The BEST episodes of Maverick
Every episode of Maverick ever, ranked from best to worst by thousands of votes from fans of the show. The best episodes of Maverick!
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 - A Flock of Trouble
Season 3 - Episode 22 - Aired 2/14/1960
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.
#2 - Betrayal
Season 2 - Episode 25 - Aired 3/22/1959
Keeping cool during a stage holdup, Bart catches a twinkle of recognition between his lovely traveling companion (Pat Crowley) and one of the outlaws.
#3 - The Misfortune Teller
Season 3 - Episode 25 - Aired 3/6/1960
Bret is fighting a murder charge. But when he meets his lawyer - a numerologist, astrologer and bungler - he knows his number is up.
#4 - Last Wire from Stop Gap
Season 4 - Episode 5 - Aired 10/16/1960
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.
#5 - The Saga of Waco Williams
Season 2 - Episode 21 - Aired 2/15/1959
Bret and his buddy Waco Williams (Wayde Preston) ride straight into trouble in Bent City, where they are suspected of being cattle rustlers.
#6 - Greenbacks, Unlimited
Season 3 - Episode 26 - Aired 3/13/1960
Bank robber Big Ed Murphy is at his wit's end: someone keeps beating him to the loot and that someone is Bret.
#7 - Destination: Devil's Flat
Season 4 - Episode 15 - Aired 12/25/1960
Bart substitutes a rock-filled suitcase for a fortune in gold to foil hijacking plans of phony sheriff Dan Trevor (Peter Breck).
#8 - Substitute Gun
Season 4 - Episode 29 - Aired 4/2/1961
Bart matches wits - and bullets - with a professional gunman... and learns that a beautiful woman can be more deadly than hired killers.
#9 - Shady Deal at Sunny Acres
Season 2 - Episode 10 - Aired 11/23/1958
Bret, helpless against a crafty banker (John Dehner) who robbed him, bides his time while Bart and friends set up an elaborate con game.
#10 - Pappy
Season 3 - Episode 1 - Aired 9/13/1959
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.
#11 - Two Tickets to Ten Strike
Season 2 - Episode 24 - Aired 3/15/1959
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.
#12 - The Strange Journey of Jenny Hill
Season 2 - Episode 26 - Aired 3/29/1959
Bret accompanies a beautiful singer (Peggy King) on a search for her missing husband and finds himself falling helplessly in love.
#13 - You Can't Beat the Percentage
Season 3 - Episode 4 - Aired 10/4/1959
Bart is involved in a bizarre murder plot in which he is high on the list of planned victims.
#14 - Hadley's Hunters
Season 4 - Episode 2 - Aired 9/25/1960
Bart meets a comical sheriff (Edgar Buchanan) who is dead serious about killing him.
#15 - According to Hoyle
Season 1 - Episode 3 - Aired 10/6/1957
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.
#16 - Point Blank
Season 1 - Episode 2 - Aired 9/29/1957
Bret meets a delightful and cunning girl (Karen Steele). Within minutes, she makes plans for his future a permanent plot on Boot Hill.
#17 - Brasada Spur
Season 2 - Episode 22 - Aired 2/22/1959
In a high-stakes poker game, Bart wins stock in a railroad and finds himself on the track to a colossal headache.
#18 - Maverick at Law
Season 4 - Episode 24 - Aired 2/26/1961
Bart has a lot of explaining to do: the bank has been robbed and his saddlebags are bulging with stolen loot.
#19 - Passage to Fort Doom
Season 2 - Episode 23 - Aired 3/8/1959
A pair of con artists, Bart and an old girl friend survive a hazardous stagecoach ride and reach Fort Doom where their troubles begin.
#20 - The Golden Fleecing
Season 5 - Episode 3 - Aired 10/8/1961
Bart forsakes the poker table for the stock market - and finds himself trying to bluff wealthy Loftus Jaggers and his glamorous daughter (Paula Raymond).
#21 - Gun-Shy
Season 2 - Episode 16 - Aired 1/11/1959
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.
#22 - Holiday at Hollow Rock
Season 2 - Episode 14 - Aired 12/28/1958
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.
#23 - Easy Mark
Season 3 - Episode 10 - Aired 11/15/1959
Bart Maverick, for whom cowardice is a virtue, "turns yellow" when he learns that his friendship with a tycoon could cost him his life.
#24 - The White Widow
Season 3 - Episode 19 - Aired 1/24/1960
A beautiful widow (Julie Adams) asks Bart to protect her from an unknown killer. He accepts unaware that he is the intended victim.
#25 - Poker Face
Season 5 - Episode 6 - Aired 1/7/1962
Bart's latest poker adventure has him playing for a full house: the lives of his fellow stagecoach passengers.