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The New Maverick is a 1978 made-for-TV movie based on the 1957 television series Maverick, with James Garner as Bret Maverick, Charles Frank as newcomer cousin Ben Maverick (son of Beau Maverick), Jack Kelly as Bart Maverick, and Susan Sullivan as "Poker Alice" Ivers. The TV-movie was a pilot for the series Young Maverick, which featured Frank and only lasted a few episodes. Directed by Hy Averback and written by Juanita Bartlett, the movie was filmed while Garner's series The Rockford Files was on hiatus. Garner would later star in Bret Maverick, another attempt at a revival inspired by this TV-movie, for a single season.

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Cast

James Garner as Bret Maverick
Charles Frank as Ben Maverick
Jack Kelly as Bart Maverick
Susan Sullivan as "Poker Alice" Ivers
Susan Blanchard as Nell McGarahan
Eugene Roche as Austin Crupper
George Loros ... Vinnie Smith, Train Robber hired by Crupper
Woodrow Parfrey ... Leveque, Man from New Orleans
Greg Allen ... Dobie
Helen Page Camp ... Mrs. Flora Crupper
Jack Garner ... Homer, Vinnie's henchman
Graham Jarvis ... Undertaker Lambert
Macon McCalman ... Vanders the Las Vegas Hotel Desk Clerk
B.J. Ward ... B.J. Vinnie's Henchman

Young Maverick

Young Maverick is a 1979 television series that unsuccessfully attempted to recapture some of the magic of the smash hit 1957 series Maverick. Charles Frank played Beau Maverick's son Ben, and the series was cancelled by CBS after only a few episodes. James Garner, who had played the lead in the original series, appeared as Bret Maverick in the very first scene of the series, but only for a few moments. The 1978 TV-movie The New Maverick, featuring Garner as Bret, Frank as Ben, and Jack Kelly as Bret's brother Bart Maverick, served as the pilot for the series. Frank's real-life wife Susan Blanchard played his girlfriend Nell in both the TV-movie and the series, and John Dehner appeared in the series as a frontier marshal who had arrested Ben's father Beau decades before. Beau Maverick, Ben's father, had been played in the original TV series by Roger Moore, and there is a definite resemblance between Moore and Frank (unfortunately, Moore never appeared on Young Maverick, however). Ironically, at 32, Charles Frank was three years older than James Garner had been when the original Maverick first aired in 1957, despite the title Young Maverick.

Assorted character actors appearing on the series include Howard Duff, John McIntire, James Woods, Donna Mills, and Harry Dean Stanton.

CBS cancelled the series so fast that several episodes were never aired. James Garner starred in another revival series a couple of years later called Bret Maverick, but NBC cancelled that show after one season despite fairly strong ratings. The 2-hour first episode of that series was subsequently repackaged for rerun as Bret Maverick: The Lazy Ace.

Cast

Charles Frank as Ben Maverick
Susan Blanchard as Nell McGarrahan
John Dehner as Marshall Edge Troy
Howard Duff as Herman Rusk
John McIntire as Vernon Maywood
Donna Mills as Lila Gates
Harry Dean Stanton as Pokey Tindal
James Woods as Lem Fraker