The Rockford Files: Dwarf in a Helium Hat (1978)
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Jim (James Garner) picks up his phone and hears a threat against his life: the caller, it turns out, has dialed the wrong number. The intended recipient of the threat is self-absorbed social climber Jay Rockfelt (John Pleshette), who in his eagerness to make an impression on the world has inadvertently insulted--and publicly humiliated--a notorious gangster. Though he has no vested interest in Jay's plight, Jim nonetheless tries to orchestrate a rescue when the bad guys (so bad that they even poison a harmless little dog!) kidnap Jay's sister. Rock star Rick Springfield appears as (Surprise! Surprise!) a rock star, whose number-one hit provides this episode with its seemingly nonsequitur title. ~ Hal Erickson, Rovi
- Director(s):
- Reza S. Badiyi
Synopsis of The Rockford Files: Dwarf in a Helium Hat
Jim (James Garner) picks up his phone and hears a threat against his life: the caller, it turns out, has dialed the wrong number. The intended recipient of the threat is self-absorbed social climber Jay Rockfelt (John Pleshette), who in his eagerness to make an impression on the world has inadvertently insulted--and publicly humiliated--a notorious gangster. Though he has no vested interest in Jay's plight, Jim nonetheless tries to orchestrate a rescue when the bad guys (so bad that they even poison a harmless little dog!) kidnap Jay's sister. Rock star Rick Springfield appears as (Surprise! Surprise!) a rock star, whose number-one hit provides this episode with its seemingly nonsequitur title. ~ Hal Erickson, Rovi
Complete Cast of The Rockford Files: Dwarf in a Helium Hat
- Scott Ellsworth - Norman Appet
- Luis Delgado - Billings
- Robert Mayo - Santo
- Mary Nancy Burnett - Susan
- Ted Markland - Mel
- Gianni Russo - Gianni Tedesco
- Bea Silvern - Edith Rockfelt
- Robina Suwol - Amy Rockfelt
- Marie Reynolds - Janique
- Rebecca Balding - Carol Lansing
- James Luisi - Lt. Doug Chapman
- John Pleshette - Julius "Jay" Rockfelt
- Milton Selzer - Irving Rockfelt
- Rick Springfield - Keith Stuart
- Director(s):
- Reza S. Badiyi
- Writer(s):
- David Chase, Stephen J. Cannell
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