This is the episode that introduces Roger Moore as Cousin Beauregard Maverick. Beau is considered the ""white sheep"" of the family because he had the misfortune of earning a medal in the Civil War.

Can-Am invited me out to the California desert to watch some epic off-road racing at King of the Hammers, and while I was there, I drove their newest and greatest side-by-side: the Maverick R.

Beau Maverick (played by James Garner), father of Bret and Bart announces that he is getting married. The Maverick boys discover that the marriage is a business arrangement, not a love commitment.