Maverick
Maverick is an American Western television series with comedic overtones created by Roy Huggins. The show ran from September 22, 1957 to July 8, 1962 on ABC and stars James Garner as Bret Maverick, an adroitly articulate cardsharp. Eight episodes into the first season, he was joined by Jack Kelly as his brother Bart, and from that point on, Garner and Kelly alternated leads from week to week, sometimes teaming up for the occasional two-brother episode. The Mavericks were poker players from Texas who traveled all over the American Old West and on Mississippi riverboats, constantly getting into and out of life-threatening trouble of one sort or another, usually involving money, women, or both. They would typically find themselves weighing a financial windfall against a moral dilemma. More often than not, their consciences trumped their wallets since both Mavericks were intensely ethical. When Garner left the series after the third season due to a legal dispute, Roger Moore was added to the cast as their cousin Beau Maverick. Robert Colbert appeared later in the fourth season as a third Maverick brother, Brent Maverick. No more than two of the series leads ever appeared together in the same episode, and usually only one.
Country: United States of America
Type: tv
Season: 1
Episode: 1
Duration: 1h 0m
Release: 1957
Rating: 6.8
Season 1 - Maverick
1957-09-22
"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."
1957-09-29
"Bret meets a delightful and cunning girl (Karen Steele). Within minutes, she makes plans for his future \u00e2\u20ac\u201d a permanent plot on boot hill."
1957-10-06
"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."
1957-10-13
"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."
1957-10-20
"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."
1957-10-27
"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."
1957-11-03
"Bret wins a camel in a card game and ends up using her to bring a crooked gambling den owner to justice."
1957-11-10
"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."
1957-11-17
"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."
1957-11-24
"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."
1957-12-01
"Bart takes to the sea after buying a derelict cargo ship. The wreck is extremely valuable and he wants to know why."
1957-12-08
"The only person who can clear Bret of a robbery charge has been marked for death by the notorious gunfighter\/gambler Doc Holliday."
1957-12-15
"Bart pokes his nose into an unsolved murder case and ends up facing the business end of a killer's .45."
1957-12-29
"Arriving in the mining boom town of Virginia City, Bret gets involved with a mining engineer in his struggle for improved working conditions."
1958-01-05
"Bart gets involved with two devious couples in this episode which sees him trying to clear himself of a bank robbery and a murder."
1958-01-12
"Bret is happy to escort a lovely widow to the bank with a large sum of cash - until he learns the money is counterfeit."
1958-01-19
"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."
1958-01-26
"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."
1958-02-02
"Fearless Bret feels it's about time someone did something about the town bully so he asks the townspeople to do something."
1958-02-09
"Against his better judgment, Bart teams up with Samantha Crawford to recover stolen Treasury plates."
1958-02-16
"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."
1958-02-23
"In the desert, an Indian ambush leaves Bart and other stagecoach passengers to battle their attackers, each other, and the sun."
1958-03-02
"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."
1958-03-09
"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."
1958-03-16
"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."
1958-03-30
"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."
1958-04-13
"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."
Season 2 - Maverick
1958-09-21
"Bret attends a hanging under very uncomfortable conditions: he's the intended victim."
1958-09-28
"Bret falls for the tempting trickery of a pretty woman (Joanna Barnes) \u00e2\u20ac\u201d and finds himself helplessly involved in a swindle."
1958-10-05
"Bart meets a gentleman after his own heart \u00e2\u20ac\u201d who skips town with his money, and leaves him to face a murder rap and a man-hungry female (Arlene Howell)."
1958-10-12
"In a desert, Bret and a hunting party are ambushed \u00e2\u20ac\u201d and left to fight a blazing sun."
1958-10-19
"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."
1958-10-26
"In Mexico, Bret tries to trick an American renegade into returning to the U.S. \u00e2\u20ac\u201d where he's wanted for murder."
1958-11-02
"Bart tails a pretty cancan dancer who stole his money \u00e2\u20ac\u201d only to find himself being followed by two very sinister characters."
1958-11-09
"Good-hearted Bret lends a pal $200 for an \"\"honest\"\" transaction \u00e2\u20ac\u201d which lands the pal in jail."
1958-11-16
"A case of mistaken suitcases unfolds into political warfare, leaving Bart the unhappy target of ruthless killers."
1958-11-23
"Bret, helpless against a crafty banker (John Dehner) who robbed him, bides his time \u00e2\u20ac\u201d while Bart and friends set up an elaborate con game."
1958-11-30
"Bret tries to help a pair of star-crossed lovers whose feuding families have taken him prisoner."
1958-12-07
"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."
1958-12-14
"After he's cheated in a crooked card game, Bret tries to even the score by beating his opponent \u00e2\u20ac\u201d and the odds \u00e2\u20ac\u201d in a horse race."
1958-12-28
"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."
1959-01-04
"Bret and Bart are pursuing the same woman. What's the attraction? The $10,000 she copped from them."
1959-01-11
"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."
1959-01-18
"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 \u00e2\u20ac\u201d but just one."
1959-01-25
"Lydia Linley is a young heiress who yearns for a man like Sydney Carton of A Tale of Two Cities - \"\"a man of warmth, imagination, courage, and a sense of adventure.\"\" Jack Vandergelt III (Roger Moore) is in love with Lydia but knows she will have nothing to do with him because he is rich. Vandergelt hires Bret Maverick to switch identities with him in hopes that Lydia will love and accept him for who he is before she realizes he is a Vandergelt. The plan goes smoothly until Jack Vandergelt's father unexpectedly arrives in town."
1959-02-01
"Bret Maverick finds himself caught in a deadly love triangle with a lovely woman (Abby Dalton) and a young gunman (Clint Eastwood)."
1959-02-08
"After losing his money in a bank robbery, Bart invests in a get-rich-quick deal with a beautiful \u00e2\u20ac\u201d but not-so-dumb \u00e2\u20ac\u201d blonde."
1959-02-15
"Bret and his buddy Waco Williams (Wayde Preston) ride straight into trouble in Bent City, where they are suspected of being cattle rustlers."
1959-02-22
"In a high-stakes poker game, Bart wins stock in a railroad \u00e2\u20ac\u201d and finds himself on the track to a colossal headache."
1959-03-08
"A pair of con artists, Bart and an old girl friend survive a hazardous stagecoach ride and reach Fort Doom \u00e2\u20ac\u201d where their troubles begin."
1959-03-15
"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."
1959-03-22
"Keeping cool during a stage holdup, Bart catches a twinkle of recognition between his lovely traveling companion (Pat Crowley) and one of the outlaws."
1959-03-29
"Bret accompanies a beautiful singer (Peggy King) on a search for her missing husband and finds himself falling helplessly in love."
