McCoy was also recognized for the story, in the closing credits, of the Samantha Crawford character debut in, arguably, the third best episode of the Maverick television series titled "According to Hoyle" starring James Garner, Diane Brewster and Leo Gordon.
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Dale played many roles in television over the years. In the 1958-1959 season of The Donna Reed Show, Dale played a job-seeking housekeeper who is frightened from the Stone home by Jeff Stone's pet mouse, and she appeared in the 1957 Maverick episode "According to Hoyle" opposite James Garner.
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According to Hoyle (1923, 2005), Colonel is Coon-Can for two players. A single, 40-card, Spanish- suited pack was traditionally used, but a French pack may be used either without the courts or without the 8, 9 and 10.Coon Can by R.F. Foster at www.rummy-games.com. Retrieved 29 Nov 2019.
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Volume 4, was a remake of Volume 1, with two additional games. Sierra continued to publish more games to the series up to its demise. Encore Software has continued publishing entries to the series since then. According to Hoyle 1 it was essentially a spiritual sequel to Sierra's Hi-Res Cribbage (1981).
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Edmond Hoyle (167229 August 1769) was a writer best known for his works on the rules and play of card games. The phrase "according to Hoyle" (meaning "strictly according to the rules") came into the language as a reflection of his generally perceived authority on the subject; since that time, use of the phrase has expanded into general use in situations in which a speaker wishes to indicate an appeal to a putative authority.
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Lucas McCain of The Rifleman served as a lieutenant in the 19th Indiana during the war. This background was dealt with during an episode where McCain takes in a wounded southern veteran. Deputy U.S. Marshals Eli Flynn and William Henry Washington from According to Hoyle by Abigail Roux both served in the 19th Indiana during the war, and then later served in the Indian Wars, before becoming Marshals together. Washington, at least, still carries his army-issued Colt .
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Brewster first played the character in a 1956 episode of Cheyenne entitled "Dark Rider" before appearing opposite James Garner in the third episode of Maverick, "According to Hoyle". Her other Maverick appearances include "The Savage Hills" with Jack Kelly, "The Seventh Hand" with Garner, and the famous "Shady Deal at Sunny Acres" with both Kelly and Garner. Writer/producer and series creator Roy Huggins had given her character his mother's maiden name. Brewster played Miss Canfield on Leave It to Beaver for the first season on CBS in 1957-1958 and for the 1980s television revivals.
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George Bass was an optician known to have made an achromatic doublet around 1733. The specifications for the lens elements were given by Chester Moore Hall. According to Hoyle,Fred Hoyle, Astronomy; A history of man's investigation of the universe, Rathbone Books Limited, 1962, Hall wished to keep his work on the achromatic lenses a secret and contracted the manufacture of the crown and flint lenses to two different opticians, Edward Scarlett and James Mann.\- A review of the events of the invention of the achromatic doublet with emphasis on the roles of Hall, Bass, Jesse Ramsden, John Dollond and others.
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Writers for Maverick included Roy Huggins ("Shady Deal at Sunny Acres"), Russell S. Hughes ("According to Hoyle", "The Seventh Hand", "The Burning Sky", and Robert Louis Stevenson's "The Wrecker"), Gerald Drayson Adams ("Stampede"), Montgomery Pittman ("The Saga of Waco Williams"), Douglas Heyes ("The Quick and the Dead"), Marion Hargrove ("The Jail at Junction Flats," "Gun Shy" and others), Howard Browne ("Duel at Sundown"), Leo Townsend ("The Misfortune Teller"), Gene Levitt ("The Comstock Conspiracy"), Leo Gordon (who also acted on the series although never in an episode that he had written; apparently the studio didn't want to foster a custom of actors writing their own scripts for television series), and George Waggner, among many others.
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He also guest-starred in episodes of two ABC sitcoms, The Donna Reed Show as Nick Melinas in "The Love Letter" (1960) and on The Real McCoys, in which he plays the fiance of Gladys Purvis (Lurene Tuttle), the widowed mother of Kate McCoy (Kathleen Nolan). Novello's character initially clashes with Grandpa Amos McCoy (Walter Brennan), but the two men are reconciled over a game of horseshoes. Between 1957 and 1960, Novello appeared as a skittish coroner in an episode of the ABC/Warner Brothers western series Maverick, starring James Garner, also in Season 1, Episode 3 "According to Hoyle" as Henry Tree a private detective, also two episodes of the ABC/Warner Brothers western series, Colt .45, starring Wayde Preston.
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By July he was reported as back at Carlton having not been a success in umpiring although the Football record intimated Topping missed playing more than he expected noting, "Topping has had a go at field umpiring, and has come to the conclusion that it is better to play than to see that the other fellows play the game according to Hoyle." Seven years after his last match as a player Topping again applied to join the VFL umpires and again was accepted. This time he stuck at it for longer and, despite not achieving senior matches, was more successful. His 15 VCFL matches in 1922 included two finals - the Heathcote grand final and the Peninsula Football Association second semi-final - and he returned the same total in 1923 with two more finals.
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Because of his contributions to gaming, Hoyle was a charter inductee into the Poker Hall of Fame in 1979, even though he died 60 years before poker was invented. The phrase according to Hoyle still has some currency in contemporary English, meaning 'correctly or properly; according to an authority or rule'.. In British English, a Hoyle can refer to any authoritative card-game rule book, similar to the usage of a Baedeker to refer to any travel guide. Many modern books of collected rule sets for card games (and sometimes other games, such as board games, billiards, etc.) contain the name "Hoyle" in their titles, but the moniker does not mean that the works are directly derivative of Edmond Hoyle's (in much the same way that many modern dictionaries contain "Webster" in their titles without necessarily relating to the work of Noah Webster).
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While in college, he got a job at radio station WHAT as an announcer, earning $15 weekly plus transportation. He used the name "Eddie Hoyle" while hosting Hollywood According to Hoyle, a gossip program. While selling radio time in 1946, a customer called Frankford Unity Grocery Store wanted to sponsor a music show; He decided that he would host the show himself to pick up a few extra dollars, and adopted the name "Frank Ford" for the show, a name that stuck with him for the rest of his life. In a 1995 interview with the Philadelphia Daily News, he wondered "what my name would be if the sponsor was the Piggly Wiggly stores." Together with partners Lee Guber and Shelly Gross, he opened the Valley Forge Music Fair in Devon, Pennsylvania in 1955, featuring such shows as its inaugural production of The King and I. Originally housed in a tent, a building was constructed on the site as a theater.
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Early in his career, Avery appeared as "Dennison" in an episode of the 1953–1954 ABC situation comedy, The Pride of the Family. He portrayed Lieutenant Steve King on The Thin Man. Noted for his girth and cultured voice, Avery usually played sophisticated and articulate villains, including the featured nemesis in six out of seven episode appearances on the ABC/Warner Brothers western television series Maverick starring James Garner, Jack Kelly and Roger Moore, between 1957 and 1962 (the episodes were "According to Hoyle" with Garner, "Rope of Cards" with Garner, "Yellow River" with Kelly, "Maverick Springs" with Garner and Kelly, "Last Wire from Stop Gap" with Kelly and Moore (in which Avery does not play a villain), "Maverick at Law" with Kelly, and "Poker Face" with Kelly) In 1958, he appeared in the episode "Devil to Pay" of the ABC/WB series, Sugarfoot, starring Will Hutchins in the title role. Avery played Jim Case, the owner of a trading post in Arapaho country.
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"According to Hoyle" was the first Maverick appearance of Diane Brewster as roguish Samantha Crawford, a role she'd played earlier in an episode of the Western TV series Cheyenne titled "The Dark Rider," and subsequently repeated on Maverick with Garner in "The Seventh Hand" and Kelly in "The Savage Hills." "The Quick and the Dead" stars Gerald Mohr as Doc Holliday and film noir icon Marie Windsor as a saloon owner in a tense drama with Bret Maverick gingerly attempting to manipulate the terrifying gunslinger. Mohr portrayed Doc Holliday again the following year in an episode of the television series Tombstone Territory titled "Doc Holliday in Durango," reprising his colorfully sardonic performance as the legendary gunfighter. During the first two seasons, with writer/producer Roy Huggins at the helm, writers were instructed to write every script while visualizing James Garner playing the part; two-Maverick scripts denoted the brothers as "Maverick 1" and "Maverick 2," with Garner choosing which role he would play due to his senior status on the series.
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