Bret Maverick: The Lazy Ace

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Bret Maverick: The Lazy Ace
Directed by	Stuart Margolin
Produced by	Meta Rosenberg Gordon T. Dawson Geoffrey Fischer Mark Horowitz Chas. Floyd Johnson
Written by	Gordon T. Dawson
Starring	James Garner
Music by	Murray MacLeod J.A.C. Redford
Cinematography	Andrew Jackson
Editing by	Diane Adler George R. Rohrs
Release date(s)	1981
Running time	98 minutes
Country	United States
Language	English
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Bret Maverick: The Lazy Ace is the 1981 2-hour pilot episode of the television series Bret Maverick, trimmed to a quicker pace and repackaged as a TV-movie for rerunning on local television stations. The 1981 show was based on the 1957 series Maverick, catching up with professional poker-player Bret Maverick (James Garner), who was 29 years old at the beginning of the first series, at the age of 53. The film, written by Gordon T. Dawson and directed by Stuart Margolin, occasionally appears under the simpler title Bret Maverick.

The real pilot, however, of both this series and the preceding CBS show Young Maverick, could be said to be the 1979 TV-movie The New Maverick, which featured both Garner as Bret and Jack Kelly as his brother Bart.