“Game of Chance”
“Game of Chance”
Season: 2 episode 15
Series Episode: 42
Air Date: January 4, 1959
Maverick TV series starring James Garner and Jack Kelly
A Warner Bros. production
Teaser
Pearls of wisdom are gained inside a variation of the fiddle game. Phoenix station master & telegrapher
Cast & Crew Lists
Cast
Character Role Actor Actor Age Status
Bret Maverick (a.k.a. Donald R. Gray) Gambler / Con artist James Garner 30 Credited
Bart Maverick Gambler / Con artist Jack Kelly 31 Credited
Michelle Boseau (a.k.a. La Comtesse "Countess" Michelle De Barot) Con woman / Baron George Dulot's niece Roxane Berard 25 Credited
Le Baron de Montaigne (a.k.a. Baron George Dulout) Con man / La Contesse du Barot's uncle / author of an encyclopedia of French cooking Marcel Dalio 59 Credited
Murdock Clerk at the jewelry store in Phoenix, Arizona Lou Krugman 44 Credited
Herbert K. Smith Jeweler in Denver, Colorado Fred Essler 63 Credited
Jeweler in San Francisco, California Jonathan Hole 54 Credited
Announcer Ed Reimers 56 Uncredited
Desk clerk at Denver Plaza Hotel Olan Soule 49 Uncredited
Desk clerk in Phoenix, Arizona Jack Shea 46 Uncredited
Horse auctioneer Terence de Marney 50 Uncredited
Man bidding for the palomino at horse auction Uncredited
Owner of the jewelry store in Phoenix, Arizona Uncredited
Man in Denver Plaza Hotel lobby Luis Delgado 33 Uncredited
Prospective mark Paul Bradley 57 Uncredited
Train passenger Bing Conley 58 Uncredited
Train conductor Mike Lally 58 Uncredited
Train station agent in Phoenix, Arizona Richard Collier 39 Uncredited
John Bates Former banker in Sunny Acres Mentioned
Samantha Crawford Con woman Mentioned
"Dandy Jim" James Aloysius Buckley Con man Mentioned
Crew
Director James V. Kern
Assistant Director Charles ("Chuck") L. Hansen
Developed by
Roy Huggins (uncredited)
Writer Gene Levitt
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
Robert B. Warwick, Jr.
Production Manager
Oren W. Haglund
Sound Samuel F. Goode
Set Decorator
Frank M. Miller
Makeup Supervisor Gordon Bau, S.M.A.
Composer: Original Theme David Buttolph (uncredited)
Original Theme Lyrics Paul Francis Weber
Musician: Harmonica Tommy Morgan (uncredited)
Production Company
Warner Bros. Television
Distribution Company
American Broadcasting Company (ABC)
Dialogue/Figurative Language/Literary References/Quotes
Phoenix station master & telegrapher: I don’t like to chew my cabbage twice.
Notable Mentions
Western Union Telegraph Company
Guillotine
The Springs (oil painting)
Pearls
French Revolution
Geographic References
Albuqueque, New Mexico Territory, United States of America
Colorado Springs, Colorado, United States of America
Denver, Colorado, United States of America
El Paso, Texas, United States of America
Gallup, New Mexico Territory, United States of America
Leadville, Colorado, United States of America
New York, New York, United States of America
Phoenix, Arizona Territory, United States of America
Pueblo, Colorado, United States of America
San Francisco, California, United States of America
Silver City, New Mexico Territory, United States of America
Sante Fe, New Mexico Territory, United States of America
Socorro, New Mexico Territory, United States of America
Trinidad, Colorado, United States of America
Red Sulphur Spring Resort
Water Street, San Francisco, United States of America
France
The Games People Play
“The odds against filling an inside straight are twelve to one,” stated Bart Maverick. “So a poker player isn’t very wise to make the draw. Unless of course, he’s feeling lightheaded and the pot is at least twelve times the size of his bet; which is exactly the way it happened. A thousand dollar bet had brought back twelve thousand. And I was doing the only thing that should ever be done with money – spending it.”
Grub
Poulet sauté Florentine
Filet boeuf mariné au porto
Champagne
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