"Stampede" introduced the Maverick audience to Efrem Zimbalist, Jr.'s Dandy Jim Buckley, one of the most popular recurring characters of the Saga.[3] Series creator Roy Huggins wanted to have a story featuring a character to contrast Maverick's. Where Maverick was a "gentle grafter," Dandy Jim was an "all-out grafter." Huggins wanted the two characters to be alike in many ways, both professional gamblers with smart, sophisticated and worldly personalities. But Maverick lived by an ethical code of never cheating honest folks while with Buckley, everyone — honest or not — was fair game.[2]

Huggins originally intended Dandy Jim to be a one-shot character, but the audience responded well to him. Dandy Jim went on to appear in a total of five Maverick episodes until Efrem Zimbalist, Jr.'s starring role in 77 Sunset Strip made his Maverick appearances problematic. The character had become so popular, and provided such a workable foil for Maverick himself, that the series needed a suitable replacement. Dandy Jim, therefore, became the prototype of an on-going run of similar characters, the most successful of which was Richard Long's Gentleman Jack Darby. Other copies included Mike Road's Pearly Gates and Edward Ashley's Nobby Ned Wyngate. Even Peter Breck's unlikely Doc Holliday became a contender in Maverick's last days.[2]

MAVERICK

Season 1, Episode 9

ALTERNATE TITLE
“No Holds Barred”[2]

ORIGINAL AIRDATE
November 17, 1957[2]

WRITTEN BY
Gerald Drayson Adams

DIRECTOR

Abner Biberman

PRODUCER

Roy Huggins

EXECUTIVE PRODUCER

William T. Orr

CAST

CREW

James Garner

Efrem Zimbalist, Jr.

Pamela Duncan

Joan Shawlee

Chris Alcaide

Mike Lane

Pat Cominskey

Rand Brooks

Marshall Bradford

Jim Hayward

Mark Tapscott

Terry Frost uncredited [1]

Cactus Mack uncredited [1]

Carl Berger

Art Loel

James Moore

Carl Pingitore

Oren W. Haglund

Samuel F. Goode

Pat Delaney

Gordon Bau

Robert Farfan

Bret Maverick

Dandy Jim Buckley

Coral Stacey

Madame Pompey

Tony Cadiz

Noah Perkins

Battling Kreuger

Jack Blair

Marshal Hunt

Miner

Deputy (Deadwood)

Sheriff

Deputy (Whiskey Flats)
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Director of Photography

Art Director

Supervising Film Editor

Film Editor

Production Manager

Sound

Set Decorator

Makeup Supervisor

Assistant Director