Bret Maverick
Set in Sweetwater, Arizona in the 1880s with solid citizen Bret owning a ranch and part of the Red Ox Saloon. Stable cast with varying stories, often centered on conflict between the ambitious sheriff and everyone else.
Cast:James Garner , Ed Bruce , Ramon Bieri , Richard Hamilton , John Shearin , David Knell , Darleen Carr , Jack Garner , Luis Delgado , Chester Grimes , Tommy Bush , Stuart Margolin , Priscilla Morrill , Marj Dusay , Ed Bakey , Ruth Estler , Norman Merrill , Janis Paige
S1.E1 ∙ The Lazy Ace: Part 1
Bret Maverick wins a saloon in a poker game and decides to end his roving ways and settle down in Sweetwater, Arizona. He takes on as a partner the former sheriff who comes with a shady background.
S1.E3 ∙ Welcome to Sweetwater
The railroad wants to buy the ranch that Bret wants to retire to.
S1.E4 ∙ Anything for a Friend
Tom Guthrie's plan to hide his wounded friend, Billy the Kid, from a vengeful U.S. Marshal at Bret's ranch threaten to spoil the ex-gambler's barn-raising.
S1.E5 ∙ The Yellow Rose
The women's rights group is appalled when Bret wins a Chinese girl in a poker game.
S1.E6 ∙ Horse of Yet Another Color
Young Theodore Roosevelt comes to Sweetwater to find the President's horse, which is a gift to Geronimo as party of a treaty arrangement and has turned up missing.
S1.E7 ∙ Dateline: Sweetwater
Big business tries to takeover the town of Sweetwater.
S1.E8 ∙ The Mayflower's Women Historical Society
Be hanged or sell his life story. That's Bret's choice.
S1.E9 ∙ Hallie
Hallie is an old girlfriend of Bret's who is being followed by two men who she had swindled and they want her dead.
S1.E10 ∙ The Ballad of Bret Maverick
A songwriter wants to finish his ballad about the life of Bret Maverick. He wants to finish the song about how he died.
S1.E11 ∙ A Night at the Red Ox
A kangaroo court is set up to try Tom Guthrie for past crimes.
S1.E12 ∙ The Not So Magnificent Six
A pulp writer hires six gunmen to kill Bret so that he can publish a new book.
S1.E13 ∙ The Vulture Also Rises
The townsfolk of Sweetwater want to call out the Army when a stagecoach is attacked by Indians.
S1.E14 ∙ The Eight Swords of Dyrus and Other Illusions of Grandeur
Bret exposes a magician as a phony.
S1.E15 ∙ Faith, Hope and Clarity: Part 1
The founder of a religious sect cons the townsfolk out of their land and Bret uses his own talents to get it back.
S1.E16 ∙ Faith, Hope and Clarity: Part 2
The founder of a religious sect cons the townsfolk out of their land and Bret uses his own talents to get it back.
S1.E17 ∙ The Rattlesnake Brigade
The owners of the Red Ox have outlaws after them due to a shipment of gold.
S1.E18 ∙ The Hidalgo Thing
When his partner Tom Guthrie is trying to get his sheriff's job back and hopes that Bret will keep quiet, Bret is busy with the biggest con of his life. Bret's brother Bart shows up.
