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	Season 6 / Episode 8: - The Hawaiian Headache Jim Rockford: This is Jim Rockford. At the tone leave your name and message, I'll get back to you. Ofc. Billings: [beep] Billings, L.A.P.D. You know Thursday is Chapman's twentieth year, and we're giving a little surprise party and I think you should come. By the way, we need five dollars for the present...
	Season 6 / Episode 8: - The Hawaiian Headache Jim Rockford: Guess where I am now. Det. Dennis Becker: At the bar? Jim Rockford: Close. Det. Dennis Becker: In jail? Jim Rockford: You got it.
	Season 6 / Episode 7: - Nice Guys Finish Dead Jim Rockford: This is Jim Rockford. At the tone leave your name and message, I'll get back to you. Frank: [Beeep] Jim, Frank. I put a new outlet in the kitchen. I lay in the cable and the box, and pulled the breaker, just like you said, and both my TV sets start burning. What do I do now?
	Season 6 / Episode 7: - Nice Guys Finish Dead Lance White: What we'll do is go back to my place, sit down with a little cognac and some Resphigi and figure this one out. Freddie Beamer: I've never liked Resphigi very much. Put too much cheese on it. Maybe a steak and a beer, something like that.
	Season 6 / Episode 7: - Nice Guys Finish Dead Jim Rockford: A state senator and a bus driver? What's the connection? Lance White: Some things you just have to accept. You know, this is just a hunch, Jim, but I think the bus driver had something on the senator. Maybe the senator was having an affair with the bus driver's wife? Jim Rockford: And just where did that come from? Lance White: Hunches don't come from any place, Jim, they're just hunches. That's how we solve our cases. We get hunches, they turn out to be right, and the case gets solved. Gee, I don't know how you survive as a private investigator, Jim. You don't seem to know any of this stuff.
	Season 6 / Episode 6: - Love is the Word Jim Rockford: This is Jim Rockford. At the tone leave your name and message, I'll get back to you. Marie: [Beeep] This Marie at Liberty Bail Bonds. Your client Todd Leeman skipped and his bail is forfeit. That's the pink slip on your '79 Firebird, I believe. Sorry Jim. Bring it over.
	Season 6 / Episode 6: - Love is the Word Jim Rockford: [concerned, goes to the side of young man who has been shot in the foot during a struggle] Hey, Randy? Randy Smith: My shoe, man, what's wrong with it? Jim Rockford: [gets up and walks away in disgust] Downers...!
	Season 6 / Episode 5: - Only Rock 'n' Roll Will Never Die (2) Jim Rockford: This is Jim Rockford. At the tone leave your name and message, I'll get back to you. Dora: [Beeep] Jimmy, this is Dora. Gonna move in with the kids, but I'll sure miss you, dear. Thank you for taking out the garbage every week; I'll send you a card for your birthday.
	Season 6 / Episode 4: - Only Rock 'n' Roll Will Never Die (1) Jim Rockford: This is Jim Rockford. At the tone leave your name and message, I'll get back to you. Pals of Jim: [Beeep and drunken men begin to sing] We're down at Hennessey's Bar, Jim, having a great kazoo. You better get down here quick, Jim, or we'll come and sing up your flue! Ha ha ha...
	Season 6 / Episode 3: - Lions, Tigers, Monkeys and Dogs (2) Jim Rockford: This is Jim Rockford. At the tone leave your name and message, I'll get back to you. Janelle: [Beeep] Jim, this is Janelle. I'm flying tonight so I can't make our date, and I've got to find a safe place for Danny. He loves you Jim! It's only two days and you'll see, Great Danes are no problem...
	Season 6 / Episode 2: - Lions, Tigers, Monkeys and Dogs (1) Jim Rockford: This is Jim Rockford. At the tone leave your name and message, I'll get back to you. Betty Farnell: [Beeep] This is Betty Farnell. I don't know who to call, but I can't reach my foodaholics partner! I'm at Vito's on my second pizza with sausages and mushrooms; Jim come and get me!
	Season 6 / Episode 2: - Lions, Tigers, Monkeys and Dogs (1) Joseph 'Rocky' Rockford #2: You're gonna see a real princess... dressed like that? Jim Rockford: Well sure Dad, I don't have much choice. My satin knee britches and barouche are still at the cleaners.
	Season 6 / Episode 2: - Lions, Tigers, Monkeys and Dogs (1) Evelyn 'Angel' Martin: Sucker bets! Would I bring you sucker bets? Jim Rockford: You'd bring me a dead rat in your teeth if you thought there was twenty bucks in it for you!
	Season 6 / Episode 1: - Paradise Cove Jim Rockford: This is Jim Rockford. At the tone leave your name and message, I'll get back to you Cal: [Beeep] Jim, this is Cal from the Leave the Whales Alone club. Our protest cruise leaves from the pier Saturday 3pm; the whales need you, Jim!
	Season 6 / Episode 1: - Paradise Cove Evelyn 'Angel' Martin: [curled up in the sand groaning] Jimmy! Jim-m-my! Jim Rockford: [crouches down beside him and slaps him on the shoulder unsympathetically] Hey, wanna come out now? Evelyn 'Angel' Martin: Jimmy, oh Jimmy, they hit me, Jim...! Jim Rockford: Yeah, that's what it looked like to me too. You okay? Evelyn 'Angel' Martin: ...I don't know... I... maybe I oughta talk to my attorney before I give a quick answer...
	Season 6 / Episode 1: - Paradise Cove Evelyn 'Angel' Martin: [jaw drops at the sight of his totalled lemon] Look what you did to Lucille, my '59 cherry Cad convertible. It's a collectors item! Jim Rockford: Yeah, you oughta collect it on fifty bucks! Evelyn 'Angel' Martin: You can't even get body work on it now!
	Season 6 / Episode 1: - Paradise Cove Evelyn 'Angel' Martin: Good idea, Jim, except I thought you oughta know that if you try to take off with my share of the treasure, I'll take old Joe here as a hostage. Joseph 'Rocky' Rockford #2: [shakes his cane at him] Now you just try and old Joe will stove your head in!
	Season 6 / Episode 1: - Paradise Cove Evelyn 'Angel' Martin: [trying to sound menacing] Hey! Buckaroo, I don't let nobody outta my sight. This is the Big One! This is the Big Score! I don't sleep. I sit on my blanket with my gun on my lap and I keep an eye on you all night long... Jim Rockford: [unimpressed, he looks at Althea Morgan] Yeah, Treasure of the Sierra Madre. Humphrey Bogart, Walter Huston, Tim Holt; terrific ending. Almost everybody ate a bullet!
	Season 5 / Episode 22: - A Different Drummer Jim Rockford: This is Jim Rockford. At tone leave your name and message, I'll get back to you. Female Caller: Jim, this is Andrea Todd's Food Mart. Listen, there's a guy down here by the name of Angel Martin who's charged one hundred and ten dollars of groceries to your account. Is that okay with you?
	Season 5 / Episode 20: - Never Send a Boy King to Do a Man's Job (1) Jim Rockford: This is Jim Rockford. At the tone leave your name and message, I'll get back to you. Miss Collins: [beeep] Mr. Rockford, Miss Collins for the Bureau of Licenses. We got you renewal for the extended deadline, but not your check. I'm sorry, but at midnight you're no longer licensed as an investigator.
	Season 5 / Episode 20: - Never Send a Boy King to Do a Man's Job (1) Joseph 'Rocky' Rockford #2: [rummaging around in the stuff in the back of the truck that's going to the Good Will] If you don't help that boy's daddy, I'm gonna be mad at you! Jim Rockford: Yeah, well life's full of bitter disappointments, Dad! I have a question for you. Why are you doing poking around in there again? Joseph 'Rocky' Rockford #2: Well I gotta question for you too! Where did this toaster come from? Jim Rockford: [becomes sheepish] That toaster...? Oh... that's the one you gave me for Christmas... Joseph 'Rocky' Rockford #2: [indignant] Yeah! Thirty-four dollars and seventy-five cents! [miffed he marches back to the trailer with the toaster] Jim Rockford: [defensively] Well it got in by mistake! How was... well, I can't... those things happen!
	Season 5 / Episode 19: - A Material Difference Jim Rockford: This is Jim Rockford. At the tone leave your name and message, I'll get back to you. Joe Myers: [beeep] Jim, Joe Myers of Krall, Finch and Merriweather. We're going to court tomorrow on that Penrose fraud case, but the steno misplaced your two hundred page deposition. Would you come down tonight and give it again?
	Season 5 / Episode 19: - A Material Difference Jim Rockford: [grabs Angel by the collar] Angel, you're driving me crazy, you understand? I'm going crazy and I can't take it anymore! Evelyn 'Angel' Martin: Jimmy... Jim Rockford: [has his hand on Angel's throat] Years and years and years! I'm going out of my mind! Your stu-pid, ri-diculous lies and ideas and games year after year! Evelyn 'Angel' Martin: [croaks]... give me my windpipe... Jim Rockford: [lets go, looks at his hands; they're shaking] Look at me! Look at me! Look at me! [collapses against fence in hopelessness] Evelyn 'Angel' Martin: [timidly] Jimmy... Jim Rockford: Just don't say anything! Just don't-say-anything! Evelyn 'Angel' Martin: Hey Jimmy... Jim Rockford: [sound of desperation] What? Evelyn 'Angel' Martin: I'm sorry... [Jim raises his head and looks at him in disbelief] Evelyn 'Angel' Martin: Stick of gum? [he has pulled the packet out of his pocket and offering a piece. Jim accepts it without grace]
	Season 5 / Episode 18: - The Return of the Black Shadow Jim Rockford: This is Jim Rockford. At the tone leave your name and message, I'll get back to you. Florence Boyle: [beep, a very attractive voice comes on] Jim, this is Florence Boyle. You worked for my husband last month in Glendale. You were so helpful then, and, well, I have a problem of my own I'd like to discuss... confidentially of course...
	Season 5 / Episode 17: - The Man Who Saw the Alligators Jim Rockford: This is Jim Rockford. At the tone leave your name and message, I'll get back to you. Asian Man: [beeep] Mr. Rockford, you know what to do if you attacked and killed? Ask for Albert Kimsi at grand opening of Happy Dawn School of Secret Arts. Win three lessons!
	Season 5 / Episode 17: - The Man Who Saw the Alligators Jim Rockford: [at Rocky's house sifting through shoe boxes full of Jim's payed bills] Look Angel, I've got problems of my own. I've got a tax mess here that's so bad I'm gonna have to spend three days up at Adriana's place at Arrow Head just trying to sort it out... how are you doing for April and May, Dad? Adrianna Danielli: Jim I hope you don't mind my saying, but I think this is symptomatic of the whole problem! Why are these receipts stored here in the first place? Jim Rockford: Well do you wanna try living in a house trailer and running a business out of it too? Adrianna Danielli: Which you can't claim, by the way. Joseph 'Rocky' Rockford #2: Alice Faye... I'm thinking of all them pictures and records I collected back inthe 40s. That's it! Alice Faye! [runs off to find Jim's missing receipts] Jim Rockford: Alice Faye...? April and May...?
	Season 5 / Episode 16: - The Deuce Jim Rockford: This is Jim Rockford. At the tone leave your name and message, I'll get back to you. Receptionist: [beeep] Mr. Rockford, Arthur's Hi-Fi. Your stereo's ready, but since your warranty expired in the two months it was in our shop, you'll have to pay the sixty dollars on the repair.
	Season 5 / Episode 15: - Guilt Jim Rockford: This is Jim Rockford. At the tone leave your name and message, I'll get back to you. Evelyn 'Angel' Martin: [beeep] Jimmy! Angel! Listen, Eddie Talavora just give me a hot tip on a class filly in the eighth out at Holly Park. Only problem is I need a twenty!
	Season 5 / Episode 15: - Guilt Jim Rockford: [referring to tips given by Angel] The last horse he gave me could've used a skateboard!
	Season 5 / Episode 14: - The Battle-Ax and the Exploding Cigar Jim Rockford: This is Jim Rockford. At the tone leave your name and message, I'll get back to you. Miss Holroyd: Miss Holroyd, City Federal. Your lost check still hasn't arrived. It's impossible for us to lose checks, so unless we receive full payment by noon today we'll foreclose.

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