S01E01 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,...
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S01E16: 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.
Overview
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.
Episodes
S01E02 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.
S01E03 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...
S01E04 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.
S01E05 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.
S01E06 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.
S01E07 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.
S01E08 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...
S01E09 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.
S01E10 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.
S01E11 The Wrecker
Bart takes to the sea after buying a derelict cargo ship. The wreck is extremely valuable and he wants to know why.
S01E12 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.
S01E13 The Naked Gallows
Bart pokes his nose into an unsolved murder case and ends up facing the business end of a killer's .45.
S01E14 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.
S01E15 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.
S01E16 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.
S01E17 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...
S01E18 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.
S01E19 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.
S01E20 The Savage Hills
Against his better judgment, Bart teams up with Samantha Crawford to recover stolen Treasury plates.
S01E21 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...
S01E22 The Burning Sky
In the desert, an Indian ambush leaves Bart and other stagecoach passengers to battle their attackers, each other, and the sun.
S01E23 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.
S01E24 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.
S01E25 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.
S01E26 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.
S01E27 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.
Cast
Jack Kelly
Bart Maverick
