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The Best Episodes of Maverick Season 1

Every episode of Maverick Season 1 ranked from best to worst. Discover the Best Episodes of Maverick Season 1!

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  1. #1 Fan Favorite
    Maverick Season 1 Episode 1 - War of the Silver Kings
    8.2/10(278 votes)

    #1 - 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.

    Director:Budd Boetticher
    Writer:Unknown

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  2. Maverick Season 1 Episode 2 - Point Blank
    7.8/10(232 votes)

    #2 - 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.

    Director:Budd Boetticher
    Writer:Unknown

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  3. Maverick Season 1 Episode 3 - According to Hoyle
    8.3/10(212 votes)

    #3 - 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.

    Director:Budd Boetticher
    Writer:Unknown

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  4. Maverick Season 1 Episode 4 - Ghost Rider
    7.8/10(176 votes)

    #4 - 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.

    Director:Leslie H. Martinson
    Writer:Marion Hargrove

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  5. Maverick Season 1 Episode 5 - The Long Hunt
    8.1/10(176 votes)

    #5 - 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.

    Director:Douglas Heyes
    Writer:DeVallon Scott

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  6. Maverick Season 1 Episode 6 - Stage West
    7.7/10(183 votes)

    #6 - 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.

    Director:Leslie H. Martinson
    Writer:Unknown

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  7. Maverick Season 1 Episode 7 - Relic of Fort Tejon
    7.9/10(179 votes)

    #7 - 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.

    Director:Leslie H. Martinson
    Writer:Jerry Davis

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  8. Maverick Season 1 Episode 8 - Hostage!
    7.6/10(162 votes)

    #8 - 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.

    Director:Richard L. Bare
    Writer:Gerald Drayson Adams

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  9. Maverick Season 1 Episode 9 - Stampede
    8.2/10(168 votes)

    #9 - 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.

    Director:Abner Biberman
    Writer:Gerald Drayson Adams

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  10. Maverick Season 1 Episode 10 - The Jeweled Gun
    7.6/10(152 votes)

    #10 - 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.

    Director:Leslie H. Martinson
    Writer:Roy Huggins

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  11. Maverick Season 1 Episode 11 - The Wrecker
    7.6/10(158 votes)

    #11 - 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.

    Director:Franklin Adreon
    Writer:Unknown

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  12. Maverick Season 1 Episode 12 - The Quick and the Dead
    8.5/10(191 votes)

    #12 - 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.

    Director:Douglas Heyes
    Writer:Douglas Heyes

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  13. Maverick Season 1 Episode 13 - The Naked Gallows
    7.7/10(136 votes)

    #13 - 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.

    Director:Abner Biberman
    Writer:Howard Browne

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  14. Maverick Season 1 Episode 14 - Comstock Conspiracy
    7.9/10(151 votes)

    #14 - 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.

    Director:Howard W. Koch
    Writer:Gene Levitt

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  15. Maverick Season 1 Episode 15 - The Third Rider
    7.7/10(124 votes)

    #15 - 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.

    Director:Franklin Adreon
    Writer:Unknown

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  16. Maverick Season 1 Episode 16 - Rage For Vengeance
    8.2/10(169 votes)

    #16 - 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.

    Director:Leslie H. Martinson
    Writers:Marion Hargrove, Roy Huggins

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  17. Maverick Season 1 Episode 17 - Rope of Cards
    8.3/10(185 votes)

    #17 - 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.

    Director:Richard L. Bare
    Writer:Unknown

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  18. Maverick Season 1 Episode 18 - Diamond in the Rough
    7.8/10(126 votes)

    #18 - 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.

    Director:Douglas Heyes
    Writer:Marion Hargrove

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  19. Maverick Season 1 Episode 19 - Day of Reckoning
    7.7/10(153 votes)

    #19 - 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.

    Director:Leslie H. Martinson
    Writer:Carey Wilber

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  20. Maverick Season 1 Episode 20 - The Savage Hills
    7.8/10(133 votes)

    #20 - The Savage Hills

    S1:E20

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

    Director:Douglas Heyes
    Writer:Gerald Drayson Adams

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  21. Maverick Season 1 Episode 21 - Trail West to Fury
    7.6/10(144 votes)

    #21 - Trail West to Fury

    S1:E21

    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.

    Directors:Alan Crosland, Jr.
    Writer:Gene Levitt

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  22. Maverick Season 1 Episode 22 - The Burning Sky
    7.9/10(125 votes)

    #22 - 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.

    Director:Gordon Douglas
    Writers:Howard Browne, Russell S. Hughes

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  23. Maverick Season 1 Episode 23 - The Seventh Hand
    8.0/10(134 votes)

    #23 - 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.

    Director:Richard L. Bare
    Writer:Howard Browne

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  24. Maverick Season 1 Episode 24 - Plunder of Paradise
    7.3/10(118 votes)

    #24 - Plunder of Paradise

    S1:E24

    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

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  25. Maverick Season 1 Episode 25 - Black Fire
    8.3/10(151 votes)

    #25 - 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.

    Director:Leslie H. Martinson
    Writers:Marion Hargrove, Howard Browne

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Season 1 Ratings Summary

"War of the Silver Kings" is the best rated episode of "Maverick" season 1. It scored 8.2/10 based on 278 votes. Directed by Budd Boetticher and written by Unknown, it aired on 9/22/1957. This episode is rated 0.4 points higher than the second-best, "Point Blank".