Bret 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 Bret's brother Bart Maverick in the second season, and briefly ...
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Bret 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 Bret'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.
The 1978 TV-movie The New Maverick could be said to be the pilot for both this series and the 1979...
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