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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
8.4/10133 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
7.9/10278 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
7.3/1092 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
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
7.6/1099 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
7.4/1093 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
8.2/10160 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
7.8/1094 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
The Best Episodes of Maverick Season 2
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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".