Season 1

Episodes • 1957

James Garner
Jack Kelly
War of the Silver Kings

1. War of the Silver Kings

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.

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Point Blank

2. Point Blank

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.

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According to Hoyle

3. According to Hoyle

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.

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Ghost Rider

4. Ghost Rider

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.

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The Long Hunt

5. The Long Hunt

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.

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Stage West

6. Stage West

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.

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Relic of Fort Tejon

7. Relic of Fort Tejon

49 min

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

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Hostage!

8. Hostage!

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.

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Stampede

9. Stampede

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.

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The Jeweled Gun

10. The Jeweled Gun

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.

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The Wrecker

11. The Wrecker

49 min

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

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The Quick and the Dead

12. The Quick and the Dead

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.

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The Naked Gallows

13. The Naked Gallows

49 min

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

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Comstock Conspiracy

14. Comstock Conspiracy

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.

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The Third Rider

15. The Third Rider

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.

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Rage For Vengeance

16. Rage For Vengeance

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.

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Rope of Cards

17. Rope of Cards

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.

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Diamond in the Rough

18. Diamond in the Rough

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.

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Day of Reckoning

19. Day of Reckoning

49 min

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

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The Savage Hills

20. The Savage Hills

49 min

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

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Trail West to Fury

21. Trail West to Fury

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.

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The Burning Sky

22. The Burning Sky

49 min

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

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The Seventh Hand

23. The Seventh Hand

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.

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Plunder of Paradise

24. Plunder of Paradise

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.

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Black Fire

25. Black Fire

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.

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Burial Ground of the Gods

26. Burial Ground of the Gods

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.

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Seed of Deception

27. Seed of Deception

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.

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