Maverick

1957 • ABC
4.8
64 reviews
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Season 5 episodes (13)

1 Dade City Dodge
9/17/61
Bart may be in over his head when he teams up with Marla, the jilted fiancée of con man Pearly Gates, to track down the Gates and recover the $5000 Gates fleeced from Bart
2 The Art Lovers
10/1/61
When investors put the financial squeeze on railroad owner Paul Sutton to pay off a gambling debt, Bart helps by dealing them in directly for a friendly hand of poker
3 The Golden Fleecing
10/8/61
Bart has to try to bluff wealthy Loftus Jaggers--and Jaggers' beautiful daughter when Bart gives up the poker table and tries his hand at being a stockbroker when he agrees to help a local farmer start a gold-mining company
4 Three Queen's Full
11/12/61
What seems like an easy choice turns out be something different entirely when Bart opts to escort three young brides from San Francisco to meet their grooms, the sons of wealthy rancher Joe Wheelwright. Jim Backus guest stars
5 A Technical Error
11/26/61
Bart believes he's finally struck it rich when he wins a bank in a poker game ... only to discover that the bank's as broke as he is
6 Poker Face
1/7/62
Bart wagers to save the lives of his fellow stagecoach travelers--who have shown their dislike for gamblers--when the coach is held up and Bart makes an unusual bet with the bandits. Now, the only question is: Does Bart hold the winning hand?
7 Mr. Muldoon's Partner
2/11/62
When a man claiming to be a leprechaun promises a skeptical Bart five wishes, Bart is surprised when the first wish comes true. But when the money the "leprechaun" grants turns out to be stolen, Bart faces a pot of trouble: Destined for jail, murder or marriage, he can't decide which fate is worse
8 Epitaph for a Gambler
3/4/62
When Bart's poker winnings include partial ownership of a casino, blackmail is thrown in as part of the pot, and he starts to believe that murder may be the final payout for life as a gambler
9 The Maverick Report
3/11/62
Bart wins a newspaper in a poker game, only to discover that the paper is being sued by a powerful senator for libel
10 Marshal Maverick
4/1/62
When Bart is forced to become town marshal, he faces death and laughter in a showdown with the fastest--and funniest--gun in the west
11 The Troubled Heir
4/8/62
Bart finds himself far from Heaven when his old friend and nemesis, con man Pearly Gates, and Gate's girlfriend Marla steal Bart's poker winnings to finance their wedding and honeymoon--and Bart must defend Pearly from another poker player at the game who's bent on killing the con man. Alan Hale, Jr. ("Gilligan's Island") guest stars
12 The Money Machine
4/15/62
Bart's cousin is conned out of a large sum of money she needs to repay a family debt by a man looking for investors in his money-making machine
13 One of Our Trains is Missing
4/22/62
While somehow trying to make amends with Modesty Blaine after they quarrel--just because Bart refuses to marry her--Bart must also find a way to end the mother of all train robberies

About this show

Gambling is their game and MAVERICK is their name. James Garner stars in this comedic one-hour Western series from 1957 as wisecracking ladies' man Bret Maverick, a handsome bachelor who traverses the Old West with his brother, Bart (Jack Kelly), trying their hand at fortune — and love — in one frontier settlement after the next.

Ratings and reviews

4.8
64 reviews
Jeremiah Brewer
September 16, 2014
Best Western ever! Well maybe not ever, but its good. Of course it's because I like James Garner, that goes without saying, he makes the show worth viewing.
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Larry J. Smith
March 10, 2017
Maverick was one of my favorite tv westerns, I loved how the maverick boy's handled thing's each week i wish this tv western would return to television again with the maverick boy's bart, beau, bret & brint.
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Amy Sanders-Agee
August 31, 2015
This is the GREATEST show EVER!! Absolutely love this show! Maverick is the bomb:)
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