The Best Episodes of Maverick

Bret, helpless against a crafty banker (John Dehner) who robbed him, bides his time — while Bart and friends set up an elaborate con game.

Director: Leslie H. Martinson

Writer: N/A

Bret, seeking buried Confederate treasure in Elwood, Kansas, keeps running afoul of U.S. Marshal Mort Dooley. The marshal keeps running Bret out of town. Bret, in turn, keeps outwitting the lawman.

Director: Leslie H. Martinson

Writer: N/A

Bret and his buddy Waco Williams (Wayde Preston) ride straight into trouble in Bent City, where they are suspected of being cattle rustlers.

Director: Leslie H. Martinson

Writer: N/A

Bret is gired by a weathly texan to save her brother Mark from a conniving woman named Melanie. Posing as a Texas Colonel, Bret realizes that he's up against a master crook. With Mark's help and brother Bart's arrival as a weathly Easterner, they set up a scheme to catch the girl and almost outsmart themselves with their own cleverness.

Director: Arthur Lubin

Writer: N/A

Bank robber Big Ed Murphy is at his wit's end: someone keeps beating him to the loot — and that someone is Bret.

Director: Arthur Lubin

Writer: N/A

The only person who can clear Bret of a robbery charge has been marked for death by the notorious gunfighter/gambler Doc Holliday.

Director: Douglas Heyes

Writer: Douglas Heyes

Bret attends a hanging under very uncomfortable conditions: he's the intended victim.

Director: Douglas Heyes

Writer: Douglas Heyes

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. The young girl, Josephine St. Cloud is being forced by her father to marry the older Beau Maverick. The brothers set out to sabotage the wedding plans, not knowing that Beau Maverick already had a plan.

Director: Montgomery Pittman

Writer: Montgomery Pittman

Bret Maverick runs into a notorious bunch of bank robbers; Cole Younger, Billy The Kid, Sam Bass, Jesse James, Frank James, Jim Dalton, Black Bart, Ben Thompson and Belle Starr. The outlaws believe that Bret is the infamous Foxy Smith, a well known bad guy. When the outlaws discover Bret's true identity, they force him to do the robbery in Denver. Bret ends up in a mint of trouble.

Director: Robert Gordon

Writer: N/A

Bart must either face two years in jail or chaperone three brides to their intendeds — the sons of wealthy Joe Wheelwright (Jim Backus).

Director: Michael O'Herlihy

Writer: N/A

Lydia Linley is a young heiress who yearns for a man like Sydney Carton of A Tale of Two Cities - "a man of warmth, imagination, courage, and a sense of adventure." Jack Vandergelt III (Roger Moore) is in love with Lydia but knows she will have nothing to do with him because he is rich. Vandergelt hires Bret Maverick to switch identities with him in hopes that Lydia will love and accept him for who he is before she realizes he is a Vandergelt. The plan goes smoothly until Jack Vandergelt's father unexpectedly arrives in town.

Director: Leslie H. Martinson

Writer: N/A

Bart meets a comical sheriff (Edgar Buchanan) who is dead serious about killing him.

Director: Leslie H. Martinson

Writer: N/A

When investors put the squeeze on railroad owner Paul Sutton, Bart tries to help by dealing with them directly — in a friendly card game.

Director: Michael O'Herlihy

Writer: N/A

It's shades of 12 Angry Men when Bret becomes the lone holdout for a not guilty verdict in a murder trial. He has to use a long shot card trick to convince the other jurors that the defendant might be innocent.

Director: Richard L. Bare

Writer: N/A

The heirs of millionaire General Eakins are being killed off one by one so why is Bret Maverick so worried? He's posing as one of the heirs and might be the next intended victim.

Director: Leslie H. Martinson

Writer: Marion Hargrove, Howard Browne

After they arrive in an Arizona town, Bret and Bart are mistaken for Wyatt Earp and Doc Holliday and end up preventing a bank robbery.

Director: Richard L. Bare

Writer: Montgomery Pittman

In a desert, Bret and a hunting party are ambushed — and left to fight a blazing sun.

Director: Leslie H. Martinson

Writer: Marion Hargrove

Bret and Bart are pursuing the same woman. What's the attraction? The $10,000 she copped from them.

Director: James V. Kern

Writer: N/A

Bret and Bart's devotion to one another is tested when they're offered a deal that can mean $10,000 for one of them, but just one.

Director: Douglas Heyes

Writer: N/A

Sheriff Bret astounds himself as well as the townspeople by taming the trail herders who have been devastating the town, beats a gang of bank robbers at their own game, but has to summon the aid of brother Bart when his eye for a woman's beauty lands him in his own lockup.

Director: George Waggner

Writer: N/A

Samantha Crawford is a con artist employed by George Cross. Cross once lost $50,000 to Bret Maverick and is determined to get it back. Two riverboat owners staked Maverick $5,000 which he promptly loses to Samantha. Samantha claims Cross is her father and needs the money to get out of jail. Maverick forms a partnership with Samantha and purchases gambling equipment in a scheme to put Joe Riggs, a crooked game room owner, out of business. Samantha and Cross doublecross Maverick by selling the equipment to Riggs.

Director: Budd Boetticher

Writer: N/A

Bret is happy to escort a lovely widow to the bank with a large sum of cash - until he learns the money is counterfeit.

Director: Leslie H. Martinson

Writer: Marion Hargrove, Roy Huggins

In the desert, an Indian ambush leaves Bart and other stagecoach passengers to battle their attackers, each other, and the sun.

Director: Gordon Douglas

Writer: Howard Browne, Russell S. Hughes

In Mexico, Bret tries to trick an American renegade into returning to the U.S. — where he's wanted for murder.

Director: Douglas Heyes

Writer: Douglas Heyes

Bret Maverick suspicions are aroused when he is forced to leave Ten Strike, New Mexico. Determined to stand his ground, Maverick stays in Ten Strike long enough to uncover a bizarre plot of murder and blackmail. Two gunmen, Vic Nolan (Adam West) and Eddie Burke (William Gordon), try to scare Maverick out of town.

Director: Douglas Heyes

Writer: Douglas Heyes