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Maverick
1957 - 1962 6.8 (36 votes) 5 Seasons
Genres
Comedy Western
Networks
ABC
Created By
Roy Huggins

Maverick

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.

Key Crew

Producer: William T. Orr, Roy Huggins, Coles Trapnell

Top Cast

Jack Kelly
Jack Kelly

Bart Maverick

Seasons

Season 1 poster
Season 1 (1957)

No overview available.

27 episodes

Episodes
Episode 1: War of the Silver Kings
1957-09-22

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.

Runtime: 49 min
Episode 2: Point Blank
1957-09-29

Bret meets a delightful and cunning girl (Karen Steele). Within minutes, she makes plans for his future — a permanent plot on boot hill.

Runtime: 49 min
Episode 3: According to Hoyle
1957-10-06

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.

Runtime: 49 min
Episode 4: Ghost Rider
1957-10-13

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.

Runtime: 49 min
Episode 5: The Long Hunt
1957-10-20

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.

Runtime: 50 min
Episode 6: Stage West
1957-10-27

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.

Runtime: 49 min
Episode 7: Relic of Fort Tejon
1957-11-03

Bret wins a camel in a card game and ends up using her to bring a crooked gambling den owner to justice.

Runtime: 49 min
Episode 8: Hostage!
1957-11-10

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.

Runtime: 49 min
Episode 9: Stampede
1957-11-17

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.

Runtime: 49 min
Episode 10: The Jeweled Gun
1957-11-24

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.

Runtime: 49 min
Episode 11: The Wrecker
1957-12-01

Bart takes to the sea after buying a derelict cargo ship. The wreck is extremely valuable and he wants to know why.

Runtime: 49 min
Episode 12: The Quick and the Dead
1957-12-08

The only person who can clear Bret of a robbery charge has been marked for death by the notorious gunfighter/gambler Doc Holliday.

Runtime: 49 min
Episode 13: The Naked Gallows
1957-12-15

Bart pokes his nose into an unsolved murder case and ends up facing the business end of a killer's .45.

Runtime: 49 min
Episode 14: Comstock Conspiracy
1957-12-29

Arriving in the mining boom town of Virginia City, Bret gets involved with a mining engineer in his struggle for improved working conditions.

Runtime: 49 min
Episode 15: The Third Rider
1958-01-05

Bart gets involved with two devious couples in this episode which sees him trying to clear himself of a bank robbery and a murder.

Runtime: 49 min
Episode 16: Rage For Vengeance
1958-01-12

Bret is happy to escort a lovely widow to the bank with a large sum of cash - until he learns the money is counterfeit.

Runtime: 49 min
Episode 17: Rope of Cards
1958-01-19

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.

Runtime: 49 min
Episode 18: Diamond in the Rough
1958-01-26

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.

Runtime: 49 min
Episode 19: Day of Reckoning
1958-02-02

Fearless Bret feels it's about time someone did something about the town bully so he asks the townspeople to do something.

Runtime: 49 min
Episode 20: The Savage Hills
1958-02-09

Against his better judgment, Bart teams up with Samantha Crawford to recover stolen Treasury plates.

Runtime: 49 min
Episode 21: Trail West to Fury
1958-02-16

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.

Runtime: 49 min
Episode 22: The Burning Sky
1958-02-23

In the desert, an Indian ambush leaves Bart and other stagecoach passengers to battle their attackers, each other, and the sun.

Runtime: 49 min
Episode 23: The Seventh Hand
1958-03-02

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.

Runtime: 49 min
Episode 24: Plunder of Paradise
1958-03-09

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.

Runtime: 49 min
Episode 25: Black Fire
1958-03-16

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.

Runtime: 49 min
Episode 26: Burial Ground of the Gods
1958-03-30

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.

Runtime: 50 min
Episode 27: Seed of Deception
1958-04-13

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.

Runtime: 50 min
Season 2 poster
Season 2 (1958)

No overview available.

26 episodes

Episodes
Episode 1: The Day They Hanged Bret Maverick
1958-09-21

Bret attends a hanging under very uncomfortable conditions: he's the intended victim.

Runtime: 49 min
Episode 2: The Lonesome Reunion
1958-09-28

Bret falls for the tempting trickery of a pretty woman (Joanna Barnes) — and finds himself helplessly involved in a swindle.

Runtime: 49 min
Episode 3: Alias Bart Maverick
1958-10-05

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).

Runtime: 49 min
Episode 4: The Belcastle Brand
1958-10-12

In a desert, Bret and a hunting party are ambushed — and left to fight a blazing sun.

Runtime: 49 min
Episode 5: High Card Hangs
1958-10-19

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.

Runtime: 49 min
Episode 6: Escape to Tampico
1958-10-26

In Mexico, Bret tries to trick an American renegade into returning to the U.S. — where he's wanted for murder.

Runtime: 49 min
Episode 7: The Judas Mask
1958-11-02

Bart tails a pretty cancan dancer who stole his money — only to find himself being followed by two very sinister characters.

Runtime: 49 min
Episode 8: The Jail at Junction Flats
1958-11-09

Good-hearted Bret lends a pal $200 for an ""honest"" transaction — which lands the pal in jail.

Runtime: 49 min
Episode 9: The Thirty-Ninth Star
1958-11-16

A case of mistaken suitcases unfolds into political warfare, leaving Bart the unhappy target of ruthless killers.

Runtime: 49 min
Episode 10: Shady Deal at Sunny Acres
1958-11-23

Bret, helpless against a crafty banker (John Dehner) who robbed him, bides his time — while Bart and friends set up an elaborate con game.

Runtime: 49 min
Episode 11: Island in the Swamp
1958-11-30

Bret tries to help a pair of star-crossed lovers whose feuding families have taken him prisoner.

Runtime: 49 min
Episode 12: Prey of the Cat
1958-12-07

Bart is a helpless victim of his charms. Two scheming women are after him: one wants to murder for his love; the other just wants to murder him.

Runtime: 49 min
Episode 13: Holiday at Hollow Rock
1958-12-14

After he's cheated in a crooked card game, Bret tries to even the score by beating his opponent — and the odds — in a horse race.

Runtime: 49 min
Episode 14: The Spanish Dancer
1958-12-28

After scuffling with a pal over a dancer, Bart must do some fancy footwork to escape his plight: he's accused of murdering his friend.

Runtime: 49 min
Episode 15: Game of Chance
1959-01-04

Bret and Bart are pursuing the same woman. What's the attraction? The $10,000 she copped from them.

Runtime: 49 min
Episode 16: Gun-shy
1959-01-11

Bret, seeking buried Confederate treasure in Elwood, Kansas, keeps running afoul of U.S. Marshal Mort Dooley. The marshal keeps running Bret out of town. Bret, in turn, keeps outwitting the lawman.

Runtime: 49 min
Episode 17: Two Beggars on Horseback
1959-01-18

Bret and Bart's devotion to one another is tested when they're offered a deal that can mean $10,000 for one of them, but just one.

Runtime: 49 min
Episode 18: The Rivals
1959-01-25

Lydia Linley is a young heiress who yearns for a man like Sydney Carton of A Tale of Two Cities - "a man of warmth, imagination, courage, and a sense of adventure." Jack Vandergelt III (Roger Moore) is in love with Lydia but knows she will have nothing to do with him because he is rich. Vandergelt hires Bret Maverick to switch identities with him in hopes that Lydia will love and accept him for who he is before she realizes he is a Vandergelt. The plan goes smoothly until Jack Vandergelt's father unexpectedly arrives in town.

Runtime: 49 min
Episode 19: Duel at Sundown
1959-02-01

Bret Maverick finds himself caught in a deadly love triangle with a lovely woman (Abby Dalton) and a young gunman (Clint Eastwood).

Runtime: 49 min
Episode 20: Yellow River
1959-02-08

After losing his money in a bank robbery, Bart invests in a get-rich-quick deal with a beautiful — but not-so-dumb — blonde.

Runtime: 49 min
Episode 21: The Saga of Waco Williams
1959-02-15

Bret and his buddy Waco Williams (Wayde Preston) ride straight into trouble in Bent City, where they are suspected of being cattle rustlers.

Runtime: 49 min
Episode 22: Brasada Spur
1959-02-22

In a high-stakes poker game, Bart wins stock in a railroad — and finds himself on the track to a colossal headache.

Runtime: 49 min
Episode 23: Passage to Fort Doom
1959-03-08

A pair of con artists, Bart and an old girl friend survive a hazardous stagecoach ride and reach Fort Doom — where their troubles begin.

Runtime: 49 min
Episode 24: Two Tickets to Ten Strike
1959-03-15

Bret Maverick suspicions are aroused when he is forced to leave Ten Strike, New Mexico. Determined to stand his ground, Maverick stays in Ten Strike long enough to uncover a bizarre plot of murder and blackmail. Two gunmen, Vic Nolan (Adam West) and Eddie Burke (William Gordon), try to scare Maverick out of town.

Runtime: 49 min
Episode 25: Betrayal
1959-03-22

Keeping cool during a stage holdup, Bart catches a twinkle of recognition between his lovely traveling companion (Pat Crowley) and one of the outlaws.

Runtime: 49 min
Episode 26: The Strange Journey of Jenny Hill
1959-03-29

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

Runtime: 49 min
Season 3 poster
Season 3 (1959)

No overview available.

26 episodes

Episodes
Episode 1: Pappy
1959-09-13

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.

Runtime: 49 min
Episode 2: Royal Four Flush
1959-09-20

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.

Runtime: 49 min
Episode 3: The Sheriff of Duck 'N' Shoot
1959-09-27

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.

Runtime: 49 min
Episode 4: You Can't Beat the Percentage
1959-10-04

Bart is involved in a bizarre murder plot — in which he is high on the list of planned victims.

Runtime: 49 min
Episode 5: The Cats of Paradise
1959-10-11

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.

Runtime: 49 min
Episode 6: A Tale of Three Cities
1959-10-18

Bart has trouble retrieving his poker winnings from thieves. But help is on the way — from the local Ladies Aid Society.

Runtime: 50 min
Episode 7: Full House
1959-10-25

Bret Maverick runs into a notorious bunch of bank robbers; Cole Younger, Billy The Kid, Sam Bass, Jesse James, Frank James, Jim Dalton, Black Bart, Ben Thompson and Belle Starr. The outlaws believe that Bret is the infamous Foxy Smith, a well known bad guy. When the outlaws discover Bret's true identity, they force him to do the robbery in Denver. Bret ends up in a mint of trouble.

Runtime: 50 min
Episode 8: The Lass with the Poisonous Air
1959-11-01

After a rebuff by mysterious Linda Burke (Joanna Moore), Bart is left holding the bag — for murder.

Runtime: 49 min
Episode 9: The Ghost Soldiers
1959-11-08

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.

Runtime: 49 min
Episode 10: Easy Mark
1959-11-15

Bart Maverick, for whom cowardice is a virtue, ""turns yellow"" when he learns that his friendship with a tycoon could cost him his life.

Runtime: 51 min
Episode 11: A Fellow's Brother
1959-11-22

When George Henry Arnett hears that Bret Maverick is in town to collect his money, Arnett (Adam West) starts a ""top gun"" rumor about Bret. After he creates a smoke screen, Arnett creeps out of town. Maverick is idolized by the town youngsters, sought after available women and hunted by the town bounty hunter. Bret Maverick is the talk of the town.

Runtime: 49 min
Episode 12: Trooper Maverick
1959-11-29

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

Runtime: 51 min
Episode 13: Maverick Springs
1959-12-06

Bret is gired by a weathly texan to save her brother Mark from a conniving woman named Melanie. Posing as a Texas Colonel, Bret realizes that he's up against a master crook. With Mark's help and brother Bart's arrival as a weathly Easterner, they set up a scheme to catch the girl and almost outsmart themselves with their own cleverness.

Runtime: 51 min
Episode 14: The Goose-Drownder
1959-12-13

Taking shelter in a ghost town, Bart impatiently awaits a storm's end. But when four gunmen arrive, he fears he'll never get out alive.

Runtime: 51 min
Episode 15: A Cure for Johnny Rain
1959-12-20

After saving Bret's life, Johnny Rain (William Reynolds) is arrested for robbing a stage coach. While Bret goes to his rescue he becomes ensnarled in a plot that involves a case of split personality. a dance hall wench and a mild-mannered Tinhorn gambler who likes to leave 'em laughing--with hysteria.

Runtime: 49 min
Episode 16: The Marquesa
1960-01-03

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.

Runtime: 51 min
Episode 17: Cruise of the Cynthia B.
1960-01-10

Bret is one of the seven owners of a Riverboat who start down the Mississippi for Memphis to sell the broken-down craft, but soon in a deadly game of 10 Little Indians one owner after another is found mysteriously dead. It becomes apparent that if the boat does reach Memphis, it's almost certain it will have but one owner.

Runtime: 49 min
Episode 18: Maverick & Juliet
1960-01-17

Bret's freedom hinges on the outcome of a card game. He's ecstatic... until he meets his opponent: Bart — who will make a bundle if he wins.

Runtime: 51 min
Episode 19: The White Widow
1960-01-24

A beautiful widow (Julie Adams) asks Bart to protect her from an unknown killer. He accepts — unaware that he is the intended victim.

Runtime: 51 min
Episode 20: Guatemala City
1960-01-31

Maverick tries to straighten out his romance with Ellen Johnson and at the same time solve a million dollar jewel theft. When Bret finds out that his ardor has cooled, he also finds that he has become the prime target for a ruthless murderer and a man who refuses to stay dead.

Runtime: 49 min
Episode 21: The People's Friend
1960-02-07

Bart Maverick is running for office, he is a sure candidate for U.S. Senate. Bart's political ambition has some town's people out for his blood. His opponents will go to any length to stifle his political aspirations; they threathen his life. Fearful of his opponents, Bart finds a way out of the election, without letting the voters down.

Runtime: 51 min
Episode 22: A Flock of Trouble
1960-02-14

Bret wins a sheep ranch located in the midst of cattle ranchers whose sole aim is to wipe out the sheep — and their new owner.

Runtime: 49 min
Episode 23: Iron Hand
1960-02-21

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

Runtime: 51 min
Episode 24: The Resurrection of Joe November
1960-02-28

A $10,000 temptation puts Bret unwittingly in the middle of a fantastic smuggling scheme.

Runtime: 51 min
Episode 25: The Misfortune Teller
1960-03-06

Bret is fighting a murder charge. But when he meets his lawyer — a numerologist, astrologer and bungler — he knows his number is up.

Runtime: 51 min
Episode 26: Greenbacks, Unlimited
1960-03-13

Bank robber Big Ed Murphy is at his wit's end: someone keeps beating him to the loot — and that someone is Bret.

Runtime: 51 min
Season 4 poster
Season 4 (1960)

No overview available.

32 episodes

Episodes
Episode 1: The Bundle from Britain
1960-09-18

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.

Runtime: 51 min
Episode 2: Hadley's Hunters
1960-09-25

Bart meets a comical sheriff (Edgar Buchanan) who is dead serious about killing him.

Runtime: 51 min
Episode 3: The Town That Wasn't There
1960-10-02

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.

Runtime: 51 min
Episode 4: Arizona Black Maria
1960-10-09

In hostile Sioux territory, Bart is caught between a woman prisoner's devastating charms and a pending Indian attack.

Runtime: 51 min
Episode 5: Last Wire from Stop Gap
1960-10-16

On their way to Denver, Beau and Bart Maverick pick up $6,500 in a poker game at Stop Gap. They decide to wire the money to Denver through the Hulett Telegraph Company. They discover the company is a fake and that the telegraph line leads to a cave two miles away where the crooks stash the customers' money and send phony messages in return. The cousins devise a scheme to recover the money and put the company out of business.

Runtime: 51 min
Episode 6: Mano Nera
1960-10-23

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

Runtime: 51 min
Episode 7: A Bullet for the Teacher
1960-10-30

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.

Runtime: 51 min
Episode 8: The Witch of Hound Dog
1960-11-06

Toil and trouble overcome Bret when he tangles with two burly thieves and their enchanting sister (Anita Sands) — who claims she's a witch.

Runtime: 51 min
Episode 9: Thunder from the North
1960-11-13

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.

Runtime: 51 min
Episode 10: The Maverick Line
1960-11-20

Inheriting a stagecoach line from Uncle Micah is only the beginning of financial problems for the Maverick brothers.

Runtime: 51 min
Episode 11: Bolt from the Blue
1960-11-27

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.

Runtime: 51 min
Episode 12: Kiz
1960-12-04

Beau Maverick crashes a party in Virginia City thrown by eccentric socialite Kiz Bouchet. Kiz has a penchant for smoking cigars, playing poker, and fighting fires. Recognizing Beau as a fellow free spirit, she hires him to protect her. She believes her life is in danger. Beau discovers that Kiz's cousin Melissa, along with family doctor Pittman and attorney Hanford, are plotting to have Kiz judged incompent so they can split her $2 million inheritance. Beau comes up with a scheme to turn the tables on Melissa.

Runtime: 51 min
Episode 13: Dodge City or Bust
1960-12-11

Chivalrous Bart saves the life of a beautiful woman. His reward? A place on the wanted list for robbery and murder.

Runtime: 51 min
Episode 14: The Bold Fenian Men
1960-12-18

The Fenians, an Irish Revolutionary Brotherhood, are trained soldiers sworn to free Ireland from British rule. The Fenians have gathered in Dakota City to plan a march into Canada where they want to take hold of a small part of British property hostage in exchange for Ireland's freedom. After England pressures the United States to intervene, Beau Maverick is blackmailed into infiltrating the Fenians ranks by a shrewd Army colonel.

Runtime: 51 min
Episode 15: Destination Devil's Flat
1960-12-25

Bart substitutes a rock-filled suitcase for a fortune in gold to foil hijacking plans of phony sheriff Dan Trevor (Peter Breck).

Runtime: 51 min
Episode 16: A State of Siege
1961-01-01

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

Runtime: 51 min
Episode 17: Family Pride
1961-01-08

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.

Runtime: 51 min
Episode 18: The Cactus Switch
1961-01-15

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

Runtime: 51 min
Episode 19: Dutchman's Gold
1961-01-22

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.

Runtime: 51 min
Episode 20: The Ice Man
1961-01-29

After discovering a long-lost body encased in ice, Bart finds himself in hot water.

Runtime: 51 min
Episode 21: Diamond Flush
1961-02-05

Con artist Ferguson knocks Beau Maverick unconscious during an unsuccessful attempt to hoist a priceless diamond necklace from a French countess. Ferguson claims that the countess' diamond is fake and that he was in the process of replacing it with the real thing when Beau startled him. Ferguson offers Maverick $5,000 to switch diamonds. Beau is being set up for robbery by Ferguson and his equally devious wife.

Runtime: 51 min
Episode 22: Last Stop Oblivion
1961-02-12

Good-guy Bart warns the wrong people that their hosts are murderers — and ends up as the next possible victim.

Runtime: 51 min
Episode 23: Flood's Folly
1961-02-19

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.

Runtime: 51 min
Episode 24: Maverick at Law
1961-02-26

Bart has a lot of explaining to do: the bank has been robbed — and his saddlebags are bulging with stolen loot.

Runtime: 51 min
Episode 25: Red Dog
1961-03-05

Beau Maverick stumbles onto the cave site meeting place of five outlaws. They were summoned by a bandit named Jess in order to plan a big job. Mavrick passes himself as the notorious Texas outlaw Red Dog. The outlaws become suspicious of Beau when he declines to join them in a $500,000 bank robbery scheme.

Runtime: 51 min
Episode 26: The Deadly Image
1961-03-12

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

Runtime: 51 min
Episode 27: Triple Indemnity
1961-03-19

Cowardly George Parker (Alan Hewitt) offers Doc Holliday a tempting reward. All Doc has to do is kill his best friend — Bart.

Runtime: 51 min
Episode 28: The Forbidden City
1961-03-26

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

Runtime: 51 min
Episode 29: Substitute Gun
1961-04-02

Bart matches wits — and bullets — with a professional gunman... and learns that a beautiful woman can be more deadly than hired killers.

Runtime: 51 min
Episode 30: Benefit of the Doubt
1961-04-09

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

Runtime: 51 min
Episode 31: The Devil's Necklace (1)
1961-04-16

Bart just made the deal of a lifetime: he blindly purchased a wagonload of merchandise — including a bound and gagged Indian girl.

Runtime: 51 min
Episode 32: The Devil's Necklace (2)
1961-04-23

The Apaches catch Bart red-handed with a wagonload of liquor and a kidnapped Indian girl — and that means war.

Runtime: 51 min
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Season 5 (1961)

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13 episodes

Episodes
Episode 1: Dade City Dodge
1961-09-17

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

Runtime: 50 min
Episode 2: The Art Lovers
1961-10-01

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

Runtime: 50 min
Episode 3: The Golden Fleecing
1961-10-08

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

Runtime: 50 min
Episode 4: Three Queens Full
1961-11-12

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

Runtime: 50 min
Episode 5: A Technical Error
1961-11-26

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.

Runtime: 50 min
Episode 6: Poker Face
1962-01-07

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

Runtime: 50 min
Episode 7: Mr. Muldoon's Partner
1962-02-11

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

Runtime: 50 min
Episode 8: Epitaph for a Gambler
1962-03-04

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

Runtime: 50 min
Episode 9: The Maverick Report
1962-03-11

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.

Runtime: 50 min
Episode 10: Marshal Maverick
1962-04-01

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

Runtime: 50 min
Episode 11: The Troubled Heir
1962-04-08

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

Runtime: 50 min
Episode 12: The Money Machine
1962-04-15

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

Runtime: 50 min
Episode 13: One of Our Trains is Missing
1962-04-22

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.

Runtime: 50 min

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