The Attractive Nuisance

Episode aired Jan 6, 1978
TV-PG
1h

IMDb RATING

7.9/10

285

YOUR RATING

Noah Beery Jr. and Ken Lynch in The Rockford Files (1974)

Crime Drama Mystery Thriller

An unexplained break-in at Rocky's new diner has connections with the FBI fifty years ago.An unexplained break-in at Rocky's new diner has connections with the FBI fifty years ago.An unexplained break-in at Rocky's new diner has connections with the FBI fifty years ago.

Director
- Dana Elcar
Writers
- Roy Huggins
- Stephen J. Cannell
Stars

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IMDb RATING

7.9/10

285

YOUR RATING

Director
- Dana Elcar
Writers
- Roy Huggins
- Stephen J. Cannell
Stars

7User reviews

See production info at IMDbPro

Trivia
Final appearance of Gretchen Corbett until the reunion movies in the '90s.

Goofs
The legal doctrine of attractive nuisance is stated incorrectly. It only applies to small children and not to adults.

Quotes
Little Beaver: [Rocky is on the CB radio at the new diner he and his friend Vince Whitehead have just opened] Breaker, breaker, this is Little Beaver. Come on!
Joseph 'Rocky' Rockford #2: That's a big ten-four Little Beaver. What's your twenty coming to Rocky's Summit? Say, have you put on the feedbag yet? We're slinging hash and pumping gas, come back!
Little Beaver: That's negatory, good buddy! I had me some steak on the grill five miles north. So I've got the pedal to the metal trying to pick up time. Maybe next trip! This is Little Beaver with a big ten-four!
Jim Rockford: I thought you said this was the only diner for ten miles north or south.
Joseph 'Rocky' Rockford #2: It is.
Jim Rockford: Well he said he'd already eaten! He had a steak on the grill five miles back!
Joseph 'Rocky' Rockford #2: That guy meant he ran into a cow. He don't have no time to stop. He's got the hammer down and he's making up time.

Connections
Features Abbott and Costello Meet the Keystone Kops (1955)

Soundtracks
The Rockford Files
(Main Title Theme)
Written by Mike Post and Pete Carpenter

User reviews7

Featured review

7/10

One old Fed

The old guys are center stage in this Rockford Files episode where Noah Beery, Jr. goes into partnership in a diner. Poor Rocky just doesn't want to sit around listening to his arteries harden, so he and senior citizen friend Ken Lynch go into the diner business. It's in a remote location and he's expecting plenty of business, but its not panning out that way.

After that things start really moving. A retired FBI man Victor Jory starts making a nuisance of himself. Jess Nadelman goes on to the roof of James Garner's trailer and falls off. Quick as a wink lawyer Dick Balducci comes by and is representing Nadelman in an accident suit. Balducci is the junior partner of Whiplash Willie Gingrich from The Fortune Cookie. I have no doubt this guy did not go to law school but clerked in Walter Matthau's office. There's a funny Married With Children episode where a burglar caught in the act by Al Bundy sues the Bundy family for his injuries on the job when Al cold cocks him. That's a most apt parallel for what Nadelman was up to.

It all revolves around Rocky's good buddy Ken Lynch. And Victor Jory's pursuit of him. Poor Rocky all he wants to have is a diner where his old truckdriver buddies can stop by for a meal while on the road and he can make a few extra dollars.

Let's hear it for us old guys and the stories we can tell.