The BEST episodes of Maverick season 2
Every episode of Maverick season 2, ranked from best to worst by thousands of votes from fans of the show. The best episodes of Maverick season 2!
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 - 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.
#2 - 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.
#3 - 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.
#4 - 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.
#5 - 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.
#6 - 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.
#7 - 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.
#8 - 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.
#9 - 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.
#10 - Duel at Sundown
Season 2 - Episode 19 - Aired 2/1/1959
Bret Maverick finds himself caught in a deadly love triangle with a lovely woman (Abby Dalton) and a young gunman (Clint Eastwood).
#11 - The Spanish Dancer
Season 2 - Episode 13 - Aired 12/14/1958
After scuffling with a pal over a dancer, Bart must do some fancy footwork to escape his plight: he's accused of murdering his friend.
#12 - The Rivals
Season 2 - Episode 18 - Aired 1/25/1959
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.
#13 - Game of Chance
Season 2 - Episode 15 - Aired 1/4/1959
Bret and Bart are pursuing the same woman. What's the attraction? The $10,000 she copped from them.
#14 - Two Beggars on Horseback
Season 2 - Episode 17 - Aired 1/18/1959
Bret and Bart's devotion to one another is tested when they're offered a deal that can mean $10,000 for one of them, but just one.
#15 - Alias Bart Maverick
Season 2 - Episode 3 - Aired 10/5/1958
Bart meets a gentleman after his own heart who skips town with his money, and leaves him to face a murder rap and a man-hungry female (Arlene Howell).
#16 - The Jail at Junction Flats
Season 2 - Episode 8 - Aired 11/9/1958
Good-hearted Bret lends a pal $200 for an "honest" transaction which lands the pal in jail.
#17 - High Card Hangs
Season 2 - Episode 5 - Aired 10/19/1958
Bart Maverick and two of his friends are charged with murder. The town's citizens demand a confession from one of the three men, or else all three men will be prosecuted. Bart falsely confesses to the murder, but help from his friend Dandy Jim Buckley exonerates him from the crime.
#18 - The Day They Hanged Bret Maverick
Season 2 - Episode 1 - Aired 9/21/1958
Bret attends a hanging under very uncomfortable conditions: he's the intended victim.
#19 - The Lonesome Reunion
Season 2 - Episode 2 - Aired 9/28/1958
Bret falls for the tempting trickery of a pretty woman (Joanna Barnes) and finds himself helplessly involved in a swindle.
#20 - Island in the Swamp
Season 2 - Episode 11 - Aired 11/30/1958
Bret tries to help a pair of star-crossed lovers whose feuding families have taken him prisoner.
#21 - Yellow River
Season 2 - Episode 20 - Aired 2/8/1959
After losing his money in a bank robbery, Bart invests in a get-rich-quick deal with a beautiful, but not-so-dumb blonde.
#22 - The Thirty-Ninth Star
Season 2 - Episode 9 - Aired 11/16/1958
A case of mistaken suitcases unfolds into political warfare, leaving Bart the unhappy target of ruthless killers.
#23 - Escape to Tampico
Season 2 - Episode 6 - Aired 10/26/1958
In Mexico, Bret tries to trick an American renegade into returning to the U.S. where he's wanted for murder.
#24 - The Belcastle Brand
Season 2 - Episode 4 - Aired 10/12/1958
In a desert, Bret and a hunting party are ambushed and left to fight a blazing sun.
#25 - The Judas Mask
Season 2 - Episode 7 - Aired 11/2/1958
Bart tails a pretty cancan dancer who stole his money only to find himself being followed by two very sinister characters.