Bret Maverick

1981 • NBC
4.7
20 reviews
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Season 1 episodes (17)

1 The Lazy Ace - (Pilot)
12/1/81
In Bret Maverick, James Garner returns to his signature title role, as the affable grifting gambler. In the premiere episode, written by Gordon T. Dawson (Walker, Texas Ranger) and directed by Rod Holcomb (ER, The Good Wife), Maverick's reluctance to sell his ranch is the major stumbling block for bringing the railroad into Sweetwater.
2 Welcome To Sweetwater
12/8/81
Maverick's reluctance to sell his ranch is the major stumbling block for bringing the railroad into Sweetwater
3 Anything For A Friend
12/15/81
A barn-raising celebration at Maverick's ranch helps him conceal Billy the Kid from authorities
4 The Yellow Rose
12/22/81
Maverick is at a loss when he wins a young Chinese girl in a poker game
5 A Horse of Yet Another Color
1/5/82
Teddy Roosevelt comes to town to present an Indian chief with a horse from the president, but Maverick ends up winning the stallion
6 Dateline: Sweetwater
1/12/82
Eastern financial interests attempt a takeover of Sweetwater businesses
7 The Mayflower Women's Historical Society
2/2/82
An ambitious historian threatens Maverick with the gallows if he doesn't sell her his life story
8 Hallie
2/9/82
Maverick's old con artist flame arrives in Sweetwater with two vengeful victims in hot pursuit
9 The Ballad Of Bret Maverick
2/16/82
A songwriter drifts into town to finish his song about the life and death of Bret Maverick
10 A Night At The Red Ox
2/23/82
Vigilantes break into the Red Ox and try Guthrie for crimes he's allegedly committed in the past
11 The Not So Magnificent Six
3/2/82
A pack of low-lifes drifts into town behind a pulp writer and begins a contest to see which of them can kill Maverick
12 The Vulture Also Rises
3/16/82
A stagecoach is attacked and Bret's longtime girlfriend is killed, apparently by the Apaches, prompting the townspeople to call for the calvalry
13 The Eight Swords Of Dyrus And Other Illusions Of Grandeur
3/23/82
A crooked magician working the Red Ox resents Bret's constant presence and tries to make the sheriff disappear
14 Faith, Hope And Clarity, Part 1
4/13/82
A cult leader legally grabs the townspeople's land, and Bret schemes to get it back. First of a two-part episode
15 Faith, Hope And Clarity, Part 2
4/20/82
A cult leader legally grabs the townspeople's land, and Bret schemes to get it back. Second of a two-part episode
16 The Rattlesnake Brigade
4/27/82
Bret and Tom guard a gold shipment
17 The Hidalgo Thing
5/4/82
Guthrie tries to persuade Maverick to lay low until after the election, but Bret is working on his biggest con ever

About this show

James Garner returns to his signature role, as the affable grifting gambler. BRET MAVERICK sees the king of cardsharps getting tied down and trying to play it respectable - almost! But rogues win out, and Bret still schemes and stirs up trouble!

Ratings and reviews

4.7
20 reviews
Dave State-61
June 21, 2019
Yee ha & uh, yeah.Great. Rockford Files was later (& better, for me). S. Margolin ('Angel') did an album w/a parole notice on backcvr granting a parole, stay of ex, pardon, or clemency for Margolin signed by JG 'Jim-mmyyy'(an-'!' usually followed, as if desperate, not unlike G.Jetson's "Jane, get me..thing" (¿). All good things.. so, where's the 2nd vol of movie-lenght final episodes?
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Joseph Stone
January 26, 2016
Love this show
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susann gruber
October 26, 2017
Great shows
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