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1. Heartaches of a Fool

Rocky ( Noah Beery Jr. ) is forced off the road while delivering a shipment of sausages in a friend's rig. When the load turns out to be smuggled in from Mexico, Rocky stands to lose his union card as well as his driver's license. Rockford looks into it further, but having nothing else to go on connects with the country & western singer Charlie Strayhorn (Taylor Lacher) who stars in the TV commercials for the sausages. Strayhorn, who is frustrated from the divorce proceedings he's going through…

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Rocky ( Noah Beery Jr. ) is forced off the road while delivering a shipment of sausages in a friend's rig. When the load turns out to be smuggled in from Mexico, Rocky stands to lose his union card as well as his driver's license. Rockford looks into it further, but having nothing else to go on connects with the country & western singer Charlie Strayhorn (Taylor Lacher) who stars in the TV commercials for the sausages. Strayhorn, who is frustrated from the divorce proceedings he's going through at home, teams up with Rockford to investigate. They come across a sham sausage factory, a dead body, and a Chinese organized crime triad that's about to go to war with an equally ruthless trucker's union. With James Shigeta, Lynne Marta, Norman Alden, Joe E. Tata, Leo Gordon, John Davey, Mark Roberts, Don "Red" Barry, Robert Phillips, Herb Armstrong and James Jeter.

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