- IRVING THE EXPLAINER
Original Air Date: November 18, 1977
Synopsis. A woman who is apparently writing a biography of controversial film director Alvah Korper hires Rockford to help her research the book. Rockford doesn’t realize that his client is Korper’s daughter Katarina, who hopes that the private investigator will lead her to a priceless painting by seventeenth-century artist Antoine Watteau that Alvah Korper allegedly purchased and hid during the 1940s. Rockford soon finds himself thrust into a convoluted mess involving French police officers and German spies (both of whom also want to find the painting) and the long-unsolved murder of Korper’s wife, which may hold the key to the entire puzzle.
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Hello, I loved watching the show when it originally aired and have seen every episode and I recently purchased a Roku and am binge watching it again, but now I am taking screen shots of certain locations and then searching for it in IMDB to maybe visit it in person but sometimes all the information isn’t there regarding filming locations as follows—in the episode “Irving the Explainer” Jim goes to a mansion in the hills (which he says where it’s at to Rocky and the lady who hired him Karen Hall (an alias) and I assume it’s in the Hollywood Hills) but I just can’t find it, I took a screen shot and I am trying to find the address so any information you can give me would be greatly appreciated, thanks…
Remember its a TV show. I would not assume anything but whatever is said is to support the plot line.