Fifth Season (1961-1962)
Jack Kelly is now the sole star of new Maverick offerings. This season's episodes alternated with reruns of some of Garner's earlier shows (both solo and Garner/Kelly team-ups, including "The Saga of Waco Williams"), but during Kelly's new installments, neither Bret, Beau, nor Brent are ever mentioned; the series' new episodes had finally reverted to the original single-Maverick formula observed for the initial seven episodes, only with Kelly as Maverick instead of Garner. However, Garner's name once again appears in the weekly series opening credits before all the newly produced shows, albeit now with second billing under Kelly (Ed Reimers announces "Maverick! Starring Jack Kelly and James Garner!" each week over the opening credits).
Peter Breck returns as Doc Holliday, becoming a semi-regular in these final episodes. He appears in 4 of the 13 episodes produced for this season, including the series finale. Mike Road appears as "Pearly Gates" in two episodes.
| Episode Title | Starring | Notes | ||
| Bart Maverick | Doc Holliday | |||
| Dade City Dodge | Bart | With Kathleen Crowley (as "Marla"), Mike Road (as "Pearly Gates"), and Gage Clarke. Gates cheated Maverick, who hunts down the smooth con artist and his gorgeous paramour. | ||
| The Art Lovers | Bart | With Jack Cassidy; Maverick is sentenced to being a butler after being cheated by an acquaintance. | ||
| The Golden Fleecing | Bart | With John Qualen; Maverick becomes an impromptu stock broker, dealing in Chinatown. | ||
| Three Queens Full | Bart | Bonanza spoof with Jim Backus and Merry Anders, featuring the characters "Moose" and "Small Paul" Wheelwright. Amusingly, Backus (famous for providing the cartoon voice of "Mr. Magoo") plays the patriarch patterned after stentorian Lorne Greene's Bonanza role. | ||
| A Technical Error | Bart | Doc | With Ben Gage as a sheriff (spoofing Marshal Matt Dillon and Gunsmoke, as he had done in "Gun-Shy", "A Tale of Three Cities", and "The Misfortune Teller"), and Reginald Owen, who purposely loses his near-bankrupt bank to Maverick in a card game. | |
| Poker Face | Bart | With Tol Avery; while traveling by stagecoach, Maverick strikes a bargain with a highwayman. | ||
| Mr. Muldoon's Partner | Bart | An Irish-themed leprechaun comedy with Mickey Rooney's lookalike son, Tim Rooney. The only episode in which Kelly wears his hat on the back of his head for long stretches the way Garner used to. | ||
| Epitaph for a Gambler | Bart | With film noir queen Marie Windsor, Frank Albertson, and Robert J. Wilke. Maverick wishes he hadn't won that casino after all. | ||
| The Maverick Report | Bart | Doc | Maverick wins a newspaper that's about to be sued by a senator. | |
| Marshall Maverick | Bart | Doc | With John Dehner as an impersonator of Wyatt Earp, Doc Holliday, and finally, Maverick himself. | |
| The Troubled Heir | Bart | With Kathleen Crowley, Alan Hale, Jr., and Mike Road (as "Pearly Gates"). Gates and Marla (Crowley) rob Maverick so they can run off and marry. | ||
| The Money Machine | Bart | With Andrew Duggan as Big Ed Murphy, a role played in "Greenbacks, Unlimited" during the third season by John Dehner. Murphy sells a machine that somehow magically manufactures money to Maverick's headstrong young cousin, portrayed by Kathy Bennett. Everyone in this episode, related or not, jarringly refers to Maverick's father as "Pappy Maverick", a nickname used only by the Maverick brothers themselves in all earlier episodes (even the younger Beau, played by Roger Moore, referred to his cousin Bart's father as "Uncle Beau"). | ||
| One of Our Trains Is Missing | Bart | Doc | With Kathleen Crowley as Modesty Blaine, a role also played in earlier episodes by Mona Freeman. The episode and the series ends with Maverick, Doc Holliday, and Modesty Blaine walking the train tracks into the sunset while arguing about how they'd divide a reward that Maverick had just received from Diamond Jim Brady.
Jack Kelly always maintained that no one from the studio called to tell him that the series had been canceled; he read about it in the newspaper. |
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