there was an old episode on last night: his Firebird was the previous model (still gold, though) and the actor playing Rocky was not Noah Beery and had a different personality altogether.
I like the intro credit sequence, not only is the music great but I like the still photo sequence, which was more common then (even in movies like Superfly and To Sir With Love) but you don’t really see it anymore. Jim in the car, Jim on the phone, Jim with binoculars, etc.
but the picture of him in the supermarket was always a red herring to me. why was shopping featured? after several years I realized: at that time, it told a nuanced story about how unusual Jim’s life was. men didn’t do the shopping then, the leading man’s wife did the shopping. because leading men back then were all married. nowadays men go to the supermarket all the time and being unmarried past one’s twenties is common. but they needed that picture in there to say “this is a different type of leading man, he’s a bachelor.” also, he’s in the frozen food section, because bachelors eat TV dinners, naturally.
