List of Maverick episodes
Encyclopedia
The following is an episode list for ABC
's 1957 comedy
-western
television series, Maverick
, created by Roy Huggins
and starring James Garner
, Jack Kelly
, Roger Moore
, and Robert Colbert
. Unusually for an American television program, Maverick's main cast varied episodically. As such, the starring cast members for each episode are listed below alongside other details.
Also:
Ben Gage
delivers Marshal Matt Dillon
parodies in four different episodes, playing sheriffs with different names but always looking and sounding like James Arness
in Gunsmoke
while delivering comedic lines.
Kathleen Crowley
appears in eight episodes, a series record for leading ladies--"The Jeweled Gun," "Maverick Springs," "The Misfortune Teller," "A Bullet for the Teacher," "Kiz," "Dade City Dodge," "The Troubled Heir," and "One of Our Trains Is Missing."
(as Bret Maverick
) is the sole star for the first seven episodes. With episode eight, he's joined by Jack Kelly
as brother Bart Maverick. From that point on, the two alternate leads from week to week, sometimes teaming up for the occasional episode. Recurring characters include rival gamblers/operators Samantha Crawford, Dandy Jim Buckley and Big Mike McComb.
leaves the show. Garner and Kelly are still the leads. Of the recurring characters, only Gentleman Jack Darby returns for season 3, and only for one episode.
stays on as Bart Maverick, who now alternates the lead with Roger Moore
as cousin Beau Maverick. Kelly and Moore are also featured in three two-cousin episodes. With the exception of a single episode held over from the third season, Garner is no longer a part of the show. Before the end of the season, Moore also leaves. At the very end of the season, Moore is briefly replaced by Garner
lookalike Robert Colbert
as Bart's brother Brent Maverick.
Peter Breck would make one appearance as Doc Holliday in this season, becoming a semi-regular in the series' final episodes.
is now the sole star of new Maverick offerings. This season's episodes alternated with reruns of some of Garner's earlier shows (both solo and Garner/Kelly team-ups, including "The Saga of Waco Williams"), but during Kelly's new installments, neither Bret, Beau, nor Brent are ever mentioned; the series' new episodes had finally reverted to the original single-Maverick formula observed for the initial seven episodes, only with Kelly as Maverick instead of Garner. However, Garner's name once again appears in the weekly series opening credits before all the newly produced shows, albeit now with second billing under Kelly (Ed Reimers
announces "Maverick! Starring Jack Kelly and James Garner!" each week over the opening credits).
Peter Breck returns as Doc Holliday, becoming a semi-regular in these final episodes. He appears in 4 of the 13 episodes produced for this season, including the series finale. Mike Road
appears as "Pearly Gates" in two episodes.
American Broadcasting Company
The American Broadcasting Company is an American commercial broadcasting television network. Created in 1943 from the former NBC Blue radio network, ABC is owned by The Walt Disney Company and is part of Disney-ABC Television Group. Its first broadcast on television was in 1948...
's 1957 comedy
Comedy
Comedy , as a popular meaning, is any humorous discourse or work generally intended to amuse by creating laughter, especially in television, film, and stand-up comedy. This must be carefully distinguished from its academic definition, namely the comic theatre, whose Western origins are found in...
-western
Western (genre)
The Western is a genre of various visual arts, such as film, television, radio, literature, painting and others. Westerns are devoted to telling stories set primarily in the latter half of the 19th century in the American Old West, hence the name. Some Westerns are set as early as the Battle of...
television 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....
and 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...
, Jack Kelly
Jack Kelly (actor)
Jack Kelly was an American film and television actor most noted for the role of "Bart Maverick" in the TV series Maverick, which ran on ABC from 1957 to 1962...
, Roger Moore
Roger Moore
Sir Roger George Moore KBE , is an English actor, perhaps best known for portraying British secret agent James Bond in seven films from 1973 to 1985. He also portrayed Simon Templar in the long-running British television series The Saint.-Early life:Moore was born in Stockwell, London...
, and Robert Colbert
Robert Colbert
Robert Colbert is an American actor most noted for his leading role portraying Dr. Doug Phillips on the TV series The Time Tunnel and his two appearances as a third Maverick brother in Maverick....
. Unusually for an American television program, Maverick
Series leads
- Bret Maverick: James GarnerJames GarnerJames 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...
(seasons 1-4; 55 episodes) - Bart Maverick: Jack KellyJack Kelly (actor)Jack Kelly was an American film and television actor most noted for the role of "Bart Maverick" in the TV series Maverick, which ran on ABC from 1957 to 1962...
(seasons 1-5; 75 episodes) - Beau Maverick: Roger MooreRoger MooreSir Roger George Moore KBE , is an English actor, perhaps best known for portraying British secret agent James Bond in seven films from 1973 to 1985. He also portrayed Simon Templar in the long-running British television series The Saint.-Early life:Moore was born in Stockwell, London...
(season 4; 14 episodes*) - Brent Maverick: Robert ColbertRobert ColbertRobert Colbert is an American actor most noted for his leading role portraying Dr. Doug Phillips on the TV series The Time Tunnel and his two appearances as a third Maverick brother in Maverick....
(season 4; 2 episodes*)
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- Moore appeared in 15 episodes, but he played a different character in the second season Maverick episode "The Rivals" opposite Garner, while Colbert appeared in a different role in the fourth season episode "Hadley's Hunters" before making two appearances as Brent Maverick.
Featured recurring characters
- Dandy Jim Buckley: Efrem Zimbalist, Jr.Efrem Zimbalist, Jr.Efrem Zimbalist, Jr. is an American actor known for his starring roles in the television series 77 Sunset Strip and The F.B.I. He is also known as recurring character "Dandy Jim Buckley" in the series Maverick and as the voice behind the character Alfred Pennyworth in Batman: The Animated Series...
(seasons 1-2; 5 episodes) - Samantha Crawford: Diane BrewsterDiane BrewsterDiane Brewster was an American television actress most noted for playing three distinctively different roles in US TV series of the 1950s and 60s: confidence trickster Samantha Crawford in Maverick; pretty young second-grade teacher Miss Canfield in Leave It to Beaver; and doomed wife Helen...
(seasons 1-2; 4 episodes) - Gentleman Jack Darby: Richard LongRichard Long (actor)Richard Long was an American actor better known for his leading roles in several ABC television series, including The Big Valley, Nanny and the Professor and Bourbon Street Beat.-Early life:...
(seasons 2-3; 4 episodes) - Big Mike McComb: Leo GordonLeo GordonLeo Vincent Gordon was an American movie and television character actor as well as a screenplay writer and novelist. He specialized in playing brutish bad guys during more than forty years in film and television....
(seasons 1-2; 5 episodes) - Cindy Lou Brown: Arlene HowellArlene HowellArlene Howell , a.k.a. Eurlyne Howell, was an American television actress who held the Miss USA 1958 title.Howell became the first of three Miss Louisiana USA titleholders to win the Miss USA crown when she won the Miss USA 1958 pageant held in Long Beach, California in July 1958...
* (season 2; 3 episodes) - Doc HollidayDoc HollidayJohn Henry "Doc" Holliday was an American gambler, gunfighter and dentist of the American Old West, who is usually remembered for his friendship with Wyatt Earp and his involvement in the Gunfight at the O.K. Corral...
: Gerald MohrGerald MohrGerald Mohr was an American radio, film and television character actor who appeared in over 4,000 radio plays, 73 films and over 100 television shows....
* (season 1; 2 episodes) and Peter BreckPeter BreckJoseph Peter Breck is an American prolific character actor of stage, who has played roles on television and in film...
(seasons 4-5; 5 episodes) - Modesty Blaine: Mona FreemanMona FreemanMona Freeman is an American film actress. The 5' 1" blonde was a model while in high school, and after becoming the first "Miss Subways" of the New York City transit system, eventually signed a movie contract with Howard Hughes. Her contract was later sold to Paramount Pictures. After 1944, she...
(season 3; 2 episodes) and Kathleen CrowleyKathleen CrowleyBetty Jane Kathleen Crowley is an American actress and was Miss New Jersey in 1949 and a contestant for Miss America in the same year . After the pageants, she became an actress who specialized in being phenomenally seductive in TV series and movies...
* (season 5; 1 episode) - Melanie Blake: Kathleen CrowleyKathleen CrowleyBetty Jane Kathleen Crowley is an American actress and was Miss New Jersey in 1949 and a contestant for Miss America in the same year . After the pageants, she became an actress who specialized in being phenomenally seductive in TV series and movies...
* (season 3; 2 episodes) - Marla: Kathleen CrowleyKathleen CrowleyBetty Jane Kathleen Crowley is an American actress and was Miss New Jersey in 1949 and a contestant for Miss America in the same year . After the pageants, she became an actress who specialized in being phenomenally seductive in TV series and movies...
* (season 5; 2 episodes) - Big Ed Murphy: John DehnerJohn DehnerJohn Dehner was an American actor in radio, television, and films, playing countless roles, often as a droll villain. Between 1941 and 1988, he appeared in over 260 films and television programs. Prior to acting, Dehner had worked as an animator at Walt Disney Studios, and later became a radio...
* (season 3; 1 episode) and Andrew DugganAndrew Duggan-Career:During World War II, Duggan was in the 40th Special Services Company, led by actor Melvyn Douglas in the China Burma India Theater of World War II. His contact with Douglas later led to his performing with Lucille Ball in the play Dreamgirl. He developed a friendship with Broadway...
* (season 5; 1 episode) - Pearly Gates: Mike RoadMike RoadMike Road is a voice actor and a Warner Bros. television series contract player whose career dates back to the 1950s....
* (season 5; 2 episodes)
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- These actors also appeared in other roles during the course of the series.
Also:
Ben Gage
Ben Gage
Ben Gage was a radio singer and announcer, occasional off-screen film singer dubbing the voice of non-singing actors, and American television actor active from 1959 to 1975....
delivers Marshal Matt Dillon
Marshal Matt Dillon
Marshal Matt Dillon is a fictional character featured on both the radio and television versions of Gunsmoke. He serves as the U.S. Marshal of Dodge City, Kansas who works to preserve law and order in the western frontier of the 1870s. The character was created by writer John Meston, who...
parodies in four different episodes, playing sheriffs with different names but always looking and sounding like James Arness
James Arness
James King Arness was an American actor, best known for portraying Marshal Matt Dillon in the television series Gunsmoke for 20 years...
in Gunsmoke
Gunsmoke
Gunsmoke is an American radio and television Western drama series created by director Norman MacDonnell and writer John Meston. The stories take place in and around Dodge City, Kansas, during the settlement of the American West....
while delivering comedic lines.
Kathleen Crowley
Kathleen Crowley
Betty Jane Kathleen Crowley is an American actress and was Miss New Jersey in 1949 and a contestant for Miss America in the same year . After the pageants, she became an actress who specialized in being phenomenally seductive in TV series and movies...
appears in eight episodes, a series record for leading ladies--"The Jeweled Gun," "Maverick Springs," "The Misfortune Teller," "A Bullet for the Teacher," "Kiz," "Dade City Dodge," "The Troubled Heir," and "One of Our Trains Is Missing."
First season (1957-1958)
James GarnerJames 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...
(as 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...
) is the sole star for the first seven episodes. With episode eight, he's joined by Jack Kelly
Jack Kelly (actor)
Jack Kelly was an American film and television actor most noted for the role of "Bart Maverick" in the TV series Maverick, which ran on ABC from 1957 to 1962...
as brother Bart Maverick. From that point on, the two alternate leads from week to week, sometimes teaming up for the occasional episode. Recurring characters include rival gamblers/operators Samantha Crawford, Dandy Jim Buckley and Big Mike McComb.
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| Bret Maverick | Bart Maverick | Dandy Jim Buckley | Samantha Crawford | Big Mike McComb | |
| War of the Silver Kings | Bret | Big Mike | |||
| > Note: With Edmund Lowe Edmund Lowe Edmund Dantes Lowe was an American actor. His formative experience began in vaudeville and silent film. He was born in San Jose, California.-Film career:... . According to 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.... ' Archive of American Television Archive of American Television The Archive of American Television is a division of the non-profit Academy of Television Arts & Sciences Foundation that films interviews with notable people from all aspects of the television industry.... interview, a Warners-owned property called "War of the Copper Kings" was selected by the studio as the basis for this episode's script in order to cheat Huggins out of the series creator residuals. |
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| Point Blank | Bret | ||||
| > Note: With Karen Steele Karen Steele Karen Steele was an American actress and model with over 60 roles in film and television. Her most famous roles include starring as Virginia in Marty, as Mrs Lane in Ride Lonesome and as Eve McHuron in the Star Trek episode "Mudd's Women".-Early life:Karen Steele was born in Honolulu, Hawaii, to... . Huggins wrote this episode as the pilot but Warner Brothers insisted on first airing an episode based on a property they previously owned. Huggins noted in his Archive of American Television Archive of American Television The Archive of American Television is a division of the non-profit Academy of Television Arts & Sciences Foundation that films interviews with notable people from all aspects of the television industry.... interview that this was done to deny him the residuals for creating the series, a typical gambit for the studio at that time. Huggins wasn't given credit as series creator by the studio until the movie version Maverick (film) Maverick is a 1994 Western comedy film based on the 1950s television series of the same name, created by Roy Huggins. The film was directed by Richard Donner from a screenplay by William Goldman and features Mel Gibson, Jodie Foster and James Garner, as well as several cameo appearances... with Mel Gibson Mel Gibson Mel Colm-Cille Gerard Gibson, AO is an American actor, film director, producer and screenwriter. Born in Peekskill, New York, Gibson moved with his parents to Sydney, Australia when he was 12 years old and later studied acting at the Australian National Institute of Dramatic Art.After appearing in... , Jodie Foster Jodie Foster Alicia Christian "Jodie" Foster is an American actress, film director, producer as well as a former child actress.... , and Garner almost forty years later. Mike Connors Mike Connors Mike Connors is an American actor best known for playing detective Joe Mannix in the CBS television series, Mannix. Before that, he had played a crime-fighting investigator, wielding a .38 handgun hidden in his back, in another CBS series, Tightrope.-Early life:Connors was born Krekor Ohanian in... appears in this episode as a different character than his subsequent role in "The Naked Gallows." |
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| According to Hoyle | Bret | Samantha | Big Mike | ||
| > Note: Maverick debut of Samantha Crawford, in a high-stakes riverboat poker contest with Maverick. Diane Brewster Diane Brewster Diane Brewster was an American television actress most noted for playing three distinctively different roles in US TV series of the 1950s and 60s: confidence trickster Samantha Crawford in Maverick; pretty young second-grade teacher Miss Canfield in Leave It to Beaver; and doomed wife Helen... had played Crawford the previous year in an episode of Cheyenne Cheyenne (TV series) Cheyenne is a western television series of 108 black-and-white episodes broadcast on ABC from 1955 to 1963. The show was the first hour-long western, and in fact the first hour-long dramatic series of any kind, with continuing characters, to last more than one season... called "Dark Rider," and writer/producer 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.... had given the character his mother's maiden name. This episode was written by Russell S. Hughes. |
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| Ghost Rider | Bret | ||||
| > Note: With Stacy Keach, Sr. Stacy Keach, Sr. Stacy Keach, Sr. was the stage name of Walter Stacy Keach , an American actor whose screen career spanned six decades. He and his wife, Mary Cain , were members of the Peninsula Players summer theater program during the 1930s. He may be best known for his role as Carlson in the television show Get... , Joanna Barnes Joanna Barnes Joanna Barnes is an American actress and writer.Barnes was born in Boston, Massachusetts, but moved to Los Angeles, California soon after finishing her education, and took up a contract with Columbia Pictures... , Rhodes Reason Rhodes Reason Rhodes Reason is an American actor.Reason is the younger brother of actor Rex Reason, whom he strongly resembles, to the point that many have mistakenly assumed that they were twins. Rhodes Reason is two years younger.-Biography:Reason made his acting start at age 18 in Romeo and Juliet, directed... , and Edd Byrnes. Maverick offers a strange beauty a ride home in a buckboard then later learns that she had died days before he met her. Billed as "Stacy Keach," Stacy Keach Stacy Keach Stacy Keach is an American actor and narrator. He is most famous for his dramatic roles; however, he has done narration work in educational programming on PBS and the Discovery Channel, as well as some comedy and musical... 's lookalike father portrays the sheriff. |
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| The Long Hunt | Bret | ||||
| > Note: In the aftermath of a failed stagecoach robbery, a gunshot criminal tells Maverick with his dying breaths that an innocent man remains in prison for a crime that he didn't commit, leaving the gambler with the responsibility of straightening it out. Maverick finds himself forced to intermittently become an amateur detective over a period of months. | |||||
| Stage West | Bret | ||||
| > Note: Based on a tensely dramatic Louis Lamour story. With Erin O'Brien Erin Joanne O'Brien Erin O'Brien is an American actress active during the mid-twentieth century and best known as the leading lady of arguably the first made-for-TV movie, Girl on the Run, which also served as the pilot for the television series 77 Sunset Strip... , Edd Byrnes, and Chubby Johnson Chubby Johnson Chubby Johnson was an American movie and television supporting character actor with a genial demeanor and warm country-accented voice perfect for westerns... . O'Brien's name is listed at the beginning of the episode after Garner's, an honor only accorded a small handful of actors during the series (Efrem Zimbalist, Jr. Efrem Zimbalist, Jr. Efrem Zimbalist, Jr. is an American actor known for his starring roles in the television series 77 Sunset Strip and The F.B.I. He is also known as recurring character "Dandy Jim Buckley" in the series Maverick and as the voice behind the character Alfred Pennyworth in Batman: The Animated Series... , Peggy King Peggy King Peggy King is a pop singer and former TV personality.She is best remembered as the female vocalist on The George Gobel Show. She also appeared in American Bandstand, Maverick, The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson and The Jack Benny Show... , Adam West Adam West William West Anderson , better known by the stage name Adam West, is an American actor best known for his lead role in the Batman TV series and the film of the same name... , Troy Donahue Troy Donahue Troy Donahue was an American actor, who was active between the late 1950s and late 1990s.-Life and career:... , etc.). Ray Teal Ray Teal Ray Teal was an actor who appeared in more than 250 movies and some 90 television programs in his 37-year career. His longest running role was as Sheriff Roy Coffee on NBC's most successful western, Bonanza... , later the sincere sheriff on Bonanza Bonanza Bonanza is an American western television series that both ran on and was a production of NBC from September 12, 1959 to January 16, 1973. Lasting 14 seasons and 430 episodes, it ranks as the second longest running western series and still continues to air in syndication. It centers on the... , performs one of his several Maverick turns as a vicious villain. |
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| Relic of Fort Tejon | Bret | ||||
| > Note: Features Maverick and an affectionate camel. The gambler quickly realizes that a saloon's poker game is rigged and finds himself facing down a professional killer. Tyler MacDuff Tyler MacDuff Tyler MacDuff, born Tyler Glenn Duff, Jr. , was an American actor, primarily on television westerns and dramas who was cast as Billy the Kid in The Boy from Oklahoma.-Biography:... appears as Drake. |
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| Hostage! | Bret | Bart | |||
| > Note: Bart's first appearance occurs in this two-brother episode, the eighth in the series. For his first several shows, Jack Kelly as Bart wore a grey suit similar in color to his hat for greater contrast with Garner's standard black suit, but eventually switched to mainly a black suit himself while keeping the lighter colored hat, which remained his main costume through most of the run of the series. In his interview for the Archive of American Television Archive of American Television The Archive of American Television is a division of the non-profit Academy of Television Arts & Sciences Foundation that films interviews with notable people from all aspects of the television industry.... , 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.... noted that, unlike Garner's light touch, Kelly delivered a funny line as though he were "dropping a load of coal," and that Kelly was hilariously entertaining when he was "off camera." |
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| Stampede | Bret | Dandy Jim | |||
| > Note: Dandy Jim Buckley's first of five appearances. One of many episodes that begin on a Mississippi riverboat. Chris Alcaide Chris Alcaide Christopher "Chris" Alcaide was an American actor particularly known for his role in television westerns. He surfaced to national attention as Deputy Joshua Tate in the 1956 film Gunslinger, co-starring Beverly Garland as a woman marshal.In 2003, Alcaide was among recipients, including the Sons of... appears as Tony Cadiz in this epic adventure. Written by Gerald Drayson Adams Gerald Drayson Adams Gerald Drayson Adams was a former business executive and literary agent when he began writing for films in the 1940s. The Oxford University-educated Adams specialized in action/adventure and western films... . |
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| The Jeweled Gun | Bret | Bart | |||
| > Note: The first of Kathleen Crowley Kathleen Crowley Betty Jane Kathleen Crowley is an American actress and was Miss New Jersey in 1949 and a contestant for Miss America in the same year . After the pageants, she became an actress who specialized in being phenomenally seductive in TV series and movies... 's eight different appearances in several roles, a series record by a wide margin for leading ladies. Bret appears in this episode only briefly. Some of the plot was later cannabilized for a Garner episode entitled "A Rage for Vengeance." The early part of "The Jeweled Gun" occurs in a Spanish-influenced town. Huggins noted in his Archive of American Television Archive of American Television The Archive of American Television is a division of the non-profit Academy of Television Arts & Sciences Foundation that films interviews with notable people from all aspects of the television industry.... interview that Garner was originally slated to play Kelly's role in this episode but the leads were switched at the last minute due to a scheduling conflict. Although Bart makes brief appearances in several Bret episodes, this is the only time Bret does so in a Bart episode. This is essentially Kelly's first solo episode. Dean Fredericks Dean Fredericks Dean Fredericks was an American actor best known for his portrayal of the comic strip character Steve Canyon in a 34-episode television series of the same name which aired from 1958-1959 on NBC. He was born Frederick Joseph Foote in Los Angeles, California... appears as Mitchell. |
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| The Wrecker The Wrecker (novel) The Wrecker is a novel written by Robert Louis Stevenson in collaboration with his stepson Lloyd Osbourne. The story is a 'sprawling, episodic adventure story, a comedy of brash manners and something of a detective mystery'. It revolves around the abandoned wreck of the Flying Scud at Midway Island... |
Bret | Bart | |||
| > Note: Based on a Robert Louis Stevenson Robert Louis Stevenson Robert Louis Balfour Stevenson was a Scottish novelist, poet, essayist and travel writer. His best-known books include Treasure Island, Kidnapped, and Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde.... ocean adventure of the same name The Wrecker (novel) The Wrecker is a novel written by Robert Louis Stevenson in collaboration with his stepson Lloyd Osbourne. The story is a 'sprawling, episodic adventure story, a comedy of brash manners and something of a detective mystery'. It revolves around the abandoned wreck of the Flying Scud at Midway Island... . This is the only episode with substantial time accorded to both brothers in which Kelly's role is larger than Garner's. According to Roy Huggins' Archive of American Television Archive of American Television The Archive of American Television is a division of the non-profit Academy of Television Arts & Sciences Foundation that films interviews with notable people from all aspects of the television industry.... interview, the two-brother scripts designated the brothers as "Maverick 1" and "Maverick 2," with Garner choosing which role he wanted to play due to his seniority in the series. Huggins elaborates that all scripts, except one, were originally written with Garner in mind and the character designated as "Bret," which would later be changed to "Bart" during filming if Kelly were cast instead. The only exception was "Passage to Fort Doom," which was written specifically for Kelly as a lark for the writers. |
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| The Quick and the Dead | Bret | ||||
| > Note: With Gerald Mohr Gerald Mohr Gerald Mohr was an American radio, film and television character actor who appeared in over 4,000 radio plays, 73 films and over 100 television shows.... as Doc Holliday Doc Holliday John Henry "Doc" Holliday was an American gambler, gunfighter and dentist of the American Old West, who is usually remembered for his friendship with Wyatt Earp and his involvement in the Gunfight at the O.K. Corral... and film noir Film noir Film noir is a cinematic term used primarily to describe stylish Hollywood crime dramas, particularly those that emphasize cynical attitudes and sexual motivations. Hollywood's classic film noir period is generally regarded as extending from the early 1940s to the late 1950s... queen Marie Windsor Marie Windsor Marie Windsor . Born as Emily Marie Bertelson in Marysvale, Piute County, Utah, Windsor was an actress known as "The Queen of the Bs" because she appeared in so many film noirs and B-movies like Cat-Women of the Moon... as a saloon owner in this tense drama about an angry gunslinger. Written and directed by Douglas Heyes Douglas Heyes Douglas Heyes was an American film and television writer, director, producer, actor, and composer with a long list of accomplishments.He was the father of actor Douglas Heyes, Jr..He died in Beverly Hills, California.... . |
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| Naked Gallows | Bart | ||||
| > Note: With Mike Connors Mike Connors Mike Connors is an American actor best known for playing detective Joe Mannix in the CBS television series, Mannix. Before that, he had played a crime-fighting investigator, wielding a .38 handgun hidden in his back, in another CBS series, Tightrope.-Early life:Connors was born Krekor Ohanian in... , Sherry Jackson Sherry Jackson Sherry Jackson is an American actress and former child star. She made her film debut at seven years old in the musical You're My Everything, starring Anne Baxter and Dan Dailey. During the course of appearing in several of the Ma and Pa Kettle movies during the 1950s as Susie Kettle, one of the... , Morris Ankrum Morris Ankrum Morris Ankrum was an American radio, television and film character actor.-Early life:Born Morris Nussbaum in Danville, Illinois, Ankrum originally began a career in academics. After graduating from USC with a law degree, he went on to an associate professorship in economics at the University of... , and Bing Russell Bing Russell Bing Russell was an American actor and baseball club owner, and was the father of Golden Globe-nominated actor Kurt Russell.-Personal life:... . Bart's curiosity about a murder ushers in a world of trouble. |
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| The Comstock Conspiracy | Bret | ||||
| > Note: With Ruta Lee Ruta Lee Ruta Lee is a Canadian actress and dancer who appeared as one of the brides in the film Seven Brides for Seven Brothers... and Werner Klemperer Werner Klemperer Werner Klemperer was a comedic and dramatic actor, best known for his role as Colonel Klink on the CBS television sitcom, Hogan's Heroes.-Early life:... . Convoluted mysteries keep compounding, leaving a flummoxed Bret to wonder why this is happening. |
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| The Third Rider | Bart | ||||
| > Note: With Dick Foran Dick Foran John Nicholas 'Dick' Foran was an American actor, known for his performances in western musicals and for playing supporting roles in dramatic pictures.-Life and career:... as a lawman thwarted by Bart in this action-packed dramatic episode. |
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| Rage for Vengeance | Bret | ||||
| > Note: With Catherine McLeod Catherine McLeod Catherine McLeod was an American actress who made over sixty television and movie appearances between 1944 and 1976... , Russ Conway Russ Conway (actor) Russ Conway was a Canadian-American character actor who appeared on film and television between 1947 and 1975.-Early years:... as a sheriff Sheriff A sheriff is in principle a legal official with responsibility for a county. In practice, the specific combination of legal, political, and ceremonial duties of a sheriff varies greatly from country to country.... , and a villainous John Russell John Russell (actor) John Lawrence Russell was an American actor, and World War II veteran, most noted for playing Marshal Dan Troop in the successful ABC western television series Lawman from 1958 to 1962.... . The only episode in the series in which Bret openly falls in love (with McLeod in her only series appearance) and wants to actually get married. |
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| Rope of Cards | Bret | ||||
| > Note: According to 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 his Archive of American Television Archive of American Television The Archive of American Television is a division of the non-profit Academy of Television Arts & Sciences Foundation that films interviews with notable people from all aspects of the television industry.... interview, every deck of cards in the United States sold out the day after this episode was first broadcast. |
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| Diamond in the Rough | Bart | ||||
| > Note: Written by Marion Hargrove Marion Hargrove Marion Hargrove was an American writer noted for the World War II bestselling book See Here, Private Hargrove, a collection of humorous newspaper columns written mostly before the United States entered the war... from a story 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.... . Bart gets assaulted and shanghaied. With Fredd Wayne, Lilli Valenty, Jacqueline Beer Jacqueline Beer Jacqueline Vangramberg is a former Hollywood film and television actress who was also named Miss France in the 1954 Miss Universe Pageant... , and Sig Ruman Sig Ruman Sig Ruman was a German-American actor known for his comic portrayals of pompous villains.-Life and career:... . |
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| Day of Reckoning | Bret | ||||
| > Note: A cowboy accuses Bret of cheating during a poker game and a blow to the head from the Marshall accidentally executes the complainant in this complex dramatic episode. With Jean Willes Jean Willes Jean Willes was an American film actress. She appeared in approximately 65 films between 1934 and 1972.-Career:... as Lil, Virginia Gregg Virginia Gregg Virginia Gregg Burket was an American actress best known for her many roles in radio dramas.Born in Harrisburg, Illinois, Virginia Gregg was the daughter of musician Dewey Alphaleta and businessman Edward William Gregg.-Radio:Gregg was a prolific radio actor, heard on such programs as The... as Amy Hardie, and Tod Griffin Tod Griffin Tod Griffin, born as Arthur Griffin , was an American actor of stage, film, and television, originally from Birmingham, Alabama.-Early years:... as Jack Wade. |
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| The Savage Hills | Bart | Samantha | |||
| > Note: Bart takes a turn with Samantha Crawford on a riverboat adventure. | |||||
| Trail West to Fury | Bret | Bart | Dandy Jim | ||
| > Note: A flashback episode about the Maverick brothers returning from the American Civil War American Civil War The American Civil War was a civil war fought in the United States of America. In response to the election of Abraham Lincoln as President of the United States, 11 southern slave states declared their secession from the United States and formed the Confederate States of America ; the other 25... , as told to Dandy Jim Buckley while the three of them are trapped during a flood. The plotline involves the Bret and Bart having to avoid Texas after being falsely accused of a murder there, with only a mysteriously disappeared "tall man" as a witness who could exonerate them if only they could locate him. Writer/producer 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.... would recycle this plot as the basis for his later television series The Fugitive The Fugitive (TV series) The Fugitive is an American drama series produced by QM Productions and United Artists Television that aired on ABC from 1963 to 1967. David Janssen stars as Richard Kimble, a doctor from the fictional town of Stafford, Indiana, who is falsely convicted of his wife's murder and given the death... , with Diane Brewster Diane Brewster Diane Brewster was an American television actress most noted for playing three distinctively different roles in US TV series of the 1950s and 60s: confidence trickster Samantha Crawford in Maverick; pretty young second-grade teacher Miss Canfield in Leave It to Beaver; and doomed wife Helen... in a recurring cameo role as Richard Kimble's murdered wife. |
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| The Burning Sky | Bart | ||||
| > Note: With a Mexican Gerald Mohr Gerald Mohr Gerald Mohr was an American radio, film and television character actor who appeared in over 4,000 radio plays, 73 films and over 100 television shows.... and Joanna Barnes Joanna Barnes Joanna Barnes is an American actress and writer.Barnes was born in Boston, Massachusetts, but moved to Los Angeles, California soon after finishing her education, and took up a contract with Columbia Pictures... . 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.... observed in his videotaped Archive of American Television Archive of American Television The Archive of American Television is a division of the non-profit Academy of Television Arts & Sciences Foundation that films interviews with notable people from all aspects of the television industry.... interview that the ratings for Kelly's episodes were always slightly higher during the first two seasons than Garner's. Huggins mentioned that he believed that this was a reflection of how well the audience liked Garner's episodes and the consequent word of mouth, so that viewers would be at their sets for the following episode, which would usually feature Kelly instead. The rating jumps for Kelly's episodes were tiny enough that they fell within the margin of error, according to Huggins in this interview, but he maintains that they were remarkable in that they were consistent. |
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| The Seventh Hand | Bret | Samantha | |||
| > Note: When Samantha Crawford idly wonders about what it might be like to marry Bret, he responds, "We couldn't afford it." James Philbrook James Philbrook James Philbrook was an American actor who appeared in supporting roles in three short-lived television series between 1959 and 1963: The Islanders on ABC and The Investigators and The New Loretta Young Show, both on CBS... , in his first year as an actor, appears as Sloan in this episode. |
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| Plunder of Paradise | Bart | Big Mike | |||
| > Note: With Ruta Lee Ruta Lee Ruta Lee is a Canadian actress and dancer who appeared as one of the brides in the film Seven Brides for Seven Brothers... as a dance hall singer. Bart and Big Mike McComb (Leo Gordon) wind up teamed as treasure hunters. |
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| Black Fire | Bret | ||||
| > Note: Uniquely for the series, Bart narrates this episode featuring only Bret. One of only two Garner episodes not included in Columbia House's 1990s library of series videotapes (the other was "Holiday at Hollow Rock"). Hans Conreid plays a friend who recruits Bret to borrow his identity for a family reunion. Charles Bateman made his first screen appearance as Cousin Jeff Martin. | |||||
| Burial Ground of the Gods | Bart | ||||
| > Note: With Claude Akins Claude Akins Claude Marion Akins was an American actor with a long career on stage, screen and television.Powerful in appearance and voice, Akins could be counted on to play the clever tough guy, on the side of good or bad, in movies and television. He is best remembered as Sheriff Lobo in the 1970s TV series... . |
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| Seed of Deception | Bret | Bart | |||
| > Note: The Maverick brothers are mistaken for Doc Holliday Doc Holliday John Henry "Doc" Holliday was an American gambler, gunfighter and dentist of the American Old West, who is usually remembered for his friendship with Wyatt Earp and his involvement in the Gunfight at the O.K. Corral... and Wyatt Earp Wyatt Earp Wyatt Berry Stapp Earp was an American gambler, investor, and law enforcement officer who served in several Western frontier towns. He was also at different times a farmer, teamster, bouncer, saloon-keeper, miner and boxing referee. However, he was never a drover or cowboy. He is most well known... in this two-brother episode. Huggins' wife Adele Mara Adele Mara Adele Mara , born Adelaide Delgado, was an American actress, singer and dancer who appeared in films during the 1940s and 1950s. During the 1940s, the blond actress was also a popular pinup girl.... plays a saloon dancer, and Bart is still wearing his grey suit. Ron Hayes Ron Hayes Ronald G. Hayes was an American television actor who, as an activist in the environmental movement, worked for the establishment of the first Earth Day, observed on April 22, 1970. He was a member of the Sierra Club and a founder of the ecological interest group Wilderness World... made one of his first acting appearances in the episode. Bret and Bart would technically appear in sixteen episodes together over the course of the series but only share a large amount of screen time in eleven of them. The others are actually Garner's episodes with brief appearances by Kelly except "The Jeweled Gun," in which their roles were switched at the last minute due to a schedule conflict and Garner wound up making his single cameo appearance in a Kelly installment. |
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Second season (1958-1959)
Garner and Kelly continue as alternating leads, with the odd 'team-up' episode. Semi-regulars Samatha Crawford and Dandy Jim Buckley exit partway through the season; new semi-regulars include Cindy Lou Brown and Gentleman Jack Darby. Big Mike McComb also returns from the first season.| Episode Title | Stars and Featured Recurring Characters | ||||||
| Bret Maverick | Bart Maverick | Dandy Jim Buckley | Samantha Crawford | Big Mike McComb | Cindy Lou Brown | Gentleman Jack Darby | |
| The Day They Hanged Bret Maverick | Bret | ||||||
| > Note: Framed by a similar-looking robber, a desperate Maverick finds himself trapped in jail while the citizenry construct a gallows for him right outside the window. Bret recalls that he and his brother had flipped a coin earlier to decide which Maverick would travel in what direction, ruminating that if it had landed differently, Bart would be sitting in that cell instead. With Whitney Blake Whitney Blake Whitney Blake was an American film and television actress, director and producer.Blake was born as Nancy Ann Whitney in 1926 in Eagle Rock, Los Angeles, California, the first child of Martha Mae Wilkerson and Harry Whitney... , Ray Teal Ray Teal Ray Teal was an actor who appeared in more than 250 movies and some 90 television programs in his 37-year career. His longest running role was as Sheriff Roy Coffee on NBC's most successful western, Bonanza... , and Jay Novello Jay Novello Jay Novello was an American radio, film, and television character actor.Born in Chicago as Michael Romano, of Italian descent, Novello began his career as a radio actor, playing Jack Packard on the Hollywood version of I Love a Mystery for a brief period, circa 1944... . |
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| Lonesome Reunion | Bret | ||||||
| > Note: With John Russell John Russell (actor) John Lawrence Russell was an American actor, and World War II veteran, most noted for playing Marshal Dan Troop in the successful ABC western television series Lawman from 1958 to 1962.... and Joanna Barnes Joanna Barnes Joanna Barnes is an American actress and writer.Barnes was born in Boston, Massachusetts, but moved to Los Angeles, California soon after finishing her education, and took up a contract with Columbia Pictures... . |
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| Alias Bart Maverick | Bart | Cindy Lou | Gentleman Jack | ||||
| > Note: Debuts of Richard Long Richard Long (actor) Richard Long was an American actor better known for his leading roles in several ABC television series, including The Big Valley, Nanny and the Professor and Bourbon Street Beat.-Early life:... as Gentleman Jack Darby and Arlene Howell Arlene Howell Arlene Howell , a.k.a. Eurlyne Howell, was an American television actress who held the Miss USA 1958 title.Howell became the first of three Miss Louisiana USA titleholders to win the Miss USA crown when she won the Miss USA 1958 pageant held in Long Beach, California in July 1958... as Cindy Lou Brown. |
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| The Belcastle Brand | Bret | ||||||
| > Note: Garner's favorite episode. With Reginald Owen Reginald Owen John Reginald Owen was a British character actor. He was known for his many roles in British and American movies and later in television programs.-Personal:... . |
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| High Card Hangs | Bart | Dandy Jim | |||||
| > Note: Note how much warmer Dandy Jim Buckley's friendship with Bart appears to be than his rivalry with Bart's brother Bret in the subsequent episode "The Jail at Junction Flats." With Dan Sheridan and Martin Landau Martin Landau Martin Landau is an American film and television actor. Landau began his career in the 1950s. His early films include a supporting role in Alfred Hitchcock's North by Northwest . He played continuing roles in the television series Mission: Impossible and Space:1999... . |
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| Escape to Tampico | Bret | ||||||
| > Note: Set in Mexico, this episode features Gerald Mohr Gerald Mohr Gerald Mohr was an American radio, film and television character actor who appeared in over 4,000 radio plays, 73 films and over 100 television shows.... as a variation of Humphrey Bogart Humphrey Bogart Humphrey DeForest Bogart was an American actor. He is widely regarded as a cultural icon.The American Film Institute ranked Bogart as the greatest male star in the history of American cinema.... 's Casablanca Casablanca (film) Casablanca is a 1942 American romantic drama film directed by Michael Curtiz, starring Humphrey Bogart, Ingrid Bergman and Paul Henreid, and featuring Claude Rains, Conrad Veidt, Sydney Greenstreet, Peter Lorre and Dooley Wilson. Set during World War II, it focuses on a man torn between, in... character, shot on the original Casablanca set. |
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| The Judas Mask | Bart | ||||||
| > Note: Bart's chasing a Scandinavian dance hall girl who robbed him of $20,000, hoping to catch her before she vanishes into Mexico. With John Vivyan John Vivyan John Vivyan was an American actor active primarily between 1957 and 1970. He was known for his starring role as the honest debonair gambler in the CBS adventure series Mr. Lucky.-Early life and career:Born John C... . |
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| The Jail at Junction Flats | Bret | Dandy Jim | |||||
| > Note: Dan Blocker Dan Blocker Dan Blocker was an American actor best remembered for his role as Eric "Hoss" Cartwright in the NBC western television series Bonanza.-Early life:... briefly appears in flashback as a gunslinger, before getting the role of Hoss Cartwright in Bonanza Bonanza Bonanza is an American western television series that both ran on and was a production of NBC from September 12, 1959 to January 16, 1973. Lasting 14 seasons and 430 episodes, it ranks as the second longest running western series and still continues to air in syndication. It centers on the... . Patrick McVey Patrick McVey Patrick McVey was an American actor who starred in three television series between 1950 and 1961, Big Town, Boots and Saddles, and Manhunt.-Early life and career:... appeared as Sheriff Morrison Pyne. Against his better judgement, Bret becomes a partner in one of Dandy Jim Buckley's schemes. The memorable ending offended many viewers when the episode was first broadcast. Written by Marion Hargrove Marion Hargrove Marion Hargrove was an American writer noted for the World War II bestselling book See Here, Private Hargrove, a collection of humorous newspaper columns written mostly before the United States entered the war... . |
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| The 39th Star | Bart | ||||||
| > Note: A coincidental pair of identical suitcases create a potentially lethal quandary for Bart. With Bethel Leslie Bethel Leslie Bethel Leslie was an American theatre, film, and television actress and a screenwriter.Born in New York City, Leslie was discovered by George Abbott, who cast her in the play Snafu in 1944... and John Litel John Litel John Litel was an American film actor. During World War I, Litel enlisted in the French Army and was twice decorated for bravery.... . |
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| Shady Deal at Sunny Acres Shady Deal at Sunny Acres Shady Deal at Sunny Acres, starring James Garner and Jack Kelly, remains the most famous and widely discussed episode of the Western comedy television series Maverick. Written by series creator Roy Huggins and Douglas Heyes and directed by Leslie H... |
Bret | Bart | Dandy Jim | Samantha | Big Mike | Cindy Lou | Gentleman Jack |
| > Note: The only episode to feature all seven of the recurring Maverick characters from the first two seasons, and the final appearance for both Samantha Crawford (Diane Brewster Diane Brewster Diane Brewster was an American television actress most noted for playing three distinctively different roles in US TV series of the 1950s and 60s: confidence trickster Samantha Crawford in Maverick; pretty young second-grade teacher Miss Canfield in Leave It to Beaver; and doomed wife Helen... ) and Dandy Jim Buckley (Efrem Zimbalist, Jr. Efrem Zimbalist, Jr. Efrem Zimbalist, Jr. is an American actor known for his starring roles in the television series 77 Sunset Strip and The F.B.I. He is also known as recurring character "Dandy Jim Buckley" in the series Maverick and as the voice behind the character Alfred Pennyworth in Batman: The Animated Series... ). Writer 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.... notes the close patterning of the first half of later movie The Sting The Sting The Sting is a 1973 American caper film set in September 1936 that involves a complicated plot by two professional grifters to con a mob boss . The film was directed by George Roy Hill, who previously directed Newman and Redford in the western Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid.Created by... to this episode in his Archive of American Television Archive of American Television The Archive of American Television is a division of the non-profit Academy of Television Arts & Sciences Foundation that films interviews with notable people from all aspects of the television industry.... interview. Upon being robbed by a ruthless banker (John Dehner John Dehner John Dehner was an American actor in radio, television, and films, playing countless roles, often as a droll villain. Between 1941 and 1988, he appeared in over 260 films and television programs. Prior to acting, Dehner had worked as an animator at Walt Disney Studios, and later became a radio... ) after depositing an evening's poker winnings, Bret recruits Bart to mount an intricate sting operation to recover the money. While Bart and all of the series' recurring characters join forces to dupe the banker, Bret sits whittling in a rocking chair across the street from the bank every day, responding to the queries of the local townspeople curious about how he plans to recover his money with "I'm working on it." |
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| Island in the Swamp | Bret | ||||||
| > Note: With Edgar Buchanan Edgar Buchanan Edgar Buchanan was an American actor with a long career in both film and television, most familiar today as Uncle Joe Carson from the Petticoat Junction, Green Acres and The Beverly Hillbillies television sitcoms of the 1960s... , Erin O'Brien, and Arlene Howell Arlene Howell Arlene Howell , a.k.a. Eurlyne Howell, was an American television actress who held the Miss USA 1958 title.Howell became the first of three Miss Louisiana USA titleholders to win the Miss USA crown when she won the Miss USA 1958 pageant held in Long Beach, California in July 1958... . Howell does not play Cindy Lou Brown here, despite having just portrayed the character in the previous episode. Howell would return to the role of Cindy Lou Brown 12 episodes later, in "Passage To Fort Doom." Buchanan plays the leader of a group of Louisiana swamp dwellers who imprison Bret after Howell's character discovers the gambler tied up and floating down the river in a boat. |
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| Prey of the Cat | Bart | ||||||
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| Holiday at Hollow Rock | Bret | ||||||
| > Note: Bret rides into town to bet on the annual horse race, stopwatch in hand. One of two Garner episodes (the other being Black Fire) not included in Columbia House's 1990s library of series videotapes. Features Saundra Edwards Sandra Edwards Sandra Edwards is an American actress and model. She was Playboy magazine's Playmate of the Month for the March 1957 issue. Her centerfold was photographed by Peter Gowland... . Tod Griffin made his second appearance in the series as Sheriff Jesse Carson. |
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| The Spanish Dancer | Bart | Gentleman Jack | |||||
| > Note: Featuring Huggins' wife Adele Mara Adele Mara Adele Mara , born Adelaide Delgado, was an American actress, singer and dancer who appeared in films during the 1940s and 1950s. During the 1940s, the blond actress was also a popular pinup girl.... as a dancer in a gold rush mining camp, and Slim Pickens Slim Pickens Louis Burton Lindley, Jr. , better known by the stage name Slim Pickens, was an American rodeo performer and film and television actor who epitomized the profane, tough, sardonic cowboy, but who is best remembered for his comic roles, notably in Dr... in a small role. |
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| Game of Chance | Bret | Bart | |||||
| > Note: With Belgian-born Roxane Berard Roxane Berard Roxane Berard is a Belgian-born actress who was the leading lady in various episodes of 26 American television series between 1958 and 1967. Berard had a gamine quality similar to fellow Belgian Audrey Hepburn's, with whom she was inevitably and continuously compared, especially since they... who portrays a French countess, and Marcel Dalio Marcel Dalio Marcel Dalio was a French character actor. He had major roles in two of Jean Renoir's most famous films, Grand Illusion and The Rules of the Game.- Biography :... as her uncle "the Baron." One of eleven episodes featuring both brothers with ample screen time for each, although Garner's role is somewhat larger in five of them: "Hostage!," "The Wrecker" (Kelly has more screen time in this one), "Trail West to Fury," "Seed of Deception," "Shady Deal at Sunny Acres," "Two Beggars on Horseback," "Pappy," "Maverick Springs," "Maverick and Juliet," and "The Maverick Line." |
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| Gun-Shy | Bret | ||||||
| > Note: Mavericks Gunsmoke Gunsmoke Gunsmoke is an American radio and television Western drama series created by director Norman MacDonnell and writer John Meston. The stories take place in and around Dodge City, Kansas, during the settlement of the American West.... spoof, with Ben Gage Ben Gage Ben Gage was a radio singer and announcer, occasional off-screen film singer dubbing the voice of non-singing actors, and American television actor active from 1959 to 1975.... as Marshal Mort Dooley (a comical version of Marshal Matt Dillon Marshal Matt Dillon Marshal Matt Dillon is a fictional character featured on both the radio and television versions of Gunsmoke. He serves as the U.S. Marshal of Dodge City, Kansas who works to preserve law and order in the western frontier of the 1870s. The character was created by writer John Meston, who... ) and Reginald Owen Reginald Owen John Reginald Owen was a British character actor. He was known for his many roles in British and American movies and later in television programs.-Personal:... as a con man. |
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| Two Beggars on Horseback | Bret | Bart | |||||
| > Note: Jack Kelly's favorite episode, featuring a race between the brothers to cash a check. The only time in the series in which Kelly's character wears a black hat; both brothers wear black hats in the opening sequences until Bart has to trade his to a stable operator in order to secure a horse. The title stems from an otherwise unrelated play by George S. Kaufman George S. Kaufman George Simon Kaufman was an American playwright, theatre director and producer, humorist, and drama critic. In addition to comedies and political satire, he wrote several musicals, notably for the Marx Brothers... and Marc Connelly Marc Connelly Marcus Cook Connelly was an American playwright, director, producer, performer, and lyricist. He was a key member of the Algonquin Round Table, and received the Pulitzer Prize for Drama in 1930.-Biography:... called Beggar on Horseback Beggar on Horseback Beggar on Horseback is a play by George S. Kaufman and Marc Connelly.A parody of the expressionistic parables that were popular at the time, it rails against the perils of trading one's artistic talents for commercial gain. At its core is Neil McRae, a poor, young classical composer... . With Ray Teal Ray Teal Ray Teal was an actor who appeared in more than 250 movies and some 90 television programs in his 37-year career. His longest running role was as Sheriff Roy Coffee on NBC's most successful western, Bonanza... as Stryker. |
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| The Rivals The Rivals The Rivals, a play by Richard Brinsley Sheridan, is a comedy of manners in five acts. It was first performed on 17 January 1775.- Production :... |
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| > Note: Features Roger Moore Roger Moore Sir Roger George Moore KBE , is an English actor, perhaps best known for portraying British secret agent James Bond in seven films from 1973 to 1985. He also portrayed Simon Templar in the long-running British television series The Saint.-Early life:Moore was born in Stockwell, London... playing a non-Maverick character in a drawing room comedy based on a play by Richard Brinsley Sheridan Richard Brinsley Sheridan Richard Brinsley Butler Sheridan was an Irish-born playwright and poet and long-term owner of the London Theatre Royal, Drury Lane. For thirty-two years he was also a Whig Member of the British House of Commons for Stafford , Westminster and Ilchester... originally produced in 1775. Moore would later be a regular series lead as "Beau Maverick" (nephew of Bret and Bart's "Pappy," the original Beau Maverick) in season 4, filling the void left by Garner's departure before the beginning of that season, so this is the only episode featuring Garner and Moore together. Moore is billed at the beginning of the episode along with Garner and Kelly, an honor rarely accorded a guest star in the series. Bart appears only briefly, including a deep focus Deep focus Deep focus is a photographic and cinematographic technique using a large depth of field. Depth of field is the front-to-back range of focus in an image — that is, how much of it appears sharp and clear. Consequently, in deep focus the foreground, middle-ground and background are all in focus... 3-shot at the episode's opening. |
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| Duel at Sundown | Bret | Bart | |||||
| > Note: Features villainous gunfighter Clint Eastwood Clint Eastwood Clinton "Clint" Eastwood, Jr. is an American film actor, director, producer, composer and politician. Eastwood first came to prominence as a supporting cast member in the TV series Rawhide... in a fistfight with Bret. Bart appears briefly. Edgar Buchanan Edgar Buchanan Edgar Buchanan was an American actor with a long career in both film and television, most familiar today as Uncle Joe Carson from the Petticoat Junction, Green Acres and The Beverly Hillbillies television sitcoms of the 1960s... plays a close friend of Bret's while Abby Dalton Abby Dalton Abby Dalton is an American actress.Born as Marlene Wasden in Las Vegas, Nevada, she has made numerous appearances on television, including the recurring role of "Julia Cumson" on Falcon Crest... portrays Buchanan's character's daughter. Written by Howard Browne Howard Browne Howard Browne was a science fiction editor and mystery writer. He also wrote for several television series and films... . See separate article. |
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| Yellow River | Bart | ||||||
| > Note: With Tol Avery Tol Avery Tol Avery was an American film and television character actor with more than a hundred screen appearances between 1950 and 1974... and Robert Conrad Robert Conrad Robert Conrad is an American actor. He is best known for his role in the 1965 CBS television series The Wild Wild West, in which he played the sophisticated Secret Service agent James T. West, and his portrayal of World War II ace Pappy Boyington in the television series Baa Baa Black Sheep... . Script is recycled from second season episode of Cheyenne Cheyenne (TV series) Cheyenne is a western television series of 108 black-and-white episodes broadcast on ABC from 1955 to 1963. The show was the first hour-long western, and in fact the first hour-long dramatic series of any kind, with continuing characters, to last more than one season... , "The Dark Rider," which had featured Diane Brewster's first appearance as Samantha Crawford, predating the Maverick series. |
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| The Saga of Waco Williams | Bret | ||||||
| > Note: This revered episode drew the largest viewership during the series' original run. Features Louise Fletcher Louise Fletcher Louise Fletcher is an American actress best known for her role as Nurse Ratched in One Flew over the Cuckoo's Nest, for which she won the Academy Award for Best Actress, and as Kai Winn Adami in Star Trek: Deep Space Nine. She also guest starred on the science fiction television series Heroes... and Wayde Preston Wayde Preston Wayde Preston or William Erskine Strange was a television actor noted for the series Colt .45 and for his appearance as Waco Williams in a 1958 episode of Maverick entitled "The Saga of Waco Williams"... , starring at the same time in Colt .45 Colt .45 (TV series) Colt .45 is an American Western television series shown on ABC between 1957 and 1960. The half-hour show derives from the 1950 Warner Brothers film of the same name starring Randolph Scott and formed part of the William T... , as Waco Williams, a character that writer-producer Stephen J. Cannell Stephen J. Cannell Stephen Joseph Cannell was an American television producer, writer, novelist and occasional actor, and the founder of Stephen J. Cannell Productions.-Early life:... later used as the prototype for "Lance White," Tom Selleck Tom Selleck Thomas William "Tom" Selleck is an American actor, and film producer. He is best known for his starring role as Hawaii-based private investigator Thomas Magnum on the 1980s television show Magnum, P.I.. He also plays Police Chief Jesse Stone in a series of made-for-TV movies based on the Robert B.... 's role on The Rockford Files The Rockford Files The Rockford Files is an American television drama series which aired on the NBC network between September 13, 1974 and January 10, 1980. It has remained in regular syndication to the present day. The show stars James Garner as Los Angeles-based private investigator Jim Rockford and features Noah... , a development that Cannell discusses in his Archive of American Television Archive of American Television The Archive of American Television is a division of the non-profit Academy of Television Arts & Sciences Foundation that films interviews with notable people from all aspects of the television industry.... interview. Brad Johnson appears as Karl Bent, Jr. Written by Montgomery Pittman Montgomery Pittman Montgomery Pittman was a television writer, director, and actor. Pittman was born in Louisiana and raised in Oklahoma. He broke into acting in New York. He moved to California in 1949 and turned from acting to screenwriting. He wrote for such television series as 77 Sunset Strip and The Twilight... . |
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| The Brasada Spur | Bart | ||||||
| > Note: With Julie Adams Julie Adams Julie Adams is an American film and television actress, sometimes credited as Julia Adams or Betty Adams.-Life and career:... . |
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| Passage to Fort Doom | Bart | Cindy Lou | |||||
| > Note: Cindy Lou Brown's final appearance. Featuring Diane McBain Diane McBain Diane McBain is an American actress who, as a Warner Brothers contract player, reached a brief peak of popularity during the early 1960s... and directed by Paul Henreid. The only episode written with Jack Kelly in mind during the early seasons; according to Roy Huggins' videotaped reminiscences for the Archive of American Television, the writers had previously been under orders from Huggins to always picture Garner as Maverick regardless of which actor would end up playing the part except regarding this episode, written expressly for Bart as a lark for the writers. The episode examines the power of a decision to be courageous under fire rather than running the other way. Ron Hayes Ron Hayes Ronald G. Hayes was an American television actor who, as an activist in the environmental movement, worked for the establishment of the first Earth Day, observed on April 22, 1970. He was a member of the Sierra Club and a founder of the ecological interest group Wilderness World... also appears. |
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| Two Tickets to Ten Strike | Bret | ||||||
| > Note: Bret finds himself momentarily attracted to a ditzy young woman (Connie Stevens Connie Stevens Connie Stevens is an American actress and singer, best known for her roles in the television series Hawaiian Eye and other TV and film work.-Early life:... ) then hunts down some thugs in the wake of being assaulted on the street. Features Adam West Adam West William West Anderson , better known by the stage name Adam West, is an American actor best known for his lead role in the Batman TV series and the film of the same name... as a villain. Veteran western film star Roscoe Ates Roscoe Ates Roscoe Ates was an actor and musician in primarily western films and television.-Early years:Ates was born in the rural hamlet of Grange, Mississippi, northwest of Hattiesburg. Grange is no longer included on road maps... appears as Joe the Barber. |
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| Betrayal | Bart | ||||||
| > Note: With Pat Crowley Pat Crowley Patricia "Pat" Crowley is an American film and television actress.Crowley was often confused with her acting contemporary Kathleen Crowley, who appeared as guest leading lady in different episodes of many of the same television series and is not related.Pat Crowley appeared in The Untouchables... and Ruta Lee Ruta Lee Ruta Lee is a Canadian actress and dancer who appeared as one of the brides in the film Seven Brides for Seven Brothers... as romantic rivals and Don "Red" Barry as a sheriff. While being held up by masked bandits, Bart realizes that another stagecoach passenger recognizes the voice of one of the robbers. |
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| The Strange Journey of Jenny Hill | Bret | Big Mike | |||||
| > Note: Big Mike McComb's final appearance. Singer Jenny Hill (Peggy King Peggy King Peggy King is a pop singer and former TV personality.She is best remembered as the female vocalist on The George Gobel Show. She also appeared in American Bandstand, Maverick, The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson and The Jack Benny Show... ) can't figure out why Bret keeps following her from town to town. Peggy King was billed at the beginning of the episode in the opening titles, after Garner, a rare occurrence in the series. Others billed at the opening of other episodes include Efrem Zimbalist, Jr. Efrem Zimbalist, Jr. Efrem Zimbalist, Jr. is an American actor known for his starring roles in the television series 77 Sunset Strip and The F.B.I. He is also known as recurring character "Dandy Jim Buckley" in the series Maverick and as the voice behind the character Alfred Pennyworth in Batman: The Animated Series... in each appearance as Dandy Jim Buckley, Roger Moore Roger Moore Sir Roger George Moore KBE , is an English actor, perhaps best known for portraying British secret agent James Bond in seven films from 1973 to 1985. He also portrayed Simon Templar in the long-running British television series The Saint.-Early life:Moore was born in Stockwell, London... in his non-Beau Maverick guest appearance in The Rivals The Rivals The Rivals, a play by Richard Brinsley Sheridan, is a comedy of manners in five acts. It was first performed on 17 January 1775.- Production :... , Adam West Adam West William West Anderson , better known by the stage name Adam West, is an American actor best known for his lead role in the Batman TV series and the film of the same name... and Troy Donahue Troy Donahue Troy Donahue was an American actor, who was active between the late 1950s and late 1990s.-Life and career:... in Pappy, and Erin O'Brien in the Louis Lamour story Stage West. |
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Third season (1959-1960)
Writer/creator Roy HugginsRoy 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....
leaves the show. Garner and Kelly are still the leads. Of the recurring characters, only Gentleman Jack Darby returns for season 3, and only for one episode.
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| Bret Maverick | Bart Maverick | Gentleman Jack Darby | |
| Pappy | Bret | Bart | |
| > Note: Features dual roles for series stars Garner and Kelly, as "Pappy" Beaurgard Maverick and Uncle Bentley Maverick, respectively (the previous generation of Maverick brothers, "Beau and Bent"). With Adam West Adam West William West Anderson , better known by the stage name Adam West, is an American actor best known for his lead role in the Batman TV series and the film of the same name... , Troy Donahue Troy Donahue Troy Donahue was an American actor, who was active between the late 1950s and late 1990s.-Life and career:... , Henry Daniell Henry Daniell Henry Daniell was an English actor, best known for his villainous movie roles, but who had a long and prestigious career on stage as well as in films.... , Kaye Elhardt Kaye Elhardt Kaye Elhardt was an American actress with dozens of television appearances as a glamorous leading lady in a career spanning from 1956 to 1977. Best known for her comedic role as "Josephine St... , and Chubby Johnson Chubby Johnson Chubby Johnson was an American movie and television supporting character actor with a genial demeanor and warm country-accented voice perfect for westerns... . Roger Moore Roger Moore Sir Roger George Moore KBE , is an English actor, perhaps best known for portraying British secret agent James Bond in seven films from 1973 to 1985. He also portrayed Simon Templar in the long-running British television series The Saint.-Early life:Moore was born in Stockwell, London... would join the show in the first episode of the following season as a different Beau Maverick, the young nephew of this episode's Beau Maverick. Series creator Roy Huggins, who had left the show at the conclusion of the previous season, complained in his Archive of American Television Archive of American Television The Archive of American Television is a division of the non-profit Academy of Television Arts & Sciences Foundation that films interviews with notable people from all aspects of the television industry.... interview that Bret and Bart's "Pappy" was never meant to be seen by the audience (in the series' earliest references, he appears to have already died) and that Huggins was disappointed when the first thing the new producer did was construct an episode including the character. |
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| Royal Four-Flush | Bart | ||
| > Note: With Roxane Berard Roxane Berard Roxane Berard is a Belgian-born actress who was the leading lady in various episodes of 26 American television series between 1958 and 1967. Berard had a gamine quality similar to fellow Belgian Audrey Hepburn's, with whom she was inevitably and continuously compared, especially since they... . |
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| The Sheriff of Duck 'n' Shoot | Bret | Bart | |
| > Note: With Chubby Johnson Chubby Johnson Chubby Johnson was an American movie and television supporting character actor with a genial demeanor and warm country-accented voice perfect for westerns... as a genial deputy. |
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| You Can't Beat the Percentage | Bart | ||
| > Note: With Gerald Mohr Gerald Mohr Gerald Mohr was an American radio, film and television character actor who appeared in over 4,000 radio plays, 73 films and over 100 television shows.... and Karen Steele Karen Steele Karen Steele was an American actress and model with over 60 roles in film and television. Her most famous roles include starring as Virginia in Marty, as Mrs Lane in Ride Lonesome and as Eve McHuron in the Star Trek episode "Mudd's Women".-Early life:Karen Steele was born in Honolulu, Hawaii, to... in a suspense thriller. |
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| The Cats of Paradise | Bret | ||
| > Note: Bret faces Buddy Ebsen Buddy Ebsen Buddy Ebsen was an American character actor and dancer. A performer for seven decades, he had starring roles as Jed Clampett in the long-running television series The Beverly Hillbillies and as the title character in the 1970s detective series Barnaby Jones, and played Barnaby Jones in the movie... as a trigger-happy sheriff, Don "Red" Barry as a black-clad business-card carrying gunfighter modeled on Paladin, and Mona Freeman Mona Freeman Mona Freeman is an American film actress. The 5' 1" blonde was a model while in high school, and after becoming the first "Miss Subways" of the New York City transit system, eventually signed a movie contract with Howard Hughes. Her contract was later sold to Paramount Pictures. After 1944, she... as a slightly crazed-looking Modesty Blaine. |
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| A Tale of Three Cities | Bart | ||
| > Note: Ben Gage Ben Gage Ben Gage was a radio singer and announcer, occasional off-screen film singer dubbing the voice of non-singing actors, and American television actor active from 1959 to 1975.... does his Marshal Matt Dillon Marshal Matt Dillon Marshal Matt Dillon is a fictional character featured on both the radio and television versions of Gunsmoke. He serves as the U.S. Marshal of Dodge City, Kansas who works to preserve law and order in the western frontier of the 1870s. The character was created by writer John Meston, who... parody again; also featuring Patricia Crowley Pat Crowley Patricia "Pat" Crowley is an American film and television actress.Crowley was often confused with her acting contemporary Kathleen Crowley, who appeared as guest leading lady in different episodes of many of the same television series and is not related.Pat Crowley appeared in The Untouchables... as a ravishing robber and Ray Teal Ray Teal Ray Teal was an actor who appeared in more than 250 movies and some 90 television programs in his 37-year career. His longest running role was as Sheriff Roy Coffee on NBC's most successful western, Bonanza... as the sheriff of a neighboring town. |
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| Full House | Bret | ||
| > Note: With Joel Grey Joel Grey Joel Grey is an American stage and screen actor, singer, and dancer, best known for his role as the Master of Ceremonies in both the stage and film adaptation of the Kander & Ebb musical Cabaret. He has won the Academy Award, Tony Award and Golden Globe Award... as Billy the Kid Billy the Kid William H. Bonney William H. Bonney William H. Bonney (born William Henry McCarty, Jr. est. November 23, 1859 – c. July 14, 1881, better known as Billy the Kid but also known as Henry Antrim, was a 19th-century American gunman who participated in the Lincoln County War and became a frontier... , and Garner performing a bravura pistol-twirling exhibition as part of the plot. Jean Willes Jean Willes Jean Willes was an American film actress. She appeared in approximately 65 films between 1934 and 1972.-Career:... portrays an amorous Belle Starr Belle Starr Myra Maybelle Shirley Reed Starr , better known as Belle Starr, was a notorious American outlaw.-Early life:... and Nancy Kulp Nancy Kulp Nancy Jane Kulp was an American character actress best known as Miss Jane Hathaway on the popular television series The Beverly Hillbillies.-Early life:... briefly appears as a drunken waitress with slightly slurred speech. |
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| The Lass With the Poisonous Air | Bart | ||
| > Note: With Stacy Keach, Sr. Stacy Keach, Sr. Stacy Keach, Sr. was the stage name of Walter Stacy Keach , an American actor whose screen career spanned six decades. He and his wife, Mary Cain , were members of the Peninsula Players summer theater program during the 1930s. He may be best known for his role as Carlson in the television show Get... Bart's dealing with too many women at once. |
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| The Ghost Soldiers | Bret | ||
| > Note: An extremely beleaguered Bret must figure out some way to cope with an ocean of Native Americans Native Americans in the United States Native Americans in the United States are the indigenous peoples in North America within the boundaries of the present-day continental United States, parts of Alaska, and the island state of Hawaii. They are composed of numerous, distinct tribes, states, and ethnic groups, many of which survive as... laying siege to an almost-empty fort. Everyone inside is about to be killed, including him. This episode is told from multiple perspectives. |
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| Easy Mark | Bart | ||
| > Note: With Edgar Buchanan Edgar Buchanan Edgar Buchanan was an American actor with a long career in both film and television, most familiar today as Uncle Joe Carson from the Petticoat Junction, Green Acres and The Beverly Hillbillies television sitcoms of the 1960s... and Jack Buetel Jack Buetel Jack Buetel was an American film and television actor.Born in Dallas, Texas, Buetel moved to Los Angeles, California in the late 1930s with the intention of establishing a film career... . Buetel and Buchanan co-starred as Roy Bean Roy Bean Phantly Roy Bean, Jr. was an eccentric U.S. saloon-keeper and Justice of the Peace in Val Verde County, Texas, who called himself "The Law West of the Pecos". According to legend, Judge Roy Bean held court in his saloon along the Rio Grande in a desolate stretch of the Chihuahuan Desert of... and Jeff Taggert in the 1956 NBC NBC The National Broadcasting Company is an American commercial broadcasting television network and former radio network headquartered in the GE Building in New York City's Rockefeller Center with additional major offices near Los Angeles and in Chicago... television series Judge Roy Bean Judge Roy Bean (TV series) Judge Roy Bean is a syndicated American Western series starring Edgar Buchanan as the legendary Kentucky-born Judge Roy Bean, a justice of the peace known as "The law west of the Pecos".-Synopsis:... . |
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| A Fellow's Brother | Bret | Bart | |
| > Note: Bart appears only briefly. With Adam West Adam West William West Anderson , better known by the stage name Adam West, is an American actor best known for his lead role in the Batman TV series and the film of the same name... . |
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| Trooper Maverick | Bart | ||
| > Note: Bart finds himself stuck in the Army and can't get out. With Suzanne Lloyd Suzanne Lloyd -Selected filmography:* Seven Ways from Sundown * Pepe * The Return of Mr. Moto * That Riviera Touch -External links:... . |
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| Maverick Springs | Bret | Bart | |
| > Note: With Kathleen Crowley Kathleen Crowley Betty Jane Kathleen Crowley is an American actress and was Miss New Jersey in 1949 and a contestant for Miss America in the same year . After the pageants, she became an actress who specialized in being phenomenally seductive in TV series and movies... as Melanie Blake and Tol Avery Tol Avery Tol Avery was an American film and television character actor with more than a hundred screen appearances between 1950 and 1974... as the villain. The 1970s episode of The Rockford Files The Rockford Files The Rockford Files is an American television drama series which aired on the NBC network between September 13, 1974 and January 10, 1980. It has remained in regular syndication to the present day. The show stars James Garner as Los Angeles-based private investigator Jim Rockford and features Noah... entitled "The Great Blue Lake Land Development Company" was more or less a cross between this episode and the earlier "Shady Deal at Sunny Acres Shady Deal at Sunny Acres Shady Deal at Sunny Acres, starring James Garner and Jack Kelly, remains the most famous and widely discussed episode of the Western comedy television series Maverick. Written by series creator Roy Huggins and Douglas Heyes and directed by Leslie H... ." In his Archive of American Television Archive of American Television The Archive of American Television is a division of the non-profit Academy of Television Arts & Sciences Foundation that films interviews with notable people from all aspects of the television industry.... interview, Rockford writer Stephen J. Cannell Stephen J. Cannell Stephen Joseph Cannell was an American television producer, writer, novelist and occasional actor, and the founder of Stephen J. Cannell Productions.-Early life:... credits elements of some Maverick episodes as inspirations for many of The Rockford Files scripts. |
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| The Goose-Drownder | Bart | Gentleman Jack | |
| > Note: Final appearance of Richard Long Richard Long (actor) Richard Long was an American actor better known for his leading roles in several ABC television series, including The Big Valley, Nanny and the Professor and Bourbon Street Beat.-Early life:... as Gentleman Jack Darby. During a downpour in a ghost town, one of Bart's lost loves (Fay Spain Fay Spain Fay Spain was an American actress in motion pictures and television. She was born in Phoenix, Arizona.-Theater apprentice:... ) turns up in a stagecoach. The episode remains unusual in that Bart is obviously quite enamored of the woman and wants to reconcile but cannot. This is also the only instance of one of the five recurring supporting characters from the "Shady Deal at Sunny Acres Shady Deal at Sunny Acres Shady Deal at Sunny Acres, starring James Garner and Jack Kelly, remains the most famous and widely discussed episode of the Western comedy television series Maverick. Written by series creator Roy Huggins and Douglas Heyes and directed by Leslie H... " episode appearing after writer/producer 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.... ' departure at the end of the second season. |
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| A Cure for Johnny Rain | Bret | ||
| > Note: Johnny and whiskey don't mix. | |||
| The Marquessa | Bart | ||
| > Note: With Adele Mara Adele Mara Adele Mara , born Adelaide Delgado, was an American actress, singer and dancer who appeared in films during the 1940s and 1950s. During the 1940s, the blond actress was also a popular pinup girl.... ; Bart wins a saloon. |
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| The Cruise of the Cynthia B | Bret | Bart | |
| > Note: Bart appears only briefly. With Mona Freeman Mona Freeman Mona Freeman is an American film actress. The 5' 1" blonde was a model while in high school, and after becoming the first "Miss Subways" of the New York City transit system, eventually signed a movie contract with Howard Hughes. Her contract was later sold to Paramount Pictures. After 1944, she... as Modesty Blaine, a role that would be played differently by Kathleen Crowley Kathleen Crowley Betty Jane Kathleen Crowley is an American actress and was Miss New Jersey in 1949 and a contestant for Miss America in the same year . After the pageants, she became an actress who specialized in being phenomenally seductive in TV series and movies... later in the series. A con man suckers Bret by appealing to his love for gambling and women. |
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| Maverick and Juliet | Bret | Bart | |
| > Note: The Maverick brothers run afoul of feud Feud A feud , referred to in more extreme cases as a blood feud, vendetta, faida, or private war, is a long-running argument or fight between parties—often groups of people, especially families or clans. Feuds begin because one party perceives itself to have been attacked, insulted or wronged by another... ing hillbillies and wind up forced to play poker against one another with their lives at stake. |
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| The White Widow | Bart | ||
| > Note: With Julie Adams Julie Adams Julie Adams is an American film and television actress, sometimes credited as Julia Adams or Betty Adams.-Life and career:... and Pilar Seurat Pilar Seurat Pilar Seurat was a Filipina-American film and television actress in the 1960s.-Life and career:Born as Rita Hernandez in Manila, Seurat began her Hollywood career as a dancer in Ken Murray's "Blackouts", the popular postwar variety show at the El Capitan Theatre... . |
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| Guatemala City | Bret | ||
| > Note: Bret searches for an ex-girlfriend in Guatemala Guatemala Guatemala is a country in Central America bordered by Mexico to the north and west, the Pacific Ocean to the southwest, Belize to the northeast, the Caribbean to the east, and Honduras and El Salvador to the southeast... and befriends a female street urchin. With Suzanne Storrs Suzanne Storrs Suzanne Storrs was a former Miss Utah and an American television actress who appeared in sixteen different television series between 1954 and 1961, usually as the beautiful leading lady, including Maverick with James Garner , Wanted Dead or Alive with Steve McQueen , Sugarfoot Suzanne Storrs... and Patric Knowles Patric Knowles Reginald Lawrence Knowles was an English film actor who renamed himself Patric Knowles, a name which reflects his Irish descent. He appeared in films of the 1930s through the 1970s... . |
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| The People's Friend | Bart | ||
| > Note: Features Bart as a local politician, a foreshadowing of Jack Kelly's later life. Francis De Sales Francis De Sales (actor) Francis A. De Sales was an American actor. He was known for his roles on two early television series: as police Lieutenant Bill Weigand on the CBS and then NBC drama Mr. and Mrs. North and as Sheriff Maddox in the syndicated western Two Faces West... appears as Mayor Culpepper. |
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| A Flock of Trouble | Bret | ||
| > Note: Bret wins a herd of sheep in a poker game, thinking they're cattle. | |||
| The Iron Hand | Bart | ||
| > Note: Features a plump and acne-scarred Robert Redford Robert Redford Charles Robert Redford, Jr. , better known as Robert Redford, is an American actor, film director, producer, businessman, environmentalist, philanthropist, and founder of the Sundance Film Festival. He has received two Oscars: one in 1981 for directing Ordinary People, and one for Lifetime... in a supporting role in this taut cattle drive Cattle drive For the 1951 film, see Cattle Drive .A cattle drive is the process of moving a herd of cattle from one place to another, usually moved and herded by cowboys on horses.-Australia:Australia is noted for long drives... drama. The title is meant literally; the villain wields his prosthetic iron hand like a club to bludgeon those who cross him. |
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| The Resurrection of Joe November | Bret | ||
| > Note: A riverboat adventure set primarily in New Orleans during Mardi Gras Mardi Gras The terms "Mardi Gras" , "Mardi Gras season", and "Carnival season", in English, refer to events of the Carnival celebrations, beginning on or after Epiphany and culminating on the day before Ash Wednesday... , with Roxane Berard Roxane Berard Roxane Berard is a Belgian-born actress who was the leading lady in various episodes of 26 American television series between 1958 and 1967. Berard had a gamine quality similar to fellow Belgian Audrey Hepburn's, with whom she was inevitably and continuously compared, especially since they... , Joanna Barnes Joanna Barnes Joanna Barnes is an American actress and writer.Barnes was born in Boston, Massachusetts, but moved to Los Angeles, California soon after finishing her education, and took up a contract with Columbia Pictures... , and Don 'Red' Barry. |
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| The Misfortune Teller | Bret | ||
| > Note: Another spoof of Gunsmoke Gunsmoke Gunsmoke is an American radio and television Western drama series created by director Norman MacDonnell and writer John Meston. The stories take place in and around Dodge City, Kansas, during the settlement of the American West.... s Marshal Matt Dillon Marshal Matt Dillon Marshal Matt Dillon is a fictional character featured on both the radio and television versions of Gunsmoke. He serves as the U.S. Marshal of Dodge City, Kansas who works to preserve law and order in the western frontier of the 1870s. The character was created by writer John Meston, who... with Ben Gage Ben Gage Ben Gage was a radio singer and announcer, occasional off-screen film singer dubbing the voice of non-singing actors, and American television actor active from 1959 to 1975.... , this time also featuring Kathleen Crowley Kathleen Crowley Betty Jane Kathleen Crowley is an American actress and was Miss New Jersey in 1949 and a contestant for Miss America in the same year . After the pageants, she became an actress who specialized in being phenomenally seductive in TV series and movies... in her Mae West Mae West Mae West was an American actress, playwright, screenwriter and sex symbol whose entertainment career spanned seven decades.... -like role of Melanie Blake, last seen in Maverick Springs, which she mentions, as well as a villainous astrologer Astrologer An astrologer practices one or more forms of astrology. Typically an astrologer draws a horoscope for the time of an event, such as a person's birth, and interprets celestial points and their placements at the time of the event to better understand someone, determine the auspiciousness of an... who sets his sights for her. |
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| Greenbacks, Unlimited | Bret | ||
| > Note: With Gage Clarke Gage Clarke Gage Clarke was an American character actor best known for his role as the principal in Mr. Peepers. His other work consisted largely one-shot appearances in television series such as seven major supporting roles as different characters in Maverick, twelve roles in Gunsmoke Gage Clarke (March 3,... as a timid gambler and John Dehner John Dehner John Dehner was an American actor in radio, television, and films, playing countless roles, often as a droll villain. Between 1941 and 1988, he appeared in over 260 films and television programs. Prior to acting, Dehner had worked as an animator at Walt Disney Studios, and later became a radio... as gang leader Big Ed Murphy, a role that Andrew Duggan Andrew Duggan -Career:During World War II, Duggan was in the 40th Special Services Company, led by actor Melvyn Douglas in the China Burma India Theater of World War II. His contact with Douglas later led to his performing with Lucille Ball in the play Dreamgirl. He developed a friendship with Broadway... would play in a subsequent season. |
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Fourth season (1960-1961)
Jack KellyJack Kelly (actor)
Jack Kelly was an American film and television actor most noted for the role of "Bart Maverick" in the TV series Maverick, which ran on ABC from 1957 to 1962...
stays on as Bart Maverick, who now alternates the lead with Roger Moore
Roger Moore
Sir Roger George Moore KBE , is an English actor, perhaps best known for portraying British secret agent James Bond in seven films from 1973 to 1985. He also portrayed Simon Templar in the long-running British television series The Saint.-Early life:Moore was born in Stockwell, London...
as cousin Beau Maverick. Kelly and Moore are also featured in three two-cousin episodes. With the exception of a single episode held over from the third season, Garner is no longer a part of the show. Before the end of the season, Moore also leaves. At the very end of the season, Moore is briefly replaced by 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...
lookalike Robert Colbert
Robert Colbert
Robert Colbert is an American actor most noted for his leading role portraying Dr. Doug Phillips on the TV series The Time Tunnel and his two appearances as a third Maverick brother in Maverick....
as Bart's brother Brent Maverick.
Peter Breck would make one appearance as Doc Holliday in this season, becoming a semi-regular in the series' final episodes.
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| The Bundle From Britain | Bart | Beau | |||
| > Note: Roger Moore Roger Moore Sir Roger George Moore KBE , is an English actor, perhaps best known for portraying British secret agent James Bond in seven films from 1973 to 1985. He also portrayed Simon Templar in the long-running British television series The Saint.-Early life:Moore was born in Stockwell, London... 's first appearance as Cousin Beau, met at the dock by Bart after crossing the Atlantic from England. An evenly balanced two-cousin episode according more or less equal time to each Maverick. Confusingly, Moore's character is the namesake nephew of Bret and Bart's father, the original Beau Maverick, portrayed by James Garner in "Pappy," the first episode of the third season. Moore was recruited at Jack Warner Jack Warner Jack Leonard "J. L." Warner , born Jacob Warner in London, Ontario, was a Canadian American film executive who was the president and driving force behind the Warner Bros. Studios in Hollywood, Los Angeles, California... 's insistence to fill the void left by Garner's departure from the series and actually wore some of the same suits that Garner had worn. Moore had also earlier performed many of Garner's scenes on a series called The Alaskans The Alaskans The Alaskans is a 1959 television series set in the port of Skagway, Alaska during the 1890s. The show features Roger Moore as "Silky Harris" and Jeff York as "Reno McKee", a pair of adventurers intent on swindling travelers bound for the Yukon Territories during the height of the Klondike Gold... , using scripts that had been recycled from Maverick with only names and locales changed, an extremely common Warner Bros. Warner Bros. Warner Bros. Entertainment, Inc., also known as Warner Bros. Pictures or simply Warner Bros. , is an American producer of film and television entertainment.One of the major film studios, it is a subsidiary of Time Warner, with its headquarters in Burbank,... custom at the time. The Maverick actors were almost exactly the same age; Garner had been 29 when the series began while Kelly and Moore were both a year older. |
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| Hadley's Hunters | Bart | ||||
| > Note: This episode features several ten-second cameos from western leads in other Warner Brothers series, including Lawman Lawman (tv series) Lawman is an American Western television series originally telecast from 1958 to 1962 starring John Russell as Marshal Dan Troop and featuring Peter Brown as Deputy Marshal Johnny McKay on the ABC Television Network. The series was set in Laramie, Wyoming during the mid to late 1870s. Warner Bros.... , Bronco Bronco (TV series) Bronco is a Western series on ABC from 1958 through 1962. It was shown by the BBC in the United Kingdom. The program starred Ty Hardin as Bronco Layne, a former Confederate officer who wandered the Old West, meeting such well-known individuals as Wild Bill Hickok, Billy the Kid, Jesse James,... , Cheyenne Cheyenne (TV series) Cheyenne is a western television series of 108 black-and-white episodes broadcast on ABC from 1955 to 1963. The show was the first hour-long western, and in fact the first hour-long dramatic series of any kind, with continuing characters, to last more than one season... , and Sugarfoot Sugarfoot Sugarfoot is the title of a TV western that aired from 1957 to 1961. The series featured Will Hutchins as fledgling frontier lawyer Tom Brewster and Jack Elam as sidekick Toothy Thompson... . Garner lookalike Robert Colbert Robert Colbert Robert Colbert is an American actor most noted for his leading role portraying Dr. Doug Phillips on the TV series The Time Tunnel and his two appearances as a third Maverick brother in Maverick.... also appeared as a key character, wearing a hat similar to Bret's, then was cast later in the season as a new Maverick brother named Brent. Edgar Buchanan Edgar Buchanan Edgar Buchanan was an American actor with a long career in both film and television, most familiar today as Uncle Joe Carson from the Petticoat Junction, Green Acres and The Beverly Hillbillies television sitcoms of the 1960s... plays a rogue sheriff and George Kennedy George Kennedy George Harris Kennedy, Jr. is an American actor who has appeared in over 200 film and television productions. He is perhaps most familiar as the convict Dragline in Cool Hand Luke , airline troubleshooter Joe Patroni in the Airport series of disaster movies from the 1970s and... portrays his deputy. Veteran western film star Roscoe Ates Roscoe Ates Roscoe Ates was an actor and musician in primarily western films and television.-Early years:Ates was born in the rural hamlet of Grange, Mississippi, northwest of Hattiesburg. Grange is no longer included on road maps... also appeared in this episode. |
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| The Town That Wasn't There | Beau | ||||
| > Note: With Merry Anders Merry Anders Merry Anders is an American actress who has appeared in a number of television programs and films since the 1950s. In 1954, she succeeded Ann Todd as Stuart Erwin's daughter in the final season of his TV series, The Stu Erwin Show.In the 1955-1956 season, she joined Janis Paige in the 26-week CBS... , John Astin John Astin John Allen Astin is an American actor who has appeared in numerous films and television shows, and is best known for the role of Gomez Addams on The Addams Family, and other similarly eccentric comedic characters.-Early years:... , and Lane Chandler Lane Chandler Lane Chandler was an American actor specializing in Westerns.-Early life:He was born as Robert Chandler Oakes on a ranch near Culbertson, Montana, the son of a horse rancher. At an early age, the family relocated to Helena, Montana, where he graduated from high school... . |
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| Arizona Black Maria | Bart | ||||
| > Note: With a pre-Gilligan Gilligan's Island Gilligan's Island is an American television series created and produced by Sherwood Schwartz and originally produced by United Artists Television. The situation comedy series featured Bob Denver; Alan Hale, Jr.; Jim Backus; Natalie Schafer; Tina Louise; Russell Johnson; and Dawn Wells. It aired for... Alan Hale, Jr. Alan Hale, Jr. Alan Hale, Jr. was an American film and television actor, best known for his role as Skipper on the popular sitcom Gilligan's Island. Hale was the lookalike son of popular supporting film actor Alan Hale, Sr.... and Joanna Barnes Joanna Barnes Joanna Barnes is an American actress and writer.Barnes was born in Boston, Massachusetts, but moved to Los Angeles, California soon after finishing her education, and took up a contract with Columbia Pictures... . |
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| Last Wire From Stop Gap | Bart | Beau | |||
| > Note: Bart and Beau discover a secret telegraph station hidden in a cave in this two-cousin episode. Notice that when the Maverick cousins enter a room, Kelly goes in front, just as Garner normally used to, and when they're standing or sitting together in scenes, Kelly is usually on the viewer's left, just as Garner most frequently was in two-brother episodes. Also, the Mavericks never appear in suits in this installment, both instead wearing their buckskin jackets throughout, as was the case with most episodes featuring Kelly and Moore together. With Tol Avery Tol Avery Tol Avery was an American film and television character actor with more than a hundred screen appearances between 1950 and 1974... . |
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| Mano Nera | Bart | ||||
| > Note: With Gerald Mohr Gerald Mohr Gerald Mohr was an American radio, film and television character actor who appeared in over 4,000 radio plays, 73 films and over 100 television shows.... in an episode set in New Orleans. |
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| A Bullet For the Teacher | Beau | ||||
| > Note: With Kathleen Crowley Kathleen Crowley Betty Jane Kathleen Crowley is an American actress and was Miss New Jersey in 1949 and a contestant for Miss America in the same year . After the pageants, she became an actress who specialized in being phenomenally seductive in TV series and movies... , Max Baer, Jr. Max Baer, Jr. Max Baer Jr is an American actor, screenwriter, producer, and director. He is best known for playing Jethro Bodine on The Beverly Hillbillies.-Early life:... , child actor Child actor The term child actor or child actress is generally applied to a child acting in motion pictures or television, but also to an adult who began his or her acting career as a child; to avoid confusion, the latter is also called a former child actor... Ronnie Dapo Ronnie Dapo Ronnie Dapo is an American former child actor who appeared in supporting roles in such television series as ABC's Room for One More and CBS's The New Phil Silvers Show .-Acting career:... , Joan Tompkins Joan Tompkins Joan Tompkins, legally known as Joan Swenson was an American actress of television, film, radio, and stage, who co-founded with her husband, Karl Swenson, an acting company in Beverly Hills, California... as Mary Burch, and Brad Johnson as Jim Reardon. Co-written by Leo Gordon Leo Gordon Leo Vincent Gordon was an American movie and television character actor as well as a screenplay writer and novelist. He specialized in playing brutish bad guys during more than forty years in film and television.... , who scripted several episodes in addition to playing "Big Mike McComb" the first two seasons. |
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| The Witch of Hound Dog | Bart | ||||
| > Note: With Wayde Preston Wayde Preston Wayde Preston or William Erskine Strange was a television actor noted for the series Colt .45 and for his appearance as Waco Williams in a 1958 episode of Maverick entitled "The Saga of Waco Williams"... in an episode featuring a beautiful witch who appears to have magical powers. |
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| Thunder From the North | Beau | ||||
| > Note: Beau finds himself embroiled with a nest of unscrupulous shopkeepers who've been methodically swindling the local Native American Native Americans in the United States Native Americans in the United States are the indigenous peoples in North America within the boundaries of the present-day continental United States, parts of Alaska, and the island state of Hawaii. They are composed of numerous, distinct tribes, states, and ethnic groups, many of which survive as... tribe. With Andra Martin Andra Martin Andra Martin is most notable for being the voice of Mama Gromble in AAAHH!!! Real Monsters. She was also James Garner's leading lady in the 1959 movie Up Periscope, and the daughter/secretary on the Perry Mason TV-series episode "The Case of the Prodigal Parent"... . |
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| The Maverick Line | Bret | Bart | |||
| > Note: Bret's last appearance for almost twenty years (until the 1978 TV-movie The New Maverick The New Maverick The New Maverick is a 1978 made-for-TV movie based on the 1957 television series Maverick, with James Garner as Bret Maverick, Charles Frank as newcomer cousin Ben Maverick , Jack Kelly as Bart Maverick, and Susan Sullivan as "Poker Alice" Ivers. The TV-movie was a pilot for the series Young... ), in a memorable two-brother episode filmed the previous season with Buddy Ebsen Buddy Ebsen Buddy Ebsen was an American character actor and dancer. A performer for seven decades, he had starring roles as Jed Clampett in the long-running television series The Beverly Hillbillies and as the title character in the 1970s detective series Barnaby Jones, and played Barnaby Jones in the movie... as a comical highwayman and Chubby Johnson Chubby Johnson Chubby Johnson was an American movie and television supporting character actor with a genial demeanor and warm country-accented voice perfect for westerns... as a cantankerous stagecoach driver. This was originally slated to be the first episode of the season until Garner was granted his freedom from Warner Bros. Warner Bros. Warner Bros. Entertainment, Inc., also known as Warner Bros. Pictures or simply Warner Bros. , is an American producer of film and television entertainment.One of the major film studios, it is a subsidiary of Time Warner, with its headquarters in Burbank,... by the courts and the studio realized that he wouldn't return to the series, whereupon The Bundle From Britain with Roger Moore Roger Moore Sir Roger George Moore KBE , is an English actor, perhaps best known for portraying British secret agent James Bond in seven films from 1973 to 1985. He also portrayed Simon Templar in the long-running British television series The Saint.-Early life:Moore was born in Stockwell, London... became the season's first offering instead. Bret and Bart have more or less equal screen time in this comical episode, in which they unexpectedly inherit a stagecoach business they don't want. During the show's opening titles prior to the beginning of the episode, with Ed Reimers Ed Reimers Edwin W. Reimers , known as Ed Reimers, was an American actor active during the 1950s and 1960s, who also served as the stentorian-voiced announcer for such early Warner Brothers television series as Cheyenne and Maverick: "From the entertainment capital of the world, this is a Warner Brothers... announcing the cast in voiceover VoiceOver VoiceOver is a screen reader built into Apple Inc.'s Mac OS X, iOS and iPod operating systems. By using VoiceOver, the user can access their Macintosh or iOS device based on spoken descriptions and, in the case of the Mac, the keyboard. The feature is designed to increase accessibility for blind... , the credits include only Garner and Kelly, as though it were the previous season, with no mention of Roger Moore. |
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| Bolt From the Blue | Beau | ||||
| > Note: Written and directed by Robert Altman Robert Altman Robert Bernard Altman was an American film director and screenwriter known for making films that are highly naturalistic, but with a stylized perspective. In 2006, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences recognized his body of work with an Academy Honorary Award.His films MASH , McCabe and... , with Sugarfoot Sugarfoot Sugarfoot is the title of a TV western that aired from 1957 to 1961. The series featured Will Hutchins as fledgling frontier lawyer Tom Brewster and Jack Elam as sidekick Toothy Thompson... s Will Hutchins Will Hutchins Will Hutchins is an American actor most noted for playing the lead role of the young lawyer Tom Brewster in the Warner Brothers Western television series Sugarfoot on ABC from 1957-1961.-Biography:... playing a frontier lawyer. |
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| Kiz | Bart | Beau | |||
| > Note: With Kathleen Crowley Kathleen Crowley Betty Jane Kathleen Crowley is an American actress and was Miss New Jersey in 1949 and a contestant for Miss America in the same year . After the pageants, she became an actress who specialized in being phenomenally seductive in TV series and movies... as eccentric millionairess Kiz, who tells Beau that a killer is after her, convincing him that she's crazy. |
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| Dodge City or Bust | Bart | ||||
| > Note: With Howard McNear Howard McNear Howard Terbell McNear was an American film, television and radio character actor. McNear is best remembered as Floyd Lawson, the barber in The Andy Griffith Show and as Doc Charles Adams in CBS Radio's Gunsmoke .-Career:McNear was born in Los Angeles, California to Luzetta M. Spencer and Franklin... ("Floyd the Barber" on The Andy Griffith Show The Andy Griffith Show The Andy Griffith Show is an American sitcom first televised by CBS between October 3, 1960, and April 1, 1968. Andy Griffith portrays a widowed sheriff in the fictional small community of Mayberry, North Carolina... as well as "Doc Adams" in the original radio Gunsmoke Gunsmoke Gunsmoke is an American radio and television Western drama series created by director Norman MacDonnell and writer John Meston. The stories take place in and around Dodge City, Kansas, during the settlement of the American West.... ). Bart's wanted for murder after protecting a ravishing woman (Diana Millay Diana Millay Diana Millay is an American actress. She is best known for her work in television, having guest starred in close to 200 primetime TV shows and later played continuing roles on two daytime offerings, Dark Shadows and The Secret Storm.Diana started her career as a model, first as a child for the... ). |
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| The Bold Fenian Men | Beau | ||||
| > Note: An Army colonel forces Beau to infiltrate a band of Irish Irish people The Irish people are an ethnic group who originate in Ireland, an island in northwestern Europe. Ireland has been populated for around 9,000 years , with the Irish people's earliest ancestors recorded having legends of being descended from groups such as the Nemedians, Fomorians, Fir Bolg, Tuatha... revolutionaries. |
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| Destination Devil's Flat | Bart | ||||
| > Note: With Peter Breck Peter Breck Joseph Peter Breck is an American prolific character actor of stage, who has played roles on television and in film... , Merry Anders Merry Anders Merry Anders is an American actress who has appeared in a number of television programs and films since the 1950s. In 1954, she succeeded Ann Todd as Stuart Erwin's daughter in the final season of his TV series, The Stu Erwin Show.In the 1955-1956 season, she joined Janis Paige in the 26-week CBS... , and Chubby Johnson Chubby Johnson Chubby Johnson was an American movie and television supporting character actor with a genial demeanor and warm country-accented voice perfect for westerns... . |
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| A State of Siege | Bart | ||||
| > Note: With Ray Danton Ray Danton Ray Danton , also known as Raymond Danton, was a radio, film, stage, and television actor, director, and producer whose most famous role was The Rise and Fall of Legs Diamond... as Don Felipe and Slim Pickens Slim Pickens Louis Burton Lindley, Jr. , better known by the stage name Slim Pickens, was an American rodeo performer and film and television actor who epitomized the profane, tough, sardonic cowboy, but who is best remembered for his comic roles, notably in Dr... as a stagecoach driver. |
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| Family Pride | Beau | ||||
| > Note: With Karl Swenson Karl Swenson Karl Swenson was an American theatre, radio, film, and television actor.-Biography:Born in Brooklyn, New York of Swedish parentage, Swenson made several appearances with Pierre-Luc Michaud on Broadway in the 1930s and 40s, including the title role in Arthur Miller's first production, The Man Who... , Denver Pyle Denver Pyle Denver Dell Pyle was an American film and television actor. He is best remembered for playing Uncle Jesse in The Dukes of Hazzard .-Early life:... , and Stacy Keach, Sr. Stacy Keach, Sr. Stacy Keach, Sr. was the stage name of Walter Stacy Keach , an American actor whose screen career spanned six decades. He and his wife, Mary Cain , were members of the Peninsula Players summer theater program during the 1930s. He may be best known for his role as Carlson in the television show Get... An early plot point involves standard time Standard time Standard time is the result of synchronizing clocks in different geographical locations within a time zone to the same time rather than using the local meridian as in local mean time or solar time. Historically, this helped in the process of weather forecasting and train travel. The concept... which was not introduced to the United States until 1883, eight years after the 1875 setting for this episode. |
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| The Cactus Switch | Bart | Beau | |||
| > Note: With Fay Spain Fay Spain Fay Spain was an American actress in motion pictures and television. She was born in Phoenix, Arizona.-Theater apprentice:... as Lana Cain, Lane Chandler Lane Chandler Lane Chandler was an American actor specializing in Westerns.-Early life:He was born as Robert Chandler Oakes on a ranch near Culbertson, Montana, the son of a horse rancher. At an early age, the family relocated to Helena, Montana, where he graduated from high school... as the sheriff, Edgar Buchanan Edgar Buchanan Edgar Buchanan was an American actor with a long career in both film and television, most familiar today as Uncle Joe Carson from the Petticoat Junction, Green Acres and The Beverly Hillbillies television sitcoms of the 1960s... (later "Uncle Joe" on Petticoat Junction Petticoat Junction Petticoat Junction is an American situation comedy produced by Filmways which originally aired on CBS from 1963 to 1970. The series is one of three interrelated shows about rural characters created by Paul Henning; the others are The Beverly Hillbillies and Green Acres.The setting for the series... ) as a ruthless villain, and Chubby Johnson Chubby Johnson Chubby Johnson was an American movie and television supporting character actor with a genial demeanor and warm country-accented voice perfect for westerns... . |
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| Dutchman's Gold | Beau | ||||
| > Note: With Mala Powers Mala Powers Mary Ellen "Mala" Powers was an American film actress.She was born in San Francisco, California. In 1940, her family moved to Los Angeles. Her father was an executive with United Press. In the summer of her relocation, Powers attended the Max Reinhardt Junior Workshop where she enjoyed her first... . |
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| The Ice Man | Bart | ||||
| > Note: With Andrew Duggan Andrew Duggan -Career:During World War II, Duggan was in the 40th Special Services Company, led by actor Melvyn Douglas in the China Burma India Theater of World War II. His contact with Douglas later led to his performing with Lucille Ball in the play Dreamgirl. He developed a friendship with Broadway... , Shirley Knight Shirley Knight Shirley Enola Knight is an American stage, film and television actress. She has been nominated twice for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress, in 1960 for The Dark at the Top of the Stairs and in 1962 for Sweet Bird of Youth.... , and a frozen corpse. |
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| Diamond Flush | Beau | ||||
| > Note: With Roxane Berard Roxane Berard Roxane Berard is a Belgian-born actress who was the leading lady in various episodes of 26 American television series between 1958 and 1967. Berard had a gamine quality similar to fellow Belgian Audrey Hepburn's, with whom she was inevitably and continuously compared, especially since they... ; Berard was leading lady to Garner, Kelly, and Moore during the course of the series in different roles. Co-written by actor/writer Leo Gordon Leo Gordon Leo Vincent Gordon was an American movie and television character actor as well as a screenplay writer and novelist. He specialized in playing brutish bad guys during more than forty years in film and television.... , who had portrayed "Big Mike McComb" in the first two seasons. |
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| Last Stop: Oblivion | Bart | ||||
| > Note: With a vicious Don 'Red' Barry and a murderous Buddy Ebsen Buddy Ebsen Buddy Ebsen was an American character actor and dancer. A performer for seven decades, he had starring roles as Jed Clampett in the long-running television series The Beverly Hillbillies and as the title character in the 1970s detective series Barnaby Jones, and played Barnaby Jones in the movie... . |
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| Flood's Folly | Beau | ||||
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| Red Dog | Beau | ||||
| > Note: Beau Maverick's fitting final episode. Beau stumbles onto a cave which soon serves as the gathering place of a motley and dangerous gang of gunslinging criminals, including John Carradine John Carradine John Carradine was an American actor, best known for his roles in horror films and Westerns as well as Shakespearean theater. A member of Cecil B DeMille's stock company and later John Ford's company, he was one of the most prolific character actors in Hollywood history... and Lee Van Cleef Lee Van Cleef Lee Van Cleef was an American film actor who appeared mostly in Western and action pictures. His sharp features and piercing eyes led to his being cast as a villain in scores of films such as High Noon, The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance and The Good The Bad and the Ugly.-Early life:Van Cleef was... . Sherry Jackson Sherry Jackson Sherry Jackson is an American actress and former child star. She made her film debut at seven years old in the musical You're My Everything, starring Anne Baxter and Dan Dailey. During the course of appearing in several of the Ma and Pa Kettle movies during the 1950s as Susie Kettle, one of the... delivers an energetic performance as a gunman's feisty and promiscuous woman. Unhappy with many of the other scripts, Roger Moore leaves the show, remarking that if his stories had been as good as Garner's in the first two seasons, he would have stayed. |
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| The Deadly Image | Bart | ||||
| > Note: This is the inevitable episode---a staple in almost every TV series---in which the lead character has an evil exact double Evil twin The evil twin is an antagonist found in many different fictional genres. They are physical copies of protagonists, but with radically inverted moralities. In filmed entertainment, they can have obvious physical differences with the protagonist—such as facial hair, eyepatches, scars or distinctive... played by the same actor, with the same voice. With Gerald Mohr Gerald Mohr Gerald Mohr was an American radio, film and television character actor who appeared in over 4,000 radio plays, 73 films and over 100 television shows.... . Co-written by actor/writer Leo Gordon Leo Gordon Leo Vincent Gordon was an American movie and television character actor as well as a screenplay writer and novelist. He specialized in playing brutish bad guys during more than forty years in film and television.... . |
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| Triple Indemnity | Bart | Doc | |||
| > Note: With Peter Breck Peter Breck Joseph Peter Breck is an American prolific character actor of stage, who has played roles on television and in film... as Doc Holiday. This is the initial appearance of Breck in a recurring role as Holiday, whose interpretation is much more personable than the serious, darker portrayal by Gerald Mohr Gerald Mohr Gerald Mohr was an American radio, film and television character actor who appeared in over 4,000 radio plays, 73 films and over 100 television shows.... (who played the gunman in earlier episodes “The Quick and the Dead” and briefly in “Seed of Deception”). In fact, Holliday is a friendly acquaintance of Bart’s, who helps (initially) set up a scheme. This relationship continues in four more episodes in Season Five. Also, while Garner had already left the program prior to the start of the season (Kelly and Moore are listed as the series stars in the opening credits), Bret is mentioned predominately throughout the plot as Bart purchases a $50,000 double indemnity insurance policy with his brother (not cousin Beau) as the beneficiary. |
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| The Forbidden City | Bart | Brent | |||
| > Note: Strapping Garner lookalike Robert Colbert Robert Colbert Robert Colbert is an American actor most noted for his leading role portraying Dr. Doug Phillips on the TV series The Time Tunnel and his two appearances as a third Maverick brother in Maverick.... 's debut as Brent Maverick, a character dressed exactly like Bret Maverick. Bart only appears rather briefly in the episode. When the studio told contract player Colbert that he'd have to play a role patterned so precisely after Garner's, he said, "Put me in a dress and call me Brenda, but don't do this to me." |
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| Substitute Gun | Bart | ||||
| > Note: With Coleen Gray Coleen Gray Coleen Gray is an American movie and television actress born in Staplehurst, Nebraska. She is known for her roles in the films Nightmare Alley , Red River , in which she played John Wayne's fiancée, and Stanley Kubrick's The Killing .-Early career:Born Doris Jensen, Gray was a farmer's daughter... , the actress who played John Wayne John Wayne Marion Mitchell Morrison , better known by his stage name John Wayne, was an American film actor, director and producer. He epitomized rugged masculinity and became an enduring American icon. He is famous for his distinctive calm voice, walk, and height... 's character's fiancee at the beginning of the 1948 movie Red River. |
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| Benefit of the Doubt | Brent | ||||
| > Note: The second and last appearance of Brent Maverick, and his only solo episode. With Ellen Burstyn Ellen Burstyn Ellen Burstyn is a leading American actress of film, stage, and television. Burstyn's career began in theatre during the late 1950s, and over the next ten years she appeared in several films and television series before joining the Actors Studio in 1967... and Slim Pickens Slim Pickens Louis Burton Lindley, Jr. , better known by the stage name Slim Pickens, was an American rodeo performer and film and television actor who epitomized the profane, tough, sardonic cowboy, but who is best remembered for his comic roles, notably in Dr... . Colbert was four years younger than Kelly and Moore, making him about the same age that Kelly had been in the series' first season. The studio had intended Kelly, Moore, and Colbert to appear in the series at the same time and some publicity shots of the three of them together survive. Colbert has noted that he was simply not called back for the following season and heard nothing from the studio about it one way or the other. |
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| The Devil's Necklace (Parts I & II) | Bart | ||||
| > Note: The only two-part episode in the series, a flashback Flashback (narrative) Flashback is an interjected scene that takes the narrative back in time from the current point the story has reached. Flashbacks are often used to recount events that happened before the story’s primary sequence of events or to fill in crucial backstory... story involving a fort in which everyone but Bart had been killed by Native Americans Native Americans in the United States Native Americans in the United States are the indigenous peoples in North America within the boundaries of the present-day continental United States, parts of Alaska, and the island state of Hawaii. They are composed of numerous, distinct tribes, states, and ethnic groups, many of which survive as... . With John Dehner John Dehner John Dehner was an American actor in radio, television, and films, playing countless roles, often as a droll villain. Between 1941 and 1988, he appeared in over 260 films and television programs. Prior to acting, Dehner had worked as an animator at Walt Disney Studios, and later became a radio... , Steve Brodie Steve Brodie (actor) Steve Brodie was an American movie and television actor.Born John Stevenson in El Dorado, Kansas, he took his screen name from the Steve Brodie who claimed that he jumped from the Brooklyn Bridge in 1886 and survived... , John Hoyt John Hoyt John Hoyt was an American film, stage, and television actor.-Early life:Hoyt was born John McArthur Hoysradt. Before becoming an actor with Orson Welles's Mercury Theatre, the Yale University graduate worked as a history instructor, acting teacher and even a nightclub comedian... , and Chad Everett Chad Everett Chad Everett is an American actor who has appeared in over 40 films and television series but is probably best known for his role as Dr. Joe Gannon in the 1970s television drama Medical Center.-Early life:... . |
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Fifth season (1961-1962)
Jack KellyJack Kelly (actor)
Jack Kelly was an American film and television actor most noted for the role of "Bart Maverick" in the TV series Maverick, which ran on ABC from 1957 to 1962...
is now the sole star of new Maverick offerings. This season's episodes alternated with reruns of some of Garner's earlier shows (both solo and Garner/Kelly team-ups, including "The Saga of Waco Williams"), but during Kelly's new installments, neither Bret, Beau, nor Brent are ever mentioned; the series' new episodes had finally reverted to the original single-Maverick formula observed for the initial seven episodes, only with Kelly as Maverick instead of Garner. However, Garner's name once again appears in the weekly series opening credits before all the newly produced shows, albeit now with second billing under Kelly (Ed Reimers
Ed Reimers
Edwin W. Reimers , known as Ed Reimers, was an American actor active during the 1950s and 1960s, who also served as the stentorian-voiced announcer for such early Warner Brothers television series as Cheyenne and Maverick: "From the entertainment capital of the world, this is a Warner Brothers...
announces "Maverick! Starring Jack Kelly and James Garner!" each week over the opening credits).
Peter Breck returns as Doc Holliday, becoming a semi-regular in these final episodes. He appears in 4 of the 13 episodes produced for this season, including the series finale. Mike Road
Mike Road
Mike Road is a voice actor and a Warner Bros. television series contract player whose career dates back to the 1950s....
appears as "Pearly Gates" in two episodes.
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| Dade City Dodge | Bart | With Kathleen Crowley Kathleen Crowley Betty Jane Kathleen Crowley is an American actress and was Miss New Jersey in 1949 and a contestant for Miss America in the same year . After the pageants, she became an actress who specialized in being phenomenally seductive in TV series and movies... (as "Marla"), Mike Road Mike Road Mike Road is a voice actor and a Warner Bros. television series contract player whose career dates back to the 1950s.... (as "Pearly Gates"), and Gage Clarke Gage Clarke Gage Clarke was an American character actor best known for his role as the principal in Mr. Peepers. His other work consisted largely one-shot appearances in television series such as seven major supporting roles as different characters in Maverick, twelve roles in Gunsmoke Gage Clarke (March 3,... . Gates cheated Maverick, who hunts down the smooth con artist and his gorgeous paramour. |
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| The Art Lovers | Bart | With Jack Cassidy Jack Cassidy John Joseph Edward “Jack” Cassidy was an American actor of stage, film and screen.His frequent professional persona was that of an urbane, super-confident egotist with a dramatic flair, much in the manner of Broadway actor Frank Fay... ; Maverick is sentenced to being a butler after being cheated by an acquaintance. |
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| The Golden Fleecing | Bart | With John Qualen John Qualen John Qualen was a Canadian-American character actor of Norwegian heritage who specialized in Scandinavian roles.... ; Maverick becomes an impromptu stock broker, dealing in Chinatown. |
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| Three Queens Full | Bart | Bonanza Bonanza Bonanza is an American western television series that both ran on and was a production of NBC from September 12, 1959 to January 16, 1973. Lasting 14 seasons and 430 episodes, it ranks as the second longest running western series and still continues to air in syndication. It centers on the... spoof with Jim Backus Jim Backus James Gilmore "Jim" Backus was a radio, television, film, and voice actor. Among his most famous roles are the voice of Mr... and Merry Anders Merry Anders Merry Anders is an American actress who has appeared in a number of television programs and films since the 1950s. In 1954, she succeeded Ann Todd as Stuart Erwin's daughter in the final season of his TV series, The Stu Erwin Show.In the 1955-1956 season, she joined Janis Paige in the 26-week CBS... , featuring the characters "Moose" and "Small Paul" Wheelwright. Amusingly, Backus (famous for providing the cartoon voice of "Mr. Magoo Mr. Magoo Quincy Magoo is a cartoon character created at the UPA animation studio in 1949. Voiced by Jim Backus, Quincy Magoo is a wealthy, short-statured retiree who gets into a series of sticky situations as a result of his nearsightedness, compounded by his stubborn refusal to admit the problem... ") plays the patriarch patterned after stentorian Lorne Greene Lorne Greene Lorne Greene , was the stage name of Lyon Himan Green, OC, a Canadian actor.His television roles include Ben Cartwright on the western Bonanza, and Commander Adama in the science fiction movie and subsequent TV Series Battlestar Galactica... 's Bonanza role. |
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| A Technical Error | Bart | Doc | With Ben Gage Ben Gage Ben Gage was a radio singer and announcer, occasional off-screen film singer dubbing the voice of non-singing actors, and American television actor active from 1959 to 1975.... as a sheriff (spoofing Marshal Matt Dillon Marshal Matt Dillon Marshal Matt Dillon is a fictional character featured on both the radio and television versions of Gunsmoke. He serves as the U.S. Marshal of Dodge City, Kansas who works to preserve law and order in the western frontier of the 1870s. The character was created by writer John Meston, who... and Gunsmoke Gunsmoke Gunsmoke is an American radio and television Western drama series created by director Norman MacDonnell and writer John Meston. The stories take place in and around Dodge City, Kansas, during the settlement of the American West.... , as he had done in "Gun-Shy", "A Tale of Three Cities," and "The Misfortune Teller"), and Reginald Owen Reginald Owen John Reginald Owen was a British character actor. He was known for his many roles in British and American movies and later in television programs.-Personal:... , who purposely loses his near-bankrupt bank to Maverick in a card game. |
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| Poker Face | Bart | With Tol Avery Tol Avery Tol Avery was an American film and television character actor with more than a hundred screen appearances between 1950 and 1974... ; while traveling by stagecoach, Maverick strikes a bargain with a highwayman. |
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| Epitaph for a Gambler | Bart | With film noir Film noir Film noir is a cinematic term used primarily to describe stylish Hollywood crime dramas, particularly those that emphasize cynical attitudes and sexual motivations. Hollywood's classic film noir period is generally regarded as extending from the early 1940s to the late 1950s... queen Marie Windsor Marie Windsor Marie Windsor . Born as Emily Marie Bertelson in Marysvale, Piute County, Utah, Windsor was an actress known as "The Queen of the Bs" because she appeared in so many film noirs and B-movies like Cat-Women of the Moon... ; Maverick wishes he hadn't won that casino after all. |
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| The Maverick Report | Bart | Doc | Maverick wins a newspaper that's about to be sued by a senator. | |
| Marshall Maverick | Bart | Doc | With John Dehner John Dehner John Dehner was an American actor in radio, television, and films, playing countless roles, often as a droll villain. Between 1941 and 1988, he appeared in over 260 films and television programs. Prior to acting, Dehner had worked as an animator at Walt Disney Studios, and later became a radio... as an impersonator of Wyatt Earp, Doc Holliday, and finally, Maverick himself. |
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| The Troubled Heir | Bart | With Kathleen Crowley Kathleen Crowley Betty Jane Kathleen Crowley is an American actress and was Miss New Jersey in 1949 and a contestant for Miss America in the same year . After the pageants, she became an actress who specialized in being phenomenally seductive in TV series and movies... , Alan Hale, Jr. Alan Hale, Jr. Alan Hale, Jr. was an American film and television actor, best known for his role as Skipper on the popular sitcom Gilligan's Island. Hale was the lookalike son of popular supporting film actor Alan Hale, Sr.... , and Mike Road Mike Road Mike Road is a voice actor and a Warner Bros. television series contract player whose career dates back to the 1950s.... (as "Pearly Gates"). Gates and Marla (Crowley) rob Maverick so they can run off and marry. |
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| The Money Machine | Bart | With Andrew Duggan Andrew Duggan -Career:During World War II, Duggan was in the 40th Special Services Company, led by actor Melvyn Douglas in the China Burma India Theater of World War II. His contact with Douglas later led to his performing with Lucille Ball in the play Dreamgirl. He developed a friendship with Broadway... as Big Ed Murphy, a role played in Greenbacks, Unlimited during the third season by John Dehner John Dehner John Dehner was an American actor in radio, television, and films, playing countless roles, often as a droll villain. Between 1941 and 1988, he appeared in over 260 films and television programs. Prior to acting, Dehner had worked as an animator at Walt Disney Studios, and later became a radio... . Murphy sells a machine that somehow magically manufactures money to Maverick's headstrong young cousin, portrayed by Kathy Bennett. Everyone in this episode, related or not, jarringly refers to Maverick's father as "Pappy Maverick," a nickname used only by the Maverick brothers themselves in all earlier episodes (even the younger Beau, played by Roger Moore, referred to his cousin Bart's father as "Uncle Beau"). |
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| One of Our Trains Is Missing | Bart | Doc | With Kathleen Crowley Kathleen Crowley Betty Jane Kathleen Crowley is an American actress and was Miss New Jersey in 1949 and a contestant for Miss America in the same year . After the pageants, she became an actress who specialized in being phenomenally seductive in TV series and movies... as Modesty Blaine, a role also played in earlier episodes by Mona Freeman Mona Freeman Mona Freeman is an American film actress. The 5' 1" blonde was a model while in high school, and after becoming the first "Miss Subways" of the New York City transit system, eventually signed a movie contract with Howard Hughes. Her contract was later sold to Paramount Pictures. After 1944, she... . The episode and the series ends with Maverick, Doc Holliday, and Modesty Blaine walking the train tracks into the sunset while arguing about how they'd divide a reward that Maverick had just received from Diamond Jim Brady. Jack Kelly always maintained that no one from the studio called to tell him that the series had been canceled; he read about it in the newspaper. |
External links
- Internet Movie Database Maverick Episodes
- Maverick Episode Guide at epguides.com
- TV Guide Maverick Episode List
- Roy Huggins' Archive of American Television Interview
- Stephen J. Cannell's Archive of American Television explanation of Huggins' approach
- Museum of Broadcast Communications: Maverick
- James Garner's Archive of American Television Interview
- James Garner Interview on the Charlie Rose Show