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The Maverick boys - Bret, Bart, Beau and Brent - are a clan of well-dressed dandies, gamblers who'd much rather make their money playing cards than messing up their fine clothing with actual work. Sly and clever, none of the Mavericks are much for acts of derring do, but they can be courageous when the situation calls for it. Most often, however, they live by their wits and considerable charm.
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Checked Sep 3, 2026
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The Maverick boys - Bret, Bart, Beau and Brent - are a clan of well-dressed dandies, gamblers who'd much rather make their money playing cards than messing up their fine clothing with actual work. Sly and clever, none of the Mavericks are much for acts of derring do, but they can be courageous when the situation calls for it. Most often, however, they live by their wits and considerable charm.
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Episode 1
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.
Directed by Budd BoetticherWritten by James O'HanlonGuest stars Bob Steele, Leo Gordon, Lane Chandler, John Hubbard, Edmund Lowe, Fred Sherman, Harry Harvey, Steve Raines
Episode 2
Bret meets a delightful and cunning girl (Karen Steele). Within minutes, she makes plans for his future — a permanent plot on boot hill.
Directed by Budd BoetticherWritten by Roy HugginsGuest stars Mike Connors, Karen Steele, Peter Brown, John Harmon, Zon Murray, Richard Garland, Benny Baker, Robert Foulk
Episode 3
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.
Directed by Budd BoetticherWritten by Horace McCoy, Russell S. HughesGuest stars Esther Dale, Leo Gordon, Jay Novello, Diane Brewster, Walter Reed, Tol Avery, Tyler McVey, Ted de Corsia
Episode 4
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.
Directed by Leslie H. MartinsonWritten by Marion HargroveGuest stars Stacy Keach Sr., Edd Byrnes, Rhodes Reason, Joanna Barnes, Willard Sage, Dan Sheridan, Charles Tannen, John Cliff
Episode 5
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.
Directed by Douglas HeyesWritten by DeVallon ScottGuest stars Richard Webb, Richard Crane, James Anderson, Tommy Farrell, Richard Reeves, Joan Vohs, Harry Harvey, Jack Gargan
Episode 6
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.
Directed by Leslie H. MartinsonWritten by George F. SlavinGuest stars Michael Dante, Jim Bannon, Chubby Johnson, Ray Teal, Erin O'Brien, Edd Byrnes, Peter Brown, Howard Negley
Episode 7
Bret wins a camel in a card game and ends up using her to bring a crooked gambling den owner to justice.
Directed by Leslie H. MartinsonWritten by Jerry DavisGuest stars Kem Dibbs, Sheb Wooley, Earle Hodgins, Maxine Cooper, Fredd Wayne, Dan Tobin, Tyler MacDuff, Oliver Blake
Episode 8
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.
Directed by Richard L. BareWritten by Gerald Drayson AdamsGuest stars Laurie Carroll, Stephen Bekassy, Don Durant, Trevor Bardette, Wright King, Mickey Simpson, John Harmon, Jean Del Val
Episode 9
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.
Directed by Abner BibermanWritten by Gerald Drayson AdamsGuest stars Efrem Zimbalist Jr., Pamela Duncan, Joan Shawlee, Chris Alcaide, Mike Lane, Pat Comiskey, Rand Brooks, Marshall Bradford
Episode 10
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.
Directed by Leslie H. MartinsonWritten by Roy HugginsGuest stars Kathleen Crowley, Miguel Landa, Roy Barcroft, Stephen Colt, Dean Fredericks, Terence de Marney, Tom McKee, James Parnell
Episode 11
Bart takes to the sea after buying a derelict cargo ship. The wreck is extremely valuable and he wants to know why.
Directed by Franklin AdreonWritten by Russell S. HughesGuest stars Patric Knowles, Karl Swenson, Bartlett Robinson, Murvyn Vye, Thomas Browne Henry, Maurice Manson, Allen Kramer
Episode 12
The only person who can clear Bret of a robbery charge has been marked for death by the notorious gunfighter/gambler Doc Holliday.
Directed by Douglas HeyesWritten by Douglas HeyesGuest stars Marie Windsor, Herbert Lytton, Gerald Mohr, John Vivyan, Sam Buffington, Gordon Barnes, Robert Keys
Episode 13
Bart pokes his nose into an unsolved murder case and ends up facing the business end of a killer's .45.
Directed by Abner BibermanWritten by Howard BrowneGuest stars Fay Spain, Mike Connors, Jeanne Cooper, Ed Kemmer, Bing Russell, Morris Ankrum, Forrest Lewis, Sherry Jackson
Episode 14
Arriving in the mining boom town of Virginia City, Bret gets involved with a mining engineer in his struggle for improved working conditions.
Directed by Howard W. KochWritten by Gene LevittGuest stars Ruta Lee, Werner Klemperer, Ed Prentiss, Oliver McGowan, Percy Helton, Arthur Batanides, Terry Frost
Episode 15
Bart gets involved with two devious couples in this episode which sees him trying to clear himself of a bank robbery and a murder.
Directed by Franklin AdreonGuest stars Frank Faylen, Barbara Nichols, Michael Dante, Dick Foran, Kasey Rogers
Episode 16
Bret is happy to escort a lovely widow to the bank with a large sum of cash - until he learns the money is counterfeit.
Directed by Leslie H. MartinsonWritten by Marion Hargrove, Roy HugginsGuest stars John Russell, Catherine McLeod, Gage Clarke, Russ Conway, Lewis Martin, Jonathan Hole, William Forrest, Jack Gargan
Episode 17
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.
Directed by Richard L. BareGuest stars Will Wright, Joan Marshall, William Reynolds, Tol Avery, Hugh Sanders, Frank Cady, Don Beddoe, George O'Hanlon
Episode 18
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.
Directed by Douglas HeyesWritten by Marion HargroveGuest stars Jacqueline Beer, Fredd Wayne, Lily Valenty, Sig Ruman, William Forrest, Otto Waldis, Robert Fairfax, Carlyle Mitchell
Episode 19
Fearless Bret feels it's about time someone did something about the town bully so he asks the townspeople to do something.
Directed by Leslie H. MartinsonWritten by Carey WilberGuest stars Jean Willes, Mort Mills, Tod Griffin, Willard Sage, Virginia Gregg, Russell Thorson, Jon Lormer, Murvyn Vye
Episode 20
Against his better judgment, Bart teams up with Samantha Crawford to recover stolen Treasury plates.
Directed by Douglas HeyesWritten by Gerald Drayson AdamsGuest stars Diane Brewster, Peter Whitney, Thurston Hall, Stanley Andrews, John Dodsworth
Episode 21
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.
Directed by Alan Crosland, Jr.Written by Gene Levitt, Joseph ChadwickGuest stars Efrem Zimbalist Jr., Paul Fierro, Aline Towne, Gene Nelson, Charles Fredericks, Don Kelly, Paul Savage, Russ Bender
Episode 22
In the desert, an Indian ambush leaves Bart and other stagecoach passengers to battle their attackers, each other, and the sun.
Directed by Gordon DouglasWritten by Howard Browne, Russell S. HughesGuest stars Gerald Mohr, Joanna Barnes, Douglas Kennedy, Whitney Blake, Phillip Terry, Syd Saylor
Episode 23
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.
Directed by Richard L. BareWritten by Howard BrowneGuest stars Diane Brewster, Sam Buffington, James Philbrook, Myrna Dell, Joseph V. Perry, Byron Foulger, Damian O'Flynn, Francis De Sales
Episode 24
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.
Directed by Douglas HeyesWritten by Douglas HeyesGuest stars Leo Gordon, Ruta Lee, Joan Weldon, Jay Novello, Rico Alaniz, Eugene Iglesias, Nacho Galindo, Roberto Contreras
Episode 25
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.
Directed by Leslie H. MartinsonWritten by Marion Hargrove, Howard BrowneGuest stars Harry Harvey, Hans Conried, Will Wright, Theona Bryant, John Vivyan, Jane Darwell, George O'Hanlon, Edith Leslie
Episode 26
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.
Directed by Douglas HeyesWritten by Douglas HeyesGuest stars Nancy Gates, Robert Lowery, Claude Akins, Charles Cooper, Saundra Edwards, Raymond Hatton
Episode 27
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.
Directed by Richard L. BareWritten by Montgomery PittmanGuest stars Marjorie Bennett, Herbert Lytton, Gerald Mohr, Adele Mara, Joi Lansing, Myron Healey, Frank Ferguson, Bing Russell
Episode information updated Sep 19, 2026
James GarnerBret Maverick
Jack KellyBart Maverick
Leo GordonBig Mike McComb
Merry AndersPenelope Greeley
Sig Ruman
Kathleen CrowleyDaisy Harris
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