinly veiled portrait of the family, as well as an appearance as Anna Roosevelt in a telefilm about Franklin Delano Roosevelt and Eleanor Roosevelt . Brown's visibility rose during her five-year run (1987–1991) on the comedy-drama series The Days and Nights of Molly Dodd . She played the title role, and she, and
3708-440: The LAPD, Sgt. Dennis Becker ( Joe Santos ), a homicide detective struggling to advance in the department under a series of overbearing lieutenants. The two most notable are Alex/Thomas Diehl ( Tom Atkins ) during the first, second and fourth seasons and Doug Chapman ( James Luisi ) in the third to sixth seasons. Those higher-ups invariably dislike Rockford (and private investigators generally) because of their perception that either he
3811-568: The Stars , Stephen King 's Rose Madder , Kevin Henkes ' Olive's Ocean , Sue Miller 's 2005 novel Lost in the Forest , and Isabel Allende 's Inés of My Soul . Her voiceovers are heard on a number of documentaries, including PBS 's American Experience series and the 2007 PBS series The Mysterious Human Heart . Other documentary narrations include the scientific series The Secret Life of
3914-458: The United States on the MeTV digital subchannel network until September 2, 2016. The series was available on Netflix until January 1, 2017, with the first three seasons then available on Hulu . From 2016 to 2020, the series was available on IMDb TV . In late 2020, it began streaming on Peacock . In 2022, it began streaming on Tubi . The series previously aired on Cozi TV. As of January 3, 2022,
4017-401: The beginning of her career. She appeared in the 1975 New York Shakespeare Festival production of The Comedy of Errors . Among her earlier roles was a run as Lucy Brown in the 1976 production of The Threepenny Opera , produced by Joe Papp and directed by Richard Foreman . She left the production for film work, but after being away from the production for eight months, Ellen Greene , who
4120-556: The beginning of the series), but she soon became aware of his emotional unavailability and lack of interest in a long-term relationship, and realized that they would be better off as friends (although the two do seem to still casually date on occasion during early seasons). Angel Martin : Rockford's scheming former San Quentin cellmate, Evelyn "Angel" Martin was something of a comic relief character played by Stuart Margolin . Jim employs Angel as an operative from time to time, often to gather street-level information, or to help him access
4223-513: The car could be sold, repaired, and repurchased for each episode. Later in the 1980s, Garner became engaged in a legal dispute with Universal that lasted more than a decade, regarding the profits from Rockford Files . The dispute caused significant ill will between Garner and the studio. The dispute was settled out of court in Garner's favor, but the conflict meant that the Rockford character would not re-emerge until 1994. Universal began syndicating
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4326-541: The cast (i.e., appearing only in the movies and in small, recurring roles) were Gerry Gibson as 'Critch' Critchland, the owner of the Sandcastle restaurant across from Jim's trailer; and Shirley Anthony as Sally, a friendly, cheerful grandmotherly type who frequented the precinct to (falsely) confess to crimes, and to knit sweaters while she waited. Anthony had previously been a frequent extra and occasional bit part player on The Rockford Files from 1976 to 1979. The show
4429-418: The character's backstory is the same, in the pilot Rocky is portrayed as more of a small-time grifter and operator — at one point, working with a partner, Rocky unsuccessfully tries to run a minor scam on Jim, his own son. This element of Rocky's character would largely be dropped as the series started. Beery's version of Rocky was generally honest and reliable, though not above working an unreported job ' under
4532-424: The characters conclude that an interpretation of their 1941 meeting is incorrect, they call for "another draft". Though the dialogue does not contradict logic, it cannot be called realistic in the strictest sense. One character's line might fade into the next as though the second person knew exactly what he was going to say; sometimes a character will slip into a memory and partially relive a former or younger self in
4635-459: The characters in an interesting and dramatic light, as well as depicting a setting that no living person has visited, so the accuracy of such dialogue is subject to dwindle by degrees. Plain language and scientific language both operate in the play. There are several instances when the two physicists start speaking too scientifically for many people to understand, and one of them will remark that they must revert to plain language, to explain it in
4738-415: The deeper the uncertainty has become. Well, I shall be happy to make one more attempt." Along the way, Heisenberg and Bohr "draft" several versions of their 1941 exchange, arguing about the ramifications of each potential version of their meeting and the motives behind it. They discuss the idea of nuclear power and its control, the rationale behind building or not building an atomic bomb , the uncertainty of
4841-458: The face of the men of 20 July (some of whom were friends of mine), who at that time accomplished truly serious resistance at the cost of their lives." Bohr was outraged after reading the extract in his copy of the book, feeling that it was false and that the 1941 meeting had proven to him that Heisenberg was quite happy to produce nuclear weapons for Germany. Bohr drafted a number of letters about this issue, but did not send them. Jungk's book
4944-487: The files of the newspaper where Angel works as a low-level filing clerk. Keeping this job is a condition of Angel's parole; even so, it is doubtful that the ever-shifty Angel would be capable of doing so, except that his brother-in-law owns the paper. Jim also uses Angel on a few occasions to play a supporting role in con games that he sets up to sting especially difficult adversaries. Angel is himself forever running some sort of (usually very bottom-of-the-barrel) con game, and
5047-526: The highway at 22878 Pacific Coast Highway , Malibu, and near the ocean; for the rest of the series, the trailer is at Paradise Cove (address 29 Cove Road), adjacent to a pier and a restaurant ("The Sand Castle", now known as the "Paradise Cove Beach Cafe"). In the television movies from 1994 to 1999, Rockford is still living and working at the same Paradise Cove location, but in a much newer trailer that has been extensively enlarged and remodeled. In contrast to sharp-dressed, pugnacious television private eyes of
5150-409: The initial controversy stemmed from a 1956 letter Heisenberg sent to the journalist Robert Jungk after reading the German edition of Jungk's book, Brighter than a Thousand Suns (1956). In the letter, Heisenberg said he had come to Copenhagen to discuss with Bohr his moral objections toward scientists working on nuclear weapons but how he had failed to say that clearly before the conversation came to
5253-538: The initial movies, Rocky is referenced as alive, but is off-screen; he dies (within the series continuity) sometime before the third movie. Garner, Santos, and Margolin appear in every movie. Other Rockford regulars who appear in multiple movies include Luisi, Atkins, Corbett, and Jack Garner (as Capt. McEnroe). Recurring players from the series who are brought back for a single return appearance include Rita Moreno (as Rita Kapkovic); Kathryn Harrold (as Megan Daugherty); and Pat Finley (as Peggy Becker). Also added to
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#17327985080635356-542: The later seasons. In West Germany, the series first aired on 11 March 1976 on ARD , concluding on 9 September 1980. Some episodes were omitted, due to concerns over politics and violence. The episodes did not air in order, with Season 1 and some of Season 2 episodes airing from 11 March 1976 to 17 February 1977 on alternating Thursdays at 21:00, Seasons 2-5 episodes from 9 May 1978 to 11 September 1979 on alternating Tuesdays at 21:45, and Season 6 episodes from 27 May to 9 September 1980, again on alternating Tuesdays at 21:45. It
5459-543: The letters OKG stood for "Oklahoma Garner" but that he does not know the origin of the number 853. Starting with the 1974 model year, Rockford would get a new model-year Pontiac Firebird each year throughout the series. The Firebirds used had an identical "copper mist" color with the Esprit's exterior and interior. Although the Firebirds were badged as Esprits, they were actually the higher performance "Formula" model without
5562-514: The meeting, brought more attention to what previously had been a primarily scholarly discussion. After the play inspired numerous scholarly and media debates over the 1941 meeting, in 2002 the Niels Bohr Archive in Copenhagen released to the public all sealed documents related to the meeting. Among the documents were the unsent letters Bohr drafted to Heisenberg about Jungk's book and other topics. Many historians have strongly criticised
5665-465: The new toy blinds them to the danger that it poses. • Bomb – The term "bomb" appears as a literal looming image in many cases, but it is used figuratively in a couple of instances, as if it should be a joke, but with such grave implications that it cannot be found funny. (For example, Heisenberg refers to a "bomb having gone off" in Bohr's head.) • Christian Reaching for the Life-Buoy – Christian
5768-446: The opening and ending of each episode with different arrangements. Throughout the show's tenure, the theme song went through numerous evolutions with later versions containing a distinct electric guitar -based bridge section played by session guitarist Dan Ferguson. The theme for #1.7 "This Case Is Closed II", also has the guitar section from later seasons, added when the episode was split into two parts for syndication. The theme song
5871-485: The original cast for the rest of the West End run. Broadway Opening – April 2000 Continuing under the direction of Michael Blakemore, it opened on Broadway at the Royale Theatre on 11 April and ran for 326 performances. Starring Philip Bosco as Bohr, Michael Cumpsty as Heisenberg and Blair Brown as Margrethe, it went on to win the Tony Award for Best Play , along with two others for Best Featured Actress in
5974-414: The other production staff members knew anything about the rewrite, Garner issued a directive that Cannell, not Huggins, had final say on all script material. Though Huggins was credited as a producer for the entire run of the series, this effectively ended his creative involvement with the show, as he submitted no further material to The Rockford Files and did not involve himself in the day-to-day running of
6077-434: The past and the inevitability of the future as embodiments of themselves acting as particles drifting through the atom that is Copenhagen. In most dramas in which the characters are based on real people, there is a point at which the character deviates from the real person. However, playwright Michael Frayn worked to keep that distinction as small as possible. Having studied memoirs and letters and other historical records of
6180-444: The play for the moral questions it raised and for creating public interest in history. Over the course of the play, a number of renowned physicists are mentioned. Many of them are referenced in the context of their work with either Bohr or Heisenberg. This is the order they appear in the script: The Rockford Files The Rockford Files is an American detective drama television series starring James Garner that aired on
6283-440: The play on the basis of the released letters, contending: A collection of historical essays provoked by the play was published in English in 2005, with the vast majority of historians disagreeing with Frayn's depiction of the events. In a March 2006 interview Ivan Supek , one of Heisenberg's students and friends, commented that " Copenhagen is a bad play" and that "Frayn mixed up some things". Supek also claimed that Weizsäcker
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#17327985080636386-498: The police. (This self-imposed rule was relaxed in later seasons, after "trouble with the police" became a frequent plot device.) Rockford has been a private investigator since 1968 (according to his Yellow Pages ad, glimpsed in a few episodes), and his oft-quoted fee, when he can collect it, is $ 200 per day plus expenses ($ 200 at the series' beginning in September 1974 was the inflation-adjusted equivalent of $ 1,200 in 2023). By
6489-814: The program nationwide, as did the digital cable channel Sleuth and Chicago TV station WWME-CA . ION Television has rights to the show and it is slated for future broadcast. In the fall of 2009, the show reappeared in Canada on Deja View . In the UK, the series was first broadcast on BBC1 on Tuesday, 18 March 1975 at 20:10, with the original run concluding on 7 September 1980. A rerun began on BBC1 on 8 September 1981, again starting on Tuesdays at 19:40. It lasted until 30 May 1984, in September 1984 it switched to BBC2 . Since then, it has been repeatedly rerun on BBC1 and BBC2, and also ITV and also on Granada +Plus, which later became ITV3 , although none of these channels repeated
6592-589: The revival of Cabaret (1998 and 2003). She played Margrethe, the wife of physicist Niels Bohr , in the play Copenhagen , a role for which she won a 2000 Tony Award in the category of Best Featured Actress in a Play. Brown played the lead role in Sarah Ruhl 's 2006 play The Clean House at Lincoln Center . In the 1990s, Brown expanded her career into voiceover work, narrating both audiobooks and films and documentaries. Her audiobooks projects include John Grisham 's The Client , Lois Lowry 's Number
6695-446: The same message; it was taken from episode 5-07, "A Three-Day Affair with a Thirty-Day Escrow". Each message is a standalone gag that often provides a small amount of biographical detail about Rockford, the people he knows and the activities that occur in his life as a private investigator. Only extremely rarely (such as in episode No. 2-09, "Chicken Little is a Little Chicken", during which Rockford house- and cat-sits for an absent Beth)
6798-827: The script of the play, eliminating several recurring themes, and most of the material that established the community of scientists in Copenhagen. It also abandons the abstract staging of the theatrical version in favour of being set in the city of Copenhagen, in Bohr's old house. Recent revivals The play has had many productions and revivals, including: Radio – January 2013 Adapted and directed by Emma Harding for BBC Radio 3 starring Benedict Cumberbatch as Werner Heisenberg , Greta Scacchi as Margrethe Bohr and Simon Russell Beale as Niels Bohr . The meeting took place in September 1941 when Bohr and Heisenberg were 55 and 39, respectively. Heisenberg had worked with Bohr in Copenhagen for several years starting in 1924. Much of
6901-479: The second season, "The Girl in The Bay City Boys' Club". It was Garner's only directing credit in his entire fifty-plus-year film career; in his autobiography, The Garner Files , Garner states he only took on the assignment because the scheduled director was unexpectedly unavailable at the last minute. Familiar to viewers was Jim Rockford's gold Pontiac Firebird Esprit car. One oft-recurring element of
7004-524: The series is airing on Get as part of its nightly lineup. The series pilot aired on NBC March 27, 1974, as a 90-minute made-for-television movie . In the pilot, Lindsay Wagner also starred and later made a return appearance. The pilot was titled Backlash of the Hunter for syndication. After several long-running contractual disputes between Garner and Universal were resolved, eight Rockford Files reunion TV movies were made from 1994 to 1999, airing on
7107-707: The series. Frequent directors included William Wiard (23 episodes), Lawrence Doheny (10 episodes), and Ivan Dixon (previously a regular on Hogan's Heroes ) (nine episodes). Veteran actor James Coburn directed an episode. Coburn had co-starred with Garner in the classic movies The Great Escape (1963) and The Americanization of Emily (1964). Other actors who directed episodes include Jackie Cooper (three episodes), as well as Richard Crenna and Dana Elcar (one episode each). Co-creator Stephen J. Cannell directed several episodes; executive producer Meta Rosenberg directed six episodes; series regular Stuart Margolin helmed two; and James Garner directed one episode in
7210-403: The series. In the course of the storylines Jim often borrowed Rocky's truck when his own Firebird was being repaired from its frequent major damage sustained during cases, or was too "hot" (i.e., the LAPD, which knew Jim well, was seeking to bring him in). Rocky's truck had a 400-cubic-inch engine, Turbo 400 automatic transmission, and a four-wheel drive factory setup. The custom exterior paint
7313-486: The show (although an answering machine message in one episode in the final season indicated his car was a 1979 Firebird). In the first TV movie, I Still Love L.A. in 1994, the Firebird is shown, in ramshackle disrepair, parked next to Rockford's trailer. He mentions he plans to have it "fixed up," but drives other cars throughout the films. Joseph "Rocky" Rockford drove a GMC Sierra Classic pickup truck throughout
7416-497: The show during the first season, always using pen name John Thomas James. However, Huggins' contributions to the show ended midway through the first season, after he submitted a script rewrite direct to set as the episode was shooting, without getting approval from any other writer or producer. Garner, trying to work with the material on set, felt the rewrite was unsatisfactory, and could not figure out why it had been approved for shooting. When he discovered that neither Cannell nor any of
7519-424: The show in 1979 and aggressively marketed it to local stations well into the early and mid-1980s. This accounts for its near-ubiquity on afternoon and late-night schedules in those days. From those showings, Rockford developed a following with younger viewers, with the momentum continuing throughout the 1990s and 2000s on cable. (The Ben Folds Five song " Battle of Who Could Care Less ", in which The Rockford Files
7622-406: The show was the famous "Jim Rockford turn-around" (also known as a J-turn or a "moonshiner's turn" - commonly employed as an evasive driving technique taught to Secret Service ). Garner explained the move in his 2011 autobiography The Garner Files : "When you are going straight in reverse about 35 miles an hour, you come off the gas pedal, go hard left, and pull on the emergency brake. That locks
7725-573: The show, earned a small but dedicated following. Brown received five consecutive Emmy Award nominations for each season, in the category of Outstanding Lead Actress in a Comedy Series, but never won. The show spent two years on NBC , then moved to the Lifetime cable channel for the remainder of its run. Brown also appeared in other prime-time series including The Rockford Files , Kojak , Frasier , Smallville , Touched by an Angel , ER , and Ed . In 1975 she appeared in one episode of
7828-451: The table ' to supplement his pension income, or eating the most expensive food in Jim's fridge if he dropped by while Jim was out. Beth Davenport : Rockford has a close relationship with his attorney, the idealistic, tenacious Elizabeth "Beth" Davenport ( Gretchen Corbett ). In second-season episode "A Portrait of Elizabeth", it is explained that Beth and Rockford had dated for a time (prior to
7931-551: The television mini-series Wheels and the following year she appeared in the TV pilot for The Oregon Trail . Beginning in 2008, Brown starred as Nina Sharp in the Fox television series Fringe . Brown also appeared in several seasons of the Netflix comedy-drama series Orange is the New Black as fictional television personality Judy King, an inmate loosely based on Martha Stewart . Brown has been involved with theater since
8034-461: The theory (rejected by almost all historians) that Heisenberg sabotaged the German nuclear program, a theory Heisenberg did not directly advocate (being misquoted by Jungk) but also did not publicly dispute. The play was accurate in not portraying the Nazis as narrowly failing to obtain the bomb, but there were many other far more plausible reasons for their failure. On the other hand, Wellerstein praised
8137-436: The time of the 1990s reunion movies, Rockford's fee was $ 450 a day, plus expenses. Rockford is very insistent on his fee, but in a running gag, circumstances often conspire to prevent Rockford from collecting the full amount he's owed after a case. Listed in the opening credits: Frequently recurring cast: Seen in multiple episodes: Dennis Becker : Rockford's pursuit of cases often leads to difficulties with his friend in
8240-400: The time, Rockford wears casual, off-the-rack clothing and tries to avoid physical altercations. He can hold his own in a one-on-one fistfight, but is frequently overpowered when ambushed or outnumbered, often from behind. But he almost always winds up figuring out what's going on, catching the bad guys/gals, and usually exacting revenge by the end of the episode, with some notable exceptions. He
8343-413: The toll on his body, Garner was ordered by his doctor to immediately take time off some months later, and NBC abruptly cancelled the program in mid-season. It was alleged that Rockford had become very expensive to produce, mainly due to the location filming and use of high-end actors as guest stars. According to sources, NBC and Universal claimed the show was generating a deficit of several million dollars,
8446-406: The twin scoop hood. Garner needed Rockford's car to look like the lower tiered "Esprit" model, a car Rockford could afford, but have the performance necessary for the chase sequences in the show. To achieve this, the show featured Pontiac Firebird Formulas re-badged and re-hooded to look like the "Esprit" model. The "Formula" model was developed to provide the performance of the top-level "Trans Am" in
8549-443: The two physicists, Frayn felt confident in claiming that "The actual words spoken by [the] characters are entirely their own." With that in mind, the character descriptions apply to both the representative characters as well as the physicists themselves. There is a great amount known about all of the primary characters presented in Copenhagen ; the following includes those bits of information which are directly relevant and referenced in
8652-442: The very end of the series, there is a noticeable cooling in Jim's attitude toward Angel in their often fractious relationship; however, the rift seems to have been repaired by the time of the reunion movies. Others: After Corbett was dropped from the show following the fourth season (allegedly due to contract disputes between Universal, which owned her contract, and Cherokee Productions, Garner's company), John Cooper ( Bo Hopkins ),
8755-399: The wheels and throws the front end around. Then you release everything, hit the gas, and off you go in the opposite direction." Garner stated in a Season One DVD interview that he performed this stunt for the duration of the series. The car's license plate was 853 OKG, although the plate in some early episodes displayed the number 835 OKG. Garner writes in his autobiography that he believes that
8858-409: The work itself. The construction of the plot is non-linear, seeing as it does not exist in time and space. Sometimes one character will not notice that there are other people in the space, and speak as if to no one. The world that Frayn presents is outside of our conceptions as audience members, simply by virtue of the fact that no one attending the play has ever died. So the world in which Copenhagen
8961-399: The world might have been changed. These are all traits of the artistic style known as Expressionism . In his preface to A Dream Play , August Strindberg notes that in these worlds, "everything is possible and probable. Time and space do not exist. Working with... real events as a background, the imagination spins out its threads of thoughts and weaves them into new patterns." Copenhagen
9064-429: Was "his duty to announce these facts so that future generations can know the truth about the Bohr – Heisenberg meeting". In a 2016 assessment by Alex Wellerstein , the nuclear historian asserts that the truth of the Copenhagen meeting is that "we’ll never know, and it probably isn’t that important in the scheme of things". Nevertheless, he argues that Frayn's play creates a false balance in ascribing undue credibility to
9167-447: Was an integral part of the show. Rocky appears in 101 episodes, and usually becomes involved (like it or not) in his son's cases. Occasionally, he hires Jim himself. Jim Rockford's mother is never shown or named, and is very seldom referred to; it's implied, but never stated directly, that she died some years ago. Rocky was portrayed by Noah Beery Jr. except in the 1974 pilot film, where he was portrayed by Robert Donley. Although much of
9270-468: Was being stretched to breaking point—well beyond breaking point, in fact." International Productions 1999 – France 2000 – Denmark 2001 – Finland 2002 – Argentina 2003 – Spain 2017 – Italy 2019 – Spain 2022 – Turkey 2023 – Finland TV Movie – 2002 The play was adapted as a television movie in 2002, with Daniel Craig as Heisenberg, Stephen Rea as Niels Bohr, and Francesca Annis as Margrethe Bohr. The movie substantially cuts down
9373-643: Was born in 1983. She dated playwright David Hare from 1985 to 1990; he referred to her as his muse. Copenhagen (play) Copenhagen is a play by Michael Frayn , based on an event that occurred in Copenhagen in 1941, a meeting between the physicists Niels Bohr and Werner Heisenberg , who had been Bohr's student. It premiered in London in 1998, at the National Theatre, running for more than 300 performances, starring David Burke (Niels Bohr), Sara Kestelman ( Margrethe Bohr ), and Matthew Marsh (Werner Heisenberg). It opened on Broadway at
9476-548: Was created by Roy Huggins and Stephen J. Cannell . Huggins had created, written for and produced Garner's breakthrough series Maverick in 1957 and envisioned The Rockford Files as presenting a similar character as a modern private investigator rather than a gambler in the American Old West. Huggins teamed with Cannell, who had written for Jack Webb 's Mark VII Productions such as Adam-12 and Chase (1973–1974, NBC), to create The Rockford Files . The show
9579-540: Was credited as "A Public Arts/Roy Huggins Production" along with Cherokee Productions in association with Universal Television . Cherokee was owned by Garner, with partners Meta Rosenberg and Juanita Bartlett , who doubled as story editor during most of The Rockford Files run. Universal Studios has released all six seasons of The Rockford Files on DVD in Region ;1 . On November 3, 2009, they released The Rockford Files- Movie Collection, Volume 1 , featuring
9682-656: Was directed by Michael Blakemore . "Copenhagen" transferred to the Duchess Theatre in London's West End , where it ran from 8 February 1999, for more than 750 performances. It had a "second" cast when it opened in the West End , who were responsible for performing at least one of the matinee shows each week. The second cast consisted of David Baron as Niels Bohr, Corinna Marlowe as Margarethe Bohr, and William Brand as Werner Heisenberg, and after six months, they replaced
9785-401: Was influential on Frayn's play via the work of journalist Thomas Powers , who repeated the claims that Heisenberg had sabotaged the German nuclear program in a 1993 book, further asserting that the Copenhagen meeting was actually a counterintelligence operation to let Bohr in on what the Nazis were up to. Frayn's play, which portrays Powers' theory sympathetically as a possible interpretation of
9888-542: Was one of Bohr's sons, who tragically drowned while he and Bohr were out sailing. The phrase "Christian reaches for the life-buoy" appears several times during the play, and every time, the characters seem to hold their breath in the hope that this time, Christian will survive. Bohr had concluded that they would have both drowned had he jumped in to save his son, which presents an idea of futile heroics, particularly with reference to Heisenberg and what should happen if he were to resist Hitler's rule. • "Another Draft" – Whenever
9991-521: Was playing the part of Jenny, fell ill. Brown astounded the stage manager of the production by coming in and, with one hour of rehearsal, put on a "brilliant" performance as Jenny. Her first major appearance on Broadway came in 1989, in the play Secret Rapture , written by David Hare . Once "Molly Dodd" concluded, Brown became a prolific Broadway actress, appearing in, among other productions, Tom Stoppard 's 1995 Lincoln Center Theater production of Arcadia and two separate runs as Frau Schneider in
10094-538: Was released as a single and spent two weeks at No. 10 on the Billboard Hot 100 , in August 1975. The B-side track (or "flip-side"), titled "Dixie Lullabye", was also composed by Post and Carpenter. The single remained on the chart for 16 weeks and won a 1975 Grammy Award for Best Instrumental Arrangement . In Canada, the song reached No. 8, and was No. 84 in the year-end chart. For more than forty years,
10197-448: Was silver with maroon panels and orange pinstriping. Additionally, the truck sported various after-market accessories added by noted California customizer and off-road racer Vic Hickey , including the winch, brush guard, hubcap covers, sidestep bed plates, auxiliary gas tanks, custom steering wheel, rear roll bar, Cibié headlamps mounted on the front bumper/rear roll bar, and Pace CB radio . In several Season 5-6 episodes, Rocky drives
10300-422: Was the main figure of the meeting. Allegedly, "Heisenberg and Weizsäcker came to Bohr wearing German army uniforms. Weizsäcker tried to persuade Bohr to mediate for peace between Great Britain and Germany and Heisenberg practically completely relied on his political judgement". Supek received these details in a confidential conversation with Margrethe, who thought he would never make them public. Supek however felt it
10403-471: Was the romantic lead opposite John Belushi in Continental Divide (1981) for which she received her first Golden Globe Award nomination, in the category of Best Motion Picture Actress in a Comedy/Musical. Other film roles include: And I Alone Survived (1978), Strapless (1989), The Astronaut's Wife (1999), Clint Eastwood 's Space Cowboys (2000), Lars von Trier 's Dogville ,
10506-456: Was then rerun on Das Erste (ARD) from 25 June 1989 to 24 July 1991 on Sunday nights. On 21 March 1995, it began airing on RTL. The TV movies, with the exception of "Friends and Foul Play" aired between 2 February 1996 and 3 August 2000. In Italy, the show began airing on Italia 1 on 19 April 1982, and aired until 1987. In Australia, the series runs Monday - Friday on cable and satellite channel Fox Classics and on 7Mate . The series aired in
10609-559: Was written by Cannell, who also wrote 36 episodes and was the show's co-creator. Juanita Bartlett, one of the show's producers and Garner's partner at Cherokee Productions, wrote 34 episodes. She also wrote for Scarecrow and Mrs. King , The Greatest American Hero , and In the Heat of the Night . David Chase wrote 16 episodes; he later went on to Northern Exposure and The Sopranos . The show's co-creator, Roy Huggins , also wrote for
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