James Garner
ecthompsonmd
July 20, 2014
I grew up in the late 1960s and 1970s. I watched James Garner on the small screen and the big-screen. In the late ’60s, all of these independent television stations were just popping up in Dallas. They had 24 hours of airtime to fill. They played reruns – I Love Lucy, Make Room for Daddy, Mister Ed and Maverick, to name a few. Maverick, set in the old wild West, was a new type of character. He wasn’t the John Wayne and Marlon Brando type. Instead, he was the type of hero who would rather play cards (always poker) and chase
