97) Shady Deal at Sunny Acres (Maverick)

If you don’t know what Maverick is, or only know the movie with Mel Gibson, it was originally a show starring James Garner. If you don’t know who James Garner is, please knock yourself in the head and get on Google. Now, Maverick wasn’t exactly a traditional western at the time, mostly because of James Garner’s portrayal of the professional gambler, which is what made it worth watching. Bret Maverick was kind of a hustler, a drifter, and his code of honor was mainly shaped by his “pappy-isms,” little platitudes he picked up from his father. One of the better ones is “As my old pappy used to say, ‘You can fool all of the people some of the time, and some of the people all of the time, and those are very good odds.’”  His role as the honorable rogue made him distinct and kept the audience from getting…