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The Best Episodes of Maverick

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The Best Episodes of Maverick

The Maverick boys - Bret, Bart, Beau and Brent - are a clan of well-dressed dandies, gamblers who'd much rather make their money playing cards...

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  1. Background image for Greenbacks, Unlimited
    8.8/10(123 votes)

    #1 - 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.

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    Director:Arthur Lubin
    Writer:Unknown
  2. Background image for Maverick Springs
    8.7/10(133 votes)

    #2 - 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.

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    Director:Arthur Lubin
    Writer:Unknown
  3. Background image for Pappy
    8.5/10(180 votes)

    #3 - 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.

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  4. Background image for Full House
    8.5/10(131 votes)

    #4 - 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.

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    Director:Robert Gordon
    Writer:Unknown
  5. Background image for Three Queens Full
    8.5/10(90 votes)

    #5 - 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).

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    Writer:Unknown
  6. Background image for The Quick and the Dead
    8.4/10(184 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.

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  8. Background image for The Art Lovers
    8.4/10(69 votes)

    #7 - 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.

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    Writer:Unknown
  9. Background image for Rope of Cards
    8.3/10(179 votes)

    #8 - 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.

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    Writer:Unknown
  10. Background image for Black Fire
    8.3/10(147 votes)

    #9 - 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.

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  11. Background image for Seed of Deception
    8.3/10(151 votes)

    #10 - 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.

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  12. Background image for The Sheriff of Duck 'N' Shoot
    8.3/10(129 votes)

    #11 - 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.

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    Writer:Unknown
  13. Background image for Hadley's Hunters
    8.3/10(117 votes)

    #12 - Hadley's Hunters

    S4:E2

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

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  14. Background image for According to Hoyle
    8.2/10(203 votes)

    #13 - 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.

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    Writer:Unknown
  15. Background image for Rage For Vengeance
    8.2/10(162 votes)

    #14 - 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.

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  16. Background image for A Tale of Three Cities
    8.2/10(113 votes)

    #15 - A Tale of Three Cities

    S3:E6

    Bart has trouble retrieving his poker winnings from thieves. But help is on the way — from the local Ladies Aid Society.

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  17. Background image for Last Wire from Stop Gap
    8.2/10(88 votes)

    #16 - Last Wire from Stop Gap

    S4:E5

    On their way to Denver, Beau and Bart Maverick pick up $6,500 in a poker game at Stop Gap. They decide to wire the money to Denver through the Hulett Telegraph Company. They discover the company is a fake and that the telegraph line leads to a cave two miles away where the crooks stash the customers' money and send phony messages in return. The cousins devise a scheme to recover the money and put the company out of business.

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    Director:Lee Sholem
    Writer:Unknown
  18. Background image for War of the Silver Kings
    8.1/10(262 votes)

    #17 - 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.

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    Writer:Unknown
  19. Background image for Stampede
    8.1/10(159 votes)

    #18 - Stampede

    S1:E9

    Bret and Dandy Jim Buckley bet heavily on a boxing match but when their fighter withdraws it's up to Bret himself to step into the squared circle.

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  20. Background image for Burial Ground of the Gods
    8.1/10(106 votes)

    #19 - 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.

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  21. Background image for A Fellow's Brother
    8.1/10(132 votes)

    #20 - A Fellow's Brother

    S3:E11

    When George Henry Arnett hears that Bret Maverick is in town to collect his money, Arnett (Adam West) starts a ""top gun"" rumor about Bret. After he creates a smoke screen, Arnett creeps out of town. Maverick is idolized by the town youngsters, sought after available women and hunted by the town bounty hunter. Bret Maverick is the talk of the town.

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    Writer:Unknown
  22. Background image for The Resurrection of Joe November
    8.1/10(116 votes)

    #21 - The Resurrection of Joe November

    S3:E24

    A $10,000 temptation puts Bret unwittingly in the middle of a fantastic smuggling scheme.

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    Writer:Unknown
  23. Background image for The Maverick Line
    8.1/10(110 votes)

    #22 - The Maverick Line

    S4:E10

    Inheriting a stagecoach line from Uncle Micah is only the beginning of financial problems for the Maverick brothers.

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    Writer:Unknown
  24. Background image for The Devil's Necklace (1)
    8.1/10(79 votes)

    #23 - The Devil's Necklace (1)

    S4:E31

    Bart just made the deal of a lifetime: he blindly purchased a wagonload of merchandise — including a bound and gagged Indian girl.

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    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown
  25. Background image for Marshal Maverick
    8.1/10(72 votes)

    #24 - Marshal Maverick

    S5:E10

    Bart is closer to tears than laughter when he is forced to battle the funniest and fastest gun in the West.

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    Director:Sidney Salkow
    Writer:Unknown
  26. Background image for The Long Hunt
    8.0/10(169 votes)

    #25 - The Long Hunt

    S1:E5

    Bret tries to prove the innocence of a man serving a life sentence. But there's someone who wants the prisoner to stay where he is.

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Best Episodes Summary

"Greenbacks, Unlimited" is the best rated episode of "Maverick". It scored 8.8/10 based on 123 votes. Directed by Arthur Lubin and written by Unknown, it aired on 3/13/1960. This episode scored 0.1 points higher than the second highest rated, "Maverick Springs".