“The Maverick Line”
“The Maverick Line”
Season: 4 episode 10
Series Episode: 89 (actually filmed during Season 3)
Air Date: November 20, 1960
Maverick TV series starring Jack Kelly and Roger Moore
A Warner Bros. production
Teaser
“To my nephews, Bret and Bart, in order ot instill a regard for commerce and to repair the traits of idleness and shiftlessness, I leave my stageline.”
Cast & Crew Lists
Cast
Character Role Actor Actor Age Status
Bret Maverick Gambler / Con artist James Garner 32 Credited
Bart Maverick Gambler / Con artist Jack Kelly 33 Credited
Bandy Law clerk C. Charles Alvin Bell 52 Credited
Phineas Cox Representative of the Far Western (Transportation Firm) Alan Reynolds 52 Credited
Atherton Flayger
Attorney at Law Will Wright 66 Credited
Polly Goodin Rancher Peggy McCay 33 Credited
Rumsy Plumb Stagecoach robber Buddy Ebson 52 Credited
"Shotgun" Sparks Gun for hire Charles (E) Fredericks 42 Credited
"Dutch" Wilcox Maverick Line stagecoach driver Chubby Johnson 57 Credited
Announcer Ed Reimers 58 Uncredited
Nero Rumsy Plumb's horse
Sickle Uncredited
Ernie Horse buyer Max Wagner 58 Uncredited
Land rush participant Fred Carson 37 Uncredited
Goodin Pollly Goodin's father (deceased) Mentioned
"Colonel" Micah Maverick Bret & Bart Maverick's deceased uncle Mentioned
Hotel desk clerk Mentioned
Rumsy's poor old mother Mentioned
Sheriff of Snowflake Mentioned
Crew
Director Leslie Goodwins
Assistant Director James T. Vaughn
Developed by
Roy Huggins (uncredited)
Writer Ron Bishop
Executive Producer
Wm. (William) T. Orr
Producer Coles Trapnell
Director of Photography
Perry Finnerman
Art Director
John Ewing
Supervising Film Editor
James Moore
Film Editor
James W. Graham
Sound B. F. Ryan
Set Decorator Jerry Welch
Makeup Supervisor Gordon Bau, S.M.A.
Supervising Hair Stylist Jean Burt Reilly, C.H.S.
Composer: Original Theme David Buttolph (uncredited)
Original Theme Lyrics Paul Francis Weber
Stock Music Composer Max Steiner (uncredtied)
Music Supervisor Paul Sawtell / Bert Shefter
Music Editor Joe Inge
Musician: Harmonica Tommy Morgan (uncredited)
Production Company
Warner Bros. Television
Distribution Company
American Broadcasting Company (ABC)
Dialogue/Figurative Language/Literary References/Quotes
Rumsy: I doubt it. ‘Cause when the poor people’s rich as the rich people, you know what that is – That’s kingdom come. Ain’t no hope for that in this country.
Meaning: Deliverance
Rumsy: Scratch a cloud…
Meaning: Get your hands up!
Bret: On Dasher! on Prancer!
Polly Goodin: On Donder! and Blitzen!
“Now, Dasher! now, Dancer! now, Prancer and Vixen!
On, Comet! on Cupid! on Donder and Blitzen!”
“Account of a Visit from St. Nicholas” / “A Visit from St. Nicholas” / “The Night Before Christmas” / “’Twas the Night Before Christmas” by Anonymous, December 23, 1823 / Clement Clarke Moore, 1837
Bret: You mean like the friendly sound of a slicker trying to slip the hook into a sucker?
Rumsy: Running like his sins were chasing him.
Rumsy: Now pick up that crowd killer
Meaning: shotgun
Atherton Flayger: Just take their temperature with a shotgun.
Meaning: Shoot them
Rumsy Plum: A road agent don’t need a press agent.
Bart: We’re not sure that rolling stock [The Maverick Line] and rolling stones [Bret and Bart Maverick] are a good combination.
Notable Mentions
George Armstrong Custer
Benedict Arnold
Paul Revere
Time Bomb
Geographic References
Snowflake
Shirt Tail Springs (watering hole)
Comstock Lode
New Orleans
The Games People Play
Grub
Apple pie
Beer in bottles
Cheese
Coffee
Cold steak
Quail
Sources: Maverick episodes (written, spoken and credits), Internet Movie Database (IMDb), Wikipedia, individual observations, and others as indicated by the links.
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