The WORST episodes of Maverick
Every episode of Maverick ever, ranked from worst to best by thousands of votes from fans of the show. The worst 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 - 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.
#2 - 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.
#3 - 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.
#4 - 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.
#5 - 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.
#6 - 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.
#7 - 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.
#8 - 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.
#9 - 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.
#10 - 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.
#11 - 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.
#12 - 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.
#13 - 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.
#14 - 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.
#15 - 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.
#16 - The Ghost Soldiers
Season 3 - Episode 9 - Aired 11/8/1959
Bret finds himself one of three men secretly defending a deserted government fort against war hungry Indians. He succeeds in scaring them off by clever trickery. But a suspicious Indian chief causes him to reconsider.
#17 - Rope of Cards
Season 1 - Episode 17 - Aired 1/19/1958
It's shades of 12 Angry Men when Bret becomes the lone holdout for a not guilty verdict in a murder trial. He has to use a long shot card trick to convince the other jurors that the defendant might be innocent.
#18 - Burial Ground of the Gods
Season 1 - Episode 26 - Aired 3/30/1958
Bart Maverick is in search of a thief who stole his money but gets sidetracked into accompanying a young woman searching for her missing husband into forbidden Sioux territory.
#19 - The Naked Gallows
Season 1 - Episode 13 - Aired 12/15/1957
Bart pokes his nose into an unsolved murder case and ends up facing the business end of a killer's .45.
#20 - Prey of the Cat
Season 2 - Episode 12 - Aired 12/7/1958
Bart is a helpless victim of his charms. Two scheming women are after him: one wants to murder for his love; the other just wants to murder him.
#21 - Comstock Conspiracy
Season 1 - Episode 14 - Aired 12/29/1957
Arriving in the mining boom town of Virginia City, Bret gets involved with a mining engineer in his struggle for improved working conditions.
#22 - A Tale of Three Cities
Season 3 - Episode 6 - Aired 10/18/1959
Bart has trouble retrieving his poker winnings from thieves. But help is on the way from the local Ladies Aid Society.
#23 - Plunder of Paradise
Season 1 - Episode 24 - Aired 3/9/1958
There's gold in them thar hills, and Bart Maverick and Big Mike McComb are out to get it. But so are four nasty Mexican banditos.
#24 - Cruise of the Cynthia B.
Season 3 - Episode 17 - Aired 1/10/1960
Bret is one of the seven owners of a Riverboat who start down the Mississippi for Memphis to sell the broken-down craft, but soon, in a deadly game of 10 Little Indians, one owner after another is found mysteriously dead. It becomes apparent that if the boat does reach Memphis, it's almost certain it will have but one owner.
#25 - Day of Reckoning
Season 1 - Episode 19 - Aired 2/2/1958
Fearless Bret feels it's about time someone did something about the town bully so he asks the townspeople to do something.