User Reviews

This was aired on Christmas of 1960. By then, Maverick was starting to wear thin. James Garner was gone, and the plots, all of which revolved around money, were becoming noticeably similar. Even so, Maverick was still the best show on television. Jack Kelly and Roger Moore carried the series through its final two seasons. When Wells Fargo offers a reward for the Incredible Clay Corey, Bart is interested. He is hungry and gets a free meal at the mission, where he hooks up with a faro dealer he knew in San Francisco. Peter Breck, who was Doc Holiday in later episodes, leads a double life. It was always the personalities of the Maverick brothers that intrigued, not the plots.

This episode find Bart Maverick stranded in the great metropolis of Devil's Flat broke and trying to get to Denver to hook up with cousin Beau. Jack Kelly does learn that there's a big gold shipment going out, but sheriff Peter Breck is not impressed.

But what impresses him more is running into Merry Anders once a notorious blackjack dealer in San Francisco and now a church lady working for her preacher uncle Frank Ferguson. It's his gold they're carrying, money for him to build a new religious community.

Not quite believing Merry Anders is a church lady, but needing to get to Denver Jack Kelly agrees to be a guard on the treasure. There's reason to be scared as there is a notorious outlaw in the vicinity who never misses a gold shipment.

This one has its amusing moments especially involving outlaw henchmen Richard Reeves and Patrick Woodward, not a couple of Ph'Ds to be sure.

Fans will like this one.