MAVERICK - 102 Point Blank

1957 TV Series, Season 1, Episode 2, NMR

Brett and Bart Maverick (and in later seasons, their English cousin, Bo) are well dressed gamblers who migrate from town to town always looking for a good game. Poker (5 card draw) is their favorite but they've been known to play such odd card games as Three-toed Sloth on occasion. The show would occasionally feature both or all three Mavericks, but usually would rotate the central character from week to week. Cross-over appearances from the other Warner Brothers western programs were an occasional feature. First seen as a drama, the show began to develop a sense of humor in the first season that carried it through its run.

Kicked out of 1 town, jailed for running a con in the next, Bret's luck turns when a sultry waitress eases him out of stir to work as a spotter in a casino. A cattle drive's heading to Bent Fork, so the casino's soon jammed with drunken cowpokes raring to cheat at cards and start shooting. Bret's sharp benefactor Molly (Karen Steele, wife of episode director Budd Boetticher) proves an alluring mystery: why's she staying in the hottest, driest town in the West, since she has 2 quick-tempered suitors already, the straight-arrow sheriff and a bank clerk (Mike Connors, "Mannix") ?

Cast:

Jack Kelly ... Bart Maverick

James Garner ... Bret Maverick