Bret Maverick: Faith, Hope, and Clarity starring James Garner

James Garner

James Garner is an American film and television actor, one of the first Hollywood actors to excel in both media. He has starred in several television series spanning a career of more than five decades...

is a two-part episode of the 1981-82 television series Bret Maverick

Bret Maverick

Bret Maverick is an American Western series starring James Garner in the role that made him famous in the 1957 series Maverick: a professional poker player traveling alone year after year through the Old West from riverboat to saloon...

edited together and released to local television stations as a TV-movie. The show involves a religious cult that swindles the townspeople out of a tract of land and Maverick winds up straightening everything out. The episodes were directed by Leo Penn

Leo Penn

Leo Z. Penn was an American actor and director, and father of musician Michael Penn and actors Sean Penn and Chris Penn.-Early life:...

 (father of Sean Penn

Sean Penn

Sean Justin Penn is an American actor, screenwriter and film director, also known for his political and social activism...

) and the film is sometimes entitled simply Bret Maverick. The same thing was done with the two-hour series premiere, slightly condensed and marketed to television stations as Bret Maverick: The Lazy Ace

Bret Maverick: The Lazy Ace

Bret Maverick: The Lazy Ace is the 1981 2-hour pilot episode of the television series Bret Maverick, trimmed to a quicker pace and repackaged as a TV-movie for rerunning on local television stations. The 1981 show was based on the 1957 series Maverick, catching up with professional poker-player...

. The Bret Maverick television series was a sequel to the 1957 series Maverick

Maverick (TV series)

Maverick is a western television series with comedic overtones created by Roy Huggins. The show ran from September 22, 1957 to July 8, 1962 on ABC and stars James Garner as Bret Maverick, a cagey, articulate cardsharp. Eight episodes into the first season, he was joined by Jack Kelly as his brother...

, created by Roy Huggins

Roy Huggins

Roy Huggins was an American novelist and an influential writer/creator and producer of character-driven television series, including Maverick, The Fugitive, and The Rockford Files....

, in which Garner had played a version of the character two decades earlier.

Cast

James Garner

James Garner

James Garner is an American film and television actor, one of the first Hollywood actors to excel in both media. He has starred in several television series spanning a career of more than five decades...

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Bret Maverick

Ed Bruce

Ed Bruce

William Edwin "Ed" Bruce, Jr. is an American country music songwriter and singer. He is known for penning the 1975 song "Mammas Don't Let Your Babies Grow Up to Be Cowboys" .-Early life & songwriting career:...

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Tom Guthrie

Ramon Bieri

Ramon Bieri

Ramon Arens Bieri was an American actor who has starred in many films and many TV shows.-Biography:He co-starred on the short-lived 1981 TV series Bret Maverick with James Garner. Bieri appeared in many TV movies as well...

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Elijah Crow

Richard Hamilton

Richard Hamilton

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Cy Whittaker

David Knell ...
Rodney Catlow

Darleen Carr

Darleen Carr

Darleen Carr is an American actress best known for a recurring role in the 1981–82 television series Bret Maverick opposite James Garner...

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Mary Lou Springer

Robert Webber ...
Everest Sinclair

Marj Dusay

Marj Dusay

Marj Dusay is an actress known for her roles on American soap operas...

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Kate Hanranhan

James Staley ...
Brother Samuel Workman

Simone Griffeth ...
Jasmine DuBois

Tony Burton ...
Arthur

Priscilla Morrill ...
Estelle Springer

Richard Libertini ...
Fingers Wachefsky

Jameson Parker

Jameson Parker

Francis Jameson Parker Jr. is an American actor, best known as the co-star of the 1980s television series Simon & Simon.-Biography:Parker studied drama at Beloit College...

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Whitney Delaworth III

Stuart Margolin

Stuart Margolin

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Philo Sandeen

External links

Bret Maverick: Faith, Hope, and Clarity at the Internet Movie Database

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