 to the Western genre while changing the way in which you and I saw a hero on television behave. Maverick not only made James Garner a star, it was the first example, in this case Roy Huggins, of a writer writing material that played to Garner's strength. I interviewed Roy Huggins many times for my books on the Rockford Files and Maverick. On one occasion, I asked Roy Huggins to explain the type of humor that James Garner did so well.