I first heard the name Maverick way back in the days when I watched Maverick, the motion picture movie of 1994 starring Mel Gibson, Jodie Foster and James Garner - back then I didn't even realize that James was the man behind Maverick's fame.
Somewhere in 2017 or 2018 I came across this legendary TV series and I just got hooked. True, it took me almost six years to watch it but I kept returning to it every once in a while. The early episodes starred just Garner and they were more comedic than dramatic but when Jack Kelly came on board it turned the other way around, now that there were two Mavericks.
Personally I loved James Garner episodes so it was really upsetting for me to find out that he left after season three and was somewhat replaced by none other but Roger Moore as Beau Maverick. With Moore the show returned with a bang but it didn't last long too. Soon he was gone also and a short stint of Robert Colbert as Brent Maverick can hardly be even worth mentioning as Maverick at all. Jack Kelly had to finish the series all by himself and to tell you the truth I got more and more impressed with him over the years and can tell you that he had done a splendid job of portraying Bart, although personally Bret will always be my favorite. It's just something about James Garner that makes his Bret a true Maverick. Bart is one too but he had to earn it the hard way.
All in all the show is an exemplary western, with comedy and drama mixed together in just about equal proportions and eloquent dialogues, interesting scripts and absolutely amazing main characters and the people behind them carry the legacy of it gracefully even after some sixty years since it ended.
Somewhere in 2017 or 2018 I came across this legendary TV series and I just got hooked. True, it took me almost six years to watch it but I kept returning to it every once in a while. The early episodes starred just Garner and they were more comedic than dramatic but when Jack Kelly came on board it turned the other way around, now that there were two Mavericks.
Personally I loved James Garner episodes so it was really upsetting for me to find out that he left after season three and was somewhat replaced by none other but Roger Moore as Beau Maverick. With Moore the show returned with a bang but it didn't last long too. Soon he was gone also and a short stint of Robert Colbert as Brent Maverick can hardly be even worth mentioning as Maverick at all. Jack Kelly had to finish the series all by himself and to tell you the truth I got more and more impressed with him over the years and can tell you that he had done a splendid job of portraying Bart, although personally Bret will always be my favorite. It's just something about James Garner that makes his Bret a true Maverick. Bart is one too but he had to earn it the hard way.
All in all the show is an exemplary western, with comedy and drama mixed together in just about equal proportions and eloquent dialogues, interesting scripts and absolutely amazing main characters and the people behind them carry the legacy of it gracefully even after some sixty years since it ended.