The BEST episodes of Maverick season 5
Every episode of Maverick season 5, ranked from best to worst by thousands of votes from fans of the show. The best episodes of Maverick season 5!
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 - 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).
#2 - 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.
#3 - Epitaph for a Gambler
Season 5 - Episode 8 - Aired 3/4/1962
Bart, waiting to collect on a $10,000 IOU, makes an uncomfortable observation: murder may be the pay-off in a gambler's life.
#4 - A Technical Error
Season 5 - Episode 5 - Aired 11/26/1961
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.
#5 - The Art Lovers
Season 5 - Episode 2 - Aired 10/1/1961
When investors put the squeeze on railroad owner Paul Sutton, Bart tries to help by dealing with them directly in a friendly card game.
#6 - The Maverick Report
Season 5 - Episode 9 - Aired 3/11/1962
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.
#7 - Marshal Maverick
Season 5 - Episode 10 - Aired 4/1/1962
Bart is closer to tears than laughter when he is forced to battle the funniest - and fastest - gun in the West.
#8 - Three Queens Full
Season 5 - Episode 4 - Aired 11/12/1961
Bart must either face two years in jail or chaperone three brides to their intendeds the sons of wealthy Joe Wheelwright (Jim Backus).
#9 - Mr. Muldoon's Partner
Season 5 - Episode 7 - Aired 2/11/1962
After being granted a wish by a "leprechaun", Bart faces a pot of trouble: he must be either jailed, murdered or married.
#10 - Dade City Dodge
Season 5 - Episode 1 - Aired 9/17/1961
Bart tries to track down Pearly Gates, a smooth con man who cheated him out of $5000.
#11 - The Troubled Heir
Season 5 - Episode 11 - Aired 4/8/1962
Life is anything but heaven when Bart meets Pearly Gates and his girl, who steal Maverick's poker winnings so they can be married.
#12 - One of Our Trains is Missing
Season 5 - Episode 13 - Aired 4/22/1962
While trying to get a young girl's romance back on the right track, Bart gets involved in a train robbery to end all train robberies.
#13 - The Money Machine
Season 5 - Episode 12 - Aired 4/15/1962
A money-making machine costs Bart a bundle. His cousin (Kathy Bennett) has just bought one with the $10,000 he lent her.