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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.

War of the Silver Kings

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

Point Blank

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.

According to Hoyle

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.

Ghost Rider

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.

The Long Hunt

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.

Stage West

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

Relic of Fort Tejon

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.

Hostage!

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.

Stampede

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.

The Jeweled Gun

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

The Wrecker

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

The Quick and the Dead

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

The Naked Gallows

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

Comstock Conspiracy

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

The Third Rider

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

Rage For Vengeance

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.

Rope of Cards

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.

Diamond in the Rough

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

Day of Reckoning

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

The Savage Hills

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.

Trail West to Fury

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

The Burning Sky

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.

The Seventh Hand

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.

Plunder of Paradise

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.

Black Fire

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.

Burial Ground of the Gods

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.

Seed of Deception

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

The Day They Hanged Bret Maverick

Bret falls for the tempting trickery of a pretty woman (Joanna Barnes) â€” and finds himself helplessly involved in a swindle.

The Lonesome Reunion

Bart meets a gentleman after his own heart â€” who skips town with his money, and leaves him to face a murder rap and a man-hungry female (Arlene Howell).

Alias Bart Maverick

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

The Belcastle Brand

Bart Maverick and two of his friends are charged with murder. The town's citizens demand a confession from one of the three men, or else all three men will be prosecuted. Bart falsely confesses to the murder, but help from his friend Dandy Jim Buckley exonerates him from the crime.

High Card Hangs

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

Escape to Tampico

Bart tails a pretty cancan dancer who stole his money â€” only to find himself being followed by two very sinister characters.

The Judas Mask

Good-hearted Bret lends a pal $200 for an ""honest"" transaction â€” which lands the pal in jail.

The Jail at Junction Flats

A case of mistaken suitcases unfolds into political warfare, leaving Bart the unhappy target of ruthless killers.

The Thirty-Ninth Star

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

Shady Deal at Sunny Acres

Bret tries to help a pair of star-crossed lovers whose feuding families have taken him prisoner.

Island in the Swamp

Bart is a helpless victim of his charms. Two scheming women are after him: one wants to murder for his love; the other just wants to murder him.

Prey of the Cat

After he's cheated in a crooked card game, Bret tries to even the score by beating his opponent â€” and the odds â€” in a horse race.

Holiday at Hollow Rock

After scuffling with a pal over a dancer, Bart must do some fancy footwork to escape his plight: he's accused of murdering his friend.

The Spanish Dancer

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

Game of Chance

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.

Gun-shy

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.

Two Beggars on Horseback

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.

The Rivals

Bret Maverick finds himself caught in a deadly love triangle with a lovely woman (Abby Dalton) and a young gunman (Clint Eastwood).

Duel at Sundown

After losing his money in a bank robbery, Bart invests in a get-rich-quick deal with a beautiful â€” but not-so-dumb â€” blonde.

Yellow River

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

The Saga of Waco Williams

In a high-stakes poker game, Bart wins stock in a railroad â€” and finds himself on the track to a colossal headache.

Brasada Spur

A pair of con artists, Bart and an old girl friend survive a hazardous stagecoach ride and reach Fort Doom â€” where their troubles begin.

Passage to Fort Doom

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.

Two Tickets to Ten Strike

Keeping cool during a stage holdup, Bart catches a twinkle of recognition between his lovely traveling companion (Pat Crowley) and one of the outlaws.

Betrayal

Bret accompanies a beautiful singer (Peggy King) on a search for her missing husband and finds himself falling helplessly in love.

The Strange Journey of Jenny Hill

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.

Pappy

Bart double-crosses a double-crosser â€” and winds up hogtied and kidnapped, with only his wits as a weapon with which to save his neck.

Royal Four Flush

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.

The Sheriff of Duck 'N' Shoot

Bart is involved in a bizarre murder plot â€” in which he is high on the list of planned victims.

You Can't Beat the Percentage

Bret Maverick falls for a soft-spoken girl, Modesty Blaine (Mona Freeman). They enter into a partnership â€” to sell cats to a mining camp overrun by rats. But rumor has it that most men lose either their lives or their money when dealing with this young beauty. However, Bret stands to lose both his life and his money, so he plots to save both.

The Cats of Paradise

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

A Tale of Three Cities

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.

Full House

After a rebuff by mysterious Linda Burke (Joanna Moore), Bart is left holding the bag â€” for murder.

The Lass with the Poisonous Air

Bret finds himself one of three men secretly defending a deserted government fort against War Hungry Indians. Maverick succeeds in scaring them off by clever trickery. But a suspicious Indian chief (Paul Clarke) causes him to reconsider.

The Ghost Soldiers

Bart Maverick, for whom cowardice is a virtue, ""turns yellow"" when he learns that his friendship with a tycoon could cost him his life.

Easy Mark

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.

A Fellow's Brother

Bart swings into trouble when he tries to help the cavalry uncover a traitor â€” and winds up facing a hangman's rope.

Trooper Maverick

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.

Maverick Springs

Taking shelter in a ghost town, Bart impatiently awaits a storm's end. But when four gunmen arrive, he fears he'll never get out alive.

The Goose-Drownder

After saving Bret's life, Johnny Rain (William Reynolds) is arrested for robbing a stage coach. While Bret goes to his rescue he becomes ensnarled in a plot that involves a case of split personality. a dance hall wench and a mild-mannered Tinhorn gambler who likes to leave 'em laughing--with hysteria.

A Cure for Johnny Rain

Bart Maverick wins big, when he wins the ""Lucky Lady"" saloon in a card game. When Bart goes to Santa Leora to stake his claim, a beautiful Marquesa refuses to relinquish the property to him. Maverick encounters hurling knives, flurry of bullets and pounding fists when he tries to hold onto his newly acquired saloon.

The Marquesa

Bret is one of the seven owners of a Riverboat who start down the Mississippi for Memphis to sell the broken-down craft, but soon in a deadly game of 10 Little Indians one owner after another is found mysteriously dead. It becomes apparent that if the boat does reach Memphis, it's almost certain it will have but one owner.

Cruise of the Cynthia B.

Bret's freedom hinges on the outcome of a card game. He's ecstatic... until he meets his opponent: Bart â€” who will make a bundle if he wins.

Maverick & Juliet

A beautiful widow (Julie Adams) asks Bart to protect her from an unknown killer. He accepts â€” unaware that he is the intended victim.

The White Widow

Maverick tries to straighten out his romance with Ellen Johnson and at the same time solve a million dollar jewel theft. When Bret finds out that his ardor has cooled, he also finds that he has become the prime target for a ruthless murderer and a man who refuses to stay dead.

Guatemala City

Bart Maverick is running for office, he is a sure candidate for U.S. Senate. Bart's political ambition has some town's people out for his blood. His opponents will go to any length to stifle his political aspirations; they threathen his life. Fearful of his opponents, Bart finds a way out of the election, without letting the voters down.

The People's Friend

Bret wins a sheep ranch located in the midst of cattle ranchers whose sole aim is to wipe out the sheep â€” and their new owner.

A Flock of Trouble

Hired to protect a cattle drive, Bart dutifully chases Indians â€” while a masterful swindle takes place right under his nose.

Iron Hand

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

The Resurrection of Joe November

Bret is fighting a murder charge. But when he meets his lawyer â€” a numerologist, astrologer and bungler â€” he knows his number is up.

The Misfortune Teller

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

Greenbacks, Unlimited

This is the episode that introduces Roger Moore as Cousin Beauregard Maverick. Beau is considered the ""white sheep"" of the family because he had the misfortune of earning a medal in the Civil War. (He had won the medal purely by accident.) Pappy had banished him to England for five years because no Maverick had ever been a hero. Bart Mavrick greets Beau upon his return to America and enlists his cousin to impersonate the son of the Marquis of Bognor, who had been indentured to work on a ranch in Wyoming for six months. The Maverick cousins stand to earn $4,000, but the play goes awry when Beau is kidnapped by a man who wants to settle a grudge with the Marquis.

The Bundle from Britain

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

Hadley's Hunters

Beau Maverick wins ownership of the Silver Hill, a worthless ore mine. A crooked railroad agent named Shanks tries to cheat the townspeople out of their land by offering them a price that is well below market value. Beau convinces the town to relocate Silver Hill to a sheep ranch twenty miles away. The plan backfires when a new vein of silver is discovered in the supposedly worthless Silver Hill mine, thus enabling Shanks to claim the land without cost. The only hope is for the town to relocate back to Silver Hill before the railroad takes over the land.

The Town That Wasn't There

In hostile Sioux territory, Bart is caught between a woman prisoner's devastating charms and a pending Indian attack.

Arizona Black Maria

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.

Last Wire from Stop Gap

Looking for a peaceful and profitable poker game in New Orleans, Bart is plunged into a mysterious murder involving the Black Hand society.

Mano Nera

In St. Joseph, Missouri, Beau Maverick wins halfl-ownership of the Golden Wheel Casino. The business venture is short-lived when his partner, Rand Storm, is shot to death by Flo Baker. Storm was a notorious ladies' man and Flo, a female entertainer, was resisting his advances. Just before he dies, Rand tells his younger brother, Luke, that the shooting was an accident. But Luke has Beau framed for murder so that he can take over the business.

A Bullet for the Teacher

Toil and trouble overcome Bret when he tangles with two burly thieves and their enchanting sister (Anita Sands) â€” who claims she's a witch.

The Witch of Hound Dog

Two Army shopkeepers, Marsh and Lawson, have been cheating the local Indian tribes by supplying them with faulty or inferior goods. When one of the tribeswomen named Pale Moon threatens to report them to the Army Commission, the shopkeepers decide to start a war with the Indians. They know the Army will not investigate the woman's claim if they are at war. Marsh and Lawson murder Pale Moon's brother and pin the crime on the stranger who won $2,500 from them the night before - Beau Maverick.

Thunder from the North

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

The Maverick Line

Beau Maverick befriends a prospector named Ebenezer Bolt. Maverick is unaware that Bolt is the partner of notorious horse thief Benson January. An angry posse mistakes Beau for January and is determined to hang him. A young lawyer manages to halt the proceedings until Maverick can have a trial. Beau's conviction seems imminent when the lawyer locates a notorious ""hanging judge"" and a woman whose sister was engaged to January identifies Maverick as the horse thief.

Bolt from the Blue

Beau Maverick crashes a party in Virginia City thrown by eccentric socialite Kiz Bouchet. Kiz has a penchant for smoking cigars, playing poker, and fighting fires. Recognizing Beau as a fellow free spirit, she hires him to protect her. She believes her life is in danger. Beau discovers that Kiz's cousin Melissa, along with family doctor Pittman and attorney Hanford, are plotting to have Kiz judged incompent so they can split her $2 million inheritance. Beau comes up with a scheme to turn the tables on Melissa.

Chivalrous Bart saves the life of a beautiful woman. His reward? A place on the wanted list for robbery and murder.

Dodge City or Bust

The Fenians, an Irish Revolutionary Brotherhood, are trained soldiers sworn to free Ireland from British rule. The Fenians have gathered in Dakota City to plan a march into Canada where they want to take hold of a small part of British property hostage in exchange for Ireland's freedom. After England pressures the United States to intervene, Beau Maverick is blackmailed into infiltrating the Fenians ranks by a shrewd Army colonel.

The Bold Fenian Men

Bart substitutes a rock-filled suitcase for a fortune in gold to foil hijacking plans of phony sheriff Dan Trevor (Peter Breck).

Destination Devil's Flat

Proving once again that he's basically nonviolent, Bart witnesses a battle of bullets that leaves him stunned â€” and almost dead.

A State of Siege

In New Mexico, Beau Maverick is taken for over $4,500 ($4,000 of which belong to his friend Jerry O'Brien) by con artists Warren and Crippen and Warren's granddaughter Rosanne. Beau tries to recover the money and even takes the threesome to court, but they outsmart him every time. Beau is so demoralized by the constant defeats, he believes he has disgraced the Maverick name - until Rosanne tells him that her grandmother was a Maverick.

Family Pride

Thinking all's well with the world after he cleans up in a card game, Bart offers to help a troubled young woman.

The Cactus Switch

Beau Maverick wins half-ownership in the Blue Bell Saloon in Arizona. In an attempt to raise funds for the floundering business, Beau and his partner Charlotte become partners with a mysterious gold prospector known only as the Dutchman. Along the trail to Superstition Mountain where the gold is located, Beau, Charlotte, and the Dutchman encounter danger in various forms.

Dutchman's Gold

After discovering a long-lost body encased in ice, Bart finds himself in hot water.

The Ice Man

Con artist Ferguson knocks Beau Maverick unconscious during an unsuccessful attempt to hoist a priceless diamond necklace from a French countess. Ferguson claims that the countess' diamond is fake and that he was in the process of replacing it with the real thing when Beau startled him. Ferguson offers Maverick $5,000 to switch diamonds. Beau is being set up for robbery by Ferguson and his equally devious wife.

Diamond Flush

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 than messing up their fine clothing with actual work. Sly and clever, none of the Mavericks are much for acts of derring do, but they can be courageous when the situation calls for it. Most often, however, they live by their wits and considerable charm.

The Best Seasons of Maverick

The Best Seasons of Maverick

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Season 1

Season 3

Season 4

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