1. Beau
   Bart
2. Bret

James Garner played the original Maverick, Bret, in the first three seasons of the show, before quitting over a contract dispute. After producers realized that having only a single star was slowing down production, they decided to add Bret's brother as a second main character on the show.

1. Bart
   Ben
2. Braff

Brought on to ease the burden on star James Garner, Jack Kelly actually ended up appearing in more episodes of the series than Garner himself. He played Bret's brother Bart starting in the eighth episode of season one, and stayed in the role all the way through season five. The parts designed for Bart and Bret were virtually interchangeable, often identified as "Maverick 1" and "Maverick 2" in the scripts.

1. London
   Paris
2. Madrid

Producers brought yet another of the Maverick family males into the fray when they introduced cousin Beau from London. Roger Moore took on the role of this Maverick cousin, while Bret and Bart's brother Brent -- played by Robert Colbert -- also appeared in a few episodes.

1. "Gunsmoke"
   "Cheyenne"
2. "Bonanza"

The Mavericks ran into Samantha Crawford -- played by actress Diane Bewster -- on many occasions throughout the series. Each time they ran into the sneaky southern belle, the experience usually cost them a pretty penny, thanks to Crawford's conniving ways.

1. money
   picture of mom
2. note from dead fiancee

Maverick knew that money was helpful for getting himself out of trouble. He always kept a $1,000 bill pinned inside of his jacket in case he needed it.

1. selling liquor
   robbing banks
2. poker

The Mavericks traveled all over the country, looking for high-stakes poker games to pick up some cold hard cash. Although they preferred a hand of five-card stud, they weren't afraid to participate in other card games if the money was right.

1. Big Mike
   Little Jim
2. Tall Bill

Actor Leo Gordon, who also served as a scriptwriter for the show, played the Maverick's Irish buddy Big Mike McComb. Though Gordon wrote several episodes of the series, he never penned any of the episodes he appeared in.

1. Mama
   George Washington
2. Pappy

Bret took his advice straight from his Pappy, who offered such wisdom as, "Stay clear of weddings, because one of them is liable to be your own."

1. New Orleans
   Boston
2. Deadwood

In the season one episode, "Hostage," Bret meets up with his brother Bart in New Orleans. The pair plan to ride on the maiden voyage of a riverboat -- until the daughter of the boat owner is kidnapped and the Mavericks step in to rescue her.

1. Big Daddy Williams
   Old Don McCoy
2. Jim Dandy Buckley

Jim Dandy Buckley is both friend and rival to Bret, but he does manage to help Maverick clear his name after he is falsely accused of a crime. The pair also team up to fight a crooked gambler in season one.

1. Jesse James and Frank James
   Doc Holliday and Wyatt Earp
2. Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid

When Bret and Bart roll into Arizona in the season one finale, the locals mistake them for legendary lawmen Doc Holliday and Wyatt Earp. While the two deny these identities, they are able to protect the town from a bank robbery.

1. whittling
   dancing
2. running

In one of the most memorable "Maverick" episodes, Bret spends the entire episode whittling in a rocking chair after he is robbed of $15,000 by a shady bank manager. When asked why he isn't fighting to get his money back, Maverick famously replies, "I'm working on it," before outwitting the bank manager and recapturing his cash.

1. falls off horse
   falls out of stagecoach
2. trips over cat

After his horse is spooked by a cat, Bret falls and breaks his leg in this season two episode. Things get even worse after he is taken to the home of a local rancher -- and the man's wife is willing to do anything to make Bret feel better.

1. "An Affair to Remember"
   "Gone with the Wind"
2. "Casablanca"

The season two episode was set at La Cantina Americana -- a spoof on Rick's Cafe Americain from "Casablanca." The show also used sets from the movie to create a cafe in a small Mexican town, and many of the costumes used on the episode were based on outfits worn in the film.

1. Magnolia C
   Cynthia B
2. Freddie K

Bret ended up part-owner of a steamboat named the Cynthia B in season three. As he and his fellow boat owners sail up the Mississippi River, they are killed one by one in a story reminiscent of Agatha Christie's "And Then There Were None."

1. railroad run
   line of whiskey
2. stagecoach run

In Bret's final appearance on the show, he inherits "The Maverick Line," a stagecoach run formerly owned by his Uncle Micah. Unfortunately, the windfall is actually a curse and causes more problems than Bret ever expected.

1. kidnapped child
   treasure chest
2. opium

Trying to escape a bad situation, Bart buys a wagon in the season four story arc -- only to discover that the wagon contains a kidnapped Indian girl.

1. David
   The Last Supper
2. Mona Lisa

Bart finds himself serving an unscrupulous railroad tycoon as a stolen Mona Lisa gets passed around the black market in "The Art Lovers," which also featured an appearance by Jack Cassidy.

1. "Rawhide"
   "Gunsmoke"
2. "Bonanza"

Maverick is charged with marrying Henry, Small Paul and Moose Wheelwright to three troublesome young ladies in this "Bonanza" parody.

1. Aces High
   Pearly Gates
2. Quick-draw Jim

Mike Road played gambling man Pearly Gates, who appeared in several episodes with his girl, Marla, who was played by Kathleen Crowley.

1. 3
   5
2. 7

Maverick was making his fortune and picking up ladies for 124 episodes over five seasons, from 1957 to 1962.

1. Ben
   Dan
2. Frank

Beau's son Ben came aboard the series in the 1978 TV movie, "The New Maverick," in which Bret, Bart and nephew Ben joined forces to take on Poker Alice. The movie served as a pilot for "Young Maverick," a new TV series.

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2. false

The original series may have been uber-popular, but a remake featuring actor Charles Frank as Ben Maverick ran for only nine episodes over a single season before it was cancelled in 1980.

1. Bret
   Bart
2. Beau

"Bret Maverick" premiered in 1981 and ran for 18 episodes before it was cancelled the next year. On the series, Bret was the owner of a ranch called the Lazy Ace, and part-owner of an Arizona bar known as the Red Ox.

1. Will Smith
   Dennis Quaid
2. Mel Gibson

Mel Gibson took on the part of Bret Maverick in the film, where he was determined to make it to a major poker tournament and prove he was the greatest card player of all time.

1. Julia Roberts
   Charlize Theron
2. Jodie Foster

Jodie Foster played a seductive con artist in the 1994 film. Her character, Annabelle Bransford, was a mashup of all the women the Maverick men loved or feuded with throughout the original series.

1. Marshal Zane Cooper
   Frank Grimes
2. Will Paulson

James Garner, who played the original Bret Maverick character on the TV series, appeared in the film as Marshal Zane Cooper -- a man trying to win the poker tournament that Mel Gibson's character was entered in.

1. Maverick
   Annabelle
2. Cooper

Who else but Maverick himself could win the big tournament? After his win, Maverick must protect himself from a sore loser named Angel, who draws his gun on the winner.

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2. false

After Maverick wins the $500,000 prize, Cooper steals the cash. Viewers later learn that Cooper is really Maverick's father, and the two were plotting together the entire time.

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2. false

Maverick reveals that he let Annabelle steal half of his big prize -- because he thought it would be a lot of fun chasing her down so he could take the money back.