Brett
Maverick
Brett Maverick is a 1981 television series featuring 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.
Although the ratings were respectable, the show was unexpectedly canceled by NBC at the end of the first season. Jack Kelly had been slated to return as Brett's brother Bart Maverick in the second season, and briefly appeared at the very end of the only season.
A number of scripts for the following season had been written and presented to Kelly, according to subsequent interviews.
NBC took the unusual step of rerunning the episodes two additional times - in the summer of 1988 to help provide 'new' programming during a writers strike, and in the summer of 1994 to play of off publicity surrounding the Mel Gibson movie remake of the original Maverick series.
Bret Maverick Episodelist
1. The Lazy Ace - Part 1
2. The Lazy Ace - Part 2
3. Welcome To Sweetwater
4. Anything For A Friend
5. The Yellow Rose
6. Horse Of Yet Another Color
7. Dateline: Sweetwater
8. The Mayflower Women's Historical Society
9. Hallie
10. The Ballad Of Brett Maverick
11. A Night At The Red Ox
12. The Not So Magnificent Six
13. The Vulture Also Rises
14. The Eight Swords Of Dyrus And Other Illusions
15. Faith, Hope and Clarity - Part 1
16. Faith, Hope and Clarity - Part 2
17. The Rattlesnake Brigade
18. The Hidalgo Thing
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