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6 unusual facts about List of Maverick episodes


Adele Mara

Mara was married to television writer/producer Roy Huggins and appeared as the leading lady in three episodes of his 1957 television series Maverick, including "Seed of Deception" in the first season (available on DVD), "The Spanish Dancer" in the second season, and "The Marquessa" in the third season.

Catherine McLeod

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."

Emile Meyer

He also appeared on television, including a guest spot on John Payne's The Restless Gun and as a truculently stubborn juror opposite James Garner in the 1957 Maverick episode "Rope of Cards."

Esther Dale

In the 1958-1959 season of The Donna Reed Show, Dale played a job-seeking housekeeper who is frightened from the Stone home by Jeff Stone's pet mouse, and appeared in the 1957 Maverick episode "According to Hoyle" opposite James Garner.

Gage Clarke

Clarke, a slightly overweight actor with a double chin, specialized in playing avuncular, rather timid characters, with one of his largest parts being frightened gambler "Foursquare Farley" in the Maverick episode "Greenbacks, Unlimited" opposite James Garner and John Dehner.

Kaye Elhardt

Best known for her comedic role as "Josephine St. Cloud" (pronounced "San Cloo") opposite James Garner and Jack Kelly in the 1959 "Pappy" episode of Maverick, Elhardt made more than forty appearances on television series.


Andra Martin

She also played Wahleeah, a captive Native American maiden who became the love interest of Clint Walker in Yellowstone Kelly (1959) and appeared in various television series, including Maverick in the episodes "Gun-Shy" with James Garner, "Hadley's Hunters" with Jack Kelly, and "Thunder from the North" with Roger Moore.

Arlene Howell

Howell appeared as Cindy Lou Brown in the ABC/WB western series, Maverick: in a cameo appearance in the oft-discussed episode "Shady Deal at Sunny Acres" and in the installments "Island in the Swamp" with James Garner and Edgar Buchanan, "Alias Bart Maverick", and "Passage to Fort Doom" opposite Jack Kelly.

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.

Diane Brewster

Brewster first played the character in a 1956 episode of Cheyenne entitled "Dark Rider" before appearing opposite James Garner in the third episode of Maverick, "According to Hoyle." Brewster's other Maverick appearances include "The Savage Hills" with Jack Kelly, "The Seventh Hand" with Garner, and the famous "Shady Deal at Sunny Acres" with both Kelly and Garner.

Kathleen Crowley

Most well known for playing a variety of sirens on the ABC/Warner Brothers series, Maverick (1957) opposite James Garner, Jack Kelly, and Roger Moore, she appears in eight episodes, a series record for leading ladies:


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