Maverick

In the series pilot, Bret Maverick wins big in a poker game by bluffing the owner of a local silver mine, but the losing mine owner refuses to accept his losses and hires Big Mike Macomb to kill Bret.

An apparently innocent couple schemes to use Bret as a scapegoat in the plans to rob a bank. Mike Connors guest stars as Ralph Jordan.

Con woman Samantha Crawford (DIANE BREWSTER) gets the better of Bret when she beats him at a poker game with a little-known rule.

Bret begins to doubt his sanity when he discovers that he beautiful woman with whom he has been traveling has really been dead for more than a week -- and that his traveling companion is really an imposter. Guest starring EDD "KOOKIE" BYRNES.

A dying outlaw confesses to Bret that he committed the crime for which an innocent man is serving a life sentence, but when Bret tries to prove the prisoner's innocence he discovers that someone want him to stay in jail.

Bret helps a widow attempting to take over her late husband's silver mine. Based on the story "That Packsaddle Affair" by LOUIS L'AMOUR and guest starring EDD "KOOKIE" BYRNES.

Bret is elated when he wins an "Arabian mount" in a card game . . . until he sees that it's not a horse, but a very friendly camel.

In New Orleans, Bret and Bart Maverick see a way to win some money: They plan a trip aboard the River Princess, owned by wealthy Creole businessman Henri Devereaux, who, unfortunately, dislikes Americans.

Bret sees a way to make some money by arranging a boxing match between two very big, very tough, very mean fighters. But when one of the boxers quits, Bret must make a choice to lose the money . . . or fight the Battling Krueger.

Bart's life is in danger when he escorts pretty Daisy Harris through the Bad Lands by pretending to be her husband when he realizes that she needs less protection than he needs from her.

Bart and Bret take go to sea and find themselves in a competition for the salvage rights to a derelict cargo ship. It seems the wreck is extremely valuable, and Bart wants to know why. PATRIC KNOWLES guest stars.

Bret finds the man responsible for a robbery that he has been accused of committing, but the purpetrator is about to face Doc Holliday in a gun battle before he can prove Bret's innocence.

When a convicted murderer escapes from jail, Bret tries to help clear his name -- but ends up facing a .45. MIKE CONNORS guest stars.

Bret finds more excitement than he bargained for in Virginia City when a man eh believes is dead comes back to haunt him. Emmy winner WERNER KLEMPERER ("Hogan's Heroes") guest stars.

When Bart does a good dead for two exhausted travelers he meets in the desert, his horse is stolen and he is framed for a murder.

Bret is more than happy to escort a lovely young widow with a large sum of cash to the bank -- until he realizes the money is all counterfeit.

When Bret is the only member of a jury who believes the young man on trial for murder is innocent, he uses a very long odds poker trick to convince his fellow jurors of the truth.

A respected San Francisco businessman, who's really a gentleman thief and notorious swindler, beats up Bart, takes his cash and leaves him in the hold of an outbound cargo ship.

Bret must stop a rancher from taking over the town after the rancher murders the marshall -- so he asks the townspeople to do something.

Bart has trouble telling the good guys from the bad when he and Samantha team up to recover stolen treasury plates.

It should be an easy job when Bret and Bart agree to drive a woman rancher's cattle to market, but they run into complications and must search the open range from the one man who can clear them of a murder charge.

When they are attacked in the desert, Bart and his fellow stagecoach passengers must battle their attackers, each other -- and the sun!

Samantha arranges a poker game and sets Bret up as the fall guy when she also invites a pair of robbers. Now, with his money, his reputation and possibly his life at stake, Bret hunts the men who stole the poker money.

Bart travels to Mexico in search of buried gold ... and with four bandits who would happily kill him for the treasure hard on his heels.

While posing as the nephew and heir of millionaire General Eakins, Bret desperately tries to solve the man's murder before his ruse is exposed.