Bret and Bart look to sail on a riverboat's maiden cruise but get caught up in a kidnapping of the boat's owner's daughter. Watch all 27 Maverick episodes from season 1,view pictures, get episode information and more. "No but the money was," Bret sighs. The local businessman must decide whether to band together or turn the printer over to the angry cowboys. With, Bret becomes a partner in one of Dandy Jim Buckley's schemes, but soon finds himself having to break his partner out of jail if he wants to collect his share of the proceeds. The filming schedule wore Mr. Garner down so the producers added Jack Kelly later in Season 1, who became an integral and beloved co-star. Bart campaigning as a local politician foreshadows events to take place later in Jack Kelly's real life. Maverick vows revenge and with the help of a pair of charming, but broke, French countesses, returns to the City on the Bay to extract the $17,000 that was stolen from him. Bret, and new character Dandy Jim Buckley, join a gold rush to even a score with Cadiz, a crooked gambler who robbed them. With, Bart and Dandy Jim Buckley (Efrem Zimbalist, Jr.) are partners in a mining stake in the Black Hills, but things go awry when a rival prospector is murdered, and Bart and two others are accused of the crime. In an attempt to clear himself of a robbery charge, Brett must protect a man marked for murder. Kelly and Moore are also featured in three two-cousin episodes. Season 1, Episode 21 Trail West to Fury The open range is home for the brothers Maverick, who are searching for the one---and unseen---man who can clear them of murder. Members of the gang include, While winning regularly at a series of private Denver poker games, Bart leaves promptly every afternoon for a rendezvous with a mysterious femme fatale (, An extremely beleaguered Bret must figure out some way to cope with an ocean of, Bart's paid handsomely to impersonate cactus-fancier Cornelius Van Rennselaer Jr. on a railroad journey, but he doesn't realize that others on the train will stop at nothing to keep "Cornelius" from completing his trip. Using the $1000 bill pinned inside his jacket, and adding some dollar-size strips cut from a newspaper, Bret cadges a room via a bulging envelope for the guest safe. Bart is posing as "Dandy Jim" Buckley, the nemesis of the Mavericks. You can also buy, rent Bret Maverick on demand at Amazon, Google Play, iTunes online. Soon after the Civil War, the boys return home and discover that the town's unscrupulous storekeeper is plotting to grab enough land in three counties to form a 5000 square mile ranch. "Maverick" is undoubtedly the greatest of a long line of classic WB series and although often imitated (even by James Garner, himself) never equaled. Directed by Richard L. Bare. Written by, Bret is reluctantly dragooned into being a juror in a small-town murder case. 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. Written by DeVallon Scott and directed by, Features Maverick and an affectionate camel left over from the, Bart's first appearance occurs in this two-brother episode, the eighth in the series. Click here and start watching the full season in seconds. AIRED: 9/29/57 Riding into Bent Forks broke and hungry, Bret quickly winds up in jail. The episode features another spoof of, Bret is hired to track down a safecracker who is believed to be getting ready to rob the Denver State Bank. Watch Maverick - Season 1, Episode 9 - Stampede: Maverick and Dandy Jim Buckley both get conned by the same crook, Tony Cadiz. Jack Kelly becomes the sole star of new Maverick offerings. But when the ship captain's daughter is kidnapped, the plan goes awry and the Maverick brothers are prime suspects in the kidnapping case. Samantha's raising money to make restitution, but she's still short, and Bret's broke again. Bret is conned into buying an almost worthless—and seemingly cursed—riverboat. James Garner portrayed both Bret Maverick and, in one episode, Beau "Pappy" Maverick. James Garner stars as charming gambler Bret Maverick in this, the first episode of the long-running Western television series Maverick. Featuring, Bret finds himself momentarily attracted to a ditzy but charmingly appealing young woman (, While being held up by masked bandits, Bart realizes that another stagecoach passenger recognizes the voice of one of the robbers. Pearly Gates and galpal Marla strike again when they rob Bart's poker game. Their reputations at stake Bret and Samantha pursue the crooks into Sioux territory in the Black Hills in order to recover the money. Good first season of this James Garner Western series which unlike some of the Warner Bros stable had a lot of light comedy in the series. Maverick vows revenge and with the help of a pair of charming, but broke, French countesses, returns to the City on the Bay to extract the $17,000 that was stolen from him. Peter Breck returns as Doc Holliday, becoming a semi-regular in these final episodes. For US airdates of a foreign show, click The Futon Critic. 1-1 : 22 Sep 57: War of the Silver Kings: 2. With, Bret rides into Hollow Rock, Wyoming, to bet on the annual horse race, stopwatch in hand. One of two Garner episodes (the other being "Black Fire") not included in Columbia House's 1990s library of series videotapes. However, Garner's name once again appears in the weekly series opening credits before all the newly produced shows, albeit now with second billing under Kelly (Ed Reimers announces "Maverick! Bret's brother Bart appears in several scenes. The theme song for this season is souped up with a slightly brisker pace and sound effects such as the riverboat's ringing bell. When Jack Kelly was added the turn about of episodes went well and often the two brothers came into the story. Later, when Bret arrives in the frontier town of Apocalypse, he encounters the thief again: Johnny Rain (. Bart's nosing round Bent Spur pursuing his friend's murderer. Bret agrees to serve as the bodyguard for a woman traveling with $200,000 in cash to a small Montana town. Bart and Bret ride into a town and the townspeople mistake them for Doc Holliday and Wyatt Earp. Season 1, Episode 21 The open range is home for the brothers Maverick, who are searching for the one---and unseen---man who can clear them of murder. The genial `Maverick' broke the mold of traditional shoot-'em-ups, with siblings who would much rather draw cards than their guns. Having lost everything to Nobby Ned Wingate (Edward Ashley) in a poker game, Bart is forced to find work for himself and his disgruntled companions on a, Bret accepts a well-paying job from an old family friend to dig up a grave, so that the body may be interred elsewhere—but the job soon becomes much more complex, and dangerous. 1-2 : 29 Sep 57: Point Blank: 3. One of Bart's fellow players goes after them with murderous intent. En route to visit Pappy in St. Louis, Bret runs afoul of two families of, After Bart's entire bankroll is stolen from a hotel safe, he accepts a position as a bodyguard for widowed bank president Wilma White (, Bret searches for an ex-girlfriend in tropical. Crusty old General Eakins summons all his living relatives to his ranch to assess who'll inherit his fortune. The passengers manage to reach the ruins of an adobe house and soon discover that the men besieging them are actually Mexican bandits who want something that one of the passengers possesses. Maverick discovers that his nemesis is plotting a multi-million scam by fleecing his fellow millionaires by selling stock in a phony diamond field and is determined to protect his friends and recover his money at the same time. The following is an episode list for ABC's 1957 comedy-western television series, Maverick, created by Roy Huggins and starring James Garner, Jack Kelly, Roger Moore, and Robert Colbert as Bret, Bart, Beau, and Brent Maverick respectively. This episode marks the debut of the vocal version of the closing theme song, though it would not be heard again for several episodes. I admit that I didn't enjoy the early episodes with Jack Kelly as much , but that is not a knock on Kelly as much as it is my appreciation for Garner. This is the first episode to feature Ed Reimers' spoken intro ("Maverick! With, This is the episode in which the lead character (Bart) has an, The second and last appearance of Brent Maverick, and his only solo episode. Lefty lives long enough to clue in Bret to a bank robbery he and three others were involved in when the mistaken identity occurred. With, Lost in the desert with no water and having barely averted being scalped by a, Bart and Beau discover a secret telegraph station hidden in a cave in this two-cousin episode. The General takes a liking to the "new, improved" Homer Eakins, whom the General hasn't seen since Homer was a tyke. 1-3 : 06 Oct 57: According to Hoyle: 4. Kicked out of one town, jailed for running a con in the next, Bret's luck turns when a sultry waitress eases him out of stir to work as a spotter in a casino. Trapped by a flood with Dandy Jim Buckley, the Maverick brothers while away the time by explaining why they can't return to Texas. With, Bart is held up at gunpoint by a female robber (, Bret is mistaken for one Foxy Smith, who is assembling ten of the West's most notorious outlaws for a major heist. Believe me, Kelly's Bart Maverick will endear himself to you long before you reach the end of the the first season. Bret wins a "full-blooded Arabian mount" in a poker game, but soon discovers he's been conned - the Arabian mount turns out to be an overly-affectionate camel. Now Bret must lead the herd across Comanche territory to Fort Adobe with the army in pursuit, while Bart searches for the only witness to the ... Travelling across the Arizona desert, the stagecoach conveying Bart Maverick and his companions is attacked by what appear to be Apache Indians. All previous semi-regulars are dropped for this season, including the new characters (Modesty Blaine, Melanie Blake and Nobby Ned Wingate), just introduced in season 3. Bret gets staked to switch to a different paddle-wheeler, so she'll follow, and plenty of spectators will, too. When Samantha idly wonders about what it might be like to marry Bret, he responds, "We couldn't afford it." With, The only two-part episode in the series, a, After getting cheated at a racetrack by gambler/con artist Pearly Gates (. Season 1, Episode 7 Relic of Fort Tejon. Bret goes to the office of a wealthy mine owner to collect a substantial gambling debt. http://www.solitairelaboratory.com/maverick.html, Don't play poker with rules from 'Maverick' reruns, Roy Huggins' Archive of American Television Interview, Stephen J. Cannell's Archive of American Television Interview, https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=List_of_Maverick_episodes&oldid=1000100487, Lists of American comedy-drama television series episodes, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License, In the aftermath of a failed stagecoach robbery, a gunshot criminal tells Maverick with his dying breaths that an innocent man remains in prison for a crime that he didn't commit, leaving the gambler with the responsibility of straightening it out. Jack Kelly stays on as Bart Maverick, who now alternates the lead with Roger Moore as cousin Beau Maverick. Semi-regulars Samatha Crawford and Dandy Jim Buckley exit partway through the season; new semi-regulars include Cindy Lou Brown and Gentleman Jack Darby. The girl's father wants Pappy to be killed in a duel -- but only after the engagement is announced. Bret has summoned his brother Bart Maverick to New Orleans help him in a money-making venture: crashing a private cruise where extremely high-stakes gambling will be taking place. As well, the vocal end theme also returns for this episode, though not yet permanently. He also appears in four other episodes playing different characters, including Ponca in "The Quick and the Dead. Maverick is a comedy-western television series created by Roy Huggins that ran from September 22, 1957 to July 8, 1962 on ABC and featured James Garner, Jack Kelly, Roger Moore, and Robert Colbert as the poker-playing traveling Mavericks (Bret, Bart, Beau, & Brent). With, Bret is wrongly identified as a wanted thief and killer, and must contend with a bumbling sheriff and bounty hunter who are determined to capture him for the reward money, as well as vengeful family members of the killer's victim ... and a would-be sidekick whose hero-worship of Bret almost always makes things worse. Track Maverick season 1 episodes. When the man refuses to pay and then draws his gun, Bret is forced to kill him. This comedic episode features several ten-second cameos from western leads in other, How could a whole town disappear without a trace? Notice that when the Maverick cousins enter a room, Kelly goes in front, just as Garner normally used to, and when they're standing or sitting together in scenes, Kelly is usually on the viewer's left, just as Garner most frequently was in two-brother episodes. Samantha Crawford invites five of the wealthiest and most influential poker players in the west to a game and stakes Bret to $20,000 to compete in the contest. Note how much warmer Dandy Jim Buckley's friendship with Bart appears to be than his rivalry with Bart's brother Bret in the subsequent episode "The Jail at Junction Flats". A beautiful woman whose father is missing... Bart Maverick is helping two men, one of who is injured, when a posse appears. The first season is extremely entertaining, an excellent blend of drama and comedy. While fleeing the dromedary, Bret stumbled into a small town and runs into an old flame who's engaged to the town's mayor. Featuring, A cowboy is set to kill the new boss of one of Bart's old girlfriends, who now works at a gambling house. "Three Queens Full" is adorned with splendidly over-the-top music too. Bart must work with Dandy Jim to expose the real murderer—and quickly, as Bart is scheduled for the gallows the next morning. The murder victim's brassy lady-friend/casino partner is a quick rebounder, who immediately sidles up to the suspicious Bart. This season's episodes alternated with reruns of some of Garner's earlier shows (both solo and Garner/Kelly team-ups, including "The Saga of Waco Williams"), but during Kelly's new installments, neither Bret, Beau, nor Brent are ever mentioned; the series' new episodes had finally reverted to the original single-Maverick formula observed for the initial seven episodes, only with Kelly as Maverick instead of Garner. Peter Breck would make one appearance as Doc Holliday in this season, becoming a semi-regular in the series' final episodes. This courtroom drama features, A cowboy accuses Bret of cheating during a poker game and a blow to the head from the Marshall accidentally executes the complainant in this complex dramatic episode. Episode Info Efrem Zimbalist Jr. makes the first of several guest appearances as Dandy Jim Buckley, a gentleman gambler best described as "Bret Maverick without scruples." Most episodes feature only one of the lead characters named Maverick, and never more than two—and in two-Maverick episodes, one of the Mavericks is always Bart. Bart gets involved with a mysterious woman, Daisy Harris, who wants him to act as her bodyguard, no question asked. For his first several shows, Jack Kelly as Bart usually wore a grey suit similar in color to his hat for greater contrast with Garner's standard black suit, right through the first season, but eventually switched to mainly a black suit himself while keeping the lighter colored hat, which remained his main costume through most of the run of the series. But the confident gambler has other ideas. Modesty would eventually return for one episode in season 5 – but played by Kathleen Crowley, who had previously played Melanie Blake. Maverick season 1 episode guide on TV.com. "Maverick" is undoubtedly the greatest of a long line of classic WB series and although often imitated (even by James Garner, himself) never equaled. Mike Road appears as "Pearly" Gates in two episodes, alongside Kathleen Crowley as Gates' companion Marla. "Maverick" is undoubtedly the greatest of a long line of classic WB series and although often imitated (even by James Garner, himself) never equaled. A San Francisco tycoon takes a dislike to Bart and has him beaten, robbed and thrown on board a sailing ship bound for New Orleans. Set primarily in, Bret rides in to a small Wyoming town where he's never been before, and is immediately thrown into jail, accused of having killed the town's mayor. Garner polished the Maverick role and took it forward into his other TV and film roles. Starring Jack Kelly and James Garner!" Bart was so down on his luck, he spent a winter trapping beaver outside town. With, Bart encounters Gentleman Jack, who has a $1000 reward on his head—and who instigates an identity switch with an unknowing Bart. Also, the Mavericks never appear in suits in this installment, both instead wearing their buckskin jackets throughout, as was the case with most episodes featuring Kelly and Moore together. With, Beau finds himself embroiled with a nest of unscrupulous shopkeepers who've been methodically swindling the local, Bret's last appearance for almost twenty years (until the 1978 TV-movie, In New Mexico, Bart saves the life of a fellow gambler. Watch Maverick - Season 1, Episode 24 - Plunder of Paradise: "Dar's gold en dem thar hills," and Bart Maverick and Big Mike McComb are out to get it. Bent Spur's overstocked with red herrings, who too easily slip through the fingers of Sheriff Barney F, including the killer, broken out of jail by the evil Brink. 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