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Maverick

Action, Adventure, Western · 1957 · Rated 8/10

Last aired: S5 E13, One of Our Trains is Missing · 1962-04-22

In this light-hearted Western, brothers Bart and Bret Maverick are descended from a long line of poker players and conmen. Together or separately, they travel the Old West looking to make money without totally compromising their... rather loose scruples. Later, their English cousin Beau arrives in England. The series mostly alternates between the adventures of Bart and Brett, with Beau taking Bret's place when series star James Garner left over a contract dispute. A third brother, Brent, was briefly seen in the fourth season. Sometimes Bart and Bret will join forces to con a particularly difficult mark, or find themselves at odds over an attractive woman.

Cast

Season 5

Season 1Season 2Season 3Season 4Season 5
E1 Dade City Dodge 1961-09-17 · 60 min Bart tries to track down Pearly Gates, a smooth con man who cheated him out of $5000.
E2 The Art Lovers 1961-10-01 · 60 min When investors put the squeeze on railroad owner Paul Sutton, Bart tries to help by dealing with them directly in a friendly card game.
E3 The Golden Fleecing 1961-10-08 · 60 min Bart forsakes the poker table for the stock market - and finds himself trying to bluff wealthy Loftus Jaggers and his glamorous daughter (Paula Raymond).
E4 Three Queens Full 1961-11-12 · 60 min Bart must either face two years in jail or chaperone three brides to their intendeds the sons of wealthy Joe Wheelwright (Jim Backus).
E5 A Technical Error 1961-11-26 · 60 min 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.
E6 Poker Face 1962-01-07 · 60 min Bart's latest poker adventure has him playing for a full house: the lives of his fellow stagecoach passengers.
E7 Mr. Muldoon's Partner 1962-02-11 · 60 min After being granted a wish by a "leprechaun", Bart faces a pot of trouble: he must be either jailed, murdered or married.
E8 Epitaph for a Gambler 1962-03-04 · 60 min Bart, waiting to collect on a $10,000 IOU, makes an uncomfortable observation: murder may be the pay-off in a gambler's life.
E9 The Maverick Report 1962-03-11 · 60 min 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.
E10 Marshal Maverick 1962-04-01 · 60 min Bart is closer to tears than laughter when he is forced to battle the funniest - and fastest - gun in the West.
E11 The Troubled Heir 1962-04-08 · 60 min Life is anything but heaven when Bart meets Pearly Gates and his girl, who steal Maverick's poker winnings so they can be married.
E12 The Money Machine 1962-04-15 · 60 min A money-making machine costs Bart a bundle. His cousin (Kathy Bennett) has just bought one with the $10,000 he lent her.
E13 One of Our Trains is Missing 1962-04-22 · 60 min 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.

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