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The Best Episodes of Maverick Season 2

Every episode of Maverick Season 2 ranked from best to worst. Discover the Best Episodes of Maverick Season 2!

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...
Genres:ComedyWestern
Network:ABC

Season 2 Ratings Summary

"The Day They Hanged Bret Maverick" is the best rated episode of "Maverick" season 2. It scored 8.5/10 based on 149 votes. Directed by Douglas Heyes and written by Douglas Heyes, it aired on 9/21/1958. This episode is rated 0.6 points higher than the second-best, "The Lonesome Reunion".

  • The Day They Hanged Bret Maverick
    8.5/10149 votes

    #1 - The Day They Hanged Bret Maverick

    Season 2 Episode 1 - Aired 9/21/1958

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

    Director: Douglas Heyes

    Writer: Douglas Heyes

  • The Lonesome Reunion
    7.9/10113 votes

    #2 - The Lonesome Reunion

    Season 2 Episode 2 - Aired 9/28/1958

    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

  • Alias Bart Maverick
    7.6/10121 votes

    #3 - Alias Bart Maverick

    Season 2 Episode 3 - Aired 10/5/1958

    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

  • The Belcastle Brand
    8.3/10138 votes

    #4 - The Belcastle Brand

    Season 2 Episode 4 - Aired 10/12/1958

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

    Director: Leslie H. Martinson

    Writer: Marion Hargrove

  • High Card Hangs
    7.7/10112 votes

    #5 - High Card Hangs

    Season 2 Episode 5 - Aired 10/19/1958

    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

  • Escape to Tampico
    8.2/10132 votes

    #6 - Escape to Tampico

    Season 2 Episode 6 - Aired 10/26/1958

    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

  • The Judas Mask
    7.3/1093 votes

    #7 - The Judas Mask

    Season 2 Episode 7 - Aired 11/2/1958

    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

  • The Jail at Junction Flats
    7.7/10115 votes

    #8 - The Jail at Junction Flats

    Season 2 Episode 8 - Aired 11/9/1958

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

    Director: Walter Doniger

    Writer: N/A

  • The Thirty-Ninth Star
    7.6/1085 votes

    #9 - The Thirty-Ninth Star

    Season 2 Episode 9 - Aired 11/16/1958

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

    Director: Richard L. Bare

    Writer: Marion Hargrove

  • Shady Deal at Sunny Acres
    9.4/10273 votes

    #10 - Shady Deal at Sunny Acres

    Season 2 Episode 10 - Aired 11/23/1958

    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

  • Island in the Swamp
    8.1/10124 votes

    #11 - Island in the Swamp

    Season 2 Episode 11 - Aired 11/30/1958

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

    Director: Montgomery Pittman

    Writer: N/A

  • Prey of the Cat
    7.8/10104 votes

    #12 - Prey of the Cat

    Season 2 Episode 12 - Aired 12/7/1958

    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

  • Holiday at Hollow Rock
    8.4/10113 votes

    #13 - Holiday at Hollow Rock

    Season 2 Episode 13 - Aired 12/14/1958

    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

  • The Spanish Dancer
    7.9/10107 votes

    #14 - The Spanish Dancer

    Season 2 Episode 14 - Aired 12/28/1958

    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

  • Game of Chance
    8.4/10102 votes

    #15 - Game of Chance

    Season 2 Episode 15 - Aired 1/4/1959

    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

  • Gun-shy
    9.0/10267 votes

    #16 - Gun-shy

    Season 2 Episode 16 - Aired 1/11/1959

    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

  • Two Beggars on Horseback
    8.3/10124 votes

    #17 - Two Beggars on Horseback

    Season 2 Episode 17 - Aired 1/18/1959

    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

  • The Rivals
    8.4/10134 votes

    #18 - The Rivals

    Season 2 Episode 18 - Aired 1/25/1959

    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

  • Duel at Sundown
    7.8/10281 votes

    #19 - Duel at Sundown

    Season 2 Episode 19 - Aired 2/1/1959

    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

  • Yellow River
    7.3/1093 votes

    #20 - Yellow River

    Season 2 Episode 20 - Aired 2/8/1959

    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

  • The Saga of Waco Williams
    8.8/10183 votes

    #21 - The Saga of Waco Williams

    Season 2 Episode 21 - Aired 2/15/1959

    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

  • Brasada Spur
    7.6/10100 votes

    #22 - Brasada Spur

    Season 2 Episode 22 - Aired 2/22/1959

    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

  • Passage to Fort Doom
    7.3/1094 votes

    #23 - Passage to Fort Doom

    Season 2 Episode 23 - Aired 3/8/1959

    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

  • Two Tickets to Ten Strike
    8.3/10161 votes

    #24 - Two Tickets to Ten Strike

    Season 2 Episode 24 - Aired 3/15/1959

    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

  • Betrayal
    7.8/1096 votes

    #25 - Betrayal

    Season 2 Episode 25 - Aired 3/22/1959

    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