Maverick (TV series)
| Maverick | |
|---|---|
Title card
|
|
| Genre |
Western Comedy |
| Created by | Roy Huggins |
| Starring |
James Garner Jack Kelly Roger Moore Robert Colbert |
| Theme music composer |
David Buttolph Paul Francis Webster |
| Country of origin | United States |
| Original language(s) | English |
| No. of seasons | 5 |
| No. of episodes | 124 (list of episodes) |
| Production | |
| Executive producer(s) | William T. Orr |
| Producer(s) |
Roy Huggins |
| Location(s) | California |
| Running time | 60 minutes |
| Production company(s) | Warner Bros. Television |
| Release | |
| Original network | ABC |
| Picture format | 1.33:1 monochrome |
| Audio format | monaural |
| Original release | September 22, 1957 – April 22, 1962 |
| Chronology | |
| Preceded by | Conflict |
| Followed by |
The New Maverick Young Maverick Bret Maverick Maverick |
| Related shows |
Cheyenne Colt .45 Lawman The Alaskans Bronco Sugarfoot The Rockford Files |
Roy Huggins
Coles Trapnell
Oren W. Haglund (production manager)
Maverick is an American 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, an adroitly articulate cardsharp. Eight episodes into the first season, he was joined by Jack Kelly as his brother Bart Maverick, and from that point on, Garner and Kelly alternated leads from week to week, sometimes teaming up for the occasional two-brother episode. The Mavericks were poker players from Texas who traveled all over the American Old West and on Mississippi riverboats, constantly getting into and out of life-threatening trouble of one sort or another, usually involving money, women, or both. They would typically find themselves weighing a financial windfall against a moral dilemma. More often than not, their consciences trumped their wallets since both Mavericks were intrinsically ethical.
When Garner left the series after the third season due to a legal dispute, Roger Moore was added to the cast as their cousin Beau Maverick. Robert Colbert appeared later in the fourth season as a third Maverick brother, Brent Maverick. No more than two of the series leads ever appeared together in the same episode, and usually only one.
Budd Boetticher directed several of the early episodes of the first season and Robert Altman wrote and directed one in the fourth season.
The show was part of the Warner Bros. array of Westerns, which included Cheyenne, Colt .45, Lawman, Bronco, The Alaskans, and Sugarfoot.
...
Wikipedia