Young Maverick

Pilot 1978 ABC

1. _"The New Maverick" (120 min)
   gs: James Garner [ Bret Maverick ], Jack Kelly [ Bart Maverick ], Susan Sullivan [ Poker Alice ], George Loros [ Vinnie ], Eugene Roche [ Judge Crupper ], Woodrow Parfrey [ Lavenque ], Graham Jarvis [ Lambers ], Helen Page Camp [ Flora ], Gary Allen [ Dobie ]

   Bret and Bart meet Beau's son Ben, a Harvard dropout, as all three of them try to recover a load of stolen army Gatling guns.

   b: 3 Sep 78 pc: _________ w: Juanita Bartlett d: Hy Averback

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   1st Season 1979 CBS

2. _"Clancy"
   gs: Denny Miller [ Clancy Flannery ], Dick O'Neil [ Hobbs ], Joanne Nail [ Rose ], Burton Gilliam [ Barbary Kid ], James Garner [ Bret Maverick ], Warren Berlinger [ Unknown ], Morgan Woodward [ Unknown ]

   Ben enters Nell's Irish cousin in a boxing match against a top boxer, hoping to make money on the wagers.

   b: 28 Nov 79 pc: _________ w: David E. Peckinpah d: Bernard McEveety

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3. _"A Fistful of Oats"
   gs: J.Pat O'Malley [ Uncle Malachi ], Clifton James [ Judge Stebbins ], Tom McFadden [ Jubal Moffit ], Vito Scotti [ Unknown ], Med Flory [ Unknown ]

   Ben comes to the aid of Nell's uncle who has been sentenced to death for spooking the horse of the hanging judge.

   b: 5 Dec 79 pc: _________ w: Don McDougall d: Norman Liebman

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4. _"Hearts O'Gold"
   gs: Bill McKinney [ Smokey Trumbull ], Audrey Landers [ Sara Lou Mullen ], Robert Hogan [ Unknown ], L.Q. Jones [ Unknown ], Severn Darden [ Unknown ], Barney Phillips [ Unknown ], Douglas Dirkson [ Unknown ], Gene Tyburn [ Unknown ]

   Ben and Nell end up in the middle of a bank robbery when Ben decides to go after a man who welched on a gambling debt.

   b: 12 Dec 79 pc: _________ w: Robert Van Scoyk d: Les Martinson

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5. _"Dead Man's Hand (1)"
   gs: Howard Duff [ Herman Rusk ], James Woods [ Lem Fraker ], Donna Mills [ Lila Gates ], Alan Fudge [ Amos Layton ], George Dzundza [ Unknown ], John McIntire [ Unknown ], Parley Baer [ Unknown ], Harry Dean Stanton [ Pokey Tindal ]

   Ben becomes involved in a high stakes poker game, where one of the players will do anything to win, when he inherits the hand of a friend who died during the game.

   b: 26 Dec 79 pc: _________ w: Robert Van Scoyk d: Hy Averback

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6. _"Dead Man's Hand (2)"
   gs: Howard Duff [ Herman Rusk ], James Woods [ Lem Fraker ], Donna Mills [ Lila Gates ], Alan Fudge [ Amos Layton ], George Dzundza [ Unknown ], Joe Brooks [ Unknown ]

   Ben becomes involved in a high stakes poker game, where one of the players will do anything to win, when he inherits the hand of a friend who died during the game.

   b: 2 Jan 80 pc: _________ w: Robert Van Scoyk d: Hy Averback

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7. _"Makin' Tracks"
   gs: Victor Jory [ Pony-That-Waits ], John Hillerman [ McBurney ], Morgan Fairchild [ Selene ], Ray Tracey [ Russell Two Eagles ], Andrew Robinson [ Sangree ], Regis Cordic [ Vernon Weddle [ Unknown ], Miriam Byrd Nethery [ Unknown ], George Sawaya [ Unknown ], Dan McBride [ Unknown ], Paul Sorenson [ Unknown ]

   A railroad tycoon hires Ben to win a chunk of Indian land that is being offered as stakes in a poker game by an eighty year old Indian chief.

   b: 9 Jan 80 pc: _________ w: Norman Liebmann d: Ralph Senensky

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8. _"Have I Got a Girl For You"
   gs: Richard B. Shull [ Arthur Montague ], Melinda Naud [ Monica Carstairs ], Patch MacKenzie [ Alice ], Misty Rowe [ Betty ], Gary Grubbs [ Unknown ], Bruce M. Fischer [ Unknown ], Rex Benson [ Unknown ], Roger Pancake [ Unknown ]

   Ben and Nell plan to con a crooked marriage broker.

   b: 16 Jan 80 pc: _________ w: Jerry Ross d: Bob Claver

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9. _"Half Past Noon"
   gs: Howard Platt [ Unknown ], Dennis Burkley [ Unknown ], Jerry Hardin [ Unknown ]

   Ben is made to feel overly welcome in a small town he and Nell wander into, since the townsfolk hope he will stand up to the town bully.

   b: UNAIRED pc: _________ w: ______________ d: ______________

The two-part episode "Dead Man's Hand" was combined and is shown as a TV movie called "The Young Maverick".

Thanks to Ron Lutz for providing a great deal of the missing information.