The Best Episodes of Maverick Season 2

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

Director: Douglas Heyes

Writer: Douglas Heyes

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

Director: Richard L. Bare

Writer: N/A

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

Director: Douglas Heyes

Writer: Douglas Heyes

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

Director: Leslie H. Martinson

Writer: Marion Hargrove

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.

Director: Richard L. Bare

Writer: N/A

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

Director: Douglas Heyes

Writer: Douglas Heyes

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

Director: Richard L. Bare

Writer: Gene Levitt

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

Director: Walter Doniger

Writer: N/A

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

Director: Richard L. Bare

Writer: Marion Hargrove

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

Director: Leslie H. Martinson

Writer: N/A

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

Director: Montgomery Pittman

Writer: N/A

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.

Director: Douglas Heyes

Writer: N/A

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

Director: Richard L. Bare

Writer: N/A

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.

Director: James V. Kern

Writer: N/A

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

Director: James V. Kern

Writer: N/A

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.

Director: Leslie H. Martinson

Writer: N/A

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: N/A

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.

Director: Leslie H. Martinson

Writer: N/A

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

Director: Arthur Lubin

Writer: N/A

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

Director: David Lowell Rich

Writer: N/A

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

Director: Leslie H. Martinson

Writer: N/A

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

Director: Paul Henreid

Writer: N/A

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

Director: Paul Henreid

Writer: N/A

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.

Director: Douglas Heyes

Writer: Douglas Heyes

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

Director: Leslie H. Martinson

Writer: N/A