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Young Maverick: The Complete Series
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Genre | Television, Westerns/Television |
Format | NTSC |
Contributor | Charles Frank |
Number Of Discs | 3 |
Runtime | 8 hours and 4 minutes |
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Meet Ben Maverick (Charles Frank), the crown prince of cardsharps. Son of Beau (played by Roger Moore on the original series), Ben may be Harvard educated, but he's still cut from the same cloth as his cousins (once removed). So it's a good thing Bret (James Garner) and Bart (Jack Kelly) are on hand to introduce Ben to the ways of the Wild West in The New Maverick TV movie (included in this collection), which successfully paved the way for this Maverick sequel series. Unlike his lighter traveling relations, Ben carries some extra baggage on his wanderings -- his lovely grifting gal pal Nell (Susan Blanchard). While the pair may always bluff their way to high stakes, their real ace-in-the-hole is Marshal Edge Troy (John Dehner), who shows up just in time to get the pair out of a jam. Usually. Notable guests include James Woods, Donna Mills, George Dzundza, Howard Duff, Harry Dean Stanton and Morgan Fairchild.
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- Aspect Ratio : 1.33:1
- MPAA rating : NR (Not Rated)
- Product Dimensions : 7.5 x 5.5 x 0.5 inches; 3.5 ounces
- Item model number : B01CDT62OI
- Media Format : NTSC
- Run time : 8 hours and 4 minutes
- Release date : March 1, 2016
- Actors : Charles Frank
- Studio : Warner Archive Collection
- ASIN : B01CDT62OI
- Number of discs : 3
- Best Sellers Rank: #62,676 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)
- #7,522 in Comedy (Movies & TV)
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Even though this short series revival suffered from some of the same shortcomings as other attempts to update the Maverick character, it had an underlying authenticity sadly lacking from the miserable formulaic Bret Maverick series that aired for one season, two years later on NBC. All attempts at reviving Maverick, including the theatrical release starring Mel Gibson, have simply played the comedy too broadly, rendering the shows much too silly. The original series, created by Roy Huggins, wrote Maverick as a serious western anti-hero character who would do almost anything to avoid conflict and inconvenience but NOT as a con artist coward as subsequent efforts suggested. When pressed by circumstances in the original Maverick storylines, our main character always stood up to the bad guys, often finding ways to outsmart them.
In the Young Maverick series, Charles Frank looked the part and played it as well as he could under the circumstances. The bad guys in each episode had enough of an edge to make them appear to be a believable threat within the story line and Ben Maverick always showed an appropriate Maverick concern for bringing them to some sort of frontier justice. The fatal flaw of this series was including a female tag-a-long character named Nell McGarrahan, played by Susan Blanchard, the real life wife of the lead actor Charles Frank. Even though she was a very pretty face to grace the screen in each episode, her character basically just served to distract from the storyline and also created a silly kid-show type of framework in the series. Remove that character and provide a little more seriousness to the Maverick role and this series would have been a successful revival of the original show regardless of the length of its run on CBS-TV in 1979.
One huge disappointment in the release of this series on DVD is that, for some odd reason, it did not include the well documented first 15 second scene from the opening episode that aired on November 28, 1979. That scene showed Ben Maverick having a chance encounter with Bret Maverick played in a cameo by James Garner. In this scene, Bret said to Ben "expect to see more of me" in your travels. I cannot imagine why it was not included in the DVD unless it was somehow filmed separately from the episode in which it appeared and served as more of a teaser promo to build interest in the new series. Whether it was "lost" within the Warner Brothers vault or not included for some other reason, it was still a great disappointment not to have been included in this package.
Overall this series was a surprisingly good attempt to revive Maverick from the 1950's, especially when compared to the Bret Maverick series from 2 years later. Fans of the original Maverick TV show will likely enjoy this very limited run series which has not been seen in almost 40 years. One final note is that the best episode in the series is "Dead Man's Hand" which aired as a two part episode on the 4th and 5th weeks of the series after 3 other episodes had already aired. It seems obvious that this was intended to be an extended 2 hour premier of the series because of the inclusion of introductory devices for a number of issues including the continuing character of Nell McGarrahan.