The Rockford Files : White on White and Nearly Perfect (1978)
Directed by Stephen J. Cannell
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Synopsis by Hal Erickson
Future Magnum,P.I. star Tom Selleck makes his first Rockford Files appearance in the role of the dazzlingly handsome and insufferably successful private eye Lance White. Reluctantly teamed with Lance, Jim tackles the case of Veronica Teasdale (Karen Austin), the allegedly kidnapped daughter of a prominent weapons industrialist (Bill Quinn). The investigation veers off into unexpected twists and turns thanks to a covert scheme to sell arms to Palestine, and an elderly gangster who wants to die in Israel. Through it all, Jim is driven crazy by Lance White's "perfection" and incredible good fortune ("Things have a way of working out" is his infallible motto)--to say nothing of the fact that Jim's perennial nemesis Lt. Chapman (James Luisi) has no qualms about fawning all over Mr. White.