Episode 1
War of the Silver Kings
September 22, 1957
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.
Episode 2
Point Blank
September 29, 1957
Bret meets a delightful and cunning girl (Karen Steele). Within minutes, she makes plans for his future — a permanent plot on boot hill.
Episode 3
According to Hoyle
October 6, 1957
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.
Episode 4
Ghost Rider
October 13, 1957
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.
Episode 5
The Long Hunt
October 20, 1957
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.
Episode 6
Stage West
October 27, 1957
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.
Episode 7
Relic of Fort Tejon
November 3, 1957
Bret wins a camel in a card game and ends up using her to bring a crooked gambling den owner to justice.
Episode 8
Hostage!
November 10, 1957
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.
Episode 9
Stampede
November 17, 1957
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.
Episode 10
The Jeweled Gun
November 24, 1957
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.
Episode 11
The Wrecker
December 1, 1957
Bart takes to the sea after buying a derelict cargo ship. The wreck is extremely valuable and he wants to know why.
Episode 12
The Quick and the Dead
December 8, 1957
The only person who can clear Bret of a robbery charge has been marked for death by the notorious gunfighter/gambler Doc Holliday.
Episode 13
The Naked Gallows
December 15, 1957
Bart pokes his nose into an unsolved murder case and ends up facing the business end of a killer's .45.
Episode 14
Comstock Conspiracy
December 29, 1957
Arriving in the mining boom town of Virginia City, Bret gets involved with a mining engineer in his struggle for improved working conditions.
Episode 15
The Third Rider
January 5, 1958
Bart gets involved with two devious couples in this episode which sees him trying to clear himself of a bank robbery and a murder.
Episode 16
Rage For Vengeance
January 12, 1958
Bret is happy to escort a lovely widow to the bank with a large sum of cash - until he learns the money is counterfeit.
Episode 17
Rope of Cards
January 19, 1958
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.
Episode 18
Diamond in the Rough
January 26, 1958
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.
Episode 19
Day of Reckoning
February 2, 1958
Fearless Bret feels it's about time someone did something about the town bully so he asks the townspeople to do something.
Episode 20
The Savage Hills
February 9, 1958
Against his better judgment, Bart teams up with Samantha Crawford to recover stolen Treasury plates.
Episode 21
Trail West to Fury
February 16, 1958
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.
Episode 22
The Burning Sky
February 23, 1958
In the desert, an Indian ambush leaves Bart and other stagecoach passengers to battle their attackers, each other, and the sun.
Episode 23
The Seventh Hand
March 2, 1958
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.
Episode 24
Plunder of Paradise
March 9, 1958
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.
Episode 25
Black Fire
March 16, 1958
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.
Episode 26
Burial Ground of the Gods
March 30, 1958
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.
Episode 27
Seed of Deception
April 13, 1958
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.
