The same thing was done with the two-hour series premiere, slightly condensed and marketed to television stations as Bret Maverick: The Lazy Ace.
The real pilot, however, of both this series and the preceding CBS show Young Maverick, could be said to be the 1979 TV-movie The New Maverick, which featured both Garner as Bret and Jack Kelly as his brother Bart.
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She memorably portrayed the one woman whom James Garner's character Bret Maverick wanted to marry on the 1957 ABC/Warner Brothers television series Maverick, in the episode "Rage for Vengeance."
One of his biggest acting roles was as the second lead on the television revival of 1957's Maverick, called Bret Maverick.
Ivers has been fictionalized in several films and numerous television series, including the 1978 TV-movie The New Maverick with James Garner as Bret Maverick and Susan Sullivan as Poker Alice Ivers.