http://www.slate.com/blogs/browbeat/2014/07/28/the_rockford_files_episode_that_inspired_the_sopranos_1979_s_just_a_coupla.html

David Chase penned the mafia-themed December 14, 1979 episode, “Just a Coupla Guys."
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