I was a huge fan of the Western
TV show Maverick with James Garner (seen in the above photo) when I was a kid and I’ve been recording rerun
of the show on MeTV.
I think the old
show holds up fairly well and the late James Garner was terrific as Bret Maverick.
(I was not as fond of Jack Kelly as Bart Maverick and other characters).
Maverick used to quote his “old
Pappy” to make a point and the sayings were always clever and amusing. Metv.com
offers 13 of the old sayings in a recent piece.
Maverick didn't play by the
same rules as other TV westerns of its time, like Gunsmoke or Bonanza. It even
popularly poked fun at those shows in episodes ("Gun-Shy" and
"Three Queens Full," respectively) that lovingly spoofed other western
shows that ended up with much longer series' runs.
But that sort of behavior is
just what you'd expect from Maverick - breaking or bending rules - and longtime
fans will remember that the law of the land in Maverick wasn't laid out by any
sheriff, but by old Pappy, the Maverick brothers' sage father who sent his sons
Bart and Bret out with a thousand dollar bill each and about a bajillion pieces
of advice the characters would turn to any time they got into trouble on the
show.
You can read the rest of the
piece via the below link:
You can watch the opening of the show with the theme song via the below link:
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