This is the episode that introduces Roger Moore as Cousin Beauregard Maverick. Beau is considered the ""white sheep"" of the family because he had the misfortune of earning a medal in the Civil War. (He had won the medal purely by accident.) Pappy had banished him to England for five years because no Maverick had ever been a hero. Bart Mavrick greets Beau upon his return to America and enlists his cousin to impersonate the son of the Marquis of Bognor, who had been indentured to work on a ranch in Wyoming for six months. The Maverick cousins stand to earn $4,000, but the play goes awry when Beau is kidnapped by a man who wants to settle a grudge with the Marquis.
Guest Stars:
Robert Douglas, Clancy Cooper, Mickey Simpson, Rusty Wescoatt, Alberto Morin
Bart meets a comical sheriff (Edgar Buchanan) who is dead serious about killing him.
Guest Stars:
Robert Colbert, Will Hutchins, Edd Byrnes, Clint Walker, John Russell
Beau Maverick wins ownership of the Silver Hill, a worthless ore mine. A crooked railroad agent named Shanks tries to cheat the townspeople out of their land by offering them a price that is well below market value. Beau convinces the town to relocate Silver Hill to a sheep ranch twenty miles away. The plan backfires when a new vein of silver is discovered in the supposedly worthless Silver Hill mine, thus enabling Shanks to claim the land without cost. The only hope is for the town to relocate back to Silver Hill before the railroad takes over the land.
Guest Stars:
Forrest Lewis, Merry Anders, Jon Lormer, Lane Chandler, Steve Pendleton
In hostile Sioux territory, Bart is caught between a woman prisoner's devastating charms and a pending Indian attack.
Guest Stars:
Terence de Marney, Charles Stevens, Joanna Barnes, Alan Hale Jr., Don 'Red' Barry
On their way to Denver, Beau and Bart Maverick pick up $6,500 in a poker game at Stop Gap. They decide to wire the money to Denver through the Hulett Telegraph Company. They discover the company is a fake and that the telegraph line leads to a cave two miles away where the crooks stash the customers' money and send phony messages in return. The cousins devise a scheme to recover the money and put the company out of business.
Guest Stars:
Lane Bradford, Tol Avery, Olive Sturgess, Don C. Harvey, Fred Graham
Looking for a peaceful and profitable poker game in New Orleans, Bart is plunged into a mysterious murder involving the Black Hand society.
Guest Stars:
Anthony Caruso, John Beradino, Myrna Fahey, Gerald Mohr, Frank Wilcox
In St. Joseph, Missouri, Beau Maverick wins halfl-ownership of the Golden Wheel Casino. The business venture is short-lived when his partner, Rand Storm, is shot to death by Flo Baker. Storm was a notorious ladies' man and Flo, a female entertainer, was resisting his advances. Just before he dies, Rand tells his younger brother, Luke, that the shooting was an accident. But Luke has Beau framed for murder so that he can take over the business.
Guest Stars:
Kathleen Crowley, Sammy Jackson, Lynn Cartwright, Bing Russell, Arch Johnson
Toil and trouble overcome Bret when he tangles with two burly thieves and their enchanting sister (Anita Sands) — who claims she's a witch.
Guest Stars:
Wayde Preston, Sheldon Allman
Two Army shopkeepers, Marsh and Lawson, have been cheating the local Indian tribes by supplying them with faulty or inferior goods. When one of the tribeswomen named Pale Moon threatens to report them to the Army Commission, the shopkeepers decide to start a war with the Indians. They know the Army will not investigate the woman's claim if they are at war. Marsh and Lawson murder Pale Moon's brother and pin the crime on the stranger who won $2,500 from them the night before - Beau Maverick.
Guest Stars:
Richard Coogan, Gary Conway, Robert Warwick, Trent Dolan, Andra Martin
Inheriting a stagecoach line from Uncle Micah is only the beginning of financial problems for the Maverick brothers.
Guest Stars:
Peggy McCay, Chubby Johnson, Buddy Ebsen, Will Wright
Beau Maverick befriends a prospector named Ebenezer Bolt. Maverick is unaware that Bolt is the partner of notorious horse thief Benson January. An angry posse mistakes Beau for January and is determined to hang him. A young lawyer manages to halt the proceedings until Maverick can have a trial. Beau's conviction seems imminent when the lawyer locates a notorious ""hanging judge"" and a woman whose sister was engaged to January identifies Maverick as the horse thief.
Guest Stars:
Fay Spain, Owen Bush, Arnold Merritt, Percy Helton, Will Hutchins
Beau Maverick crashes a party in Virginia City thrown by eccentric socialite Kiz Bouchet. Kiz has a penchant for smoking cigars, playing poker, and fighting fires. Recognizing Beau as a fellow free spirit, she hires him to protect her. She believes her life is in danger. Beau discovers that Kiz's cousin Melissa, along with family doctor Pittman and attorney Hanford, are plotting to have Kiz judged incompent so they can split her $2 million inheritance. Beau comes up with a scheme to turn the tables on Melissa.
Guest Stars:
Don Beddoe, Kathleen Crowley, Whit Bissell, Tristram Coffin, Claude Stroud
Chivalrous Bart saves the life of a beautiful woman. His reward? A place on the wanted list for robbery and murder.
Guest Stars:
Peter Whitney, Diana Millay, Harry Tyler, Med Flory, Howard McNear
The Fenians, an Irish Revolutionary Brotherhood, are trained soldiers sworn to free Ireland from British rule. The Fenians have gathered in Dakota City to plan a march into Canada where they want to take hold of a small part of British property hostage in exchange for Ireland's freedom. After England pressures the United States to intervene, Beau Maverick is blackmailed into infiltrating the Fenians ranks by a shrewd Army colonel.
Guest Stars:
Arthur Shields, Jack Livesey, Arch Johnson, Lane Bradford, Herb Vigran
Bart substitutes a rock-filled suitcase for a fortune in gold to foil hijacking plans of phony sheriff Dan Trevor (Peter Breck).
Guest Stars:
Chuck Hayward, Merry Anders, Chubby Johnson, Frank Ferguson, Patrick Westwood
Proving once again that he's basically nonviolent, Bart witnesses a battle of bullets that leaves him stunned — and almost dead.
Guest Stars:
Ray Danton, Joe De Santis, Lisa Gaye, Slim Pickens
In New Mexico, Beau Maverick is taken for over $4,500 ($4,000 of which belong to his friend Jerry O'Brien) by con artists Warren and Crippen and Warren's granddaughter Rosanne. Beau tries to recover the money and even takes the threesome to court, but they outsmart him every time. Beau is so demoralized by the constant defeats, he believes he has disgraced the Maverick name - until Rosanne tells him that her grandmother was a Maverick.
Guest Stars:
Stacy Keach, Sr., Karl Swenson, Denver Pyle
Thinking all's well with the world after he cleans up in a card game, Bart offers to help a troubled young woman.
Guest Stars:
Peter Hansen, Fay Spain, Chubby Johnson, Walter Reed, Lane Chandler
Beau Maverick wins half-ownership in the Blue Bell Saloon in Arizona. In an attempt to raise funds for the floundering business, Beau and his partner Charlotte become partners with a mysterious gold prospector known only as the Dutchman. Along the trail to Superstition Mountain where the gold is located, Beau, Charlotte, and the Dutchman encounter danger in various forms.
Guest Stars:
Sheldon Allman, Mala Powers, Frank Sully, Carlos Romero
After discovering a long-lost body encased in ice, Bart finds himself in hot water.
Guest Stars:
James Seay, Virginia Gregg, Andrew Duggan, Shirley Knight, Bruce Gordon
Con artist Ferguson knocks Beau Maverick unconscious during an unsuccessful attempt to hoist a priceless diamond necklace from a French countess. Ferguson claims that the countess' diamond is fake and that he was in the process of replacing it with the real thing when Beau startled him. Ferguson offers Maverick $5,000 to switch diamonds. Beau is being set up for robbery by Ferguson and his equally devious wife.
Guest Stars:
Dan Tobin, Anna Lee, Sig Ruman, Carl Esmond, Ted de Corsia
Good-guy Bart warns the wrong people that their hosts are murderers — and ends up as the next possible victim.
Guest Stars:
Hampton Fancher, Paul Birch, Bud Osborne, Suzanne Lloyd, Buddy Ebsen
Outside Denver, Colorado, Beau and his friend, Judge Scott, find shelter during a blizzard at the home of Martha Flood and her niece Sally. Martha and the judge are plotting to institutionalize Sally in order to take over her inheritance. However, Martha's lover, a professional killer named Chet Whitehead plans to kill Sally, the judge, and Maverick.
Guest Stars:
Alan Baxter, Michael Pate, Ric Roman, Jeanne Cooper
Bart has a lot of explaining to do: the bank has been robbed — and his saddlebags are bulging with stolen loot.
Guest Stars:
Kem Dibbs, Dolores Donlon, Dan White, Gage Clarke, Tol Avery
Beau Maverick stumbles onto the cave site meeting place of five outlaws. They were summoned by a bandit named Jess in order to plan a big job. Mavrick passes himself as the notorious Texas outlaw Red Dog. The outlaws become suspicious of Beau when he declines to join them in a $500,000 bank robbery scheme.
Guest Stars:
Joseph Gallison, John Carradine, Mike Road, Lee Van Cleef, Sherry Jackson
Bart's in jail: he's the unfortunate — and helpless — victim of mistaken identity.
Guest Stars:
Abraham Sofaer, Bartlett Robinson, Robert Ridgely, Gerald Mohr, Dawn Wells
Cowardly George Parker (Alan Hewitt) offers Doc Holliday a tempting reward. All Doc has to do is kill his best friend — Bart.
Guest Stars:
Don Beddoe, Mickey Simpson, Ed Nelson, Peter Breck, Alan Hewitt
Brent (Robert Colbert) joins the series in true Maverick style: he gets involved with two beautiful women — and is thrown in jail for gambling.
Guest Stars:
Vladimir Sokoloff, Bill Erwin, Gertrude Flynn, Nina Shipman, Lisa Montell
Bart matches wits — and bullets — with a professional gunman... and learns that a beautiful woman can be more deadly than hired killers.
Guest Stars:
Joan Marshall, Coleen Gray, Robert Rockwell, Carlos Romero
In typical Maverick tradition, cousin Brent gets involved with two beautiful sisters — one of whom is planning to do him in.
Guest Stars:
George D. Wallace, Mort Mills, Elizabeth MacRae, Trevor Bardette, Slim Pickens
Bart just made the deal of a lifetime: he blindly purchased a wagonload of merchandise — including a bound and gagged Indian girl.
Guest Stars:
John Dehner, Michael Forest, Steve Brodie, Kasey Rogers, John Archer