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Bret Maverick: Anything for a Friend
Tom Guthrie ropes Bret into helping the notorious Billy the Kid escape from a posse led by a bloodthirsty United States Marshal.
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Episode Info
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Episode number: 1x3 Production Number: 167503 Airdate: Tuesday December 15th, 1981 |
Main Cast
Recap
In the woods outside of Sweetwater, Tom and a young teenager shoot it out with a posse and Tom’s cheek is scratched. When the teenager is injured, Tom grabs him and rolls down the hill. The posse, led by Marshal Phillip Mondragón, move in and find blood, but no sign of Tom and his friend. Meanwhile, Tom rides into Sweetwater and takes the boy into the Red Ox to tend to his wounds, unaware that Philo is watching him from his cellar...Read the full recap
Episode Quotes
Philo Sandeen: Man cuts a wide swath for himself, hey, Duke?
Duke: Claims he's Terrible Fred McShane - The Butcher - wanted in more territories than there are states!
Duke: Claims he's Terrible Fred McShane - The Butcher - wanted in more territories than there are states!
Rodney: Well, I wouldn't worry myself over it, the barn raisin' oughta go just fine.
Bret: I know, but somehow the thought of half a town crawlin' around my ranch with hammers in their hands just doesn't set well on my nerve.
Bret: I know, but somehow the thought of half a town crawlin' around my ranch with hammers in their hands just doesn't set well on my nerve.
Tom: Marshal Mondragón and his men should be movin' in two or three days.
Bret: Mondragón?
Tom: You know him?
Bret: Oh, well, this gets riper by the second! Tom … Tom, there's only two men this side a New Orleans that make my palms sweat and Phillip Mondragón is both of 'em!
Bret: Mondragón?
Tom: You know him?
Bret: Oh, well, this gets riper by the second! Tom … Tom, there's only two men this side a New Orleans that make my palms sweat and Phillip Mondragón is both of 'em!
Dowd: Now, wait just a damn minute! This is still my town and it's my job to know what goes on here, if you…
Marshal Phillip Mondragón: Your town can burn in Hell for all I care! When William Bonney escaped, he just happened to shoot the last friend I had worth knowin'. And Governor Wallace agrees, that boy's hangin' is long overdue. Now, God help you, Dowd, if your shadow so much as falls in my way.
Marshal Phillip Mondragón: Your town can burn in Hell for all I care! When William Bonney escaped, he just happened to shoot the last friend I had worth knowin'. And Governor Wallace agrees, that boy's hangin' is long overdue. Now, God help you, Dowd, if your shadow so much as falls in my way.
Philo Sandeen: I'm holding the conchos on one of the deadliest men that ever crawled out from under a rock and all mon-dragon here can say is "Oh?"
Tom: You could get hurt here, Sandeen.
Philo Sandeen: I could get rich here, Guthrie.
Tom: You could get hurt here, Sandeen.
Philo Sandeen: I could get rich here, Guthrie.
Doc Vetter: What's going on here, Maverick?
Bret: You got me, but from the look of their cheap clothes and their bad manners, I'd say they're some kinda law.
Bret: You got me, but from the look of their cheap clothes and their bad manners, I'd say they're some kinda law.
Bret: I got one pistol on the right.
Tom: Another one in these trees over here. I say we go for 'em at the count of three.
Bret: Three? How about ten?
Tom: Three
Tom: Another one in these trees over here. I say we go for 'em at the count of three.
Bret: Three? How about ten?
Tom: Three
Philo Sandeen: Maverick, you know it's bad medicine to harm a blood brother, and drowning is frowned on by the entire Comanche nation.
Bret: And I suppose comin' out here and shootin' some daylight in me qualifies you for an eagle feather or two, eh, Squatting Bear?
Philo Sandeen: Standing Bear!
Bret: And I suppose comin' out here and shootin' some daylight in me qualifies you for an eagle feather or two, eh, Squatting Bear?
Philo Sandeen: Standing Bear!
Marshal Phillip Mondragón: Well. Bret Maverick.
Bret: Marshal Mondragón.
Marshal Phillip Mondragón: Just how long has it been, would you say?
Bret: Well, I don't know. I haven't exactly been countin' the days.
Marshal Phillip Mondragón: Well, that's a pity. I have.
Bret: Well, now that's funny. I always thought your specialty was countin' the notches in your gun.
Marshal Phillip Mondragón: It still is.
Bret: Marshal Mondragón.
Marshal Phillip Mondragón: Just how long has it been, would you say?
Bret: Well, I don't know. I haven't exactly been countin' the days.
Marshal Phillip Mondragón: Well, that's a pity. I have.
Bret: Well, now that's funny. I always thought your specialty was countin' the notches in your gun.
Marshal Phillip Mondragón: It still is.
Mary Lou: Well, if Maverick's Pappy were around, he'd probably say something like "The best place to hide the pea is under the table."
Episode Goofs
In the original series, Bret Maverick had a run-in with Billy the Kid in an episode entitled Full House but that encounter seems to have never occurred going by the storyline in this episode.
Other Episode Crew
| • Executive Producer | Meta Rosenberg |
| • Supervising Producer | Gordon Dawson |
| • Producer | Geoffrey Fischer | Chas Floyd Johnson |
| • Associate Producer | Mark Horowitz |
| • Editor | Diane Adler |
| • Casting | Dodie McLean |
| • Unit Production Manager | Sam C. Freedle |
| • First Assistant Director | Don Wilkerson | Leonard Garner |
| • Music | J. A. C. Redford | Murray MacLeod |
| • Music Editor | Jay Alfred Smith |
| • Hairstylist | Charlotte Harvey |
| • Make-up | Charlene Roberson |
| • Set Decorator | Robert L. Zilliox |
| • Property Master | William Fannon |
| • Art Director | Scott T. Ritenour |
| • Sound Mixer | Charlie King (3) |
| • Costume Supervisor | Le Dawson |
| • Main Title Theme | Ed Bruce | Patsy Bruce | Glenn Ray |
| • Main Title Graphics | Ron Grover |
| • Executive Story Consultant | Lee David Zlotoff |
| • Sound Effects Editor | Al Kajita |
| • Assistant To The Star | Maryann Rea |
| • Main Title Theme Performed By | Ed Bruce |
| • Developed By | Gordon Dawson |
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