This SHOULD HAVE been the episode the series ended on. It features a number of different cons and counter cons and has Maverick right dead in the center of it. For a change Jack Kelly gets strong support by Kathy Bennett, Andrew Duggan, Ted de Corsia and Sig Ruman. Finding Kathy conned out of the money she was bringing to settle a debt for Pappy, Bart has to run a counter con to get it back. Once he gets it back, Kathy runs afoul of another presumed con that Bart again tries to get her out of but then later discovers what he thought were fake diamonds were real. This one is funny with a lot of twists and turns and moves along at a pretty fair clip. You just wish Pappy (James Garner) himself could have shown up sometime to complete the picture and give the series the final send off it deserved.
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Maverick: The Money Machine
jcolyer122917 May 2015
Bart is in Kansas City to meet his cousin Jackie, whom he remembers as a shy, skinny girl. Of course, she has grown up, is beautiful, and has ambitions of becoming an actress. The meeting was arranged so Bart could deliver money owed by his Pappy. When gullible Jackie stumbles upon some counterfeiters, she buys a money machine. Bart and Jackie trail Big Ed Murphy to Denver, where they con the con man. Bart builds his own money machine. The Maverick series is all about money, and the Denver Mint is mentioned. Cousin Jackie ends up buying a diamond machine, which happens to be be real. She is played by the charming Kathy Bennet, another Marilyn Monroe type. All the Maverick women look alike and sport the same hairdo.
Series is almost over--this one is a terrible waste!
Thomas_J_McKeon25 December 2008
The series is almost over--this one is the second last one and is a waste of time. It seems that the actors writers and everyone involved were simply trying to hurry up and finish this series. (This was the second last episode and it shows that.) The only Maverick episode that I have seen that is worse is the earlier "Mr. Muldoon's Partner." Some of this criticism may stem from that this author does not consider what may have been thought as and was passed off as clever as being clever at all. Perhaps it is just horribly dated or just poorly written--judge for yourself. On several occasions it seemed that this could have been an unused rejected script for a Three Stooges short.
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