“Relic of Fort Tejon”

“Relic of Fort Tejon”

 

Season: 1 episode 7

Series Episode: 7

Air Date: November 3, 1957

Maverick TV series starring James Garner and Jack Kelly

A Warner Bros. production

 

 

Teaser

She has beautiful eyes.

 

Cast & Crew Lists

Cast

Character	Role	Actor	Actor Age	Status
Bret Maverick	Gambler / Con artist / Narrator	James Garner	29	Credited
Brimmer	Poker player / Former owner of Fatima	Oliver Blake	52	Credited
Connors	Card cheat running the four card spread	Kem Dibbs	40	Credited
Drake	Jimson's hired gun	Tyler Mac Duff (MacDuff)	32	Credited
Ferguson	Card cheat in red shirt	Lou Krugman	43	Credited
Howard Harris	Owner of the Silver Springs Hotel	Dan Tobin	47	Credited
"Honest" Carl Jimson	Mayor of Silver Springs / Owner of the Square Deal Saloon	Fredd Wayne	33	Credited
Johnson	Rancher who wants $100 to take Fatima off Bret's hands	Earl (Earle) Hodgins	64	Credited
Tommy Norton	Poker player / Townsman	Alan Austin	37	Credited
Donna Seeley	Bret Maverick's old friend	Maxine Cooper	33	Credited
	Sheriff of Silver Springs	Sheb Wooley	36	Credited
Dr. Nelson	Doctor in Silver Spring	Irving Mitchell	66	Uncredited
Scott	Poker player in Silver Springs			Uncredited
Fatima	Bactrian camel from US Army			Uncredited
Lou	Deputy in Silver Springs	Rush Williams	33	Uncredited
	Bartender at the Square Deal	Joe Brooks	33	Uncredited
	Deputy	George Bell	59	Uncredited
	Livery owner	Harry Strang	64	Uncredited
	Poker player	George Barrows	43	Uncredited
	Prospective buyer rejecting Fatima	Clem Fuller	49	Uncredited
	Townsman	Fred Carson	33	Uncredited
	Townsman	Luis Delgado	32	Uncredited
	Townsman	Duke Green	56	Uncredited
	Townsman	Tex Holden	49	Uncredited
	Townsman	Bob Reeves	65	Uncredited
	Friend of Bret's that told him Jimson was dishonest			Mentioned
	Doctor in Crown City			Mentioned

 

Crew

Director	Leslie H. Martinson
Assistant Director	Claude E. Archer
Developed by	Roy Huggins (uncredited)
Teleplay	Jerry Davis
Based on a magazine story: "Relic of Fort Tejon" appearing in Colliers on December 20, 1947, by	Kenneth Perkins
Executive Producer	Wm. (William) T. Orr
Producer	Roy Huggins
Director of Photography	Carl Berger, A.S.C.
Art Director	Art Loel
Supervising Film Editor	James Moore
Film Editor	Harold Minter, A.C.E.
Production Manager	Oren W. Haglund
Sound	Samuel F. Goode
Set Decorator	Jerry Welch
Set Construction	Donald P. Desmond (uncredited)
Makeup Supervisor	Gordon Bau, S.M.A.
Composer: Original Theme	David Buttolph (uncredited)
Stock Music Composer	Max Steiner (uncredited)
Production Company	Warner Bros. Television
Distribution Company	American Broadcasting Company (ABC)

 

 

Dialogue/Figurative Language/Literary References/Quotes

Brimmer [surname]
Meaning: a grouse or grumbler

 

 

Notable Mentions

Mississippi river boats
Camels & the U.S. Army
Edmund Hoyle
Queen Fatima

 

 

Geographic References

Clayville
Clovis  
Crown City, Texas, United States of America
Silver Springs, Texas, United States of America 
Fort Tejon, California, United States of America
Henderson’s Wells

 

The Games People Play

Brimmer: What’re ya’ holdin’?
Bret: Ah, you didn’t pay to find out.
Brimmer: Games over. I kinda like know what ya’ beat me with.
Bret: Sometimes it’s better not to know.
Brimmer: What’d ya’ have?
[Bret tosses Brimmer the hand and Bremmer spreads it on the table.]
Brimmer: Why… you got nothin’. You ran one! I should’a known better, you double-crossin’, no…”
Bret: Easy, Brimmer. If you’re gonna play poker, you’ll have to develop a sense of humor. That’s the whole trick my friend. Keep smiling.”

 

Bret: The one way for a card player to be sure of winning is to get into a crooked game and play honest, if he knows what to look for. And there’s nothing I like better than to trip up a card shark.

 

5-Card Draw Poker
Four Card Spread
Single Card Holdout

 

Grub

Coffee
Sugar crystals*

 

 

*Use Turbinado sugar as the crystals in the episode were brown.

 

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