6.7/1075 votesLoading...#1 - Thunder from the North
Season 4 Episode 9 - Aired 11/13/1960
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.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
6.7/1070 votesLoading...#2 - The Forbidden City
Season 4 Episode 28 - Aired 3/26/1961
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
Writer: N/A
6.9/1067 votesLoading...#3 - Family Pride
Season 4 Episode 17 - Aired 1/8/1961
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.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
6.9/1062 votesLoading...#4 - The Cactus Switch
Season 4 Episode 18 - Aired 1/15/1961
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
Writer: N/A
6.9/1070 votesLoading...#5 - 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
7.0/1087 votesLoading...#6 - Iron Hand
Season 3 Episode 23 - Aired 2/21/1960
Hired to protect a cattle drive, Bart dutifully chases Indians — while a masterful swindle takes place right under his nose.
Director: Leslie Goodwins
Writer: N/A
7.0/1066 votesLoading...#7 - Benefit of the Doubt
Season 4 Episode 30 - Aired 4/9/1961
In typical Maverick tradition, cousin Brent gets involved with two beautiful sisters — one of whom is planning to do him in.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
7.1/10107 votesLoading...#8 - The Strange Journey of Jenny Hill
Season 2 Episode 26 - Aired 3/29/1959
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
7.1/1074 votesLoading...#9 - The Marquesa
Season 3 Episode 16 - Aired 1/3/1960
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
Writer: N/A
7.1/1062 votesLoading...#10 - Flood's Folly
Season 4 Episode 23 - Aired 2/19/1961
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
Writer: N/A
7.1/1058 votesLoading...#11 - 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
7.2/1067 votesLoading...#12 - A State of Siege
Season 4 Episode 16 - Aired 1/1/1961
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
Writer: N/A
7.2/1065 votesLoading...#13 - Dutchman's Gold
Season 4 Episode 19 - Aired 1/22/1961
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
Writer: N/A
7.2/1072 votesLoading...#14 - The Deadly Image
Season 4 Episode 26 - Aired 3/12/1961
Bart's in jail: he's the unfortunate — and helpless — victim of mistaken identity.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
7.2/1064 votesLoading...#15 - 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
7.2/1060 votesLoading...#16 - 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
7.3/1093 votesLoading...#17 - 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
7.3/1093 votesLoading...#18 - 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
7.3/1094 votesLoading...#19 - 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
7.3/1095 votesLoading...#20 - Trooper Maverick
Season 3 Episode 12 - Aired 11/29/1959
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
Writer: N/A
7.3/1081 votesLoading...#21 - Mano Nera
Season 4 Episode 6 - Aired 10/23/1960
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
Writer: N/A
7.3/1070 votesLoading...#22 - A Bullet for the Teacher
Season 4 Episode 7 - Aired 10/30/1960
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
7.3/1087 votesLoading...#23 - Bolt from the Blue
Season 4 Episode 11 - Aired 11/27/1960
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
Writer: N/A
7.4/10110 votesLoading...#24 - The Ghost Soldiers
Season 3 Episode 9 - Aired 11/8/1959
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
Writer: N/A
7.4/1075 votesLoading...#25 - Arizona Black Maria
Season 4 Episode 4 - Aired 10/9/1960
In hostile Sioux territory, Bart is caught between a woman prisoner's devastating charms and a pending Indian attack.
Director: Lew Landers
Writer: N/A
The Worst Episodes of Maverick
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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
Worst Episodes Summary
"Thunder from the North" is the worst rated episode of "Maverick". It scored 6.7/10 based on 75 votes. Directed by N/A and written by N/A, it aired on 11/13/1960. This episode scored 0.0 points lower than the second lowest rated, "The Forbidden City".