Hi Everyone!
I did some additional research and discovered there are actually more "lost" episodes of Maverick.
I wondered why these episodes have never been shown on the Encore Westerns Channel. Well, according to the book Maverick: A Definitive History of The Beloved TV Classic Starring James Garner and That Other Guy by Burl Robertson, these episodes featured the Pappy Roy character and it was felt that he was meant to be quoted and not seen. Thus, these episodes were shown only once when the series originally aired and weren't included in the rerun package. Their current whereabouts remains a mystery.
However, I found the titles and plot descriptions of these missing episodes in old issues of TV Guide:
"Bret's Not in This Episode So Just Turn It to 'Ed Sullivan'" - Pappy Roy gets mad when Bart's episodes get bigger ratings than Bret's.
"The Maverick Conspiracy" - Bart uncovers a sinister plot to make Bret the only Maverick.
"Pappy Roy Doesn't Know Jack" - Pappy Roy must run for his life and become a fugitive when the Facebook Ladies and La Bartista take the Wayback Machine to 1959.
"Bart Has the Last Laugh" - Bart wins a mine in a poker game and drops a load of coal on Pappy Roy.
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Ah! I'm backtracking through your amazing blog while I should be doing some paid writing and it sounds like you watched Roy Huggins' Archive of American Television interview online and heard the remark that "Kelly dropped a funny line like a load of coal." Huggins evidently hated Kelly's acting. They also had Kelly into a screening room to critique a performance then as it unwound realized that there was nothing to criticize, the "problem" was that Kelly wasn't Garner (nor was anyone like Garner except Garner himself, of course). I wonder what it would've been like had they cast Stuart Whitman, who was up for the Bart part and looked eerily like Garner in 1957.
ReplyDeleteI searched Amazon and found no book with the title you mentioned. The only book I know of about the TV series is the one I purchased from Amazon, "Maverick: Legend of the West" by Ed Robertson.
ReplyDeleteROTFL omg this is so funny!
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