This document summarizes several classic TV shows from the 1950s and 1960s that featured gamblers and card players, including Mr. Lucky, Maverick, and unnamed westerns. Mr. Lucky was a 1959 CBS TV series and 1943 movie about a gambler running a floating casino. Maverick starred James Garner and Jack Kelly as traveling card players and brothers getting into adventures. Many westerns of the era depicted saloons as centers of card games and drinking, and were sponsored by tobacco companies who used the shows to promote their products.