His stone reads: "Bret Maverick, Born April 7, 1847." April 7 was James Garner's birthday. Of course, Bret is not hanged. Crooked sheriff Ray Teal comes up with a plan to fake a hanging because he wants the money Bret was falsely accused of stealing. It begins with Wells Fargo being robbed and the robber framing Bret. Bret plays on the sheriff's greed to cheat the hangman. A similar scene occurred in Cat Ballou to save Jane Fonda. Whitney Blake shows up posing as Bret's widow, and Bret is enamored. El Paso can wait! Bret kills Whitney's husband, and the sheriff goes to jail. Bret's stone says he died, September 21, 1876, the date this episode aired in 1958.
3 Reviews
Nearly excellent episode veers between comedy and drama
belanger759 July 2019
Warning: Spoilers
Stars off dramatic with Brett checking into a hotel and some evidence planting by the real killer. Turns comical when it comes time to secretly free Brett from being actually hung. Turns rather serious again when Brett meets the beautiful wife of the actual killer/ robber. Last scene is funny once more.
Maverick is a man relies on his wits.
bkoganbing26 August 2018
The second season of Maverick opens with James Garner in a real jackpot as a man who robbed a Wells Fargo office and killed a clerk plants some incriminating
evidence on Garner. What to do but escape and find the real robber. Hard to do
since Garner was tried and convicted and now is scheduled to be hanged.
But the Mavericks are men who rely on their wits and the highlight of this episode is to see how James Garner cons Ray Teal the sheriff and Jay Novello the coroner to letting him escape. Teal is far from the upright Roy Coffey the sheriff of Virginia City on Bonanza. He's a greedy soul as his Novello and Garner plays them like piccolos.
Whitney Blake is in this episode too as the wife of the man who really robbed the Wells Fargo. But seeing Garner with Teal and Novello is priceless.
But the Mavericks are men who rely on their wits and the highlight of this episode is to see how James Garner cons Ray Teal the sheriff and Jay Novello the coroner to letting him escape. Teal is far from the upright Roy Coffey the sheriff of Virginia City on Bonanza. He's a greedy soul as his Novello and Garner plays them like piccolos.
Whitney Blake is in this episode too as the wife of the man who really robbed the Wells Fargo. But seeing Garner with Teal and Novello is priceless.
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