
Maverick (1957)
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James Garner as Bret Maverick
Episodes 79
War of the Silver Kings
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.
Read MorePoint Blank
Bret meets a delightful and cunning girl (Karen Steele). Within minutes, she makes plans for his future — a permanent plot on boot hill.
Read MoreAccording to Hoyle
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.
Read MoreGhost Rider
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.
Read MoreThe Long Hunt
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.
Read MoreStage West
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.
Read MoreRelic of Fort Tejon
Bret wins a camel in a card game and ends up using her to bring a crooked gambling den owner to justice.
Read MoreThe Jeweled Gun
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.
Read MoreThe Wrecker
Bart takes to the sea after buying a derelict cargo ship. The wreck is extremely valuable and he wants to know why.
Read MoreThe Quick and the Dead
The only person who can clear Bret of a robbery charge has been marked for death by the notorious gunfighter/gambler Doc Holliday.
Read MoreThe Naked Gallows
Bart pokes his nose into an unsolved murder case and ends up facing the business end of a killer's .45.
Read MoreComstock Conspiracy
Arriving in the mining boom town of Virginia City, Bret gets involved with a mining engineer in his struggle for improved working conditions.
Read MoreThe Third Rider
Bart gets involved with two devious couples in this episode which sees him trying to clear himself of a bank robbery and a murder.
Read MoreRage For Vengeance
Bret is happy to escort a lovely widow to the bank with a large sum of cash - until he learns the money is counterfeit.
Read MoreRope of Cards
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.
Read MoreDiamond in the Rough
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.
Read MoreDay of Reckoning
Fearless Bret feels it's about time someone did something about the town bully so he asks the townspeople to do something.
Read MoreThe Savage Hills
Against his better judgment, Bart teams up with Samantha Crawford to recover stolen Treasury plates.
Read MoreTrail West to Fury
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.
Read MoreThe Burning Sky
In the desert, an Indian ambush leaves Bart and other stagecoach passengers to battle their attackers, each other, and the sun.
Read MoreThe Seventh Hand
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.
Read MorePlunder of Paradise
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.
Read MoreBlack Fire
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.
Read MoreBurial Ground of the Gods
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.
Read MoreSeed of Deception
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.
Read MoreThe Day They Hanged Bret Maverick
Bret attends a hanging under very uncomfortable conditions: he's the intended victim.
Read MoreThe Lonesome Reunion
Bret falls for the tempting trickery of a pretty woman (Joanna Barnes) — and finds himself helplessly involved in a swindle.
Read MoreAlias Bart Maverick
Bart meets a gentleman after his own heart — who skips town with his money, and leaves him to face a murder rap and a man-hungry female (Arlene Howell).
Read MoreThe Belcastle Brand
In a desert, Bret and a hunting party are ambushed — and left to fight a blazing sun.
Read MoreHigh Card Hangs
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.
Read MoreEscape to Tampico
In Mexico, Bret tries to trick an American renegade into returning to the U.S. — where he's wanted for murder.
Read MoreThe Judas Mask
Bart tails a pretty cancan dancer who stole his money — only to find himself being followed by two very sinister characters.
Read MoreThe Jail at Junction Flats
Good-hearted Bret lends a pal $200 for an ""honest"" transaction — which lands the pal in jail.
Read MoreThe Thirty-Ninth Star
A case of mistaken suitcases unfolds into political warfare, leaving Bart the unhappy target of ruthless killers.
Read MoreShady Deal at Sunny Acres
Bret, helpless against a crafty banker (John Dehner) who robbed him, bides his time — while Bart and friends set up an elaborate con game.
Read MoreIsland in the Swamp
Bret tries to help a pair of star-crossed lovers whose feuding families have taken him prisoner.
Read MorePrey of the Cat
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.
Read MoreHoliday at Hollow Rock
After he's cheated in a crooked card game, Bret tries to even the score by beating his opponent — and the odds — in a horse race.
Read MoreThe Spanish Dancer
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.
Read MoreGame of Chance
Bret and Bart are pursuing the same woman. What's the attraction? The $10,000 she copped from them.
Read MoreTwo Beggars on Horseback
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, but just one.
Read MoreThe Rivals
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.
Read MoreDuel at Sundown
Bret Maverick finds himself caught in a deadly love triangle with a lovely woman (Abby Dalton) and a young gunman (Clint Eastwood).
Read MoreYellow River
After losing his money in a bank robbery, Bart invests in a get-rich-quick deal with a beautiful — but not-so-dumb — blonde.
Read MoreThe Saga of Waco Williams
Bret and his buddy Waco Williams (Wayde Preston) ride straight into trouble in Bent City, where they are suspected of being cattle rustlers.
Read MoreBrasada Spur
In a high-stakes poker game, Bart wins stock in a railroad — and finds himself on the track to a colossal headache.
Read MorePassage to Fort Doom
A pair of con artists, Bart and an old girl friend survive a hazardous stagecoach ride and reach Fort Doom — where their troubles begin.
Read MoreTwo Tickets to Ten Strike
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.
Read MoreThe Strange Journey of Jenny Hill
Bret accompanies a beautiful singer (Peggy King) on a search for her missing husband and finds himself falling helplessly in love.
Read MorePappy
Beau Maverick (played by James Garner), father of Bret and Bart announces that he is getting married. The Maverick boys discover that the marriage is a business arrangement, not a love commitment. The young girl, Josephine St. Cloud is being forced by her father to marry the older Beau Maverick. The brothers set out to sabotage the wedding plans, not knowing that Beau Maverick already had a plan.
Read MoreRoyal Four Flush
Bart double-crosses a double-crosser — and winds up hogtied and kidnapped, with only his wits as a weapon with which to save his neck.
Read MoreThe Sheriff of Duck 'N' Shoot
Sheriff Bret astounds himself as well as the townspeople by taming the trail herders who have been devastating the town, beats a gang of bank robbers at their own game, but has to summon the aid of brother Bart when his eye for a woman's beauty lands him in his own lockup.
Read MoreYou Can't Beat the Percentage
Bart is involved in a bizarre murder plot — in which he is high on the list of planned victims.
Read MoreThe Cats of Paradise
Bret Maverick falls for a soft-spoken girl, Modesty Blaine (Mona Freeman). They enter into a partnership — to sell cats to a mining camp overrun by rats. But rumor has it that most men lose either their lives or their money when dealing with this young beauty. However, Bret stands to lose both his life and his money, so he plots to save both.
Read MoreA Tale of Three Cities
Bart has trouble retrieving his poker winnings from thieves. But help is on the way — from the local Ladies Aid Society.
Read MoreFull House
Bret Maverick runs into a notorious bunch of bank robbers; Cole Younger, Billy The Kid, Sam Bass, Jesse James, Frank James, Jim Dalton, Black Bart, Ben Thompson and Belle Starr. The outlaws believe that Bret is the infamous Foxy Smith, a well known bad guy. When the outlaws discover Bret's true identity, they force him to do the robbery in Denver. Bret ends up in a mint of trouble.
Read MoreThe Lass with the Poisonous Air
After a rebuff by mysterious Linda Burke (Joanna Moore), Bart is left holding the bag — for murder.
Read MoreThe Ghost Soldiers
Bret finds himself one of three men secretly defending a deserted government fort against War Hungry Indians. Maverick succeeds in scaring them off by clever trickery. But a suspicious Indian chief (Paul Clarke) causes him to reconsider.
Read MoreA Fellow's Brother
When George Henry Arnett hears that Bret Maverick is in town to collect his money, Arnett (Adam West) starts a ""top gun"" rumor about Bret. After he creates a smoke screen, Arnett creeps out of town. Maverick is idolized by the town youngsters, sought after available women and hunted by the town bounty hunter. Bret Maverick is the talk of the town.
Read MoreTrooper Maverick
Bart swings into trouble when he tries to help the cavalry uncover a traitor — and winds up facing a hangman's rope.
Read MoreMaverick Springs
Bret is gired by a weathly texan to save her brother Mark from a conniving woman named Melanie. Posing as a Texas Colonel, Bret realizes that he's up against a master crook. With Mark's help and brother Bart's arrival as a weathly Easterner, they set up a scheme to catch the girl and almost outsmart themselves with their own cleverness.
Read MoreThe Goose-Drownder
Taking shelter in a ghost town, Bart impatiently awaits a storm's end. But when four gunmen arrive, he fears he'll never get out alive.
Read MoreA Cure for Johnny Rain
After saving Bret's life, Johnny Rain (William Reynolds) is arrested for robbing a stage coach. While Bret goes to his rescue he becomes ensnarled in a plot that involves a case of split personality. a dance hall wench and a mild-mannered Tinhorn gambler who likes to leave 'em laughing--with hysteria.
Read MoreThe Marquesa
Bart Maverick wins big, when he wins the ""Lucky Lady"" saloon in a card game. When Bart goes to Santa Leora to stake his claim, a beautiful Marquesa refuses to relinquish the property to him. Maverick encounters hurling knives, flurry of bullets and pounding fists when he tries to hold onto his newly acquired saloon.
Read MoreCruise of the Cynthia B.
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.
Read MoreMaverick & Juliet
Bret's freedom hinges on the outcome of a card game. He's ecstatic... until he meets his opponent: Bart — who will make a bundle if he wins.
Read MoreThe White Widow
A beautiful widow (Julie Adams) asks Bart to protect her from an unknown killer. He accepts — unaware that he is the intended victim.
Read MoreGuatemala City
Maverick tries to straighten out his romance with Ellen Johnson and at the same time solve a million dollar jewel theft. When Bret finds out that his ardor has cooled, he also finds that he has become the prime target for a ruthless murderer and a man who refuses to stay dead.
Read MoreThe People's Friend
Bart Maverick is running for office, he is a sure candidate for U.S. Senate. Bart's political ambition has some town's people out for his blood. His opponents will go to any length to stifle his political aspirations; they threathen his life. Fearful of his opponents, Bart finds a way out of the election, without letting the voters down.
Read MoreA Flock of Trouble
Bret wins a sheep ranch located in the midst of cattle ranchers whose sole aim is to wipe out the sheep — and their new owner.
Read MoreThe Resurrection of Joe November
A $10,000 temptation puts Bret unwittingly in the middle of a fantastic smuggling scheme.
Read MoreThe Misfortune Teller
Bret is fighting a murder charge. But when he meets his lawyer — a numerologist, astrologer and bungler — he knows his number is up.
Read MoreGreenbacks, Unlimited
Bank robber Big Ed Murphy is at his wit's end: someone keeps beating him to the loot — and that someone is Bret.
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