Maverick: The Complete Second Season (Black & White)

"Maverick" is AWESOME-- a must-have if you're into this sort of Show! That said, this "complete" collection is missing Episode 21: "The Saga of Waco Williams" and the Season Finale, Episode 26: "The Strange Journey of Jenny Hill. Those two Episode titles appear on the disc's printed labels for Disc 5 and 6 respectively but the Episodes themselves simply are not present. Bummer but these are long out-of-print now so no point in complaining or returning them for a replacement-- just enjoy the 24 Episodes you do get because they're a HOOT!

Comments after getting the DVD: My rating holds, this was an excellent series, entertaining and done well so it's timeless and not "cheesy" nor sophmoric now like many old TV shows are when viewed today. Even our kids enjoy watching it. But some things seem different. Might be my memory of this decades-old show, but I have a pretty clear memory in the episode I noted below where the bad guy realizes that he's been had, goes to get Maverick off the stage coach only to find that yes, Maverick asked about the stage but actually took the train in the other direction, and there's this hilarious "jackass music"; In this DVD, no music, it seems like a different ending. Again, memory can be wrong and that seems like the most likely explanation, I may be criss-crossing episodes, but it just doesn't seem that way. Did the DVD use an alternate ending for some reason? In any case, still highly recommended and just as good as expected, but a few things seem changed. Probably just the passage of time. I guess this is the way it starts...Video and audio quality are excellent, no problems.********************************************************************************************Note: This is an early review on concept, the DVD is pre-ordered and I have not yet received it. Will update after. [Update above]The old Warner Brothers TV series, Maverick, was one of TV's best shows, and finally WB seems to have released it to DVD's after decades of waiting. I see that the individual seasons are available and also the entire series. In terms of me having time to actually view the whole series, which is unlikely, and in terms of cost (both the purchase price for the whole series plus getting a divorce since my wife would shoot me if I bought the entire series), I opted for the second season, which seems to have many of the most memorable, best episodes. There's one where a banker cheats Bret Maverick out of late-night gambling winnings and how Bret gets it back while seemingly doing nothing, and the "jackass music" at the end when the crooked banker realizes that he's been had, well worth the DVD all by itself. If folks remember some of the old, great Western TV shows like Gunsmoke, Have Gun - Will Travel, etc., there's a Maverick second season episode that satirizes them, and does a great job of it. Everyone will have their favorite episodes, and some will want the whole season, but this second season has the strongest appeal for me.So, I'm looking forward to this in a few weeks. When I receive and view it, I will update this. Hopefully audio and visual quality will be good, etc. But this was arguably the best season of a great show in the golden age of TV, so I can't wait!

Instead of a man's or woman's word being his or her bond, in this West, no one, particularly a woman, can be trusted to do whatever he or she agreed to do. All played for cheap laughs, no one is to be trusted; cowboys making a cattle drive can expect the owner to run off with all the money and not pay the crew, for instance. What would really have been so funny about that, from the working cowboy's point of view? It is played as a huge joke if someone can steal money from either of the Mavericks at the end. Simple integrity would have prevented most of the conduct the writers came up with, but most of the people getting screwed were armed and dangerous as well, another very good reason not to behave the way nearly everyone behaves in this show. Definitely not the best Western series of 1959 or any other year, just different (and not in a good way) in its characterization of the West. (That was during the best years of Gunsmoke, Have Gun, Will Travel, Wagon Train, The Rifleman, Bat Masterson, The Life and Times of Wyatt Earp, and Lawman.) Really an unpleasant world depicted, where no one, not even your own brother, can be trusted to do the right thing, if money is involved. That theme wears very thin, very quickly. Roger Moore was a guest during the season, but not yet as Beauregard Maverick. He played John Vandergelt III in Episode 18 "The Rivals."

Excellent Quality, excellent packaging--a little synopsis-book is included with the DVD so that you can read up on the episodes to find which one you're wanting but don't know the name of the episode, which is usually the way. I still was hanging on to my old VCR tapes of this show, as it took awhile to come around to DVD and an affordable price. Then, you have to trust that the entire episode makes it to the DVD, as sometimes corners are cut and bits of the show lopped off cheapening the quality of the show. Amazon had a good sale on this one day so I took the plunge. I do NOT find them to be compromised at all, they appear to be in the entirety. This is one of the most cleverly written series, if not THE most clever one ever--I LOVE how the stories often play out in irony or do a full-circle type of thing, so detail is important for this show, can't lop any footage off. In nearly every episode, Maverick gets into trouble, and has to use his wits to get out of the situation, and usually comes out ahead financially too. So he typically starts the episode flush with cash, loses it due to robbery or trickery of some sort, but then dreams up a clever scheme to get it all back. Season 2 the series was going full-steam, and many good stories are here. Well worth the money spent, will be glad to put the old video tapes to rest now.

a very good season I can't play it until I buy a multi region player but I'm lucky I belong to Amazon prime because i can watch the full season on my kindle fire device so nobody is to blame because one way or another I intend to buy the complete series so keep them coming and thank you

Prompt delivery and excellent packing.One of the best if not THE best western series! Highly recommended to all fans of Wit and Westerns..

Good value set of one of the all time great tv Westerns. If you like James Garner and Jack Kelly in top form,a must!

just about to buy the rest of the series .......sugarfoot is next on the list

In many ways better than season one. The plots on these stories are superb.