Season 5

October 8, 1961

Bart forsakes the poker table for the stock market — and finds himself trying to bluff wealthy Loftus Jaggers and his glamorous daughter (Paula Raymond).

November 12, 1961

Bart must either face two years in jail or chaperone three brides to their intendeds — the sons of wealthy Joe Wheelwright (Jim Backus).

November 26, 1961

Bart feels like a million when he wins a bank in a poker game. But unlucky Maverick soon learns the truth: the bank's broke — and so is he.

January 7, 1962

Bart's latest poker adventure has him playing for a full house: the lives of his fellow stagecoach passengers.

February 11, 1962

After being granted a wish by a "leprechaun," Bart faces a pot of trouble: he must be either jailed, murdered or married.

March 4, 1962

Bart, waiting to collect on a $10,000 IOU, makes an uncomfortable observation: murder may be the pay-off in a gambler's life.

March 11, 1962

Crusading newspaper publisher Bart? The publisher Bart won the rag from is assassinated and a corrupt U.S. Senator files a $100,000 libel suit against the Chronicle. Luckily, Bart's pal Doc Holiday is in town for a dentists' convention and owes Bart $2000. When Doc brags "I have enough collateral to raise the dead!", Bart feels no compunction in selling ½ the headache to Doc. The senator and his sinister political boss are Ivy Leaguers, so the suave Philadelphia dentist/hired gun will come in handy.

April 1, 1962

Bart is closer to tears than laughter when he is forced to battle the funniest and fastest gun in the West.

April 8, 1962

Life is anything but heaven when Bart meets Pearly Gates and his girl, who steal Maverick's poker winnings so they can be married.

April 15, 1962

A money-making machine costs Bart a bundle. His cousin (Kathy Bennett) has just bought one with the $10,000 he lent her.

April 22, 1962

While trying to get a young girl's romance back on the right track, Bart gets involved in a train robbery to end all train robberies.