This is Jim Rockford, at the tone....

Does anyone have any info on Rockford's
answering machine?
A name, make, model, anything?

Thanks.

 

Sorry, I don't have the information you need.

But, if you haven't seen this already, you may enjoy checking it out:

Jim Rockford's Answering Machine

 

Unfortunately, this was one of Prop Replicator's prize projects. He gave me the info on the machine, and I actually found one for him about 2 years ago. Can't remember what it was, but it was big.

 

Yup, Wayne was THE authority on Rockford props on the RPF.

 

He did some great Rockford files props... like the drivers license and the yellow pages ad. Great stuff. Amazing craftsmanship. I remember he was working on the Gilligans Island radio, but I am not surprised to hear that he had nailed down the Rockford answering machine.

-Bryan

 

I think it was listed as an ansaphone or answerphone.

David

 

There's a good shot of it during a season 2 episode
and it looks like it says "Dictaphone" on the front.

 

I KNOW this is a massive necro-post, (this is the ONLY result for 'rockford files answering machine'), but I've been looking for Jim's answering machine for quite a while now.

I believe the original was an Ansafone 660, (it was a Dictaphone model/brand, Ansafone, that is). I've recently acquired an Ansafone 640, (different color & top-side logo), which is structurally/visually identical other than color. Gonna' try to free up some space in the internals to have the play button randomly play the messages from Jim's machine, from the show.

 

If anyone needs to do research I found the show is on Netflix.

 

It is a dictaphone remote ansaphone 660 used in the show.


And now I can't get the theme song out of my head.

 

-- Best place, at this point, to capture the answering machine messages...& do research --- agreed.

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Thanks for the confirmation!

...& that stuck-song thing happens to me more often than I'd like to admit. THE most frustrating one for me is - ANY time I think of turning up the heat during the winter - getting "Hot Girls In Love" by 'Loverboy' stuck in my head. I really don't need that.

 

I have a cure, but it is worse than the disease.

Spoiler

 

NOOOOOO!!! Not that!