 before. Stephen J. Cannell not only created the Rockford Files in collaboration with Roy Huggins, he won an Emmy for producing the original NBC series, as well as wrote two of the eight Rockford Files reunion movies that Garner produced for CBS in the 1990s. I interviewed Stephen J. Cannell in January 1995 for my book on the Rockford Files. As we pick up the conversation, Steve was talking about one of the most famous scenes on the Rockford Files pilot, a sequence featuring Jim's brother,