Maverick

Bret and Bart Maverick are well-dressed gamblers who migrate from town to town always looking for a good game.

Genre: Western

Cast:Jack Kelly , James Garner , Roger Moore , Lane Chandler , Clyde Howdy , Kathleen Crowley , Chubby Johnson , Mark Tapscott , Gerald Mohr , Gage Clarke , Tol Avery , Harry Harvey , Will Wright , Peter Breck , Charles Fredericks , Frank Ferguson , Richard Reeves , Jonathan Hole

1Season 1

S1.E1 ∙ War of the Silver Kings

Sun, Sep 22, 1957

Bret rides into town looking for poker game to make some money. He finds one, but it's crooked, and he decides to get revenge, and also save the small mining town from the evil clutches of Phineas King.

2Season 1

S1.E2 ∙ Point Blank

Sun, Sep 29, 1957

Bret arrives in Bent Forks after being run out of the last town by posse, and gets a job as a spotter. But it's a set-up by a scheming couple so they can get out of town with the money they've stolen.

3Season 1

S1.E3 ∙ According to Hoyle

Sun, Oct 6, 1957

After Samantha Crawford cleans him out--twice--Bret suggests they partner up to take down a crooked casino owner.

4Season 1

S1.E4 ∙ Ghost Rider

Sun, Oct 13, 1957

Bret tries to track down a woman he loaned his coat to - who supposedly died years earlier.

5Season 1

S1.E5 ∙ The Long Hunt

Sun, Oct 20, 1957

Bret goes on a "long hunt" on an outlaw's request to clear a man accused of a robbery the outlaw help commit.

6Season 1

S1.E6 ∙ Stage West

Sun, Oct 27, 1957

Bret comes to the assistance of a woman who came west when she learns of her husband's gold strike. A ruthless family of ranchers have killed her husband, though, and try to convince the young lady that they are her late husband's partners.

7Season 1

S1.E7 ∙ Relic of Fort Tejon

Sun, Nov 3, 1957

Bret wins a camel in a card game, and it helps him out against a crooked card player.

8Season 1

S1.E8 ∙ Hostage!

Sun, Nov 10, 1957

Bret and Bart look to sail on a riverboat's maiden cruise but get caught up in a kidnapping of the boat's owner's daughter. Bret is taken hostage, and Bart must outwit the kidnappers and the police to rescue his brother and the girl.

9Season 1

S1.E9 ∙ Stampede

Sun, Nov 17, 1957

Bret, and new character Dandy Jim Buckley, join a gold rush to even a score with Cadiz, a crooked gambler who robbed them. Cadiz's brawler Battling Kreuger is taking on all comers, and en route Bret, crashes into a possible challenger, mountain man Noah, complete with a pet skunk.

10Season 1

S1.E10 ∙ The Jeweled Gun

Sun, Nov 24, 1957

Bart gets involved with a mysterious woman, Daisy Harris, who wants him to act as her bodyguard, no questions asked.

11Season 1

S1.E11 ∙ The Wrecker

Sun, Dec 1, 1957

Bret Maverick wins the right to join a ring of shipwreck salvagers, but he is soon in debt up to his neck when he engages in a spirited bidding contest, spending $21,000 for a ship whose cargo is apparently only worth half that. Brother Bart soon finds out why their unknown rival was willing to bid so high - in addition to bales of silk and rice, the wreck's hold is full of illegal opium.

12Season 1

S1.E12 ∙ The Quick and the Dead

Sun, Dec 8, 1957

In an attempt to clear himself of a robbery charge, Brett must protect a man marked for murder.

13Season 1

S1.E13 ∙ The Naked Gallows

Sun, Dec 15, 1957

Bart's nosing round Bent Spur pursuing his friend's murderer. Bart was so down on his luck, he spent a winter trapping beaver outside town. Bent Spur's overstocked with red herrings, who too easily slip through the fingers of Sheriff Barney F, including the killer, broken out of jail by the evil Brink. The murder victim's brassy lady-friend/casino partner is a quick rebounder, who immediately sidles up to the suspicious Bart.

14Season 1

S1.E14 ∙ Comstock Conspiracy

Sun, Dec 29, 1957

Bret is forced to kill someone in self-defense when he tries to collect a gambling debt. The next day the dead man turns up alive, and Bret tries to unravel the mystery.

15Season 1

S1.E15 ∙ The Third Rider

Sun, Jan 5, 1958

Bart Maverick is helping two men, one of who is injured, when a posse appears. One horseman flees and escapes, while the other is killed by the posse. Bart becomes the chief suspect in a robbery/murder the horsemen are suspected of.

16Season 1

S1.E16 ∙ Rage for Vengeance

Sun, Jan 12, 1958

Bret agrees to serve as the bodyguard for a woman traveling with $200,000 in cash to a small Montana town. En route, he discovers that the money in the suitcase he's guarding is all counterfeit.

17Season 1

S1.E17 ∙ Rope of Cards

Sun, Jan 19, 1958

Bret is selected to serve on the jury of a murder trial and finds himself the only member who refuses to believe that the defendant is guilty.

18Season 1

S1.E18 ∙ Diamond in the Rough

Sun, Jan 26, 1958

A San Francisco tycoon takes a dislike to Bart and has him beaten, robbed and thrown on board a sailing ship bound for New Orleans. Maverick vows revenge and with the help of a pair of charming, but broke, French countesses, returns to the City on the Bay to extract the $17,000 that was stolen from him. Maverick discovers that his nemesis is plotting a multi-million scam by fleecing his fellow millionaires by selling stock in a phony diamond field and is determined to protect his friends and recover his money at the same time.

19Season 1

S1.E19 ∙ Day of Reckoning

Sun, Feb 2, 1958

Bret is caught between the local cowboys, who threaten to destroy a town, and the businessmen who have to give into the cowboys' demands.

20Season 1

S1.E20 ∙ The Savage Hills

Sun, Feb 9, 1958

A beautiful con woman convinces Bart that a fellow hotel guest is really the leader of a counterfeit ring in possession of the plates to print the phony money. After Bart helps steal the plates, he learns that the gangster is really a Secret Service agent and the two men join forces to reclaim the plates before they're put to criminal use.

21Season 1

S1.E21 ∙ Trail West to Fury

Sun, Feb 16, 1958

While trapped in a storm, Bret and Bart tell Dandy Jim why they can't go to Texas.

22Season 1

S1.E22 ∙ The Burning Sky

Sun, Feb 23, 1958

Travelling across the Arizona desert, the stagecoach conveying Bart Maverick and his companions is attacked by what appear to be Apache Indians. The passengers manage to reach the ruins of an adobe house and soon discover that the men besieging them are actually Mexican bandits who want something that one of the passengers possesses. As the broiling heat takes its toll, Bret attempts to discover which one of his fellow wayfarers is protecting a secret worth fighting, and possibly dying, for.

23Season 1

S1.E23 ∙ The Seventh Hand

Sun, Mar 2, 1958

To clear their names, Bret and Samantha Crawford go after two gunmen who stole money from a high-stakes poker game they were involved with.

24Season 1

S1.E24 ∙ Plunder of Paradise

Sun, Mar 9, 1958

Bart Maverick and Big Mike McComb are invited to a remote Mexican fishing village to help locate and remove buried treasure from under the nose of the authorities. When they arrive, the man who asked for their help has disappeared and in his place they find a marooned saloon singer, a woman claiming to be the missing man's wife and a gang of Mexican bandits who dog their every step.

25Season 1

S1.E25 ∙ Black Fire

Sun, Mar 16, 1958

Bret is played to play stand-in at a family party, and then the guests start dying one by one.

26Season 1

S1.E26 ∙ Burial Ground of the Gods

Sun, Mar 30, 1958

Bart trails a thief to the Wyoming badlands where the man is leading a woman and her fiancé to where he claims to have seen her supposedly dead husband. In order to regain his money, Bart must join the party and make sure they can return safely to Denver after crossing sacred Sioux Indian territory.

27Season 1

S1.E27 ∙ Seed of Deception

Sun, Apr 13, 1958

Bart and Bret ride into a town and the townspeople mistake them for Doc Holliday and Wyatt Earp. Problems arise when when a group of outlaws make the same mistake as the townspeople.

1Season 2

S2.E1 ∙ The Day They Hanged Bret Maverick

Sun, Sep 21, 1958

$40,000 is stolen from the bank of Hallelujah. The robber plants incriminating evidence on Bret and he is arrested, tried, and sentenced to hang. However, the question remains, what happened to the money? The sheriff is very curious.

2Season 2

S2.E2 ∙ The Lonesome Reunion

Sun, Sep 28, 1958

Bret falls for yet another pretty face, who convinces him to help her to save her father's property in the town of Lonesome.

3Season 2

S2.E3 ∙ Alias Bart Maverick

Sun, Oct 5, 1958

Bart makes the mistake of befriending fellow gambler Gentleman Jack Darby, who soon leaves Bart mistaken for a crime Jack is wanted for.

4Season 2

S2.E4 ∙ The Belcastle Brand

Sun, Oct 12, 1958

Bret is taken in by Englishmen "roughing it" in Wyoming, and has to lead them out of the desert when they become stranded.

5Season 2

S2.E5 ∙ High Card Hangs

Sun, Oct 19, 1958

Newcomer Bart Maverick is suspected by sheriff Bald Bill of a robbery/murder. Bart's friend Dandy Jim Buckley helps the imprisoned Bart uncover the actual culprits.

6Season 2

S2.E6 ∙ Escape to Tampico

Sun, Oct 26, 1958

In Mexico, Bret agrees to accompany a man wanted for murder back to New Orleans, and develops a friendship with him along the way.

7Season 2

S2.E7 ∙ The Judas Mask

Sun, Nov 2, 1958

Bart chases a can-can girl who stole $20,000 from him - and insists she had a good reason to do so.

8Season 2

S2.E8 ∙ The Jail at Junction Flats

Sun, Nov 9, 1958

Bret has to get Dandy Jim out of an escape-proof jail so Jim can take Bret to the money he stole from Bret.

9Season 2

S2.E9 ∙ The Thirty-Ninth Star

Sun, Nov 16, 1958

After getting off a stage and checking into a hotel room, Bart is tricked into slipping out of his room just long enough for the suitcase he is carrying with $2,600 to be stolen. Looking for the men on the stage who knew he was carrying the money, he finds one of them dead and another has left the hotel. But then another, a town judge, returns Bart's suitcase with the money intact. The suitcase Bart left the stage with was the judge's identical looking one which held a valuable document in it that many believe Bart has hidden, and are willing to kill for.

10Season 2

S2.E10 ∙ Shady Deal at Sunny Acres

Sun, Nov 23, 1958

Bret gets ripped off by a small-town banker, and summons his friend and allies to con the man while he sits out the con, whittling on a hotel porch.

11Season 2

S2.E11 ∙ Island in the Swamp

Sun, Nov 30, 1958

Bret is held hostage by a group who think he's a government agent after them.

12Season 2

S2.E12 ∙ Prey of the Cat

Sun, Dec 7, 1958

When his horse is spooked by a wild cat, Bart suffers a broken leg. His benefactor's wife has plans for him and all he wants to do is get away as soon as he is able. But his friend's wife may have something to say about that.

13Season 2

S2.E13 ∙ Holiday at Hollow Rock

Sun, Dec 14, 1958

Bret attends the annual 4th of July horse race in Hollow Rock, WY. He learns the two top contenders have strong reasons for winning which may involve Bret more than just his desire to make a sure bet.

14Season 2

S2.E14 ∙ The Spanish Dancer

Sun, Dec 28, 1958

Bart is stuck in a mining town, accused of murdering Gentleman Jack and dealing with a feisty Spanish dancer.

15Season 2

S2.E15 ∙ Game of Chance

Sun, Jan 4, 1959

A strand of pearls appraised at $40,000 leads Bart to loan $10,000 to the owner. When they skip town leaving him with a strand that's worthless, he enlists Bret to help him get his money back - for a fee, of course.

16Season 2

S2.E16 ∙ Gun-Shy

Sun, Jan 11, 1959

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.

17Season 2

S2.E17 ∙ Two Beggars on Horseback

Sun, Jan 18, 1959

The Maverick brothers race against time, and each other, to cash bank drafts before one company office learns that the main office has gone under.

18Season 2

S2.E18 ∙ The Rivals

Sun, Jan 25, 1959

A rich playboy pays Bret Maverick to switch identities with him, so the playboy can court a wealthy young woman, who'd otherwise reject him.

19Season 2

S2.E19 ∙ Duel at Sundown

Sun, Feb 1, 1959

Bret Maverick is on his way to a high stakes poker game, when an injured friend with a hidden agenda, begs him to visit. After Bret arrives, the friend's beautiful daughter draws Bret into a plot of her own. Both plots revolve around cold-blooded Red Hardigan (a lanky, young Clint Eastwood). Red demands Bret leave Sundown immediately - or rest in Sundown forever.

20Season 2

S2.E20 ∙ Yellow River

Sun, Feb 8, 1959

Losing his stake in a bank robbery, Bart agrees to hold two men for $300 on a pretty woman's say-so. When the story proves false, he rides after her only to find she is partnering a cattle drive and they are being murdered one by one.

21Season 2

S2.E21 ∙ The Saga of Waco Williams

Sun, Feb 15, 1959

Bret partners up with a man he met on the trail, Waco Williams. Waco, much to Bret's disgust, is too good to be true.

22Season 2

S2.E22 ∙ Brasada Spur

Sun, Feb 22, 1959

A rich widow woman uses her influence to get Bart into a high stakes poker game in which he wins both stock in a railroad and a colossal headache.

23Season 2

S2.E23 ∙ Passage to Fort Doom

Sun, Mar 8, 1959

Bart hires on as a scout for a wagon train, and gets involved with intrigue between the passengers.

24Season 2

S2.E24 ∙ Two Tickets to Ten Strike

Sun, Mar 15, 1959

Frankie French has a mysterious and secret benefactor who has paid for her trip to Ten Strike with the promise of more funds. Who is the benefactor, and what does he want from Frankie?

25Season 2

S2.E25 ∙ Betrayal

Sun, Mar 22, 1959

Bart is en route to Virginia City, but his stagecoach gets waylaid and he sets out to recover his money.

26Season 2

S2.E26 ∙ The Strange Journey of Jenny Hill

Sun, Mar 29, 1959

Why does singer Jenny Hill keep moving from town to town for short engagements when she could find a longer term gig if she wanted? And why does Bret keep following her on her journey?

1Season 3

S3.E1 ∙ Pappy

Sun, Sep 13, 1959

Bret and Bart travel home to find out why their father, Pappy, is marrying a much younger woman.

2Season 3

S3.E2 ∙ Royal Four Flush

Sun, Sep 20, 1959

Bart befriends a rich farmer who is targeted for marriage by a conwoman that Bart knows.

3Season 3

S3.E3 ∙ The Sheriff of Duck 'n' Shoot

Sun, Sep 27, 1959

Bret gets coralled into serving out jail time as a wild-and-woolly Western town's sheriff, and does a surprisingly good job of it - until he ends up imprisoned in his own jail.

4Season 3

S3.E4 ∙ You Can't Beat the Percentage

Sun, Oct 4, 1959

One of Bart's former romances calls Bart to a town, and says that she warts him to help her take over the local casino. But then a visiting cowboy turns up dead, and Bart is framed for his murder.

5Season 3

S3.E5 ∙ The Cats of Paradise

Sun, Oct 11, 1959

Modesty Blaine ropes Bret into a cat-selling scheme to a mining town infested with rats.

6Season 3

S3.E6 ∙ A Tale of Three Cities

Sun, Oct 18, 1959

Bart has to pose as a repentant gambler as part of a scheme to recover $2,000 for an attractive woman - who initially robbed him at gunpoint.

7Season 3

S3.E7 ∙ Full House

Sun, Oct 25, 1959

Due to a case of mistaken identity, Bret ends up leading a band of famed outlaws

8Season 3

S3.E8 ∙ The Lass with the Poisonous Air

Sun, Nov 1, 1959

Bart falls for a beautiful girl but doesn't know he's being set up for a murder nor does he know whom he is going to kill. He is steered to the truth about both by another girl who also likes him.

9Season 3

S3.E9 ∙ The Ghost Soldiers

Sun, Nov 8, 1959

Arriving at an army fort shortly after an Indian massacre, Bret and two soldiers must find a way to survive the gathering Indian war party until reinforcements arrive. Bret's plan involves turning the Indians' superstitions against them.

10Season 3

S3.E10 ∙ Easy Mark

Sun, Nov 15, 1959

Bart, escaping his last poker game due to sore losers, runs into an heir to a railroad in the middle of the desert who just has two concerns: getting to a meeting by Friday and cross pollinating a delicate and rare cactus.

11Season 3

S3.E11 ∙ A Fellow's Brother

Sun, Nov 22, 1959

Bret isn't so eager to spring into action, after he hears that Bart was murdered.

12Season 3

S3.E12 ∙ Trooper Maverick

Sun, Nov 29, 1959

Involuntarily enlisted into the army, Bart becomes a spy for the local base commander trying to find out who is selling arms to the local Indians. But when the commander dies and Bart is caught with the arms dealers, he faces a court martial and potential execution for treason.

13Season 3

S3.E13 ∙ Maverick Springs

Sun, Dec 6, 1959

In an effort to save her brother from the clutches of a scheming Melanie Blake, a wealthy rancher blackmails Bret into playing the role of a wealthy Texan to seduce Melanie into giving up the brother. But the brother has already been cheated out of his share of the ranch, so it is up to Bret with help from brother Bart to regain the asset through a land development ploy.

14Season 3

S3.E14 ∙ The Goose-Drownder

Sun, Dec 13, 1959

A "goose-drownder" (rainstorm) perilously strands gambling rivals Gentleman Jack and Bart in a tiny roadhouse. A stagecoach has to pull in, too, brimming with suspicious, hostile characters, especially a wounded, notorious highwayman, The Arapaho Kid, and a bedding salesman named Red Herring! The Kid's blonde lady-friend, Stella Legendre (in French, "the sex star") once robbed Bart, but Bart forgives her. Does Bart still have a soft spot for Stella, or is he just trying to discern which ones are The Kid's gang?

15Season 3

S3.E15 ∙ A Cure for Johnny Rain

Sun, Dec 20, 1959

Johnny Rain, a friend to all and beloved by all, has a problem. He does not particularly like whiskey and it doesn't agree with him, but his girlfriend insists that he should drink. While under the spell of whiskey, Johnny takes to stagecoach holdups. Bret figures out that it is Johnny behind the robberies, but can he figure out where the loot is hidden?

16Season 3

S3.E16 ∙ The Marquesa

Sun, Jan 3, 1960

Having won a saloon, Bart arrives in town to find it closed because of a competing claim of ownership by the Marquessa, the alleged heir to the land grant on which the saloon and the town sits. Bart suspects that the Marquessa is a fraud, but is she?

17Season 3

S3.E17 ∙ Cruise of the Cynthia B.

Sun, Jan 10, 1960

Having been tricked into buying a share of a steamboat instead of the whole boat, Bret and his co-owners sail the boat up the Mississippi to an interested purchaser. Along the way, however, the co-owners start dying one by one.

18Season 3

S3.E18 ∙ Maverick and Juliet

Sun, Jan 17, 1960

Bret and Bart are hired by the feuding Carteret and Montgomery families to settle a longtime dispute by a poker competition. The families are unaware of Bret and Bart's relationship, but when they become suspicious the stakes are considerably raised for the brothers.

19Season 3

S3.E19 ∙ The White Widow

Sun, Jan 24, 1960

A beautiful widow asks Bart to protect her from an unknown killer. He accepts -- unaware that he is the intended victim of the poison pen letters.

20Season 3

S3.E20 ∙ Guatemala City

Sun, Jan 31, 1960

Bret's love of his life ducks out on him without explanation and flees to Guatemala City, and Bret follows there to learn why.

21Season 3

S3.E21 ∙ The People's Friend

Sun, Feb 7, 1960

Bart thwarts an assassination attempt on a local politician. With the wounded man unable to run for election, Bart is drafted to take his place on the ballot as a candidate for the Reform Party, a matter not looked on with favor by the competing politician behind the assassination attempt.

22Season 3

S3.E22 ∙ A Flock of Trouble

Sun, Feb 14, 1960

Bret has won a large herd of livestock, but soon finds out that the livestock is sheep and not cattle. And as the new owner of the sheep, Bret is now the object of the local cattlemen's wrath.

23Season 3

S3.E23 ∙ Iron Hand

Sun, Feb 21, 1960

Losing the last few dollars in a poker game, Bart goes after some seemingly easy money for him and his friends. He thinks he can insure a cattle drive and meets a man who looks familiar but can't place his face - soon he does his hand.

24Season 3

S3.E24 ∙ The Resurrection of Joe November

Sun, Feb 28, 1960

In New Orleans, Bret tries to solve a mystery involving missing jewelry, assumed identities, and the supposedly dead Joe November.

25Season 3

S3.E25 ∙ The Misfortune Teller

Sun, Mar 6, 1960

Bret tries to beat a murder rap in Medicine Bow, a town he's never been to before.

26Season 3

S3.E26 ∙ Greenbacks, Unlimited

Sun, Mar 13, 1960

A friend of Bret's discovers a way to safely rob the Bank of Denver. Now he has to return the money before a safecracker and his gang discover the money is gone.

1Season 4

S4.E1 ∙ The Bundle from Britain

Sun, Sep 18, 1960

Returning to America after an extended stay in England, Cousin Beau Maverick is hired to take the place of a young English nobleman. However, he soon finds himself the victim of a kidnap and ransom plot due to his assumed identity.

2Season 4

S4.E2 ∙ Hadley's Hunters

Sun, Sep 25, 1960

A vainglorious sheriff gives Bart five days to track down a supposed stagecoach robber, Cherokee Dan Evans. Evans is innocent, and Bart has to figure out a way to avoid the bounty on his head if he fails.

3Season 4

S4.E3 ∙ The Town That Wasn't There

Sun, Oct 2, 1960

Beau can't win for losing - sashays up to claim a worthless mine he won, then the whole town disappears. The no-longer Silver Hill stands at the mercy of the venal Wilber Shanks, a sanctimonious railroad land buyer, whose threat to divert his rail line far from Silver Hill forces its befuddled citizens to immediately take Shanks' mare to chat up a lonely bachelor sheep rancher who's desperate for some 2-legged company for a change.

4Season 4

S4.E4 ∙ Arizona Black Maria

Sun, Oct 9, 1960

Left in the desert to die, Bart - actually just his fine mane - fascinates Red Feather, who's on a walkabout of sorts. Captain/First Mate Jim of a passing prisoner wagon train saves Bart's scalp, plus the train stars luscious murderer Daphne, who's delighted with Bart as the hearty First Mate's Gilligan. But as the cruise of the Arizona Black Maria nears the penitentiary, wily crooks Dishonest Abe and Fingers Louie aren't so taken with pal Bart.

5Season 4

S4.E5 ∙ Last Wire from Stop Gap

Sun, Oct 16, 1960

Beau & Bart fight to escape a black hole - where money and people enter, but can't leave! The cousins have to sleep sitting up in Stop Gap's only watering hole, after saving from robbers the treacherous Wembly, who promised them free, comfy hotel beds - but knew the inn was full-up. Wembly's suspiciously tight with the mining town's telegraph owner, son of a Colorado Senator. Why is the town too small to have a bank, as its population and wealth mysteriously expand to infinity - and beyond?

6Season 4

S4.E6 ∙ Mano Nera

Sun, Oct 23, 1960

While visiting friends in New Orleans, Bart becomes embroiled in a battle between local businessmen and the secret Mano Nera (Black Hand), a local Italian mob.

7Season 4

S4.E7 ∙ A Bullet for the Teacher

Sun, Oct 30, 1960

Accused of murdering his partner in a casino, Beau tracks a saloon singer who can clear him to a small town where she's now working as a teacher--with the murdered man's trigger-happy brother and a sheriff on Beau's trail.

8Season 4

S4.E8 ∙ The Witch of Hound Dog

Sun, Nov 6, 1960

Bart howls like a hound dog when an alluring witch ravels him in great Smoky Mountain feud-in, fight-in and spell-in. Riding to Hound Dog, Tennessee to collect a debt from High Card Harris, Bart ignored a raven perched on a road sign, who the banshee insists is her dead Pappy. Bart shrugs off the witch's forebodings, then sees the Southern Hamlet disintegrate when he gives the raven-haired enchantress a lift in. Bart's own Pappy never told him there'd be days like this, much worse nights.

9Season 4

S4.E9 ∙ Thunder from the North

Sun, Nov 13, 1960

An Indian princess helps Beau out of trouble when he is framed for murder.

10Season 4

S4.E10 ∙ The Maverick Line

Sun, Nov 20, 1960

In Bret's last episode, the Maverick brothers (Bret and Bart) find themselves the heirs to a stagecoach line. Thinking they have struck it rich, they find instead that the stagecoach line is broke. But the railroad is coming through and the stagecoach's right of way might yet provide their fortune, or so the brothers hope.

11Season 4

S4.E11 ∙ Bolt from the Blue

Sun, Nov 27, 1960

Beau and an old man riding with him are both captured and accused of being horse thieves, in Beau's case, one Benson January. Despite the efforts of a young lawyer (who may or may not be Tom Brewster), Beau is sentenced to hang. His fate may depend on a young woman - the sister of the girl January was engaged to. But will she be willing to help?

12Season 4

S4.E12 ∙ Kiz

Sun, Dec 4, 1960

Beau comes to the aid of an eccentric heiress, whose cousin is trying to drive her to insanity to inherit the family fortune.

13Season 4

S4.E13 ∙ Dodge City or Bust

Sun, Dec 11, 1960

On his way to the bank to collect a gambling debt, Bart rescues a petulant young woman from a runaway horse. On returning to the bank, Bart and the woman find that the bank president has absconded with all the money, including the money to pay Bart's debt and all of the woman's money from sale of her land. The woman hires Bart to get her to Dodge City with the promise that her fiancé will pay him when they arrive. So they set out essentially penniless for Dodge city, only to later find that they are being tracked by a ruthless bounty hunter because they are now wanted for robbing the bank and killing the bank president.

14Season 4

S4.E14 ∙ The Bold Fenian Men

Sun, Dec 18, 1960

Mistaken at a convention hotel to be Beau O'Maverick, Beau is recruited by the army to infiltrate a group of Irishmen in order to find out why they are massing near the Canadian border. But if he is discovered as a spy, it could mean facing a firing squad.

15Season 4

S4.E15 ∙ Destination Devil's Flat

Sun, Dec 25, 1960

Freeloading a train ride to Denver, Bart makes it as far as Crenshaw where he meets an old friend. When he finds how he figures prominently in her plans to take a lot of gold to Devil's Flats, he may wish he should have stayed on that train.

16Season 4

S4.E16 ∙ A State of Siege

Sun, Jan 1, 1961

Finding himself delayed in New Mexico, Bart decides to visit a recent acquaintance at a nearby hacienda. However, the hospitality he expected quickly turns dangerous when the hacienda is placed under siege by a group of other landowners who claim they have been double-crossed in a treasonous plot.

17Season 4

S4.E17 ∙ Family Pride

Sun, Jan 8, 1961

To his chagrin, Beau repeatedly gets out-conned. First, on a bet on a stagecoach. Then, in a series of land deals. Trouble is, Beau isn't just losing his own money, but also that of his friend Jerry O'Brien. Even when he wins, Beau ends up losing and he fears that he has lost that special Maverick touch. Finally at the end, the reason becomes all too clear.

18Season 4

S4.E18 ∙ The Cactus Switch

Sun, Jan 15, 1961

After falling prey to a con game involving a diamond necklace, Bart ends up in a jail cell with an old but treacherous outlaw. With the help of his son, the cell mate breaks out but leaves Bart behind. After being released, Bart plots to recover his loss from the con with help from the outlaw's son and friends. Bart plans to split the recovery with the son, but the elder outlaw has other plans.

19Season 4

S4.E19 ∙ Dutchman's Gold

Sun, Jan 22, 1961

Looking for a way to break even after winning half of a worthless saloon, Beau provides a stake for a miner to return to his hidden goldmine with Beau and his female saloon partner. But the gold is cursed! A notorious outlaw wants to the goldmine for himself. And Indians want the gold located in their sacred burial grounds left alone.

20Season 4

S4.E20 ∙ The Ice Man

Sun, Jan 29, 1961

Bart Maverick finds a body encased in ice, but the body raises more troubles than just the usual who-dunit.

21Season 4

S4.E21 ∙ Diamond Flush

Sun, Feb 5, 1961

By convincing him he is doing exactly the opposite, Beau is used in an elaborate scheme to steal a valuable Kashmir diamond from a French count and his niece, and replace it with an imitation.

22Season 4

S4.E22 ∙ Last Stop: Oblivion

Sun, Feb 12, 1961

After being run out of town, Bart finds himself on a stagecoach with a group of passengers headed to Oblivion, a transfer station and inn run by the Lyme family. While waiting for the next stagecoach to Denver, Bart discovers that some visitors (especially those carrying large sums of money) check in but they don't necessarily check out.

23Season 4

S4.E23 ∙ Flood's Folly

Sun, Feb 19, 1961

On his way to Denver in an impassable snowstorm, Beau's only retreat seems to be a closed hotel. When the owner and her niece exhibit suspicious behavior, their past, present and future become very much entwined in his.

24Season 4

S4.E24 ∙ Maverick at Law

Sun, Feb 26, 1961

Bart was just playing poker in a sleepy town when the bank was robbed. The bandits got away with $10,000, half of which wound up in his saddlebags - and they're coming back to look for it.

25Season 4

S4.E25 ∙ Red Dog

Sun, Mar 5, 1961

Beau, looking for a place to rest, comes upon a cave with writing on the wall - This is the place J. When several famous outlaws show up looking for Jess, Beau poses as Red Dog so he can blend in, until he finds out what is really going on.

26Season 4

S4.E26 ∙ The Deadly Image

Sun, Mar 12, 1961

On his way to Cheyenne, Bart happens upon a man who was just in a gun battle and helps him and buries another. When the Army shows up, he's arrested and mistaken for a wanted man -- someone who the man he just befriended knows very well.

27Season 4

S4.E27 ∙ Triple Indemnity

Sun, Mar 19, 1961

The czar of a frontier town has Bart thrashed to steal back his gambling losses, which angers even the boss' mother. Mom and Bart conspire to get Bart's money back, and teach the arrogant boss humility. As the scheme pressures the despot, he prays "Lord, give me patience, but give it to me now !" Bart enlists his dying pal, the gunfighting dentist from Philadelphia, Doc Holiday as insurance.

28Season 4

S4.E28 ∙ The Forbidden City

Sun, Mar 26, 1961

Brent is arrested for gambling while passing through Sunburst on the stage. When a cell mate is murdered while escaping by three masked men, he is asked to leave on the next stage before his value as an eyewitness proves useful.

29Season 4

S4.E29 ∙ Substitute Gun

Sun, Apr 2, 1961

A sheriff who once saved Bart's life asks Bart to pay him back by taking a job as a dealer in the local saloon and stopping the owner's scheme to kill his rival for a girl's affections.

30Season 4

S4.E30 ∙ Benefit of the Doubt

Sun, Apr 9, 1961

Brent and his friends happen to witness an attempted robbery of the post office, which the sheriff stopped by shooting the thieves. They also happened to witness the sheriff helping himself to the loot.

31Season 4

S4.E31 ∙ The Devil's Necklace: Part 1

Sun, Apr 16, 1961

At a remote army post, a troop of soldiers find Bart to be the only survivor of a massacre. Bart tells them the story: how he sensed he could make some money by purchasing a wagonload of merchandise from a peddler who was anxious to sell. After Bart checked inside the wagon, he understand why the man was so quick to sell--it included a shipment of illegal liquor and a kidnapped Indian girl.

32Season 4

S4.E32 ∙ The Devil's Necklace: Part 2

Sun, Apr 23, 1961

Bart relates to the soldiers how, after he and the peddler were later captured by the tribe, the man tricked the Indian chief into believing that he had a magic necklace, and traded it for his freedom. The chief, now believing himself to be impervious to harm, orders his warriors to attack the fort.

1Season 5

S5.E1 ∙ Dade City Dodge

Mon, Sep 18, 1961

Bart tracks oily swindler Pearly Gates to recoup his winnings, so does the doll-face who helped Pearly dupe Bart. Bart just lost his puffy shirt, Marla lost her icy heart - when Gates jumped the altar with the ring SHE bought. Bart plans to sting Gates back in oh-so-crooked Dade City. Will Bart get honey-voiced Marla on the rebound or will she fleece him, and Pearly Gates too ?

2Season 5

S5.E2 ∙ The Art Lovers

Sun, Oct 1, 1961

Mona Lisa rescues Bart from being an indentured servant, after Bart loses a high stakes poker game between nouveau riche art collectors. Oily backer Roger (Jack Cassidy) brought Bart into the game as a "Colonel," but when Bart loses, Roger denies the scheme, so Bart must work off the debt to the winner, a railroad tycoon. The other art collectors are big investors in the tycoon's latest rail project, and they are squeezing him dry, though the tycoon has a priceless ace he's reluctant to take out of the hole: he's acquired the recently-stolen Mona Lisa ! The miffed Roger's a very sore loser, so he enlists the Barbary Coast's fearsome Captain Bly versus Bart Maverick.

3Season 5

S5.E3 ∙ The Golden Fleecing

Sun, Oct 8, 1961

Bart has to try to bluff wealthy Loftus Jaggers--and Jaggers' beautiful daughter when Bart gives up the poker table and tries his hand at being a stockbroker when he agrees to help a local farmer start a gold-mining company

4Season 5

S5.E4 ∙ Three Queens Full

Sun, Nov 12, 1961

Moose and Small Paul Wheelwright? The Subrosa Ranch? Hilarious "Bonanza" parody with Bart squirming in the middle between three naive, pa-whipped brothers and their worldly mail-order brides from the Barbary Coast, after matchmaker Whittleseed (Willard Waterman) is murdered. Episode also has fine performances by Kasey Rogers, Jake Sheffield as the amorous Moose, and Jim Backus as the blustery pa of the Wheelwrights, who always stick together - and we even find out why they have to. "Three Queens Full" is adorned with splendidly over-the-top music too.

5Season 5

S5.E5 ∙ A Technical Error

Sun, Nov 26, 1961

Bart way-too-easily wins a bank in a poker game, because it's mysteriously missing a pile of money. The relieved loser advises Bart not to worry because "in banking, a little dignity can cover up a lot of ignorance." When the ex-owner instigates the small town's depositors into a bank run, the Sheriff (who resembles a dimwitted Marshal Matt Dillon) and his deputy (a Hoss Cartwright lookalike) can't wait to get their mitts on ignorant stranger Bart Maverick. Bart begs his gunslinging pal Doc Holiday to help him get flush any way possible, but the gallant dentist's very preoccupied when he meets a young beauty whose lonely hearts ad he answered - she's Bart's teller.

6Season 5

S5.E6 ∙ Poker Face

Sun, Jan 7, 1962

Bart wagers to save the lives of his fellow stagecoach travelers--who have shown their dislike for gamblers--when the coach is held up and Bart makes an unusual bet with the bandits. Now, the only question is: Does Bart hold the winning hand?

7Season 5

S5.E7 ∙ Mr. Muldoon's Partner

Sun, Apr 15, 1962

Comedy episode has Bart freeing a leprechaun who grants him 5 wishes in gratitude. Only each wish seems to get Bart deeper in trouble.

8Season 5

S5.E8 ∙ Epitaph for a Gambler

Sun, Feb 11, 1962

In a poker game, Bart wins part ownership of a gambling casino owned by Diamond Jim Malone. What he doesn't know is that he's also taken on Lucky Matt Elkins, who's been blackmailing Diamond Jim and sees no reason why his payments have to stop just because the place has a new owner.

9Season 5

S5.E9 ∙ The Maverick Report

Sun, Mar 4, 1962

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.

10Season 5

S5.E10 ∙ Marshal Maverick

Sun, Mar 11, 1962

Abilene's marshal is bumped off and Bart kills the murderer. But instead of thanks, he's threatened with jail for vagrancy unless he becomes marshal. At least it's only a temp job, because Wyatt Earp's en route to undertake the assignment. In the meantime, Bart proposes a truce with the killer's gang, so he'll survive until Earp shows. When Earp sashays in, he forces Bart to stay on as deputy. Gambler Bart reasons "if we don't protect the lambs, who'll fleece the sheep?" Is the legendary lawman losing his nerve or what?

11Season 5

S5.E11 ∙ The Troubled Heir

Sun, Apr 1, 1962

After Pearly Gates and Marla steal the money from a poker game to invest in a worthless mine, Bart unwittingly leads a wanted outlaw to them. Because they no longer have the money, the outlaw hatches a plan for Pearly Gates to turn the outlaw in for a reward with a promise to split the funds after the outlaw's gang break him out. But Bart learns that the outlaw plans to do away with Pearly instead of splitting the reward. In the meantime, Pearly has gambled away his supposed share of the reward with a promise to pay from his share of the reward. To save Pearly while also seeking to recover the funds that he lost, Bart hatches a plan for Pearly to pose as the heir to a large fortune with a promise to pay off Pearly's debts from the inheritance and secure the creditors by making them Pearly's heirs until the fortune arrives. Only one problem, the outlaw thinks that he can inherit all of the fictional fortune by doing away with Pearly.

12Season 5

S5.E12 ∙ The Money Machine

Sun, Apr 8, 1962

Cousin Jackie brings Bart money from Pappy with instructions to pay off a debt. But before Bart can follow through, Jackie invests the money in a machine that prints cash. After realizing she has been swindled, Bart seeks to recoup the cash by turning the tables on the swindlers while also keeping Pappy's creditor at bay.

13Season 5

S5.E13 ∙ One of Our Trains Is Missing

Sun, Apr 22, 1962

Bart finds himself on Diamond Jim Brady's bullet train with Doc Holliday and Modesty Blaine. Bart is racing to the state line to avoid a thrashing. Diamond Jim is racing to obtain a lucrative railroad contract and win a bet against a competitor. But Doc, Modesty, and the competitor have their own agendas. And everybody's plans are thrown for a loop when the train is moved off the main track by a conceited robber.