The Best Episodes of Maverick
Last Updated: May 21, 2019
Maverick is a comedy-western television series created by Roy Huggins that ran from September 22, 1957 to July 8, 1962 on ABC and featured James Garner, Jack Kelly, Roger Moore, and Robert Colbert as the poker-playing traveling Mavericks (Bret, Bart, Beau, & Brent). Moore and Colbert were later additions, though there were never more than two current Mavericks in the series at any given time, and sometimes only one. The series' primary sponsor for the first few seasons was Kaiser Aluminum, and their "quilted" aluminum foil was widely advertised in commercials shown on Maverick.
#1 - Arizona Black Maria
Season 4 - Episode 4
In hostile Sioux territory, Bart is caught between a woman prisoner's devastating charms and a pending Indian attack.
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#2 - The Ice Man
Season 4 - Episode 20
After discovering a long-lost body encased in ice, Bart finds himself in hot water.
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#3 - Flood's Folly
Season 4 - Episode 23
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.
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#4 - Triple Indemnity
Season 4 - Episode 27
Cowardly George Parker (Alan Hewitt) offers Doc Holliday a tempting reward. All Doc has to do is kill his best friend - Bart.
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#5 - Substitute Gun
Season 4 - Episode 29
Bart matches wits - and bullets - with a professional gunman... and learns that a beautiful woman can be more deadly than hired killers.
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#6 - A Technical Error
Season 5 - Episode 5
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.
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#7 - Poker Face
Season 5 - Episode 6
Bart's latest poker adventure has him playing for a full house: the lives of his fellow stagecoach passengers.
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#8 - Epitaph for a Gambler
Season 5 - Episode 8
Bart, waiting to collect on a $10,000 IOU, makes an uncomfortable observation: murder may be the pay-off in a gambler's life.
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#9 - The Maverick Report
Season 5 - Episode 9
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.
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#10 - The Money Machine
Season 5 - Episode 12
A money-making machine costs Bart a bundle. His cousin (Kathy Bennett) has just bought one — with the $10,000 he lent her.
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#11 - Greenbacks, Unlimited
Season 3 - Episode 26
Bank robber Big Ed Murphy is at his wit's end: someone keeps beating him to the loot — and that someone is Bret.
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#12 - The Misfortune Teller
Season 3 - Episode 25
Bret is fighting a murder charge. But when he meets his lawyer - a numerologist, astrologer and bungler - he knows his number is up.
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#13 - The Cactus Switch
Season 4 - Episode 18
Thinking all's well with the world after he cleans up in a card game, Bart offers to help a troubled young woman.
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#14 - Hadley's Hunters
Season 4 - Episode 2
Bart meets a comical sheriff (Edgar Buchanan) who is dead serious about killing him.
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#15 - A Flock of Trouble
Season 3 - Episode 22
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.
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#16 - The Town That Wasn't There
Season 4 - Episode 3
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.
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#17 - The Maverick Line
Season 4 - Episode 10
Inheriting a stagecoach line from Uncle Micah is only the beginning of financial problems for the Maverick brothers.
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#18 - A State of Siege
Season 4 - Episode 16
Proving once again that he's basically nonviolent, Bart witnesses a battle of bullets that leaves him stunned - and almost dead.
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#19 - Family Pride
Season 4 - Episode 17
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.
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#20 - Dutchman's Gold
Season 4 - Episode 19
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.
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#21 - Diamond Flush
Season 4 - Episode 21
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.
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#22 - Red Dog
Season 4 - Episode 25
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.
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#23 - The Deadly Image
Season 4 - Episode 26
Bart's in jail: he's the unfortunate — and helpless — victim of mistaken identity.
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#24 - Betrayal
Season 2 - Episode 25
Keeping cool during a stage holdup, Bart catches a twinkle of recognition between his lovely traveling companion (Pat Crowley) and one of the outlaws.
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#25 - Destination Devil's Flat
Season 4 - Episode 15
Bart substitutes a rock-filled suitcase for a fortune in gold to foil hijacking plans of phony sheriff Dan Trevor (Peter Breck).
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