- Shady Deal at Sunny Acres
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show_name = 'Shady Deal at Sunny Acres'
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genre = WesternComedy
writer =Roy Huggins Douglas Heyes
director =Leslie H. Martinson
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starring =James Garner Jack Kelly John Dehner Efrem Zimbalist, Jr. Diane Brewster Leo Gordon
Richard LongArlene Howell Regis Toomey Karl Swenson
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theme_music_composer =David Buttolph Paul Francis Webster
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country = USA
language = English
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executive_producer =William T. Orr
producer =Roy Huggins
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location = flagicon|CaliforniaCalifornia
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runtime = 60 mins.
network = ABC
picture_format = 1.33:1monochrome
audio_format =monaural
first_run = Sunday at 7:30pm
first_aired =23 November 1958
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imdb_id = 0644483
tv_com_id =Shady Deal at Sunny Acres, starring
James Garner and Jack Kelly, remains the most famous and widely discussed episode of the Westerncomedy television series "Maverick". Written byRoy Huggins andDouglas Heyes and directed byLeslie H. Martinson , this 1958 second season episode depicts gamblerBret Maverick ( [http://blog.peakdems.org/uploaded_images/jamesgarner-729737.jpgJames Garner] ) being swindled by a crooked banker (John Dehner ) after depositing the proceeds from a late-nightpoker game, then recruiting his brother Bart Maverick (Jack Kelly) to mount an elaboratesting operation to recover the money. As Huggins noted during a lengthy discussion of the episode in hisArchive of American Television interview, the first half of the 1973 movie "The Sting " seems obviously based on Huggins' script. While Bart and all of the series' recurring characters join forces to energetically flim-flam the banker ("....if you can't trust your banker, whom can you trust?"), Bret sits whittling in a rocking chair across the street from the bank every day, responding to the amused and patronizing queries of the local townspeople curious about how he plans to recover his money, "I'm working on it.""Shady Deal at Sunny Acres" is always the first episode that Garner mentions in interviews and was subsequently remade by writer/producer
Stephen J. Cannell into a 1975 "Rockford Files " installment called "The Great Blue Lake Land and Development Company" (a combination of "Shady Deal at Sunny Acres" and another "Maverick" episode entitled "Maverick Springs").Cast
James Garner ...
Jack Kelly ... Bart MaverickJohn Dehner ... Bates the bankerEfrem Zimbalist, Jr. ... Dandy Jim BuckleyDiane Brewster ... Samantha CrawfordLeo Gordon ... Big Mike McComb
Richard Long ... Gentleman Jack DarbyArlene Howell ... Cindy Lou BrownRegis Toomey ... Ben GranvilleKarl Swenson ... Sheriff Griffen
Joan Young ... Susan GranvilleIrving Bacon ... Employee
Val Benedict ... Cowhand
Earle Hodgins ... Plunkett
Jonathan Hole ... Brent WilliamsJ. Pat O'Malley ... Ambrose CallahanSyd Saylor ... 1st Townsman
Leon Tyler ... Henry Hibbs
Edwin Reimers ... Announcer (voice)External links
* [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0644483/ Shady Deal at Sunny Acres] in the
Internet Movie Database
* [http://www.amazon.com/review/product/6302390435?showViewpoints=1 Reviews of "Shady Deal at Sunny Acres"]
* [http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-1814078786067513650&q=Roy+Huggins&total=20&start=10&num=10&so=0&type=search&plindex=1 Roy Huggins' Archive of American Television Interview]
* [http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=3939862031835606094&q=%22Archive+of+American+Television+Interview+with+Stephen+J.+Cannell%22&total=9&start=0&num=10&so=0&type=search&plindex=6 Stephen J. Cannell's Archive of American Television explanation of Huggins' approach]
* [http://www.museum.tv/archives/etv/M/htmlM/maverick/maverick.htm Museum of Broadcast Communications: Maverick]
* [http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=7751930044026887549 James Garner's Archive of American Television Interview]
* [http://timstvshowcase.com/maverick.html Tim's TV Showcase: Maverick]
* [http://www.tvtome.com/tvtome/servlet/ShowMainServlet/showid-1020/Maverick/ TV Tome - Maverick]
* [http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=8844857220560459276&q=%22James+Garner%22+%22Charlie+Rose%22&total=4&start=0&num=10&so=0&type=search&plindex=0 James Garner Interview on the "Charlie Rose Show"]
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