“Shady Deal at Sunny Acres”

 

 

Season: 2 episode 10

Series Episode: 37

Air Date: November 23, 1958

Maverick TV series starring James Garner and Jack Kelly

A Warner Bros. production

 

 

Teaser

I’m working on it.”

 

 

Cast & Crew Lists

Cast

 

Crew

DirectorLeslie H. Martinson
Assistant Director Don Page (Don Alvarado)
Developed by
Roy Huggins (uncredited)
TeleplayRoy Huggins
StoryDouglas Heyes
Executive Producer

Wm. (William) T. Orr
Producer
Roy Huggins

Director of Photography
Harold (E.) Stine, A.S.C.
Art Director
Howard Campbell
Supervising Film Editor
James Moore

Film Editor

Carl Pingatore
Production Manager
Oren W. Haglund
Sound Stanley Jones
Set Decorator
Frank M. Miller
Makeup Supervisor Gordon Bau, S.M.A.
Composer: Original ThemeDavid Buttolph (uncredited)

Original Theme LyricsPaul Francis Weber
Stock Music ComposerMax Steiner (uncredited)
Musician: HarmonicaTommy Morgan (uncredited)
Production Company
Warner Bros. Television
Distribution Company
American Broadcasting Company (ABC)

 

 

Dialogue/Figurative Language/Literary References/Quotes

Bret Maverick: Cast thy bread upon the waters: for thou shalt find it after many days. Ecclesiastes 11:1

Cast thy bread upon the waters: for thou shalt find it after many days.” Ecclesiastes 11:1, The Bible, KJV

 

Notable Mentions

Eddie Foy, Sr.
Nevada Empress Silver Mine
Britannia Mine
Stock Certificates  

 

 

Geographic References

Denver, Colorado, United States of America
Sunny Acres, Colorado, United States of America
California, United States of America
Nevada, United States of America
Oregon, United States of America
Wyoming Territory, United States of America

 

 

The Games People Play

John Bates: How did you get $15,000 in the middle of the night?
Bret Maverick: Faith, Mr. Bates, in the friendly laws of probability – Poker.

 

Poker  

 

 

 

Grub

Bread slices
Beef roast
Coffee
Cookies
Corn relish
Green beans with mushrooms
T-bone Steak
Tea
Blackberry wine
White wine
Mashed potatoes  

 

 

Music

Sweet Betsy From Pike

 

 

Error

There are two “f”s in “Shaffer” on the engraved stone sign on the building. “Dandy Jim” Buckley’s sign on the office door only has one “f.”

 

 

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