Jim Rockford (television character) Jim Rockford (television character) James Scott Rockford is a fictional character on the television series "The Rockford Files". The character, played by James Garner, is a struggling private investigator operating in the greater Los Angeles area. Rockford is the principal character of the series, and Garner was the only actor to appear in every episode of the series. Unlike many other fictional "private eyes", he is an ex-convict, albeit one who was falsely imprisoned (at San Quentin Prison) and later fully pardoned. One episode tells that because of the carelessness of his parole officer, Rockford had to hire an attorney
The Great Escape (book) prisoners free. To avoid the disaster of "Tom", "Harry" was filled with sewage, sand, and sealed with cement. After the escape, the prisoners started digging another tunnel called "George", but this was abandoned when the camp was evacuated. On October 2, 2012, Penguin released "Human Game: The True Story of the 'Great Escape' Murders and the Hunt for the Gestapo Gunmen" by author and journalist Simon Read. The book details the 50 murders that took place following the escape and the three-year manhunt by the Royal Air Force to bring the killers to justice. On January 27, 1951, NBC broadcast