History Series / Maverick

Unsuccessfully revived twice: ''Young Maverick'' (1979, starring Creator/CharlesFrank as cousin Beau's son Ben Maverick) and ''Bret Maverick'' (1981, with Garner returning as an older and more settled Bret).

Unsuccessfully revived twice: ''Young Maverick'' (1979, starring Charles Frank as cousin Beau's son Ben Maverick) and ''Bret Maverick'' (1981, with Garner returning as an older and more settled Bret).

* HistoricalDomainCharacter: Doc Holliday, who became a regular character on the show. Gerald Mohr originally played the role in season one as a darkly vengeful but charismatic killer, who was seen in two episodes. However, in seasons four and five, Peter Breck portrayed Holliday as a cheerfully likable but exasperating rogue who was constantly getting Bart in trouble with his scams.
** Third season episode "Full House" features real-life figures Cole Younger (Gregory Walcott), Billy the Kid (Joel Grey), Sam Bass (Kelly Thordsen), and Belle Starr (Jean Willes). In historical terms, this episode would have to take place in 1876 or earlier, as Cole Younger started a 25-year prison sentence that year — except that "Belle Starr" was not known by that name until she married Sam Starr in 1880.

* HollywoodLaw: At the end of "The Jeweled Gun" Daisy and Fillipe are implied to be going to prison for [[spoiler: Fillippe killing Daisy's husband John Haskell in self-defense.]] Although Daisy and Fillippe did set Bart up to pose as Haskell and tried to kill him, he didn't actually die. And [[spoiler: Fillippe killing Haskell was in self-defense.]] As Bart gaslights earlier, no jury would convict Daisy.

Unsuccessfully revived twice: ''Young Maverick'' (1979, starring Charles Frank as nephew Ben Maverick) and ''Bret Maverick'' (1981, with Garner returning as an older and more settled Bret).

* CasinoEpisode: ''Bret Maverick'' included a two-part episode called "Faith, Hope, and Clarity" which involves the title character directing a sting to help the townsfolk get their land back from a guy that cheated them out of their land titles. The MassiveMultiplayerScam involves the townsfolk setting up a casino on the second floor of the local saloon, including knocking out walls between bedrooms to make a larger space.

* MassiveMultiplayerCrossover: During the course of the episode "Hadley's Hunters", Maverick ran into people from ''Series/{{Lawman}}'', ''Cheyenne'', ''Bronco'', and ''Sugarfoot'', and he stopped by the office from ''Colt .45'' but nobody was home (a reference to the show being recently canceled). Maverick also crossed out into other Massive Multiplayer Crossovers, the film ''Alias Jesse James'' and the TV movie ''The Gambler Returns''.

* {{Fainting}}: Daisy does an Emotional Faint when Bart "returns from the dead" near the end of "The Jeweled Gun". A bit out of character, as Daisy has been a hard-as-nails manipulator throughout the episode.

* ThemeTuneCameo: In one episode ("Trooper Maverick"), Bart whistles the theme song while cleaning a rifle.

* [[Fainting]]: Daisy does an Emotional Faint when Bart "returns from the dead" near the end of "The Jeweled Gun". A bit out of character, as Daisy has been a hard-as-nails manipulator throughout the episode.

* Fainting: Daisy does an Emotional Faint when Bart "returns from the dead" near the end of "The Jeweled Gun". A bit out of character, as Daisy has been a hard-as-nails manipulator throughout the episode.

* SuspiciouslySimilarSubstitute: Bart, Beau, and eventually Brent were all literally playing parts that were written for Bret; the differences in characterization were all down to the performance. Brent is a standard Similar Substitute, added after James Garner left the series, but the other two were added while Garner was still with the show; having a stable of interchangeable leading men allowed the producers to accelerate the show's production schedule by shooting multiple episodes simultaneously and assigning each episode to whoever was available.

* RelativeError: "A Fellow's Brother" in the third season features Bret being mistaken for Bart.

Later episodes introduced other members of the Maverick clan: brother Bart (Jack Kelly), English cousin Beau (Creator/RogerMoore), another brother, Brent (Robert Colbert), and, in one episode, father Pappy and uncle Bently (Garner and Kelly [[UncannyFamilyResemblance again]]). Diane Brewster had a supporting role as Samantha Crawford, the recurring love interest/[[DatingCatwoman nemesis]] of the Bros (and one of several [[DropInCharacter Drop-In Characters]] throughout the series).

* HollywoodLaw: At the end of "The Jeweled Gun" Daisy and Fillipe are implied to be going to prison for [[spoiler: Fillippe killing Daisy's husband John Haskell in self-defense.]] Although Daisy and Fillippe did set Bart up to pose as Haskell and tried to kill him, he didn't actually die. And [[spoiler: Fillippe killing Haskell was in self-defense.]] As Bart notes earlier, no jury would convict Daisy.

* HollywoodLaw: At the end of "The Jeweled Gun" Daisy and Fillipe are implied to be going to prison for [[spoiler": Fillippe killing Daisy's husband John Haskell in self-defense.]] Although Daisy and Fillippe did set Bart up to pose as Haskell and tried to kill him, he didn't actually die. And [[spoiler: Fillippe killing Haskell was in self-defense.]] As Bart notes earlier, no jury would convict Daisy.

* EmotionalFaint: Daisy does this when Bart "returns from the dead" near the end of "The Jeweled Gun". A bit out of character, as Daisy has been a hard-as-nails manipulator throughout the episode.

* HistoricalDomainCharacter: John Wesley Hardin, in "Duel at Sundown".

''Maverick'' is a {{Western}} TV series that ran from 1957 to 1962. It starred James Garner as Bret Maverick, a gambler and conman travelling around the Old West seeking a quick buck and (more or less reluctantly) [[WeHelpTheHelpless helping the helpless]].

* CharacterAsHimself: In the episode "Pappy", James Garner plays Bret and Bart's father, while Jack Kelly plays Uncle Bently Maverick. Pappy is listed as "Himself", while Uncle Bently is listed as "?".

* FamilyTitle: Also a OneWordTitle, being named for the last name of the family of protagonists.

* OneWordTitle: Also a FamilyTitle, being named for the last name of the family of protagonists.