“Dodge City or Bust”
“Dodge City or Bust”
Season: 4 episode 13
Series Episode: 92
Air Date: December 11, 1960
Maverick TV series starring Jack Kelly and Roger Moore
A Warner Bros. production
Teaser
A white knight to the rescue of an heiress in distress.
Cast & Crew Lists
Cast
Character Role Actor Actor Age Status
Bart Maverick Gambler / Con artist Jack Kelly 33 Credited
Beauregard "Beau" Maverick II Gambler / Con artist Roger Moore 33 Credited
Ollie Brock
Dangerfield townsman / Bounty hunter Peter Whitney 44 Credited
Diana Dangerfield Heiress Diana Millay 26 Credited
Ben Nevers Deputy in Dangerfield Med Florey (Flory) 34 Credited
Rockford General Store customer / Travelling man / Mugger
Kelly Thordson 43 Credited
Rockford General Store proprietor Harry Tyler 72 Credited
Sheriff in Rockford Mickey Morton 33 Credited
Sheriff in Dangerfield Howard McNear 55 Credited
Announcer Ed Reimers 58 Uncredited
Mr. McKee Dangerfield Bank president / Trustee of the Dangerfield estate
Uncredited
George Poker player Dick Elliot 74 Uncredited
Milt Card player in Dangerfield
Dealer in Rockford Uncredited
Willow Springs Hotel desk clerk Uncredited
Liveryman in Rockford Frank Sully 52 Uncredited
Four man posse from Willow Springs
Uncredited
Poker player Joe Alls 44 Uncredited
Telegrapher in Dodge City Uncredited
Dangerfield Diana Dangerfield's father /Founded the town of Dangerfield / Mine owner Mentioned
Mrs. Gandy Ghost town cafe owner Mentioned
Uncle Beauregard Maverick Bart Maverick's father / Uncle to Beauregard "Beau" Maverick III Mentioned
Gordon Pemperman III Family owns the Pepperman Steamship Line / Third most eligible bachelor in the world Mentioned
Crew
Director Irving J. Moore
Assistant Director
Developed by
Roy Huggins (uncredited)
Writer Herman Epstein
Executive Producer
Wm. (William) T. Orr
Producer
Director of Photography
Art Director
Supervising Film Editor
Film Editor
Sound
Set Decorator
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
Music Editor
Musician: Harmonica Tommy Morgan (uncredited)
Production Company
Warner Bros. Television
Distribution Company
American Broadcasting Company (ABC)
Notable Mentions
Geographic References
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Dangerfield, Kansas, United States of America
Dodge City, Kansas, United States of America
Rockford, Kansas, United States of America
Willow Springs, Kansas United States of America .
Europe
The Games People Play
Jack-in-the-Beanstalk (5s and one-eyed jacks are wild, and the low hand splits the pot with the winner)
Pass the Buck (8 cards are dealt. Aces, Black 3s, 8 of hearts, lowest card in hand are wild. You pass your worst 3 cards to the man on your left. . Winning hands include: St. Louis Sleeper, Ring-tailed Gazaphranz (equivalent of 5 aces), Stuttering Flush (A Royal Flush where every other card is black.) A Stuttering Flush beats a Ring-tailed Gazaphranz.(Bart’s cards = 4 Aces + 2 of Clubs + 5 of Diamonds + King of Spades + 8 of Hearts made a Stuttering Flush with the Ace of Diamonds (red) & King of Spades (black) & Queen (the wild 8 of hearts) (red) & Jack (the wild 2 of Clubs, lowest card) (black) & Ten (the wild Ace of hearts) (red).
Eight-toed Sloth – In this game an Apache Nightmare (a.k.a. 4 Hole Gang) beats a Texas Tornado as long as the queen is black and it is before midnight of the day the game was started. Another winning hand is a Wooley Mammoth.
Reverse Pinwheel
Grub
Bacon
Beans
Baking Powder Biscuits
Coffee
Fish on a stick cooked over a fire
Sugar
Flour
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