The BEST episodes of Maverick season 4
Every episode of Maverick season 4, ranked from best to worst by thousands of votes from fans of the show. The best episodes of Maverick season 4!
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 - Family Pride
Season 4 - Episode 17 - Aired 1/8/1961
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.
#2 - The Devil's Necklace (2)
Season 4 - Episode 32 - Aired 4/23/1961
The Apaches catch Bart red-handed with a wagonload of liquor and a kidnapped Indian girl - and that means war.
#3 - The Devil's Necklace (1)
Season 4 - Episode 31 - Aired 4/16/1961
Bart just made the deal of a lifetime: he blindly purchased a wagonload of merchandise - including a bound and gagged Indian girl.
#4 - Benefit of Doubt
Season 4 - Episode 30 - Aired 4/9/1961
In typical Maverick tradition, cousin Brent gets involved with two beautiful sisters one of whom is planning to do him in.
#5 - 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.
#6 - The Forbidden City
Season 4 - Episode 28 - Aired 3/26/1961
Brent (Robert Colbert) joins the series in true Maverick style: he gets involved with two beautiful women - and is thrown in jail for gambling.
#7 - Triple Indemnity
Season 4 - Episode 27 - Aired 3/19/1961
Cowardly George Parker (Alan Hewitt) offers Doc Holliday a tempting reward. All Doc has to do is kill his best friend - Bart.
#8 - The Deadly Image
Season 4 - Episode 26 - Aired 3/12/1961
Bart's in jail: he's the unfortunate and helpless victim of mistaken identity.
#9 - Red Dog
Season 4 - Episode 25 - Aired 3/5/1961
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.
#10 - 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.
#11 - Flood's Folly
Season 4 - Episode 23 - Aired 2/19/1961
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.
#12 - Last Stop: Oblivion
Season 4 - Episode 22 - Aired 2/12/1961
Good-guy Bart warns the wrong people that their hosts are murderers and ends up as the next possible victim.
#13 - Diamond Flush
Season 4 - Episode 21 - Aired 2/5/1961
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.
#14 - The Ice Man
Season 4 - Episode 20 - Aired 1/29/1961
After discovering a long-lost body encased in ice, Bart finds himself in hot water.
#15 - Dutchman's Gold
Season 4 - Episode 19 - Aired 1/22/1961
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.
#16 - The Cactus Switch
Season 4 - Episode 18 - Aired 1/15/1961
Thinking all's well with the world after he cleans up in a card game, Bart offers to help a troubled young woman.
#17 - The Bundle from Britain
Season 4 - Episode 1 - Aired 9/18/1960
Returning to America after an extended stay in England, Cousin Beau Maverick (Roger Moore) 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.
#18 - A State of Siege
Season 4 - Episode 16 - Aired 1/1/1961
Proving once again that he's basically nonviolent, Bart witnesses a battle of bullets that leaves him stunned - and almost dead.
#19 - 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).
#20 - The Bold Fenian Men
Season 4 - Episode 14 - Aired 12/18/1960
The Fenians, an Irish Revolutionary Brotherhood, are trained soldiers sworn to free Ireland from British rule. The Fenians have gathered in Dakota City to plan a march into Canada where they want to take hold of a small part of British property hostage in exchange for Ireland's freedom. After England pressures the United States to intervene, Beau Maverick is blackmailed into infiltrating the Fenians ranks by a shrewd Army colonel.
#21 - Dodge City or Bust
Season 4 - Episode 13 - Aired 12/11/1960
Chivalrous Bart saves the life of a beautiful woman. His reward? A place on the wanted list for robbery and murder.
#22 - Kiz
Season 4 - Episode 12 - Aired 12/4/1960
Beau Maverick crashes a party in Virginia City thrown by eccentric socialite Kiz Bouchet. Kiz has a penchant for smoking cigars, playing poker, and fighting fires. Recognizing Beau as a fellow free spirit, she hires him to protect her. She believes her life is in danger. Beau discovers that Kiz's cousin Melissa, along with family doctor Pittman and attorney Hanford, are plotting to have Kiz judged incompent so they can split her $2 million inheritance. Beau comes up with a scheme to turn the tables on Melissa.
#23 - Bolt from the Blue
Season 4 - Episode 11 - Aired 11/27/1960
Beau Maverick befriends a prospector named Ebenezer Bolt. Maverick is unaware that Bolt is the partner of notorious horse thief Benson January. An angry posse mistakes Beau for January and is determined to hang him. A young lawyer manages to halt the proceedings until Maverick can have a trial. Beau's conviction seems imminent when the lawyer locates a notorious "hanging judge" and a woman whose sister was engaged to January identifies Maverick as the horse thief.
#24 - The Maverick Line
Season 4 - Episode 10 - Aired 11/20/1960
Inheriting a stagecoach line from Uncle Micah is only the beginning of financial problems for the Maverick brothers.
#25 - Thunder from the North
Season 4 - Episode 9 - Aired 11/13/1960
Two Army shopkeepers, Marsh and Lawson, have been cheating the local Indian tribes by supplying them with faulty or inferior goods. When one of the tribeswomen named Pale Moon threatens to report them to the Army Commission, the shopkeepers decide to start a war with the Indians. They know the Army will not investigate the woman's claim if they are at war. Marsh and Lawson murder Pale Moon's brother and pin the crime on the stranger who won $2,500 from them the night before - Beau Maverick.