Maverick - Episode Guide

Bret rides into Echo Springs and discovers that the mining company owner is a card cheat. The owner orders Bret to get out of town and has him beaten when he doesn't, so Bret plans revenge on the man by starting a rival company.

Beautiful Molly Gleason gets Bret a job as a spotter at a local saloon... but he's unaware she's setting him up so that she and her accomplice can rob the town bank.

Southern belle Samantha Crawford takes Bret at poker: twice. He makes her a deal for her to stake him to take down a crooked saloon owner, but Samantha owes some money of her own.

Bret goes looking for a robber, and the trail leads to White Rock. The robber is dead, and the woman Bret meets along the way mysteriously disappears into the night... and the townspeople later tell Bret that she died a week ago.

Bret befriends an affable stagecoach robber. When the man is fatally shot, he makes Bret promise to find the man who was mistaken for him and went to prison for a bank robbery.

A father and his two sons are willing to kill to find a gold mine in the Black Hills, and Bret--who they've captured--says that he has the only map.

Bret is saddled with a camel in a poker game, but he has bigger troubles: he goes to Silver Springs to take on "Honest" Carl Jimson, who is fleecing his customers. Bret refuses to be cowed and move on to greener pastures, and Carl hires a gunfighter to take Bret down.

Bret meets with his brother Bart in New Orleans to gain passage on a riverboat filled with rich Creoles. But they end up involved with a kidnapping scheme involving the daughter of the riverboat's owner.

Bret teams up with a fellow gambler, Diamond Jim Buckley, to take down a crooked saloon owner who robbed them both.

Bret asks for Bart's help to buy a stranded ship at auction, but someone else is interested in purchasing it. Bart puts to see to find out who wants the ship so badly.

Bret needs a crook alive to clear him of a robbery charge. But Doc Holliday is gunning for the crook, so Bret has to lose to Doc at cards to keep him occupied.

Bret tries to collect a $10,000 bet from a Virginia City businessman, and ends up killing him in self-defense. The dead man turns up alive and well, and is involved in a scheme to keep an engineer from properly ventilating the Comstock Lode... and reducing the businessman's profits.

A widow hires Bret to escort her--and her $200,000--to a Montana town. Bret soon finds himself on the run with the $200,000... which is counterfeit.

It's eleven angry men... and Bret, who is roped into serving on a jury assembled to hear the case of a young man accused of murder.

Bret sets up shop in a cow town. When a cowhand accidentally dies after the marshal buffaloes him, the trail hands prepare to ride in and tree the town unless someone stands up to them, and a newsprint shop owner provokes the trail hands.

While caught in a flood, Bret and Bart tells Dandy Jim the story of why they're wanted for murder in Texas.

Samantha Crawford stakes Bret for $20,000 in a high-stakes game of poker against some leading businessmen. When robbers take all their money, the businessmen suspect Bret set the whole thing up and Bet sets out to recover their money... with Samantha's "help".

To pay off a debt, Bret poses as a heir but soon discovers that someone wants all of the heirs dead at the isolated ranch where their rich uncle has called them to decide who he should give his money to.

Bret and Bart are mistaken for Doc Holliday and Wyatt Earp by local townspeople, who want them to deal with a criminal who is secretly planning to rob the bank.

You can't con an innocent man.... but you can hang one, as Bret discovers when he's framed for murder and robbery in Hallelujah, New Mexico.

Bret gets involved in the search for hidden bank robbery money, when the wife of one of the robbers asks for his help to dodge another robber.

A family of English aristocrats living in Wyoming take Bret in after he's stranded in the desert. They hire him to work as a hunting guide, and Bret tries to save their lives when outlaws strand them in the desert.

A rich French family hires Bret to bring back the man who they believe killed one of their members. Bret travels to Mexico to find the man, Steve Corbett, but soon becomes convinced of his innocence.

When Dandy Jim cons Bret out of $5,000 and gets himself into jail on a murder charge, Bret has to break him out to get his money back.

A crooked bank manager, Bates, rips off Bret for $15,000 in poker winnings. Bret sits and whittles on the hotel porch... while Bart and the Mavericks' friends run a con on Bates to get the money back.

In the bayous, Bret falls in with English colonists who are willing to kill him rather than reveal the secret they hide.

Bart and Gentleman Jack sell goods at a mining camp, and soon Bart is accused of murdering Jack over a Spanish dancer, Elena.

Bret hunts for Confederate treasure hidden in a Kansas town where Marshal Matt Dooley watches over the citizenry and takes a dislike to the gambler.

Bart and Bret race against each other to get to an exchange office and cash a draft before news gets out that the company that issued it went bankrupt.

A rich young man, Jack Vandergilt, hires Bret to pose as him while Jack poses as Bret to woo a young heiress and convince her to love him for his personality, not his moiney.

Bret's friend asks him to come to Sundown and convince his daughter Carrie that the local gunfighter she's in love with is a coward. The problem is that he's a gunfighter and Bret isn't.

Bret rides into Bent City with Waco Williams, a straight-shooting white-wearing gunman who doesn't want any trouble... and they find themselves in the middle of a range war.

Bret Maverick uncovers a bizarre plot of murder and blackmail in the town of Ten Strike, New Mexico. Connie Stevens appears alongside Adam West.

Bret trails a widowed singer to find out if her husband is really alive... and if he is, his existence can clear Bret's friend Mike McComb of three murder charges.

Bart and Bret learn that their father is marrying a much younger woman, and travel to Texas to find out what's going on.

In the town of Duck "N" Shoot, Bret gets the false credit for knocking out a rowdy. The town judge appoints Bret the sheriff to deal with the unwholesome element in town, and Bret uses his wiles rather than his gunhand to deal with them.

Conwoman Modesty Blaine suckers Bret out of $1,000 and sets him up to be shanghaied. Bret escapes and follows her to the town of Paradise where she's selling cats to rat-overrun miners, and tries to get his money back.

Bret takes a player's diamond stickpin as collateral and is soon mistaken for the player by the man's gang... and Bret ends up planning the robbery of the Denver Mint.

Bret is swindled out of $1,000 by buying a riverboat. He discovers that it's worth $20,000 and that it's a cursed "death ship", and that he and the other six co-owners have to get the riverboat to Memphis in time to collect the money.

Bret gets pulled into a family feud between the Caterets and the Montgomerys, and is forced to play poker for the Caterets to win the land the two families are fighting over. Problems arise when the Montgomerys bring in Bart as their player.

Bret gets taken for a ride twice: once by a beautiful woman he falls in love with who may be a jewel thief, and then by a young orphan girl living in Guatemala where Bret tracks the first woman down.

Bart Maverick throws his hat into the political ring as candidate for state senator. This results in his forsaking poker.

Bret wins a ranch in a poker game, but discovers that there are sheep, not cattle... and the local ranchers want the sheep out.

Bret meets an old "friend" on a riverboat heading to New Orleans, and gets swept up in a scheme to find the missing jewels of Napoleon during Mardi Gras.

Bret arrives in the town of Medicine Bow and soon discovers that someone using his name swindled the townspeople for $15,000... and murdered the mayor.

A bank president in Denver hires Bret to find out the safecracker/gambler who plans to break into the vault. Bret discovers that an old family friend has a secret way into the vault. The friend is honest... but the people who might use him to steal the money, not so much.

A beautiful dance hall girl, Flo Baker, leaves an innocent Beau Maverick to face a murder charge. Shortly after Beau wins half ownership of a gambling casino in St. Joe. Mo. Flo, in self defense, shoots and kills his partner. The dead man's brother, Luke Storm, accuses Beau of the murder, hoping to inherit Maverick's share in the casino. Beau flees St. Joe in search of the missing Flo. He finds her in a New Mexico hamlet where she is adored as the town's first school teacher. The citizens are unaware of Flo's dance hall background. Flo likes her new life and is reluctant to admit her guilt in the murder. She is faced with a cruel decision when Luke shows up with plans to kill the innocent Beau.

Bret and Bart inherit a stagecoach line from their uncle, discover that it's only of value to a local rancher, and try to sell it to her for 49% of the profit for the rest of their lives. But the rancher, a stagecoach robber, a greedy lawyer, and his hired killer have other plans.

Bart's ship capsizes in a river and he is rescued by a quaker family.