Maverick Season 1

(1957) September - April | # of Episodes : 27

Ratings

6.9

8.1

Series Details

Seasons: 5

Total Episodes: 124

Creators: Roy Huggins

Networks: ABC

Status: Ended

First Air Date: Sep 22, 1957

Recent Air Date: Apr 22, 1962

Run Time: m

In Production: No

Original Language: English

Age Rating: NR

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Production Companies: Warner Bros. Television

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Main Cast

James Garner

Bret Maverick

Age : 86 | Popularity : 13%

Episodes

Episode 1

22 September 1957 - 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.

Episode 2

29 September 1957 - Point Blank

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

Episode 3

06 October 1957 - According 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.

Episode 4

13 October 1957 - Ghost 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.

Episode 5

20 October 1957 - The 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.

Episode 6

27 October 1957 - Stage 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.

Episode 7

03 November 1957 - Relic 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.

Episode 8

10 November 1957 - Hostage!

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.

Episode 9

17 November 1957 - Stampede

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.

Episode 10

24 November 1957 - The 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.

Episode 11

01 December 1957 - The Wrecker

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

Episode 12

08 December 1957 - The 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.

Episode 13

15 December 1957 - The Naked Gallows

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

Episode 14

29 December 1957 - Comstock Conspiracy

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

Episode 15

05 January 1958 - The 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.

Episode 16

12 January 1958 - Rage 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.

Episode 17

19 January 1958 - Rope 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.

Episode 18

26 January 1958 - Diamond 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.

Episode 19

02 February 1958 - Day of Reckoning

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

Episode 20

09 February 1958 - The Savage Hills

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

Episode 21

16 February 1958 - Trail 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.

Episode 22

23 February 1958 - The Burning Sky

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

Episode 23

02 March 1958 - The 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.

Episode 24

09 March 1958 - Plunder 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.

Episode 25

16 March 1958 - Black 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.

Episode 26

30 March 1958 - Burial 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.

Episode 27

13 April 1958 - Seed 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.

Crew

Department	Role	Name
Production	Producer	Roy Huggins Coles Trapnell William T. Orr
Department	Role	Name

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