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Season 1

Season 1

Season 1

Season 1

Season 1

  • Air date:1957-09-22
  • User score:
    10.0
  • Number of episodes:27

List of Episodes

War of the Silver Kings
S1E1
10.0

Air date: 1957-09-22

Runtime: 49 min

Bret Maverick takes down a money-hungry gambler in the town of Echo Springs. He befriends an old drunk, who turns out to be a successful judge. Maverick strikes a deal with the gambler, Phineas King, to merge the ""silver lady"" mine with ""the new hope"" mine.

Point Blank
S1E2
0.0

Air date: 1957-09-29

Runtime: 49 min

Bret meets a delightful and cunning girl (Karen Steele). Within minutes, she makes plans for his future — a permanent plot on boot hill.

According to Hoyle
S1E3
0.0

Air date: 1957-10-06

Runtime: 49 min

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.

Ghost Rider
S1E4
0.0

Air date: 1957-10-13

Runtime: 49 min

A woman who'd been traveling with Bret suddenly disappears. Looking into things he discovers that she'd been reported dead more than a week ago.

The Long Hunt
S1E5
0.0

Air date: 1957-10-20

Runtime: 50 min

Bret tries to prove the innocence of a man serving a life sentence. But there's someone who wants the prisoner to stay where he is.

Stage West
S1E6
0.0

Air date: 1957-10-27

Runtime: 49 min

Fleeing a band of angry Native Americans, Bret takes shelter in a way station where a family of nasty outlaws are planning their bloodiest deal.

Relic of Fort Tejon
S1E7
0.0

Air date: 1957-11-03

Runtime: 49 min

Bret wins a camel in a card game and ends up using her to bring a crooked gambling den owner to justice.

Hostage!
S1E8
0.0

Air date: 1957-11-10

Runtime: 49 min

Bret Maverick meets up with brother Bart in New Orleans where they plan to obtain passage on a riverboat where big money poker games are held but end up getting involved in the kidnapping of the riverboat owner's daughter instead.

Stampede
S1E9
0.0

Air date: 1957-11-17

Runtime: 49 min

Bret and Dandy Jim Buckley bet heavily on a boxing match but when their fighter withdraws it's up to Bret himself to step into the squared circle.

The Jeweled Gun
S1E10
0.0

Air date: 1957-11-24

Runtime: 49 min

Bart agrees to pose as the husband of a woman who's traveling through the badlands. Big mistake because he soon finds himself the target of a killer.

The Wrecker
S1E11
0.0

Air date: 1957-12-01

Runtime: 49 min

Bart takes to the sea after buying a derelict cargo ship. The wreck is extremely valuable and he wants to know why.

The Quick and the Dead
S1E12
0.0

Air date: 1957-12-08

Runtime: 49 min

The only person who can clear Bret of a robbery charge has been marked for death by the notorious gunfighter/gambler Doc Holliday.

The Naked Gallows
S1E13
0.0

Air date: 1957-12-15

Runtime: 49 min

Bart pokes his nose into an unsolved murder case and ends up facing the business end of a killer's .45.

Comstock Conspiracy
S1E14
0.0

Air date: 1957-12-29

Runtime: 49 min

Arriving in the mining boom town of Virginia City, Bret gets involved with a mining engineer in his struggle for improved working conditions.

The Third Rider
S1E15
0.0

Air date: 1958-01-05

Runtime: 49 min

Bart gets involved with two devious couples in this episode which sees him trying to clear himself of a bank robbery and a murder.

Rage For Vengeance
S1E16
0.0

Air date: 1958-01-12

Runtime: 49 min

Bret is happy to escort a lovely widow to the bank with a large sum of cash - until he learns the money is counterfeit.

Rope of Cards
S1E17
0.0

Air date: 1958-01-19

Runtime: 49 min

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.

Diamond in the Rough
S1E18
0.0

Air date: 1958-01-26

Runtime: 49 min

After being beaten up, robbed, and shanghaied, Bart sets out to expose the man responsible, a respected member of San Francisco society, as a diamond swindler.

Day of Reckoning
S1E19
0.0

Air date: 1958-02-02

Runtime: 49 min

Fearless Bret feels it's about time someone did something about the town bully so he asks the townspeople to do something.

The Savage Hills
S1E20
0.0

Air date: 1958-02-09

Runtime: 49 min

Against his better judgment, Bart teams up with Samantha Crawford to recover stolen Treasury plates.

Trail West to Fury
S1E21
0.0

Air date: 1958-02-16

Runtime: 49 min

During a hellacious rainstorm the brothers Maverick relate to pal Dandy Jim Buckley about the time in Texas shortly after the Civil War when they searched far and wide for a tall man who could clear them of a murder charge.

The Burning Sky
S1E22
0.0

Air date: 1958-02-23

Runtime: 49 min

In the desert, an Indian ambush leaves Bart and other stagecoach passengers to battle their attackers, each other, and the sun.

The Seventh Hand
S1E23
0.0

Air date: 1958-03-02

Runtime: 49 min

Samantha Crawford arranges for Bret to sit in on a high stakes poker game but he's the fall guy when the game gets robbed.

Plunder of Paradise
S1E24
0.0

Air date: 1958-03-09

Runtime: 49 min

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.

Black Fire
S1E25
0.0

Air date: 1958-03-16

Runtime: 49 min

The heirs of millionaire General Eakins are being killed off one by one so why is Bret Maverick so worried? He's posing as one of the heirs and might be the next intended victim.

Burial Ground of the Gods
S1E26
0.0

Air date: 1958-03-30

Runtime: 50 min

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.

Seed of Deception
S1E27
0.0

Air date: 1958-04-13

Runtime: 50 min

After they arrive in an Arizona town, Bret and Bart are mistaken for Wyatt Earp and Doc Holliday and end up preventing a bank robbery.

Top Cast

James Garner

James Garner

Bret Maverick

Jack Kelly

Jack Kelly

Bart Maverick

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