I was born in 1951, so James Garner was and will always be Bret Maverick on the 1957-1962 TV show. I never saw a single episode of Rockford Files!
There were so many great westerns on in the late 50s and early 60s: Sugarfoot, Cheyenne, Maverick, Rawhide, Wagon Train, Gunsmoke, Bat Masterson, Tales of Wells Fargo, Tombstone Territory, Wanted: Dead or Alive (with McQueen’s “Mare’s Leg”), The Rifleman.
Sigh, back when TV celebrated America, celebrated white men, didn’t fill the airwaves with LGBTABCXYZ crapola and try to subvert our kids.
“Have Gun, Will Travel”... “Trackdown” wasn’t bad.
I liked the 1981-82 version of Bret Maverick, which apparently was part of how Garner settled with NBC after abruptly quitting Rockford in about late 1979, early 1980. That was a shame that NBC axed that one after only one season.
Even the stuff that was on back in about 1981-82 when I was a kid (Bret Maverick, Dukes of Hazzard, Magnum PI, Simon and Simon, Fall Guy, and many others) was that more fun to watch than what you say the “LGBTABCXYZ crapola” that is on today.
The rifleman is available all over roku. Timeless. Bestc22 minutes you will spend