Bart must either face two years in jail or chaperone three brides to their intendeds — the sons of wealthy Joe Wheelwright (Jim Backus).

When investors put the squeeze on railroad owner Paul Sutton, Bart tries to help by dealing with them directly — in a friendly card game.

Bart is closer to tears than laughter when he is forced to battle the funniest and fastest gun in the West.

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.

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.

Bart forsakes the poker table for the stock market — and finds himself trying to bluff wealthy Loftus Jaggers and his glamorous daughter (Paula Raymond).

Bart tries to track down Pearly Gates, a smooth con man who cheated him out of $5000.

Life is anything but heaven when Bart meets Pearly Gates and his girl, who steal Maverick's poker winnings so they can be married.

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.

Bart, waiting to collect on a $10,000 IOU, makes an uncomfortable observation: murder may be the pay-off in a gambler's life.

A money-making machine costs Bart a bundle. His cousin (Kathy Bennett) has just bought one with the $10,000 he lent her.

Bart's latest poker adventure has him playing for a full house: the lives of his fellow stagecoach passengers.

After being granted a wish by a "leprechaun," Bart faces a pot of trouble: he must be either jailed, murdered or married.