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Maverick (1957)

Maverick poster
Genre
Westerns on television, comedy television series
Country
United States
Length
5 seasons, 124 episodes
Rated
TV-PG
Rating
6.9 of 10 from 42 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

A smooth-talking poker player travels through the Old West, using his wits and cards to get by. He drifts from town to town, taking on gamblers and avoiding trouble with a smirk.

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What happens

Maverick is an American Western television series with comedic overtones created by Roy Huggins and originally starring James Garner as an adroitly articulate poker player plying his trade on riverboats and in saloons while traveling incessantly through the 19th-century American frontier. The show ran for five seasons from September 22, 1957, to July 8, 1962 on ABC. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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