You Can't Beat the Percentage 

On the road traveling to meet an old girlfriend who wrote him a letter, Bart meets a young cowboy who tells him he's going to kill a man - the man who owns the gambling house where the girl... See full summary »

Director:

George Waggner (as george waGGner)

Writer:

George Waggner

Stars:

Jack Kelly, Gerald Mohr, Karen Steele

Cast

Episode cast overview:
Jack Kelly	...	Bart Maverick
Gerald Mohr	...	Dave Lindell
Karen Steele	...	Myra
Tim Graham	...	Pop
Dan Riss	...	Sheriff Bill Satchel
Joe Patridge	...	Dealer
Michael Harris	...	Charley
Ray Daley	...	Brazos Kincaid

Storyline

On the road traveling to meet an old girlfriend who wrote him a letter, Bart meets a young cowboy who tells him he's going to kill a man - the man who owns the gambling house where the girl now works. But when the cowboy winds up being the one killed instead, Bart is accused of killing him, and starts to wonder if he's not being played as a pawn in a game.

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Genres:

Comedy | Western

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Details

Language:

English

Release Date:

4 October 1959 (USA)

Filming Locations:

Stage 22, Warner Brothers Burbank Studios - 4000 Warner Boulevard, Burbank, California, USA

Company Credits

Production Co:

Warner Bros. Television

Technical Specs

Runtime:

60 min

Sound Mix:

Mono (RCA Sound Recording)

Color:

Black and White

Aspect Ratio:

1.33 : 1

Did You Know?

Trivia

There is a picture of Wild Bill Hickok in the marshal's office.

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Quotes

[first lines]
[Bart rides up to a man digging graves]
Bart Maverick: Morning.
Pop: Morning.
Bart Maverick: Well, who are these for?
Pop: Don't rightly know. It's early in the day, yet.
Bart Maverick: You mean you're just digging 'em in case?
Pop: I like to get a couple ahead. Can't every tell.

User Reviews

A Maverick Whodunit

Starts off as a slick poker scam in typical Maverick fashion, but quickly evolves into a whodunit. You may need a scorecard to keep up with the complications and dead bodies, still there's the ravishing Karen Booth to entertain the eye. And who better as a foil for the Mavericks than the smoothly sinister Gerald Mohr. In the charm department, he fits right in with the series emphasis on glib humor. Good thing the series emphasis was not on realism, because that early shot of the phony mountain backdrop is hard to ignore. Some foliage between the action and the backdrop might have helped. Anyway, the entry is mainly a matter of taste, but in my view, it doesn't make enough use of the series' particular strengths.