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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!

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 Shady Deal at Sunny Acres
    9.4/10(299 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.

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  2. Background image for Gun-shy
    9.0/10(289 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.

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  3. Background image for The Saga of Waco Williams
    8.8/10(199 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.

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  4. Background image for Greenbacks, Unlimited
    8.8/10(126 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. Background image for Maverick Springs
    8.7/10(136 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. Background image for The Quick and the Dead
    8.5/10(190 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 Day They Hanged Bret Maverick
    8.5/10(165 votes)

    #7 - The Day They Hanged Bret Maverick

    S2:E1

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

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  9. Background image for Pappy
    8.5/10(184 votes)

    #8 - 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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  10. Background image for The Art Lovers
    8.5/10(75 votes)

    #9 - 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.

    Writer:Unknown
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  11. Background image for Three Queens Full
    8.5/10(96 votes)

    #10 - 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).

    Writer:Unknown
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  12. Background image for Game of Chance
    8.4/10(115 votes)

    #11 - 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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  13. Background image for The Rivals
    8.4/10(149 votes)

    #12 - 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.

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  14. Background image for Full House
    8.4/10(135 votes)

    #13 - 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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  15. Background image for Rope of Cards
    8.3/10(182 votes)

    #14 - 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.

    Writer:Unknown
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  16. Background image for Black Fire
    8.3/10(150 votes)

    #15 - 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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  17. Background image for Seed of Deception
    8.3/10(156 votes)

    #16 - 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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  18. Background image for Two Beggars on Horseback
    8.3/10(136 votes)

    #17 - 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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  19. Background image for The Sheriff of Duck 'N' Shoot
    8.3/10(133 votes)

    #18 - 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.

    Writer:Unknown
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  20. Background image for Hadley's Hunters
    8.3/10(121 votes)

    #19 - Hadley's Hunters

    S4:E2

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

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  21. Background image for Last Wire from Stop Gap
    8.3/10(94 votes)

    #20 - 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.

    Director:Lee Sholem
    Writer:Unknown
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  22. Background image for According to Hoyle
    8.2/10(211 votes)

    #21 - 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.

    Writer:Unknown
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  23. Background image for Stampede
    8.2/10(166 votes)

    #22 - 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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  24. Background image for Rage For Vengeance
    8.2/10(167 votes)

    #23 - 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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  25. Background image for The Belcastle Brand
    8.2/10(150 votes)

    #24 - The Belcastle Brand

    S2:E4

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

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  26. Background image for Escape to Tampico
    8.2/10(147 votes)

    #25 - 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.

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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 299 votes. Directed by Leslie H. Martinson and written by Unknown, it aired on 11/23/1958. This episode scored 0.4 points higher than the second highest rated, "Gun-shy".