In the series premiere, gambler Bret Maverick gets involved in a feud between competing silver mine owners in the town of Echo Springs.
For the first of many times, Bret gets involved with a cunning female who's planning a robbery along with her boyfriend.
A man who once lost $50,000 to Maverick in a card games hires con artist Samantha Crawford to win back his money. She succeeds with the aid of a little known poker rule.
Bret meets up with a woman who reportedly died a few weeks before.
Bret goes the extra mile to prove the innocence of a man serving a life sentence in prison. But unfortunately for our hero, it seems as though someone else wants the imprisoned man to retain his current residence.
Fleeing a band of marauding Native Americans, Bret thinks he's found shelter at a way station. Unbeknownst to him, the family he meets there is a band of killers.
Bret is overjoyed to win a prized mount in a card game until he discovers that the mount is not a horse--it's a camel.
Jack Kelly joins the series as Bart Maverick who teams with brother Bret in New Orleans to rescue the kidnapped daughter of a gambling boat owner.
Bret is roped into competing in a boxing match when one of the boxers drops out. Will he emerge with his face and hide in one piece?
Bart accompanies a young woman through hostile badlands territory and soon discovers that he needs protection--from her.
After buying a derelict cargo ship, Bart is beset by several excellent financial offers for the vessel. Instead of selling out, he decides to discover the reason why.
Bret tries to clear himself of a murder charge by protecting a man marked for death by Doc Holliday.
Bart gets more than he bargained for when he looks into an unsolved murder case.
Once again, Bret gets more than he bargained for when he travels to the boom mining town of Virginia City, Nevada.
Bart finds himself dealing with two dangerous couples when he manages to get himself framed for a bank robbery.
Bret is only too willing to escort a lovely widow carrying a large amount of cash to a bank. Things change when it's discovered that the money is counterfeit.
Bret is the lone hold-out for a not guilty verdict on a jury trying a young man for murder.
A notorious thief has Bart beaten up, robbed, and deposited on a ocean bound steamship.
Fed up with a town bully, Bret decides it's time people did something about him. So he asks the townspeople to do something.
Thanks to the machinations of con woman Samantha Crawford, Bart finds himself caught up in a spy caper.
In this flashback episode, Bret and Bart relate to pal Dandy Jim Buckley about the time shortly after the Civil War when they searched high and low for a tall man who could clear them of a murder charge.
An Native American ambush leaves Bart and a group of stagecoach passengers stranded in the desert.
Bret tries to hunt down two men who made off with a substantial poker pot.
There's gold in them thar hills and Bart Maverick is out to get it. But so are four nasty Mexican bandits.
A millionaire's heirs are being killed off so why is Bret Maverick so concerned? He's posing as one of the heirs.
Bart is in pursuit of a thief named Paisley Briggs who stole his money but gets sidetracked by a woman searching for her missing husband. Somehow they all wind up in hostile Sioux territory together.
Riding through the town of Bonita, Bret and Bart are mistaken for Wyatt Earp and Doc Holliday and stumble onto a bank robbery plot
Once again Bret is in a full blown jam. Wrongfully convicted of robbery and murder he's supposed to be the guest of honor at a hanging--his own. But a crooked sheriff offers our hero a way out--provided he discloses the location of the missing loot from the robbery and cuts him in on the split. This might be hard because Bret has no idea as to its location.
A pretty damsel once again gets Bret involved in trouble up to his eyebrows. This one involves missing loot from a bank robbery along with a feisty female deputy sheriff.
In addition to clearing himself of a murder rap, Bart must match wits with fellow scoundrel Gentleman Jack Darby and man hungry Cindy Lou Brown.
Bret and a hunting party of Britishers are ambushed by baddies in the desert and left for dead. It's up to our hero to save the day because he's the only member of the party even remotely competent.
It's up to Bart's sometime friend, sometime adversary Dandy Jim Buckley to clear him of a murder charge. Will the Dandy One come through in the clutch or will he literally leave Bart hanging?
In Tampico, Mexico, Bret tries to trick a renegade gambling den owner into returning to the United States where he's wanted for murder.
Bart goes after a pretty dancer who stole his money only to discover that two sinister characters are also on her trail. He also has a disbelieving partner on his.
Bret lends Dandy Jim Buckley $2,000 for a supposedly honest transaction and lives to regret it. Buckley gets himself locked up in a supposedly impregnable jail and Bret must break him out in order to recover his money.
A case of mistaken suitcases eventually lands Bart into another full blown jam involving a political feud.
The gang's all here when Bret brings in brother Bart and every recurring player on the show as part of a convoluted con game to recover money swindled from him by a crooked banker.
Put off from a riverboat by robbers, Bret washes ashore on bayou island inhabited by a colony of river pirates and must figure a way out of his predicament when they make him their "guest."
Bart gets involved with two potentially lethal lovelies. One wants to murder for his love. The other just wants to murder him. It all begins for our hero when he breaks his leg after his horse is spooked by a cougar and is taken in by a rancher with a bored and overly amorous wife.
Bret tries to even the score against an opponent who cheated him in a crooked card game by entering a horse race.
Bart is accused of murdering a Gentleman Jack Darby in a quarrel over a Spanish dancer. But it's really a scam involving a mine.
Bart and Bret set out in pursuit of a woman who stole the sum of $10,000 from them.
Searching for buried money in a town that strongly resembles Dodge City, Bret must contend with a Marshal who strongly resembles Matt Dillon.
Bart and Bret's brotherly love is tested when they're offered a deal that can mean $10,000 to one of them--but only one.
Bret switches identities with a lovesick young man so that he can woo a woman who he knows won't accept him if she discovers he's rich. All goes well until the young man's father arrives in town.
In the town of Sundown, Bret is called out by Red Hardigan, a shiftless cowboy who's fast with a gun. But Red might have to stand in line. It seems as though the notorious outlaw John Wesley Hardin also has a score to settle with our hero. Or does he?
A conwoman hires Bart as trail boss on a cattle drive and one of the people making the drive isn't who he/she appears to be.
In the town of Bent City, Bret and his buddy, Waco Williams, are suspected of being cattle rustlers.
Bart wins railroad stock in a high stakes poker game and soon comes to regret it.
Bart and old galpal Cindy Lou Brown survive a hazardous wagon train journey and reach an Army outpost. Then their troubles really begin.
Bret and female sidekick Frankie French investigate some bizarre goings on in the town of Ten Strike, New Mexico after two gunmen try to run them out of town.
During a stagecoach robbery, ever observant Bart catches a glimpse of recognition between a pretty female passenger and one of the bandits. Bart's suspicions prove correct when she later helps the robbers escape from jail.
Bret accompanies a beautiful singer on a search for her missing husband and finds himself falling in love with the woman. This one's a toughie because if our hero doesn't locate the man then his pal, Big Mike McComb, will hang for murder.
Bart and Bret both come running when they receive word that their conniving pappy is engaged to be married to an 18 year old girl.
Bart is forced to help a con man in order to get the money the man owes him.
Bret is shanghaied into becoming sheriff of the town of Duck 'N' Shoot when his horse accidentally knocks out the town bully. Bret's unorthodox methods of enforcing the law succeed in taming the town. However, when he gets locked up in his own jail due to yet another conniving damsel, it's up to brother Bart to set things right.
Bart tries to discover why a vengeful cowboy wants to kill a gambling den owner.
Bret goes partners with a woman named Modesty Blaine in a venture to sell cats to a mining town that's been overrun with mice.
The Lady's Aid Society helps Bart retrieve his gambling winnings from thieves.
Bret gets involved with nearly every notorious outlaw in the history of the Old West when he's mistaken for the equally notorious Foxy Smith. Will he emerge with his hide in one piece?
Strangely enough, Bart still hasn't learned to avoid damsels in distress like the plague. This time he ends up framed for murder after rescuing a pretty young lass from a runaway horse.
To save his own skin Bret helps the Army protect a fort where the defending soldiers were massacred by the Sioux.
Bart is paid a tidy sum to impersonate a wealthy young man at a meeting. Much to his dismay, he quickly discovers that there are others who don't want him to attend this meeting.
A bumbling bounty hunter and sheriff both think that Bret is responsible for robbing a Wells Fargo office. It's up to our hero to clear himself with the aid of a none-too-bright young sidekick.
Bart is locked up in the hoosegow after he's caught gambling on an Army post. To escape his predicament, he agrees to help them uncover a traitor.
A wealthy Texas rancher hires Bret to save her gullible brother from the clutches of a conniving female. As sometimes happens, he ends up having to call in brother Bart to make things turn out all right.
Bart and Gentleman Jack Darby take refuge from a severe rainstorm by holing up in a ghost town. However, things go from awful to good grief when a stagecoach is also stranded and the gamblers discover that three of the men are criminals... and the fourth is a woman from Bart's past.
Bret lends a helping hand to Johnny Rain who can't remember if he robbed some stagecoaches while drunk.
Bart wins a saloon in a poker games but a woman gives him a hard time when he tries to take possession of it.
Seven owners of a rickety old riverboat travel down the Mississippi to Memphis in order to sell the tug. One by one they begin meeting mysterious deaths. How does this concern Bret Maverick? He's one of the owners.
Bret and Bart face each other in a poker game whose outcome will decide the fate of two feuding families.
Bart accepts the offer from a beautiful widow to protect her from death threats. He's unaware that he's really the intended target.
Bret travels to Central America where he tries to solve a million dollar jewel theft.
When a state senatorial candidate is wounded in an assassination attempt, the man's lovely daughter recruits a reluctant Bart to take his place. Guess who becomes the next target for the assassin?
Bret tries to find a buyer for a flock of sheep he won in a poker game. Unfortunately, there's a range war going on.
A woman who's just inherited a herd of cattle hires Bart for protection on the drive to market.
Bret stumbles into a smuggling operation when he's hired to transport a casket.
Bret is arrested for a series of crimes committed by someone impersonating him. When he meets his bumbling, court-appointed attorney he knows his plow is stuck in the hard ground.
A bank robber is at his wit's end. Bret Maverick keeps beating him to the loot.
Roger Moore joins the series as the Mavericks' English cousin Beau and he's in a full blown jam as is the family norm. Beau Maverick finds himself kidnapped shortly after being hired to impersonate someone. It's up to Cousin Bart to lend a hand.
On the run from a crooked sheriff who's trying to frame him for murder, Bart encounters nearly every cowboy on the Warner Brothers TV studio lot.
Beau tries to help citizens of a small town get a fair price for their land from an unscrupulous railroad agent.
Bart faces all kinds of trouble while traveling through the Arizona desert. First there's an Indian who wants to scalp him. Then there's two outlaws pursuing him for the money they think he's carrying. Finally, he's recruited by a deputy marshal to escort four prisoners to the territorial penitentiary, one of whom happens to be a lovely woman.
Bart and Beau win $6,500 in a poker game and decide to wire the money to Denver. Big mistake because the telegraph company is a phony set up to bilk people.
In New Orleans, Bart becomes involved in a murder committed by the notorious Black Hand Society.
Beau wins half ownership in a gambling casino but gets charged with murder when the man who owns the other half is found dead from a gunshot wound.
Bart travels to the town of Hound Dog, Tennessee to collect an old gambling debt and becomes involved with a woman whom everyone thinks is a witch.
Beau gets framed for murder as part of a plot to incite an Native American war. His only help in clearing himself comes from an Native American chief.
In this holdover episode, Bret and Bart inherit a stagecoach line from their late uncle and run into all kinds of trouble when they try to unload it.
Beau is mistaken for a notorious horse thief and put on trial in front of a notorious hanging judge.
Beau lends a helping hand when a wealthy eccentric woman's cousin, doctor, and attorney plot to have her declared insane so they can snatch her fortune.
Bart just never seems to learn. Once again, he helps out a damsel in distress and once again he's on the wanted list for robbery and murder.
The Army recruits Beau to lend a helping hand to stop a group of Irish rebels who are plotting an invasion of Canada.
Bart sets out to foil the hijacking plans of a phony sheriff.
Bart once again finds himself in a full-blown jam after discovering a plot to overthrow the government of Mexico.
Beau is defeated at every turn by a group of con artists who swindled him out of $4,500.
Things are going great for Bart after he cleans house in a poker game. Then he returns to his hotel room to discover a distraught damsel who wants to kill herself.
After winning a struggling saloon in a poker game, Beau and his new partner, Charlotte Simmons, become partners with mysterious prospector known as the Dutchman in the search for an old gold mine.
Things go from awful to good grief for Bart in this one. First he loses all his money playing poker so he's forced to take a job hauling ice down from the mountains. Then he discovers a corpse in the ice and finds himself involved in a nasty political feud between a reformer and a Frank Nittiesque political boss.
Beau steps into the manure pile once again when's he conned into replacing a real diamond with a fake.
After being told to leave town by a sheriff, Bart endures yet another perilous stagecoach journey involving a damsel searching for her missing fiancee, a hot-tempered young gunman, a wanted outlaw, and a family of serial killers. This one gets hairy at times.
Beau gets involved in a woman's plot to have her niece declared insane so that she can steal her inheritance.
Bart is in a heap of trouble with both sides of the law when loot from a bank robbery is found inside his saddlebags.
To escape the rugged Montana winter, Beau takes shelter inside a cave. Unfortunately for our hero, four wanted outlaws soon arrive upon the scene.
Bart is thrown into the Army hoosegow when he's mistaken for his exact double--notorious outlaw Rod Claxton.
A cowardly town boss offers Doc Hollday a tempting reward to kill a man--Bart Maverick.
Bart and younger brother Brent wander into a seemingly peaceful town that's hiding some deadly secrets.
Bart aids a sheriff in trying to protect a saloon owner who's the target of a hired gun.
Brent, the youngest Maverick brother, witnesses a mail robbery. Much to his surprise and dismay, he's later accused of the crime.
Thinking he's made the deal of a lifetime, Bart purchases a wagonload of merchandise. The deal goes sour quickly when he discovers that a bound and gagged Native American girl is part of the merchandise.
Bart, with the aid of a Native American maiden whom he rescued from captivity, tries to prevent the Apaches from going on the warpath.
Pearly Gates fleeces $5,000 from Bart but his jilted fiancee, Marla, helps our hero get his dough back.
Bart lends a hand when investors start putting the squeeze on railroad line owner Paul Sutton, to whom he owes a gambling debt.
Bart turns from gambler to stockbroker when he agrees to help a group of farmers start up a gold mining company.
Rancher Big Joe Wheelwright hires Bart to chaperone three women from San Francisco who are coming to his ranch to marry his sons Henry, Moose, and Small Paul.
Bart thinks he's hit the jackpot when he wins a bank in a poker game but he's unaware that it's about to go under.
Bart's fellow stagecoach passengers shun him when they discover he's a gambler but they soon find out he's their only hope for survival when the stage is hijacked by Mexican banditos.
A man claiming to be a leprachaun grants Bart five wishes. Bart is delighted when the first wish comes true but it's all downhill from there.
Two spins of the roulette wheel give Bart part ownership of a casino but then he discovers that his new partner is being blackmailed.
A poker game finds Maverick winning controlling interest in a newspaper that's just been hit with a huge libel suit by a Senator.
Bart is dragooned into being the deputy of a man posing as famed lawman Wyatt Earp.
Pearly Gates and galpal Marla strike again when they rob Bart's poker game. One of Bart's fellow players goes after them with murderous intent.
A con man sells Bart's naive female cousin a money making machine.
Bart, Doc Holliday, and Modesty Blaine get involved in the mother of all train robberies.