The Worst Episodes of Maverick

Two Army shopkeepers, Marsh and Lawson, have been cheating the local Indian tribes by supplying them with faulty or inferior goods. When one of the tribeswomen named Pale Moon threatens to report them to the Army Commission, the shopkeepers decide to start a war with the Indians. They know the Army will not investigate the woman's claim if they are at war. Marsh and Lawson murder Pale Moon's brother and pin the crime on the stranger who won $2,500 from them the night before - Beau Maverick.

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Brent (Robert Colbert) joins the series in true Maverick style: he gets involved with two beautiful women — and is thrown in jail for gambling.

Director: Richard C. Sarafian

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In New Mexico, Beau Maverick is taken for over $4,500 ($4,000 of which belong to his friend Jerry O'Brien) by con artists Warren and Crippen and Warren's granddaughter Rosanne. Beau tries to recover the money and even takes the threesome to court, but they outsmart him every time. Beau is so demoralized by the constant defeats, he believes he has disgraced the Maverick name - until Rosanne tells him that her grandmother was a Maverick.

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Thinking all's well with the world after he cleans up in a card game, Bart offers to help a troubled young woman.

Director: George Waggner

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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

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Hired to protect a cattle drive, Bart dutifully chases Indians — while a masterful swindle takes place right under his nose.

Director: Leslie Goodwins

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In typical Maverick tradition, cousin Brent gets involved with two beautiful sisters — one of whom is planning to do him in.

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Bret accompanies a beautiful singer (Peggy King) on a search for her missing husband and finds himself falling helplessly in love.

Director: Douglas Heyes

Writer: Douglas Heyes

Bart Maverick wins big, when he wins the ""Lucky Lady"" saloon in a card game. When Bart goes to Santa Leora to stake his claim, a beautiful Marquesa refuses to relinquish the property to him. Maverick encounters hurling knives, flurry of bullets and pounding fists when he tries to hold onto his newly acquired saloon.

Director: Arthur Lubin

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Outside Denver, Colorado, Beau and his friend, Judge Scott, find shelter during a blizzard at the home of Martha Flood and her niece Sally. Martha and the judge are plotting to institutionalize Sally in order to take over her inheritance. However, Martha's lover, a professional killer named Chet Whitehead plans to kill Sally, the judge, and Maverick.

Director: Irving J. Moore

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Bart's in jail: he's the unfortunate — and helpless — victim of mistaken identity.

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

Director: Michael O'Herlihy

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Proving once again that he's basically nonviolent, Bart witnesses a battle of bullets that leaves him stunned — and almost dead.

Director: Robert B. Sinclair

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Beau Maverick wins half-ownership in the Blue Bell Saloon in Arizona. In an attempt to raise funds for the floundering business, Beau and his partner Charlotte become partners with a mysterious gold prospector known only as the Dutchman. Along the trail to Superstition Mountain where the gold is located, Beau, Charlotte, and the Dutchman encounter danger in various forms.

Director: Robert Douglas

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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

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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

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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

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

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Bret finds himself one of three men secretly defending a deserted government fort against War Hungry Indians. Maverick succeeds in scaring them off by clever trickery. But a suspicious Indian chief (Paul Clarke) causes him to reconsider.

Director: Leslie H. Martinson

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Bart swings into trouble when he tries to help the cavalry uncover a traitor — and winds up facing a hangman's rope.

Director: Richard L. Bare

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Looking for a peaceful and profitable poker game in New Orleans, Bart is plunged into a mysterious murder involving the Black Hand society.

Director: Reginald Le Borg

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In St. Joseph, Missouri, Beau Maverick wins halfl-ownership of the Golden Wheel Casino. The business venture is short-lived when his partner, Rand Storm, is shot to death by Flo Baker. Storm was a notorious ladies' man and Flo, a female entertainer, was resisting his advances. Just before he dies, Rand tells his younger brother, Luke, that the shooting was an accident. But Luke has Beau framed for murder so that he can take over the business.

Director: Coles Trapnell

Writer: Leo Gordon

Beau Maverick befriends a prospector named Ebenezer Bolt. Maverick is unaware that Bolt is the partner of notorious horse thief Benson January. An angry posse mistakes Beau for January and is determined to hang him. A young lawyer manages to halt the proceedings until Maverick can have a trial. Beau's conviction seems imminent when the lawyer locates a notorious ""hanging judge"" and a woman whose sister was engaged to January identifies Maverick as the horse thief.

Director: Robert Altman

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There's gold in them thar hills, and Bart Maverick and Big Mike McComb are out to get it. But so are four nasty Mexican banditos.

Director: Douglas Heyes

Writer: Douglas Heyes

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

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