 run credit checks on his clients, and quit every time he threatened. What they couldn't understand was that they couldn't see that it was fun. Stephen J. Cannell, co-creator of the Rockford Files, from a conversation that was originally recorded in January 1995. Two of the most famous episodes of the Rockford Files were the ones featuring Tom Selleck as Lance White, an intrepid private eye whose origin as a character is directly tied to another famous episode of Maverick, The Saga of Waco Williams. Well, I wrote the Lance White