"Maverick" Relic of Fort Tejon (TV Episode 1957) Poster

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9/10
Comedy ep to a degree
belanger7512 August 2019
Warning: Spoilers
This ep has a couple of holes or a few. Maverick In fact he did not have to get involved in owning the camel at all. The previous owner had nothing in writing from him. Only Garner's skillful acting in this scene keeps it from being obviously idiotic.

Another hole. Why after the saloon owner shot Maverick and then after the girl was shot in the gunfight between the two men did the Sheriff not arrest both saloon owner and Maverick? Last hole. What was the girl's emotional reaction to realizing her saloon owner lover shot her? Never saw it. Why?

Also. What about that hired gun. The one the saloon owner paid to pretend to have a vendetta against Maverick. Why did he completely drop out of the story?

PS The fact that the camel is not an Arabian is not a goof or hole. It was a lying conman who swindled Maverick into getting the camel. The trickster was the one who claimed the camel had Been owned by the US Army you figure the rest out.
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Some Good Touches Before Going Conventional
dougdoepke16 December 2011
Bret wins a camel in a poker game run by a crooked casino owner. Trouble ensues when Bret wins big money from the owner despite efforts to cheat him. Now Bret's got to face a hired gun and figure out what to do with a camel.

Fans of the series can spot classic Maverick touches in the first half, before the entry reverts to a more scenic but conventional chase sequence. This early episode (1957) shows how the producers haven't yet settled on the tongue-in-cheek that separated the series from the pack. Nonetheless, the 60-minutes remains a pretty good combination of wit and action.

(In passing— For some reason IMDb doesn't credit Vasquez Rocks, northeast of LA, as the extensively used location site.)
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6/10
A pair of humps
bkoganbing31 July 2018
Someone breds a full blooded Arabian stallion and loses when Bret Maverick calls the hand. He wins an Arabian all right, one of the camels left from Jefferson Davis's experiment with camels while Secretary of War. Making it worse the beast is a female and she just loves James Garner.

He can't get rid of her, she follows him from place to place. But she comes in mighty handy when Maverick busts a crooked poker game and the saloon proprietor hires a gunfighter to kill him.

All I can say is that the camel comes in mighty handy during a desert pursuit.

This episode was showing the wit the series was famous for.
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