“A Cure for Johnny Rain”

 

Season: 3 episode 15

Series Episode: 68

Air Date: December 20, 1959

Maverick TV series starring James Garner and Jack Kelly

A Warner Bros. production

 

 

 

Teaser

A drop or two… or three can alter one’s today and all of one’s tomorrows.

 

 

 

Cast & Crew Lists

Cast

CharacterRoleActorActor AgeStatus
Bret Maverick Gambler / Con artist James Garner31Credited
Pembrook H. HadleyMayor of ApocolypseThomas B. Henry52Credited
Johnny RainA blackout drunk suffering from dual drunk personality disorder (transient amnesia)William Reynolds28Credited
Millie ReidSaloon girl / Sam Reid's wifeDolores Donlon39Credited
Sam ReidTinhorn / Millie Reid's husband
John Vivyan44Credited
BillySheriff of ApocolypseKenneth McDonald58Credited
Stagecoach driverBud Osbourne75Credited
AnnouncerEd Reimers57Uncredited
Apocolypse townsman leaving saloon as Johnny Rain & Bret Maverick come in.Roy Huggins45Uncredited
Rance Apocolypse deputyUncredited
"Bar patronWalter Bacon68Uncredited
Bar patronLuis Delgado34Uncredited
BartenderGeorge Cisar47Uncredited
Sheriff of ApocolyseJoe Phillips35Uncredited
Apocolypse townsman whose child Johnny Rain saved from a runaway horseChester Hayes46Uncredited
Apocolypse townsman whose broken leg was set by Johnny Rain Tex Holden51Uncredited
TownsmanGeorge Bell61Uncredited
TownsmanRaoph Neff51Uncredited
Woman on stagecoachUncredited
Millie Reid's motherMentioned
Millie Reid's fatherMentioned
Governor of the territoryMentioned
Widow ThompsonOwner of a boarding house in ApocolypeMentioned

 

Crew

DirectorMontgomery Pittman
Assistant DirectorFred Scheld
Developed by
Roy Huggins (uncredited)
WriterLeonard Praskins
Executive Producer

Wm. (William) T. Orr
Producer
Coles Trapnell

Director of Photography
Roger Shearman
Art Director
Howard Campbell
Supervising Film Editor
James Moore

Film Editor

Robert Crawford
Production Manager
Oren W. Haglund
Sound (Charles) David Forrest
Set DirectorSteve (Steven) A. Potter
Makeup SupervisorGordon 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

Johnny Rain: Come on, Mr. Maverick. I know a shortcut. We’ll head ’em off at the pass.
A cliché meaning the people running away will be stopped, often used in Western movies.

 

Johnny Rain: Well, it’s [liquor] got a tendency to give me the collywobbles.

 

Bret Maverick: I think I got the cure for it. A little Hair of the dog that bit ya’.

 

 

Notable Mentions

Blackout Drunk / Dual Drunk Personality Disorder
Fourth of July  

 

 

Geographic References

Apocolypse
Mexico  

 

 

 

The Games People Play

Bret Maverick: …In the last town I’d put all my faith into two pair, and three tiny little deuces had wrecked my faith and my bankroll.

 

Blackjack / Twenty-one
Poker
Cold decked  

Coolers / Shaved cards / Stripper deck (Sound)

 

 

Grub

Bacon
Beef stew
Coffee
Tonic
Whiskey (“Scamper juice”)

 

 

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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