7.6/1059 votes#1 - Dade City Dodge
Season 5 Episode 1 - Aired 9/17/1961
Bart tries to track down Pearly Gates, a smooth con man who cheated him out of $5000.
Director: Irving J. Moore
Writer: N/A
8.4/1067 votes#2 - The Art Lovers
Season 5 Episode 2 - Aired 10/1/1961
When investors put the squeeze on railroad owner Paul Sutton, Bart tries to help by dealing with them directly — in a friendly card game.
Director: Michael O'Herlihy
Writer: N/A
7.8/1064 votes#3 - The Golden Fleecing
Season 5 Episode 3 - Aired 10/8/1961
Bart forsakes the poker table for the stock market — and finds himself trying to bluff wealthy Loftus Jaggers and his glamorous daughter (Paula Raymond).
Director: Irving J. Moore
Writer: N/A
8.5/1087 votes#4 - Three Queens Full
Season 5 Episode 4 - Aired 11/12/1961
Bart must either face two years in jail or chaperone three brides to their intendeds — the sons of wealthy Joe Wheelwright (Jim Backus).
Director: Michael O'Herlihy
Writer: N/A
7.9/1060 votes#5 - A Technical Error
Season 5 Episode 5 - Aired 11/26/1961
Bart feels like a million when he wins a bank in a poker game. But unlucky Maverick soon learns the truth: the bank's broke — and so is he.
Director: Marc Lawrence
Writer: N/A
7.1/1058 votes#6 - Poker Face
Season 5 Episode 6 - Aired 1/7/1962
Bart's latest poker adventure has him playing for a full house: the lives of his fellow stagecoach passengers.
Director: Michael O'Herlihy
Writer: N/A
6.9/1070 votes#7 - Mr. Muldoon's Partner
Season 5 Episode 7 - Aired 2/11/1962
After being granted a wish by a "leprechaun," Bart faces a pot of trouble: he must be either jailed, murdered or married.
Director: Marc Lawrence
Writer: N/A
7.2/1064 votes#8 - Epitaph for a Gambler
Season 5 Episode 8 - Aired 3/4/1962
Bart, waiting to collect on a $10,000 IOU, makes an uncomfortable observation: murder may be the pay-off in a gambler's life.
Director: Irving J. Moore
Writer: N/A
7.9/1056 votes#9 - The Maverick Report
Season 5 Episode 9 - Aired 3/11/1962
Crusading newspaper publisher Bart? The publisher Bart won the rag from is assassinated and a corrupt U.S. Senator files a $100,000 libel suit against the Chronicle. Luckily, Bart's pal Doc Holiday is in town for a dentists' convention and owes Bart $2000. When Doc brags "I have enough collateral to raise the dead!", Bart feels no compunction in selling ½ the headache to Doc. The senator and his sinister political boss are Ivy Leaguers, so the suave Philadelphia dentist/hired gun will come in handy.
Director: Irving J. Moore
Writer: N/A
8.1/1069 votes#10 - Marshal Maverick
Season 5 Episode 10 - Aired 4/1/1962
Bart is closer to tears than laughter when he is forced to battle the funniest and fastest gun in the West.
Director: Sidney Salkow
Writer: N/A
7.6/1056 votes#11 - The Troubled Heir
Season 5 Episode 11 - Aired 4/8/1962
Life is anything but heaven when Bart meets Pearly Gates and his girl, who steal Maverick's poker winnings so they can be married.
Director: Sidney Salkow
Writer: N/A
7.2/1060 votes#12 - The Money Machine
Season 5 Episode 12 - Aired 4/15/1962
A money-making machine costs Bart a bundle. His cousin (Kathy Bennett) has just bought one with the $10,000 he lent her.
Director: Lee Sholem
Writer: N/A
7.5/1069 votes#13 - One of Our Trains is Missing
Season 5 Episode 13 - Aired 4/22/1962
While trying to get a young girl's romance back on the right track, Bart gets involved in a train robbery to end all train robberies.
Director: Lee Sholem
Writer: N/A
The Best Episodes of Maverick Season 5
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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 5 Ratings Summary
"Dade City Dodge" is the best rated episode of "Maverick" season 5. It scored 7.6/10 based on 59 votes. Directed by Irving J. Moore and written by N/A, it aired on 9/17/1961. This episode is rated 0.8 points higher than the second-best, "The Art Lovers".