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Maverick
« on: March 01, 2010, 10:58:31 AM »
Any of you ever watch it? I watched the reruns as a kid in the 70's, but just recently saw it available on Netflix Instant and have been checking it out again. It's been so long that it's just like watching new episodes, and I'd forgotten how good the show was.

Kind of a crackup too that a TV show that was on during "family hour" in 1957 is now rated TV-14.
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Re: Maverick
« Reply #1 on: March 01, 2010, 11:02:42 AM »
Quote from: Ben on March 01, 2010, 10:58:31 AM
Any of you ever watch it? I watched the reruns as a kid in the 70's, but just recently saw it available on Netflix Instant and have been checking it out again. It's been so long that it's just like watching new episodes, and I'd forgotten how good the show was.

Kind of a crackup too that a TV show that was on during "family hour" in 1957 is now rated TV-14.

All those guns are DANGEROUS! Can't have kids seeing people use guns!
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Re: Maverick
« Reply #2 on: March 01, 2010, 11:09:06 AM »
I've seen the movie, but not the show. James Garner was in that, right?
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Re: Maverick
« Reply #3 on: March 01, 2010, 12:09:10 PM »
James Garner and Jack Kelly in the original series. There was a remake in the 80's I think that was kinda lame.
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Re: Maverick
« Reply #4 on: March 01, 2010, 12:11:54 PM »
I have netflix instant play...and I have seen the show.

Is it really worth watching? I'll try it out this afternoon. Thanks!
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« Reply #5 on: March 01, 2010, 12:36:20 PM »
Yeah  I think so. I like the earlier seasons better (pre Roger Moore as the English cousin), but overall a good show.
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Re: Maverick
« Reply #6 on: March 01, 2010, 12:43:43 PM »
Quote from: Ben on March 01, 2010, 12:09:10 PM
James Garner and Jack Kelly in the original series. There was a remake in the 80's I think that was kinda lame.
I think Efrem Zimbalist Jr. (from "The FBI") appeared in the original series as another brother . . . and I vaguely remember an episode with yet a fourth Maverick brother, but don't remember who played him. And of course Roger Moore was a Maverick cousin.

I thought the remake series ("Bret Maverick" also starring James Garner) was decent, especially the episode in which it was revealed that Maverick carried about a dozen or so "hideout" guns . . .  =D    IIRC, this show had respectable ratings, but someone at the network didn't like it and cancelled it. (Around the same time, they kept "Love Sidney" on the air longer, which possibly said something about who was running the network.)

"Young Maverick" with some nobody in the title role was disappointingly lame and got promptly cancelled.
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Re: Maverick
« Reply #7 on: March 01, 2010, 01:18:33 PM »
I remember the movie being seventeen kinds of awesome, but have no idea what most of you are talking about...  ???
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Re: Maverick
« Reply #8 on: March 01, 2010, 03:08:42 PM »
Can't remember the title, but there was an episode in which Clint Eastwood guest starred as a bad guy out to kill Maverick.  It's an extra on the Unforgiven DVD, and definitely worth watching.
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Re: Maverick
« Reply #9 on: March 01, 2010, 03:44:38 PM »
Clint is in the tail end of season 2. I'm actually two episodes away from it right now.
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