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1 :01x01 - The Lazy Ace
Writer: Gordon Dawson
Director: Stuart Margolin
Guest star: Stuart Margolin (Philo Sandeen), Janis Paige (Mandy Packer), Bill McKinney (Ramsey Bass), John McLiam (Doc Holliday), Billy Kerr (Blue-Eyed Kid), Jack Garner (Jack the Bartender), Luis Delgado (Shifty Delgrado), Ed Bakey (Lyman Nickerson), Bill Gross (Dembro), Richard Moll (Sloate), Chuck Mitchell (Joe Dakota), Duane R. Campbell (Lucas), Ivan J. Rado (Wolfgang Mieter), David Banks (Delta Fox (as David H. Banks)), Tommy Bush (Deputy Sturgess), Ruth Estler (Townswoman), Norman Merrill Jr. (Teller), Al Berry (Townsman), Kirk Cameron (Boy #1), Max Martini (Boy #2 (as Max Martin))
Famed gambler Bret Maverick arrives in the Arizona Territory town of Sweetwater for a big poker tournament and ends up cleaning house, winning a saloon called the Red Ox and a large bundle of cash. Bret decides that Sweetwater would make a nice place for him to settle down so he use decides to use the cash to purchase a ranch called the Lazy Ace. However, when robbers steal his money, Bret has to ride off after them with a lame-duck sheriff, a female reporter, and a scheming Indian scout as his only help.
2 :01x02 - Welcome to Sweetwater
Writer: Gordon Dawson
Director: Rod Holcomb
Guest star: John Randolph (I.T. Austin / Frenchy Montana), Fred Stuthman (Ben), Russ Marin (Linus Garrick), Roger Torrey (Pete Schroeder), Priscilla Morrill (Mrs. Springer (Estelle Springer)), Lesley Woods (Miss Rose), Jack Garner (Jack the Bartender), Luis Delgado (Shifty Delgrado), Virgil Frye (Luke), Chester Grimes (Charles Decker), Mickey White (Alex Decker), Dan York (York), Aesop Aquarian (Virgil Stubbs (as Stephen Morrell)), Danny Butch (Telegram Boy), Dean Smith (Jack Danner), Buddy Van Horn (Zeke (as Wayne Van Horn)), Roy Andrews (Laborer (as Roy E. Andrews)), Ken Strong (Stranger), Tommy Bush (Deputy Sturgess)
The only thing stopping the railroad from coming to Sweetwater is that part of it is slated to go through Bret Maverick's ranch, the Lazy Ace, and he doesn't want to sell.
3 :01x03 - Anything for a Friend
Writer: Lee David Zlotoff
Director: Ivan Dixon
Guest star: Lawrence Dobkin (Marshal Phillip Mondragón), Glenn Withrow (Billy the Kid), Charles Hallahan (Fred McShane), John Perak (Lester), Stuart Margolin (Philo Sandeen), Jack Garner (Jack the Bartender), Luis Delgado (Shifty Delgrado), Bert Williams (Brewer), Russell Wiggins (Doc Vetter), Tommy Lamey (Bobby), Derek Barton (Beech), William R. Long (Red), James Loren (Duncan), Ruth Estler (Lady), Ray Powers (Deke), Tommy Bush (Deputy Sturgess), Blake Delgado (Bar Boy)
Tom Guthrie ropes Bret into helping the notorious Billy the Kid escape from a posse led by a bloodthirsty United States Marshal.
4 :01x04 - The Yellow Rose
Writer: Lee David Zlotoff
Director: William Wiard
Guest star: Stuart Margolin (Philo Sandeen), Marj Dusay (Kate Hanrahan), Keye Luke (Lu Sung), Lydia Lei (Kwai Bo Yung), Marcia Rodd (Captain Estelle Saulter), Anthony Eisley (Alfred Baniger), Priscilla Morrill (Mrs. Springer (Estelle Springer)), Jack Garner (Jack the Bartender), Tom Rosqui (Philadelphia Hunter #2 (Will)), Luis Delgado (Shifty Delgrado), Gary Pagett (Farmer), Peter Kwong (Chinese Friend), Danny Kwan (Chinese Card Player), Robert Cleaves (Crazy Preacher), Gilles Millinaire (Frenchman), Ion Teodorescu (Lithuanian), Tommy Bush (Deputy Sturgess), Coleen Maloney (Woman), Blake Delgado (Bar Boy)
Bret unwittingly wins a Chinese girl in a poker game and can't seem to find a way to get rid of her. Meanwhile, the suffrage movement comes to Sweetwater and Kate and Mary Lou team up to take on Elijah and win the vote... despite the fact that only men can participate in the referendum.
5 :01x05 - Horse of Yet Another Color
Director: Ivan Dixon
Guest star: Simon Oakland (Delwood Crestmore), William Hootkins (Congressman Theodore Roosevelt), Holly Palance (Jessica Denard / Dolly O'Hare), Allan Arbus (Phineas Swackmyer), Ray Tracey (Geronimo), Jack Garner (Jack the Bartender), Jim Gosa (Joe Ferris), Geno Silva (Running Wolf), Luis Delgado (Shifty Delgrado), Seamon Glass (Kelly)
Congressman Theodore Roosevelt arrives in Sweetwater to present the gift of a white stallion to Apache chief Geronimo. However, unknown to Roosevelt, the horse has been stolen and Bret later won it in a poker game. Meanwhile, an attractive businesswoman sets her sites on Tom.
6 :01x06 - Dateline: Sweetwater
Writer: Ira Steven Behr
Director: William Wiard
Guest star: Ed Nelson (Andrew J. Tindell), Richard O'Brien (Steven A. Hennessey), Joshua Bryant (“Busted” Bill Sharples), William Bryant (John Davis), Priscilla Morrill (Mrs. Springer (Estelle Springer)), Byron Morrow (Shaw), Jack Garner (Jack the Bartender), Luis Delgado (Shifty Delgrado), Roy Jenson (Monte), Brady Rubin (Mrs. Davis (Ellie Davis)), Barry Cahill (Moran), Charles Hutchins (Osheroff), Norman Merrill Jr. (Desk Clerk), Howie Allen (Peter (Peter Davis)), Tommy Bush (Deputy Sturgess)
A Tucson land combine begins purchasing Sweetwater businesses using Chicago gangster methods so the townspeople turn to Bret in desperation to find a way to outwit the land thieves.
7 :01x07 - The Mayflower Women's Historical Society
Writer: Lee David Zlotoff
Director: Ivan Dixon
Guest star: Jenny O'Hara (Samantha Dunne), David Young (Aaron Sylvane), Neva Patterson (Emma Crittenden), Priscilla Morrill (Mrs. Springer (Estelle Springer)), Jack Garner (Jack the Bartender), Luis Delgado (Shifty Delgrado)
A member of a historical society gets Bret off a murder charge in St. Louis. In return, he agrees to let her travel with him back home to Sweetwater and give her his life story. Meanwhile, newspaper editor Mary Lou Springer gets herself involved with a fugitive outlaw.
8 :01x08 - Hallie
Writer: Marion Hargrove
Director: John Patterson
Guest star: Dixie Carter (Hallie McCullough), William Sanderson (Kenneth Broomick), Geoffrey Lewis (Barney Broomick), Jack Garner (Jack the Bartender), Luis Delgado (Shifty Delgrado), Eldon Quick (Desk Clerk), F. William Parker (Captain Rufus Pinkerton), David Bond (Sloatman (Joe Sloatman)), Frank Loverde (Waiter), Tommy Bush (Deputy Sturgess)
An old flame of Bret's arrives in Sweetwater but she's on the run from two homicidal brothers whom she earlier swindled.
9 :01x09 - The Ballad of Bret Maverick
Writer: Gordon Dawson
Director: Jeff Bleckner
Guest star: James Whitmore, Jr. (Justice Smith), Sandy McPeak (Jacob Voorsanger), Cliff Emmich (Titus Openshaw), Howard Caine (Tercius Openshaw), Priscilla Morrill (Mrs. Springer (Estelle Springer)), Jack Garner (Jack the Bartender), Dan Barrows (Jacob Voorsanger #2), Luis Delgado (Shifty Delgrado), Donegan Smith (C. B. Whitfield), Keith Walker (Holson), Lawrence Laktin (Granger), Tommy Bush (Deputy Sturgess)
A drifter arrives in Sweetwater and he's out to finish a song he's writing about the life and death of Bret Maverick. Meanwhile, Bret tries to unload a silver mine he won in a poker game but every potential buyer thinks it's a scam.
10 :01x10 - A Night at the Red Ox
Writer: Lee David Zlotoff
Director: William Wiard
Guest star: Savannah Smith Boucher (Addie Burnett (as Savannah Smith)), Paul Koslo (Fletcher Mabry), Murray Hamilton (Judge Nat Cobb), Jack Garner (Jack the Bartender), Luis Delgado (Shifty Delgrado), Tony Duke (Levi), Tommy Bush (Deputy Sturgess)
Tom Guthrie's past catches up to him when a woman and her hired guns break into the Red Ox and put him on trial for two murders that he supposedly committed during the days before he became a lawman. Bret is captured and is forced to play for time by acting as his partner's defense attorney.
11 :01x11 - The Not So Magnificent Six
Director: Leo Penn
Guest star: Stuart Margolin (Philo Sandeen), Joseph Sirola (Nimrod Bligh), Kelly Ward (Willie Trueblood), Jesse Vint (Tulsa Jack Turner), Kario Salem (Virgil LaFleur), Ross Hagen (Cole Farnsworth), Ed Bakey (Deacon Tippett), Art LaFleur (Cockeye Pete Shonsey), Shawn Stevens (Sidney Bent), Jack Garner (Jack the Bartender), Luis Delgado (Shifty Delgrado), David Banks (Sam Durham), Joseph Chapman (Jasper Weems), Tommy Bush (Deputy Sturgess)
Six gunmen accompany a pulp writer to Sweetwater in hopes of winning fame by being the one to kill Bret Maverick.
12 :01x12 - The Vulture Also Rises
Director: Michael O'Herlihy
Guest star: Stuart Margolin (Philo Sandeen), Monte Markham (Captain Falcons), John Anderson (General Frye), Peggy Walton-Walker (Eloise Mayhew), Jack Garner (Jack the Bartender), Gary Lee Davis (Sledge), Luis Delgado (Shifty Delgrado), Maggie Malooly (Irish Annie), Shepherd Sanders (Jackson), Thomas Rosales, Jr. (Cinto Morado (as Tomas Rosales)), Clifford Happy (Lt. Thackery), Eddie Hice (Sam Black), Ron Oxley (Sgt. Buchanan), Tommy Bush (Deputy Sturgess), Blake Delgado (Bar Boy)
The citizens of Sweetwater call in the cavalry after a stagecoach is robbed and a female passenger is killed by Apaches. However, Philo Sandeen insists that the crime was committed by white men.
13 :01x13 - The Eight Swords of Dyrus and Other Illusions of Grandeur
Director: John Patterson
Guest star: Cliff Potts (The Great Malooley), Sarah Rush (Princess Athena / Ida Rose Mugford), Sid Haig (Samson), Tommy Bush (Deputy Sturgess), W. T. Zacha (Cutler (Rupert Cutler)), Jack Garner (Jack the Bartender), Luis Delgado (Shifty Delgrado), Peter Munro (Cowboy)
Maverick is out to expose a crooked magician who's working at the Red Ox, but has to do it from a jail cell when he's framed for murder.
14 :01x14 - Faith, Hope and Clarity (1)
Director: Leo Penn
Guest star: Jameson Parker (Whitney Delaworth III), Stuart Margolin (Philo Sandeen), Robert Webber (Everest Sinclair), Marj Dusay (Kate Hanrahan), James Staley (Samuel Workman), Simone Griffeth (Jasmine Du Bois), Tony Burton (Arthur), Priscilla Morrill (Estelle Springer), Richard Libertini (Fingers Wachefsky), Kathleen Doyle (Angela), Jack Garner (Jack the Bartender), Luis Delgado (Shifty Delgrado)
A charlatan who heads a phony religious sect uses legal means to swindle the people of Sweetwater out of their land.
15 :01x15 - Faith, Hope and Clarity (2)
Director: Leo Penn
Guest star: Jameson Parker (Whitney Delaworth III), Stuart Margolin (Philo Sandeen), Robert Webber (Everest Sinclair), Marj Dusay (Kate Hanrahan), James Staley (Samuel Workman), Simone Griffeth (Jasmine Du Bois), Tony Burton (Arthur), Priscilla Morrill (Estelle Springer), Richard Libertini (Fingers Wachefsky), Kathleen Doyle (Angela), Jack Garner (Jack the Bartender), Luis Delgado (Shifty Delgrado), Tommy Bush (Deputy Sturgess)
After being swindled out of their land by a religious charlatan, the people of Sweetwater look to Bret Maverick in order to turn the tables.
16 :01x16 - The Rattlesnake Brigade
Director: Fernando Lamas
Guest star: Arlen Dean Snyder (Colonel Bang), Stanley Wells (John Henry), J. Edward McKinley (Emmett Snow), Herb Armstrong (Matthew Varney), Jack Garner (Jack the Bartender), Luis Delgado (Shifty Delgrado), Tommy Bush (Deputy Sturgess), Mark McIntire (Army Captain), Stanley Ralph Ross (Coates)
Bret Maverick and Tom Guthrie get snookered into protecting a gold shipment from a band of ruthless outlaws.
17 :01x17 - The Hidalgo Thing
Writer: Gordon Dawson
Director: Thomas Carter
Guest star: Jack Kelly (Brother Bart), Hector Elizondo (Gomez), Marj Dusay (Kate Hanrahan), John Dennis Johnston (Burt Full Moon), James Gallery (Fortune Hunter), Dub Taylor (Toothless Tim Teal), Jack Garner (Jack the Bartender), Luis Delgado (Shifty Delgrado), Sandra De Bruin (Screaming Woman)
Tom Guthrie is running for re-election as sheriff and wants business partner Bret Maverick to keep a low profile in the campaign. However, Bret is working on one of the biggest scams of his life and isn't about to be kept under wraps.