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Maverick: Trail West to Fury
In this flashback episode, Bret and Bart relate to pal Dandy Jim Buckley about the time shortly after the Civil War when they searched high and low for a tall man who could clear them of a murder charge.
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Episode Info
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Episode number: 1x21 Airdate: Sunday February 16th, 1958 |
Recap
As storms bring flooding in Colorado, Bret, Bart, and Dandy Jim Buckley hole up in a leaky cabin. Dandy Jim complains that they should have gone to Texas and realizes that the Maverick brothers are hiding something about Texas, their home state. He suggests that they tell him the whole story and Bart convinces Bret to help him tell the story. They tell him that they can’t go back to Texas because they’re wanted for murdering two men...Read the full recap
Episode Notes
We learn in this episode that the Maverick brothers hail from the town of Little Ben, Texas.
It's revealed in this episode that Bret and Bart spent two years serving in the Union Army fighting Native Americans on the Plains in the years immediately following the Civil War. They joined to avoid being held in a Union POW camp.
Despite being a flashback to the younger years of the Maverick brothers there's no mention whatsoever of their Pappy in this episode. Pappy would be mentioned with much more frequency in Season Two.
Episode Quotes
Bret: In August, when the scorching Colorado sun has baked the land bone dry, the Yude Indians resort to a snake dance as a plea for rain. To the white man, this is merely a superstitious ceremony, colorful, but useless. (a storm starts) A fat lot he knows.
Dandy Jim Buckley: Go ahead, what good's money? We're all going to drown anyway.
Bret: He's mad because he got his fancy boots all wet.
Bret: He's mad because he got his fancy boots all wet.
Bart: Oh, Bret, if you can't trust Dandy Jim, who can you trust?
Bret: What are you doing here? My king was high.
Bart: Ah, but it was also crimped, brother Bret. Tsk, tsk, tsk. Crimped. I looked at it after you left.
Bret: Yes, well as they say, brother Bart, all's fair in …
Laura Miller: Well, gentlemen, what can I get for you?
Bret: Another girl?
Bart: For him.
Bart: Ah, but it was also crimped, brother Bret. Tsk, tsk, tsk. Crimped. I looked at it after you left.
Bret: Yes, well as they say, brother Bart, all's fair in …
Laura Miller: Well, gentlemen, what can I get for you?
Bret: Another girl?
Bart: For him.
Bart: Now, we get to Fort Adobe, you get to keep the horse and the saddle, and the blanket, and the gun, and the boots--the whole caboodle. Plus any Comanche scalps you might happen to pick up along the way.
Mike: What if the Comanches pick up the scalps?
Bart: Well then, um, we keep the caboodle.
Mike: What if the Comanches pick up the scalps?
Bart: Well then, um, we keep the caboodle.
Bret: Easy, brother Bart. You're too quick to temper.
Bret: You got one of three choices, sonny. Guns, fists, or turn tail.
Jett: You talk big with a crowd on your side.
Bret: Brother Bart, you just shoot the first man who makes a move to help me… or him.
Jett: You talk big with a crowd on your side.
Bret: Brother Bart, you just shoot the first man who makes a move to help me… or him.
Bret: (upon joining the cattle drive) Anybody know which way west is?
Bret: That's quite an apology.
Laura Miller: Who said I was sorry?
Laura Miller: Who said I was sorry?
Bret: You really go after what you want, don't you?
Laura Miller: Look who's talking.
Laura Miller: Look who's talking.
Jesse Hayden: You're hangin' yourself, Bret.
Bret: Beats lettin' strangers do it.
Bret: Beats lettin' strangers do it.
Episode Goofs
Both Maverick brothers state that they can never return to their home state of Texas in this episode although in subsequent episodes they travel there on occasion.
Episode References
Maverick creator Roy Huggins apparently used elements of the storyline in this episode when he created The Fugitive.
Analysis
This flashback episode relates the early years of the Maverick brothers before they became wandering gamblers and relates why they can never return to their home state of Texas. If there's a flaw here it's that Efrem Zimbalist, Jr. is nearly wasted in his appearance as Maverick nemesis Dandy Jim Buckley.
Other Episode Crew
| • Creator | Roy Huggins |
| • Executive Producer | William T. Orr |
| • Producer | Roy Huggins |
| • Set Decorator | William G. Wallace |
| • Director of Photography | Harold E. Stine |
| • Art Director | Howard Campbell |
| • Production Manager | Oren W. Haglund |
| • Sound | M.A. Merrick |
| • Assistant Director | Rusty Meek |
| • Make-up Supervisor | Gordon Bau |
| • Supervising Film Editor | James Moore (1) |
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