Whenever I see this show, I mostly just enjoy the episodes. But there's one bit in particular that always hits me especially hard. In the episode "Sleight of Hand" where Jim Rockford calls Detective Dennis Becker after Jim's girlfriend disappears following their return from a beach trip, and her daughter is now at the house without her mother, Dennis starts off with the usual cocky-camaraderie stuff. Then Jim tells him to "bring a matron." Dennis has been a cop for a long time, his heart must have really sank when he heard that.