Maverick
★ 6.9 · 5 seasons
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 than messing up their fine clothing with actual work. Sly and clever, none of the Mavericks are much for acts of derring do, but they can be courageous when the situation calls for it. Most often, however, they live by their wits and considerable charm.
Season 1 · 27 episodes
- E1
War of the Silver Kings
Bret Maverick takes down a money-hungry gambler in the town of Echo Springs. He befriends an old drunk, who turns out to be a successful judge. Maverick strikes a deal with the gambler, Phineas King, to merge the ""silver lady"" mine with ""the new hope"" mine.
- E2
Point Blank
Bret meets a delightful and cunning girl (Karen Steele). Within minutes, she makes plans for his future — a permanent plot on boot hill.
- E3
According to Hoyle
Samantha Crawford is a con artist employed by George Cross. Cross once lost $50,000 to Bret Maverick and is determined to get it back. Two riverboat owners staked Maverick $5,000 which he promptly loses to Samantha. Samantha claims Cross is her father and needs the money to get out of jail. Maverick forms a partnership with Samantha and purchases gambling equipment in a scheme to put Joe Riggs, a crooked game room owner, out of business. Samantha and Cross doublecross Maverick by selling the equipment to Riggs.
- E4
Ghost Rider
A woman who'd been traveling with Bret suddenly disappears. Looking into things he discovers that she'd been reported dead more than a week ago.
- E5
The Long Hunt
Bret tries to prove the innocence of a man serving a life sentence. But there's someone who wants the prisoner to stay where he is.
- E6
Stage West
Fleeing a band of angry Native Americans, Bret takes shelter in a way station where a family of nasty outlaws are planning their bloodiest deal.
- E7
Relic of Fort Tejon
Bret wins a camel in a card game and ends up using her to bring a crooked gambling den owner to justice.
- E8
Hostage!
Bret Maverick meets up with brother Bart in New Orleans where they plan to obtain passage on a riverboat where big money poker games are held but end up getting involved in the kidnapping of the riverboat owner's daughter instead.
- E9
Stampede
Bret and Dandy Jim Buckley bet heavily on a boxing match but when their fighter withdraws it's up to Bret himself to step into the squared circle.
- E10
The Jeweled Gun
Bart agrees to pose as the husband of a woman who's traveling through the badlands. Big mistake because he soon finds himself the target of a killer.
- E11
The Wrecker
Bart takes to the sea after buying a derelict cargo ship. The wreck is extremely valuable and he wants to know why.
- E12
The Quick and the Dead
The only person who can clear Bret of a robbery charge has been marked for death by the notorious gunfighter/gambler Doc Holliday.
- E13
The Naked Gallows
Bart pokes his nose into an unsolved murder case and ends up facing the business end of a killer's .45.
- E14
Comstock Conspiracy
Arriving in the mining boom town of Virginia City, Bret gets involved with a mining engineer in his struggle for improved working conditions.
- E15
The Third Rider
Bart gets involved with two devious couples in this episode which sees him trying to clear himself of a bank robbery and a murder.
- E16
Rage For Vengeance
Bret is happy to escort a lovely widow to the bank with a large sum of cash - until he learns the money is counterfeit.
- E17
Rope of Cards
It's shades of 12 Angry Men when Bret becomes the lone holdout for a not guilty verdict in a murder trial. He has to use a long shot card trick to convince the other jurors that the defendant might be innocent.
- E18
Diamond in the Rough
After being beaten up, robbed, and shanghaied, Bart sets out to expose the man responsible, a respected member of San Francisco society, as a diamond swindler.
- E19
Day of Reckoning
Fearless Bret feels it's about time someone did something about the town bully so he asks the townspeople to do something.
- E20
The Savage Hills
Against his better judgment, Bart teams up with Samantha Crawford to recover stolen Treasury plates.
- E21
Trail West to Fury
During a hellacious rainstorm the brothers Maverick relate to pal Dandy Jim Buckley about the time in Texas shortly after the Civil War when they searched far and wide for a tall man who could clear them of a murder charge.
- E22
The Burning Sky
In the desert, an Indian ambush leaves Bart and other stagecoach passengers to battle their attackers, each other, and the sun.
- E23
The Seventh Hand
Samantha Crawford arranges for Bret to sit in on a high stakes poker game but he's the fall guy when the game gets robbed.
- E24
Plunder of Paradise
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.
- E25
Black Fire
The heirs of millionaire General Eakins are being killed off one by one so why is Bret Maverick so worried? He's posing as one of the heirs and might be the next intended victim.
- E26
Burial Ground of the Gods
Bart Maverick is in search of a thief who stole his money but gets sidetracked into accompanying a young woman searching for her missing husband into forbidden Sioux territory.
- E27
Seed of Deception
After they arrive in an Arizona town, Bret and Bart are mistaken for Wyatt Earp and Doc Holliday and end up preventing a bank robbery.
Season 2 · 26 episodes
- E1
The Day They Hanged Bret Maverick
Bret attends a hanging under very uncomfortable conditions: he's the intended victim.
- E2
The Lonesome Reunion
Bret falls for the tempting trickery of a pretty woman (Joanna Barnes) — and finds himself helplessly involved in a swindle.
- E3
Alias Bart Maverick
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).
- E4
The Belcastle Brand
In a desert, Bret and a hunting party are ambushed — and left to fight a blazing sun.
- E5
High Card Hangs
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.
- E6
Escape to Tampico
In Mexico, Bret tries to trick an American renegade into returning to the U.S. — where he's wanted for murder.
Season 3 · 26 episodes
- E1
Pappy
Beau Maverick (played by James Garner), father of Bret and Bart announces that he is getting married. The Maverick boys discover that the marriage is a business arrangement, not a love commitment. The young girl, Josephine St. Cloud is being forced by her father to marry the older Beau Maverick. The brothers set out to sabotage the wedding plans, not knowing that Beau Maverick already had a plan.
- E2
Royal Four Flush
Bart double-crosses a double-crosser — and winds up hogtied and kidnapped, with only his wits as a weapon with which to save his neck.
- E3
The Sheriff of Duck 'N' Shoot
Sheriff Bret astounds himself as well as the townspeople by taming the trail herders who have been devastating the town, beats a gang of bank robbers at their own game, but has to summon the aid of brother Bart when his eye for a woman's beauty lands him in his own lockup.
- E4
You Can't Beat the Percentage
Bart is involved in a bizarre murder plot — in which he is high on the list of planned victims.
- E5
The Cats of Paradise
Bret Maverick falls for a soft-spoken girl, Modesty Blaine (Mona Freeman). They enter into a partnership — to sell cats to a mining camp overrun by rats. But rumor has it that most men lose either their lives or their money when dealing with this young beauty. However, Bret stands to lose both his life and his money, so he plots to save both.
Season 4 · 32 episodes
- E1
The Bundle from Britain
This is the episode that introduces Roger Moore as Cousin Beauregard Maverick. Beau is considered the ""white sheep"" of the family because he had the misfortune of earning a medal in the Civil War. (He had won the medal purely by accident.) Pappy had banished him to England for five years because no Maverick had ever been a hero. Bart Mavrick greets Beau upon his return to America and enlists his cousin to impersonate the son of the Marquis of Bognor, who had been indentured to work on a ranch in Wyoming for six months. The Maverick cousins stand to earn $4,000, but the play goes awry when Beau is kidnapped by a man who wants to settle a grudge with the Marquis.
- E2
Hadley's Hunters
Bart meets a comical sheriff (Edgar Buchanan) who is dead serious about killing him.
- E3
The Town That Wasn't There
Beau Maverick wins ownership of the Silver Hill, a worthless ore mine. A crooked railroad agent named Shanks tries to cheat the townspeople out of their land by offering them a price that is well below market value. Beau convinces the town to relocate Silver Hill to a sheep ranch twenty miles away. The plan backfires when a new vein of silver is discovered in the supposedly worthless Silver Hill mine, thus enabling Shanks to claim the land without cost. The only hope is for the town to relocate back to Silver Hill before the railroad takes over the land.
- E4
Arizona Black Maria
In hostile Sioux territory, Bart is caught between a woman prisoner's devastating charms and a pending Indian attack.
Season 5 · 13 episodes
- E1
Dade City Dodge
Bart tries to track down Pearly Gates, a smooth con man who cheated him out of $5000.
- E2
The Art Lovers
When investors put the squeeze on railroad owner Paul Sutton, Bart tries to help by dealing with them directly — in a friendly card game.
- E3
The Golden Fleecing
Bart forsakes the poker table for the stock market — and finds himself trying to bluff wealthy Loftus Jaggers and his glamorous daughter (Paula Raymond).
- E4
Three Queens Full
Bart must either face two years in jail or chaperone three brides to their intendeds — the sons of wealthy Joe Wheelwright (Jim Backus).
- E5
A Technical Error
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.
- E6
Poker Face
Bart's latest poker adventure has him playing for a full house: the lives of his fellow stagecoach passengers.
Cast
Jack Kelly
Bart Maverick