The Mavericks are well groomed gamblers who travel from town to town looking for a good game of poker. First seen as a drama, the show developed a sense of humor in later episodes.

Coogan's bluff: "Clint Eastwood stars as Walt Coogan, a soft-spoken, straightforward, Arizona lawman who is sent to New York City to extradite captured murderer James Ringerman (Don Stroud). Coogan slips up, Ringerman escapes again, and the hunt is on!"--Publisher's website The beguiled: "During the Civil War, a wounded Union soldier is sheltered by the headmistress and students of a girls' academy in the South. As his health returns his desire increases,...

Tarzan the ape man: A trader and his daughter set off into deepest Africa in search of the fabled graveyard of the elephants, only to encounter a wild man raised by apes. Tarzan escapes: An expedition seeking to bring Tarzan into captivity and Jane back to civilization meets with opposition. Tarzan and his mate: Tarzan and Jane's idyllic life is challenged by men on safari who come seeking both ivory and Jane. Tarzan finds a son!: When a plane...

"The idea of verse, of poetry, has always, during forty years spent working primarily in prose, stood at my elbow, as a standing invitation to the highest kind of verbal exercise - the most satisfying, the most archaic, the most elusive of critical control. In hotel rooms and airplanes, on beaches and Sundays, at junctures of personal happiness or its opposite, poetry has comforted me with its hope of permanence, its packaging of flux." Thus John...