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'', which had starred

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as roving gambler Bret Maverick.

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played Ben Maverick, the son of Bret's

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Beau Maverick, making him Bret's

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. Frank's real-life wife Susan Blanchard played his girlfriend Nell, while

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(a frequent guest-star in various roles in several ''Maverick'' episodes including "

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") appeared as a frontier marshal who had arrested Ben's father Beau decades before. The series was cancelled by

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after six hour-long episodes had been shown, leaving two which were never aired on the network. All eight episodes were screened later that year on BBC1 in the UK. The 1978 TV-movie ''

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'', featuring Garner as Bret, Frank as Ben, Jack Kelly as Bret's brother Bart Maverick, and Blanchard as Nell, served as the pilot for the series. (Garner appeared briefly in the first regular episode of ''Young Maverick'', "Clancy," making him the only person to appear in all three series.) Among the actors appearing on ''Young Maverick'' were Howard Duff,

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(all in "Dead Man's Hand," parts 1 and 2), J. Pat O'Malley ("A Fistful Of Oats"),

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(both "Makin' Tracks") and

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. Roger Moore, who played Beau Maverick (Ben's father) in the original series, never appeared in ''Young Maverick''. Despite the title, Frank was three years older than Garner had been at the launch of the original series.

Cast

as Ben Maverick * Susan Blanchard as Nell McGarrahan *

as Marshall Edge Troy

Episode list

DVD release

On March 1, 2016,

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released ''Young Maverick- The Complete Series'' on DVD in Region 1 for the very first time.Official 'Complete Series' Announcement: Date, Contents, Art!
This is a manufacture-on-demand (MOD) release, available exclusively through Warner's online store and

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References

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