Maverick
Roy Huggins made the American Western TV series Maverick, which has some funny parts. The show aired on ABC from September22, 1957 to July8,1962. James Garner played Bret Maverick, a skilled card player, on the show. In the eighth episode of the first season, Jack Kelly came on as his brother Bart, and from then on, Garner and Kelly took turns being the main character each week, sometimes working together for a two-brother episode. The Mavericks were poker players from Texas who traveled all over the American Old West and on Mississippi riverboats. They were always getting into and out of dangerous situations, usually involving money, women, or both. Usually, they would have to choose between a financial windfall and a moral dilemma. Since both Mavericks were very moral, their consciences usually won out over their wallets. After the third season, Garner left the show because of a legal dispute. Roger Moore was added to the cast as their cousin Beau Maverick. Brent Maverick, the third brother of the Maverick family, was played by Robert Colbert later in the fourth season. Only one of the series' main characters, and usually only one, ever appeared in the same episode.