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The Best Episodes of Maverick Season 1

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The Best Episodes of Maverick Season 1

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. 8.5/10(181 votes)

    #1 - 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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  2. 8.3/10(177 votes)

    #2 - 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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  3. 8.3/10(145 votes)

    #3 - 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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  4. 8.3/10(150 votes)

    #4 - 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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  5. 8.2/10(201 votes)

    #5 - 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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  6. 8.2/10(154 votes)

    #6 - 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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  8. 8.2/10(160 votes)

    #7 - 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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  9. 8.1/10(256 votes)

    #8 - 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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  10. 8.1/10(105 votes)

    #9 - 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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  11. 8.0/10(168 votes)

    #10 - 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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  12. 8.0/10(127 votes)

    #11 - The Seventh Hand

    S1:E23

    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.

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  13. 7.9/10(117 votes)

    #12 - The Burning Sky

    S1:E22

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

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  14. 7.8/10(218 votes)

    #13 - Point Blank

    S1:E2

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

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  15. 7.8/10(165 votes)

    #14 - Ghost Rider

    S1:E4

    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.

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  16. 7.8/10(172 votes)

    #15 - Relic of Fort Tejon

    S1:E7

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

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  17. 7.8/10(143 votes)

    #16 - Comstock Conspiracy

    S1:E14

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

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  18. 7.8/10(118 votes)

    #17 - Diamond in the Rough

    S1:E18

    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.

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  19. 7.8/10(123 votes)

    #18 - The Savage Hills

    S1:E20

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

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  20. 7.7/10(176 votes)

    #19 - Stage West

    S1:E6

    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.

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  21. 7.6/10(155 votes)

    #20 - Hostage!

    S1:E8

    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.

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  22. 7.6/10(140 votes)

    #21 - The Jeweled Gun

    S1:E10

    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.

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  23. 7.6/10(149 votes)

    #22 - The Wrecker

    S1:E11

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

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  24. 7.6/10(127 votes)

    #23 - The Naked Gallows

    S1:E13

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

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  25. 7.6/10(118 votes)

    #24 - The Third Rider

    S1:E15

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

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  26. 7.6/10(142 votes)

    #25 - Day of Reckoning

    S1:E19

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

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Season 1 Ratings Summary

"The Quick and the Dead" is the best rated episode of "Maverick" season 1. It scored 8.5/10 based on 181 votes. Directed by Douglas Heyes and written by Douglas Heyes, it aired on 12/8/1957. This episode is rated 0.2 points higher than the second-best, "Rope of Cards".