Though he isn't "basically on my way to Australia", this "Maverick" episode provides good foreshadowing for the later James Garner picture "Support Your Local Sheriff", which was basically a "Maverick" movie without using the character name.
This time Bret wins $5000 in a poker game but the town won't release the money to him unless he agrees to be their Sheriff for six months at $85 a month. They were impressed by the way he stopped a dangerous drunken thug in the bar (even though it was the drunk's horse that actually kicked him and knocked him cold), so that's why they offer him the deal.
Instead of Jack Elam, Maverick's deputy is Billy Walker (Chubby Johnson, who is also in "Support Your Local Sheriff"). Maverick goes about solving violent problems peacefully (and making money on them when he can with side bets), while telegraphing his brother Bart to come get him out of this. Bart arrives right as Bret is arrested after being double crossed by the lovely "Missy" Maybrook (Peggy McCoy who would do two more episodes as various con women, then not work with Garner again until "Murphy's Romance" in 1985).
Not as funny as "Support", but a clever script with good performances all around.
This time Bret wins $5000 in a poker game but the town won't release the money to him unless he agrees to be their Sheriff for six months at $85 a month. They were impressed by the way he stopped a dangerous drunken thug in the bar (even though it was the drunk's horse that actually kicked him and knocked him cold), so that's why they offer him the deal.
Instead of Jack Elam, Maverick's deputy is Billy Walker (Chubby Johnson, who is also in "Support Your Local Sheriff"). Maverick goes about solving violent problems peacefully (and making money on them when he can with side bets), while telegraphing his brother Bart to come get him out of this. Bart arrives right as Bret is arrested after being double crossed by the lovely "Missy" Maybrook (Peggy McCoy who would do two more episodes as various con women, then not work with Garner again until "Murphy's Romance" in 1985).
Not as funny as "Support", but a clever script with good performances all around.