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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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Season 1

  • War of the Silver Kings
    8.2/10239 votes
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    War of the Silver Kings

    Season 1 Episode 1 - Aired 9/22/1957

    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: N/A

  • Point Blank
    7.9/10207 votes
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    Point Blank

    Season 1 Episode 2 - Aired 9/29/1957

    Bret meets a delightful and cunning girl (Karen Steele). Within minutes, she makes plans for his future — a permanent plot on boot hill.

    Director: Budd Boetticher

    Writer: N/A

  • According to Hoyle
    8.2/10191 votes
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    According to Hoyle

    Season 1 Episode 3 - Aired 10/6/1957

    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

  • Ghost Rider
    7.8/10151 votes
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    Ghost Rider

    Season 1 Episode 4 - Aired 10/13/1957

    A woman who'd been traveling with Bret suddenly disappears. Looking into things he discovers that she'd been reported dead more than a week ago.

    Director: Leslie H. Martinson

    Writer: Marion Hargrove

  • The Long Hunt
    8.1/10156 votes
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    The Long Hunt

    Season 1 Episode 5 - Aired 10/20/1957

    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.

    Director: Douglas Heyes

    Writer: DeVallon Scott

  • Stage West
    7.7/10163 votes
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    Stage West

    Season 1 Episode 6 - Aired 10/27/1957

    Fleeing a band of angry Native Americans, Bret takes shelter in a way station where a family of nasty outlaws are planning their bloodiest deal.

    Director: Leslie H. Martinson

    Writer: N/A

  • Relic of Fort Tejon
    7.9/10159 votes
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    Relic of Fort Tejon

    Season 1 Episode 7 - Aired 11/3/1957

    Bret wins a camel in a card game and ends up using her to bring a crooked gambling den owner to justice.

    Director: Leslie H. Martinson

    Writer: Jerry Davis

  • Hostage!
    7.6/10141 votes
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    Hostage!

    Season 1 Episode 8 - Aired 11/10/1957

    Bret Maverick meets up with brother Bart in New Orleans where they plan to obtain passage on a riverboat where big money poker games are held but end up getting involved in the kidnapping of the riverboat owner's daughter instead.

    Director: Richard L. Bare

    Writer: Gerald Drayson Adams

  • Stampede
    8.1/10140 votes
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    Stampede

    Season 1 Episode 9 - Aired 11/17/1957

    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.

    Director: Abner Biberman

    Writer: Gerald Drayson Adams

  • The Jeweled Gun
    7.7/10126 votes
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    The Jeweled Gun

    Season 1 Episode 10 - Aired 11/24/1957

    Bart agrees to pose as the husband of a woman who's traveling through the badlands. Big mistake because he soon finds himself the target of a killer.

    Director: Leslie H. Martinson

    Writer: Roy Huggins

  • The Wrecker
    7.6/10136 votes
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    The Wrecker

    Season 1 Episode 11 - Aired 12/1/1957

    Bart takes to the sea after buying a derelict cargo ship. The wreck is extremely valuable and he wants to know why.

    Director: Franklin Adreon

    Writer: N/A

  • The Quick and the Dead
    8.5/10168 votes
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    The Quick and the Dead

    Season 1 Episode 12 - Aired 12/8/1957

    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

  • The Naked Gallows
    7.6/10116 votes
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    The Naked Gallows

    Season 1 Episode 13 - Aired 12/15/1957

    Bart pokes his nose into an unsolved murder case and ends up facing the business end of a killer's .45.

    Director: Abner Biberman

    Writer: Howard Browne

  • Comstock Conspiracy
    7.9/10133 votes
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    Comstock Conspiracy

    Season 1 Episode 14 - Aired 12/29/1957

    Arriving in the mining boom town of Virginia City, Bret gets involved with a mining engineer in his struggle for improved working conditions.

    Director: Howard W. Koch

    Writer: Gene Levitt

  • The Third Rider
    8.1/10109 votes
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    The Third Rider

    Season 1 Episode 15 - Aired 1/5/1958

    Bart gets involved with two devious couples in this episode which sees him trying to clear himself of a bank robbery and a murder.

    Director: Franklin Adreon

    Writer: N/A

  • Rage For Vengeance
    8.2/10149 votes
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    Rage For Vengeance

    Season 1 Episode 16 - Aired 1/12/1958

    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: Roy Huggins, Marion Hargrove

  • Rope of Cards
    8.4/10165 votes
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    Rope of Cards

    Season 1 Episode 17 - Aired 1/19/1958

    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

  • Diamond in the Rough
    8.1/10108 votes
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    Diamond in the Rough

    Season 1 Episode 18 - Aired 1/26/1958

    After being beaten up, robbed, and shanghaied, Bart sets out to expose the man responsible, a respected member of San Francisco society, as a diamond swindler.

    Director: Douglas Heyes

    Writer: Marion Hargrove

  • Day of Reckoning
    7.6/10132 votes
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    Day of Reckoning

    Season 1 Episode 19 - Aired 2/2/1958

    Fearless Bret feels it's about time someone did something about the town bully so he asks the townspeople to do something.

    Director: Leslie H. Martinson

    Writer: Carey Wilber

  • The Savage Hills
    8.1/10115 votes
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    The Savage Hills

    Season 1 Episode 20 - Aired 2/9/1958

    Against his better judgment, Bart teams up with Samantha Crawford to recover stolen Treasury plates.

    Director: Douglas Heyes

    Writer: Gerald Drayson Adams

  • Trail West to Fury
    7.5/10126 votes
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    Trail West to Fury

    Season 1 Episode 21 - Aired 2/16/1958

    During a hellacious rainstorm the brothers Maverick relate to pal Dandy Jim Buckley about the time in Texas shortly after the Civil War when they searched far and wide for a tall man who could clear them of a murder charge.

    Director: Alan Crosland, Jr.

    Writer: Gene Levitt

  • The Burning Sky
    8.2/10106 votes
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    The Burning Sky

    Season 1 Episode 22 - Aired 2/23/1958

    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

  • The Seventh Hand
    8.1/10114 votes
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    The Seventh Hand

    Season 1 Episode 23 - Aired 3/2/1958

    Samantha Crawford arranges for Bret to sit in on a high stakes poker game but he's the fall guy when the game gets robbed.

    Director: Richard L. Bare

    Writer: Howard Browne

  • Plunder of Paradise
    7.5/1097 votes
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    Plunder of Paradise

    Season 1 Episode 24 - Aired 3/9/1958

    There's gold in them thar hills, and Bart Maverick and Big Mike McComb are out to get it. But so are four nasty Mexican banditos.

    Director: Douglas Heyes

    Writer: Douglas Heyes

  • Black Fire
    8.3/10134 votes
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    Black Fire

    Season 1 Episode 25 - Aired 3/16/1958

    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: Howard Browne, Marion Hargrove

  • Burial Ground of the Gods
    8.2/1094 votes
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    Burial Ground of the Gods

    Season 1 Episode 26 - Aired 3/30/1958

    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

  • Seed of Deception
    8.3/10140 votes
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    Seed of Deception

    Season 1 Episode 27 - Aired 4/13/1958

    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