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Maverick: The Ghost Soldiers
To save his own skin Bret helps the Army protect a fort where the defending soldiers were massacred by the Sioux.
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Episode Info
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Episode number: 3x9 Airdate: Sunday November 08th, 1959 |
Recap
A Sioux chief, Running Horse, leads the Sioux in attacks against gold prospectors in the Dakotas. In response, the U.S. government has built forts and sent soldiers in to deal with the uprisings. Bret is heading out with two soldiers, Sgt. Baines and Corporal Willie Daggott, who are “escorting” him from Fort Burnside to Fort McKitrich to face a board of inquiry for flirting with Colonel Parkinson’s wife. As they leave, Baines notes that most of Parkinson’s men are out chasing Running Horse, and the Sioux Nations have called a parley to deal with the prospectors...Read the full recap
Episode Notes
James Westerfield would return in The Art Lovers.
Episode Quotes
Cpl. Daggott: They gonna hang him, Sarge?
Bret: Please, Willie, I'm a civilian. This is strictly a case of mistaken identity.
Sgt. Baines: Sure it was. You mistook a colonel's wife for a gay young thing.
Bret: Baines, it was just someone who looked like me.
Bret: Please, Willie, I'm a civilian. This is strictly a case of mistaken identity.
Sgt. Baines: Sure it was. You mistook a colonel's wife for a gay young thing.
Bret: Baines, it was just someone who looked like me.
Cpl. Daggott: Oh, I ain't worried about myself. I just wouldn't want anything to happen to our prisoner.
Bret: I'm not your prisoner, Willie. You're just escorting me.
Bret: I'm not your prisoner, Willie. You're just escorting me.
Bret: On second thought, Sergeant, I decided to put off facing that board of inquiry.
Sgt. Baines: Oh, Willie, don't you worry,. There's nothin' in this world that I'd do to keep you in this army one day longer than need be.
Sgt. Baines: Now why don't you stick around, Mr. Maverick, and be my prisoner?
Cpl. Daggott: Hey, what happened? Who shot the Indians? Where'd the music come from?
Bret: Ghosts, Corporal. Ghosts and evil spirits.
Bret: Ghosts, Corporal. Ghosts and evil spirits.
Bret: Besides, this whitewash is hard on my delicate complexion.
Bret: Whadda you think?
Sgt. Baines: I think one of then Indians caught himself a ghost. Now Halloween's almost over, Maverick.
Sgt. Baines: I think one of then Indians caught himself a ghost. Now Halloween's almost over, Maverick.
Bret: (to Baines) Another day, another dollar.
Sgt. Baines: Well, I asked for this life. All in all, I suppose I'm better off and happier than I would have been in the New Jersey fish market. Ever been to New Jersey, Maverick? On the waterfront, I mean?
Bret: Nope, never have.
Sgt. Baines: You'd have joined the Army too. The Army's full of folks from the Jersey waterfront. Just something about that place.
Bret: Nope, never have.
Sgt. Baines: You'd have joined the Army too. The Army's full of folks from the Jersey waterfront. Just something about that place.
Baines: (about Lt. Jennings) He's kinda young.
Bret: Yeah.
Bret: Yeah.
Bret: (about Lt. Jennings) He doesn't understand English.
Sgt. Baines: Well, he's an Army officer.
Sgt. Baines: Well, he's an Army officer.
Bret: (to Lt. Jennings) I don't have to threaten you, sonny. Those hills are full of Indians and they're threatening you. And me and everybody else in the fort. Now, normally I don't like to fight. I try to go through life without fighting. But if that life is about to end, and I don't want it to end, then I'm willing to fight so I can go on living without having to fight. Do you follow that?
Running Horse: Let us now make sport with these men who pretend to be ghosts.
Sgt. Baines: Um-hmm. Seeing what a tricky man you are, Mr. Maverick, why, you just might get away from me.
Bret: Oh, Baines, I wouldn't think of such a thing.
Sgt. Baines: Oh, I know you wouldn't think about it, Mr. Maverick. Just comes sorta naturally.
Bret: Oh, Baines, I wouldn't think of such a thing.
Sgt. Baines: Oh, I know you wouldn't think about it, Mr. Maverick. Just comes sorta naturally.
Bret: I was right glad the lieutenant was gonna let it go at a mere handshake. I mean, if I was to get a medal out of this ruckus, my pappy'd never speak to me again.
Episode Goofs
When Bret throws the spear at the chiefs, he throws it over his shoulder straight at them. However, a minute later when Running Horse rides at him, the spear is sticking in the ground straight up, only a couple of feet from where Bret threw the spear earlier.
When Bret throws the spear at the chiefs, he throws it over his shoulder straight at them. However, a minute later when Running Horse rides at him, the spear is sticking in the ground straight up, only a couple of feet from where Bret threw the spear earlier.
Cultural References
The Fort Burnside in this episode is named after Union Civil War general Ambrose Burnside.
Other Episode Crew
| • Creator | Roy Huggins |
| • Executive Producer | William T. Orr |
| • Producer | Coles Trapnell |
| • Set Decorator | Steve Potter |
| • Director of Photography | Robert Shearman |
| • Art Director | Howard Campbell |
| • Production Manager | Oren W. Haglund |
| • Main Title Theme | David Buttolph |
| • Main Title Theme Written By | Paul Francis Webster |
| • Film Editor | Carl Pingitore |
| • Sound | David Forrest (2) |
| • Assistant Director | Claude Binyon, Jr. |
| • Make-up Supervisor | Gordon Bau |
| • Supervising Film Editor | James Moore (1) |
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