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.
Guest Stars:
Bob Steele, Leo Gordon, Lane Chandler, John Hubbard, Edmund Lowe
Bret meets a delightful and cunning girl (Karen Steele). Within minutes, she makes plans for his future — a permanent plot on boot hill.
Guest Stars:
Mike Connors, Karen Steele, Peter Brown, John Harmon, Zon Murray
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.
Guest Stars:
Esther Dale, Leo Gordon, Jay Novello, Diane Brewster, Walter Reed
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.
Guest Stars:
Stacy Keach, Sr., Edd Byrnes, Rhodes Reason, Joanna Barnes, Willard Sage
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.
Guest Stars:
Richard Webb, Richard Crane, James Anderson, Tommy Farrell, Richard Reeves
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.
Guest Stars:
Michael Dante, Jim Bannon, Chubby Johnson, Ray Teal, Erin O'Brien
Bret wins a camel in a card game and ends up using her to bring a crooked gambling den owner to justice.
Guest Stars:
Kem Dibbs, Sheb Wooley, Earle Hodgins, Maxine Cooper, Fredd Wayne
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.
Guest Stars:
Laurie Carroll, Stephen Bekassy, Don Durant, Trevor Bardette, Wright King
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.
Guest Stars:
Efrem Zimbalist Jr., Pamela Duncan, Joan Shawlee, Chris Alcaide, Mike Lane
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.
Guest Stars:
Kathleen Crowley, Miguel Landa, Roy Barcroft, Stephen Colt, Dean Fredericks
Bart takes to the sea after buying a derelict cargo ship. The wreck is extremely valuable and he wants to know why.
Guest Stars:
Patric Knowles, Karl Swenson, Bartlett Robinson, Murvyn Vye, Thomas Browne Henry
The only person who can clear Bret of a robbery charge has been marked for death by the notorious gunfighter/gambler Doc Holliday.
Guest Stars:
Marie Windsor, Herbert Lytton, Gerald Mohr, John Vivyan, Sam Buffington
Bart pokes his nose into an unsolved murder case and ends up facing the business end of a killer's .45.
Guest Stars:
Fay Spain, Mike Connors, Jeanne Cooper, Ed Kemmer, Bing Russell
Arriving in the mining boom town of Virginia City, Bret gets involved with a mining engineer in his struggle for improved working conditions.
Guest Stars:
Ruta Lee, Werner Klemperer, Ed Prentiss, Oliver McGowan, Percy Helton
Bart gets involved with two devious couples in this episode which sees him trying to clear himself of a bank robbery and a murder.
Guest Stars:
Frank Faylen, Barbara Nichols, Michael Dante, Dick Foran, Kasey Rogers
Bret is happy to escort a lovely widow to the bank with a large sum of cash - until he learns the money is counterfeit.
Guest Stars:
John Russell, Catherine McLeod, Gage Clarke, Russ Conway, Lewis Martin
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.
Guest Stars:
Will Wright, Joan Marshall, William Reynolds, Tol Avery, Hugh Sanders
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.
Guest Stars:
Jacqueline Beer, Fredd Wayne, Lily Valenty, Sig Ruman, William Forrest
Fearless Bret feels it's about time someone did something about the town bully so he asks the townspeople to do something.
Guest Stars:
Jean Willes, Mort Mills, Tod Griffin, Willard Sage, Virginia Gregg
Against his better judgment, Bart teams up with Samantha Crawford to recover stolen Treasury plates.
Guest Stars:
Diane Brewster, Peter Whitney, Thurston Hall, Stanley Andrews, John Dodsworth
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.
Guest Stars:
Efrem Zimbalist Jr., Paul Fierro, Aline Towne, Gene Nelson, Charles Fredericks
In the desert, an Indian ambush leaves Bart and other stagecoach passengers to battle their attackers, each other, and the sun.
Guest Stars:
Gerald Mohr, Joanna Barnes, Douglas Kennedy, Whitney Blake, Phillip Terry
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.
Guest Stars:
Diane Brewster, Sam Buffington, James Philbrook, Myrna Dell, Joseph V. Perry
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.
Guest Stars:
Leo Gordon, Ruta Lee, Joan Weldon, Jay Novello, Rico Alaniz
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.
Guest Stars:
Harry Harvey, Hans Conried, Will Wright, Theona Bryant, John Vivyan
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.
Guest Stars:
Nancy Gates, Robert Lowery, Claude Akins, Charles Cooper, Saundra Edwards