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The Best Episodes of Maverick

Every episode of Maverick ranked from best to worst. Let's dive into the Best Episodes of Maverick!

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  1. #1 Fan Favorite
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    Maverick Season 2 Episode 10 - Shady Deal at Sunny Acres
    9.4/10(311 votes)

    #1 - Shady Deal at Sunny Acres

    S2:E10

    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:Unknown

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  2. Maverick Season 2 Episode 16 - Gun-shy
    8.9/10(288 votes)

    #2 - Gun-shy

    S2:E16

    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:Unknown

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  3. Maverick Season 2 Episode 21 - The Saga of Waco Williams
    8.8/10(209 votes)

    #3 - The Saga of Waco Williams

    S2:E21

    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:Unknown

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  4. Maverick Season 3 Episode 26 - Greenbacks, Unlimited
    8.7/10(135 votes)

    #4 - Greenbacks, Unlimited

    S3:E26

    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:Unknown

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  5. Maverick Season 3 Episode 13 - Maverick Springs
    8.6/10(148 votes)

    #5 - Maverick Springs

    S3:E13

    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:Unknown

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  6. Maverick Season 1 Episode 12 - The Quick and the Dead
    8.5/10(197 votes)

    #6 - The Quick and the Dead

    S1:E12

    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

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  7. Maverick Season 2 Episode 1 - The Day They Hanged Bret Maverick
    8.5/10(178 votes)

    #7 - The Day They Hanged Bret Maverick

    S2:E1

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

    Director:Douglas Heyes
    Writer:Douglas Heyes

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  8. Maverick Season 2 Episode 18 - The Rivals
    8.4/10(160 votes)

    #8 - The Rivals

    S2:E18

    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:Unknown

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  9. Maverick Season 3 Episode 1 - Pappy
    8.4/10(197 votes)

    #9 - Pappy

    S3:E1

    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

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  10. Maverick Season 3 Episode 7 - Full House
    8.4/10(146 votes)

    #10 - Full House

    S3:E7

    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:Unknown

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  11. Maverick Season 5 Episode 4 - Three Queens Full
    8.4/10(107 votes)

    #11 - Three Queens Full

    S5:E4

    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:Unknown

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  12. Maverick Season 1 Episode 3 - According to Hoyle
    8.3/10(234 votes)

    #12 - According to Hoyle

    S1:E3

    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:Unknown

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  13. Maverick Season 1 Episode 17 - Rope of Cards
    8.3/10(196 votes)

    #13 - Rope of Cards

    S1:E17

    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:Unknown

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  14. Maverick Season 1 Episode 25 - Black Fire
    8.3/10(159 votes)

    #14 - Black Fire

    S1:E25

    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
    Writers:Marion Hargrove, Howard Browne

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  15. Maverick Season 1 Episode 27 - Seed of Deception
    8.3/10(168 votes)

    #15 - Seed of Deception

    S1:E27

    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

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  16. Maverick Season 3 Episode 3 - The Sheriff of Duck 'N' Shoot
    8.3/10(145 votes)

    #16 - The Sheriff of Duck 'N' Shoot

    S3:E3

    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:Unknown

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  17. Maverick Season 5 Episode 2 - The Art Lovers
    8.3/10(86 votes)

    #17 - The Art Lovers

    S5:E2

    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:Unknown

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  18. Maverick Season 1 Episode 1 - War of the Silver Kings
    8.2/10(315 votes)

    #18 - War of the Silver Kings

    S1:E1

    Bret Maverick takes down a money-hungry gambler in the town of Echo Springs. He befriends an old drunk, who turns out to be a successful judge. Maverick strikes a deal with the gambler, Phineas King, to merge the ""silver lady"" mine with ""the new hope"" mine.

    Director:Budd Boetticher
    Writer:Unknown

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  19. Maverick Season 1 Episode 16 - Rage For Vengeance
    8.2/10(180 votes)

    #19 - Rage For Vengeance

    S1:E16

    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
    Writers:Marion Hargrove, Roy Huggins

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  20. Maverick Season 1 Episode 26 - Burial Ground of the Gods
    8.2/10(118 votes)

    #20 - Burial Ground of the Gods

    S1:E26

    Bart Maverick is in search of a thief who stole his money but gets sidetracked into accompanying a young woman searching for her missing husband into forbidden Sioux territory.

    Director:Douglas Heyes
    Writer:Douglas Heyes

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  21. Maverick Season 2 Episode 4 - The Belcastle Brand
    8.2/10(158 votes)

    #21 - The Belcastle Brand

    S2:E4

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

    Director:Leslie H. Martinson
    Writer:Marion Hargrove

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  22. Maverick Season 2 Episode 6 - Escape to Tampico
    8.2/10(158 votes)

    #22 - Escape to Tampico

    S2:E6

    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

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  23. Maverick Season 2 Episode 15 - Game of Chance
    8.2/10(122 votes)

    #23 - Game of Chance

    S2:E15

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

    Director:James V. Kern
    Writer:Unknown

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  24. Maverick Season 2 Episode 17 - Two Beggars on Horseback
    8.2/10(146 votes)

    #24 - Two Beggars on Horseback

    S2:E17

    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:Unknown

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  25. Maverick Season 2 Episode 24 - Two Tickets to Ten Strike
    8.2/10(184 votes)

    #25 - Two Tickets to Ten Strike

    S2:E24

    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

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Best Episodes Summary

"Shady Deal at Sunny Acres" is the best rated episode of "Maverick". It scored 9.4/10 based on 311 votes. Directed by Leslie H. Martinson and written by Unknown, it aired on 11/23/1958. This episode scored 0.5 points higher than the second highest rated, "Gun-shy".