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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Guzzler’s Frightening Hair" data-source="post: 437419" data-attributes="member: 2740">Forrest Tucker, on the other hand, was absolutely a proto-Jock in the Columbo episode Blueprint For Murder, and amazingly was almost 10 years younger than Jim Davis, though he seems almost as old in that early 70s episode as Jock in 1978:[MEDIA=youtube]5f91ge6YdfQ:6[/MEDIA]Big Jock wouldn’t have gone down so easy, of course.At the beginning of the episode there were a couple of scenes that easily could have been a slightly younger Jock who hadn’t retired and mellowed out as we saw him on DALLAS.    The little sighs and grunts and mannerisms at the beginning of the clip above are  100% Jock, and the Cadillac is pretty much the same car as Jock’s Lincoln.  (not buying the Benny Hill music, though)alas, though it looks like he was active well into the 80s, Tucker died not long into the Season 10 timeframe, so they would have been right back to square one..</blockquote>