"Maverick" Western show.
A somewhat troubled production, with leading man James Garner being replaced by Jack Kelly - who in turn was filled in by Roger Moore on occasion.
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- CreatorRoy HugginsStarsJack KellyJames GarnerRoger MooreBret and Bart Maverick are well-dressed gamblers who migrate from town to town always looking for a good game.
- DirectorBudd BoetticherStarsJames GarnerEdmund LoweJohn LitelBret rides into town looking for poker game to make some money. He finds one, but it's crooked, and he decides to get revenge, and also save the small mining town from the evil clutches of Phineas King.
- DirectorBudd BoetticherStarsJames GarnerKaren SteeleMike ConnorsBret arrives in Bent Forks after being run out of the last town by posse, and gets a job as a spotter. But it's a set-up by a scheming couple so they can get out of town with the money they've stolen.
- DirectorBudd BoetticherStarsJames GarnerDiane BrewsterLeo GordonAfter Samantha Crawford cleans him out--twice--Bret suggests they partner up to take down a crooked casino owner.
- DirectorLeslie H. MartinsonStarsJames GarnerJoanna BarnesRhodes ReasonBret tries to track down a woman he loaned his coat to - who supposedly died years earlier.
- DirectorDouglas HeyesStarsJames GarnerJoan VohsRichard WebbBret goes on a "long hunt" on an outlaw's request to clear a man accused of a robbery the outlaw help commit.
- DirectorLeslie H. MartinsonStarsJames GarnerErin O'BrienRay TealBret comes to the assistance of a woman who came west when she learns of her husband's gold strike. A ruthless family of ranchers have killed her husband, though, and try to convince the young lady that they are her late husband's partners.
- DirectorLeslie H. MartinsonStarsJames GarnerMaxine CooperFredd WayneBret wins a camel in a card game, and it helps him out against a crooked card player.
- DirectorRichard L. BareStarsJames GarnerJack KellyLaurie CarrollBret 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. Bret is taken hostage, and Bart must outwit the kidnappers and the police to rescue his brother and the girl.
- DirectorAbner BibermanStarsJames GarnerEfrem Zimbalist Jr.Pamela DuncanBret, and new character Dandy Jim Buckley, join a gold rush to even a score with Cadiz, a crooked gambler who robbed them. Cadiz's brawler Battling Kreuger is taking on all comers, and en route Bret, crashes into a possible challenger, mountain man Noah, complete with a pet skunk.
- DirectorLeslie H. MartinsonStarsJames GarnerJack KellyKathleen CrowleyBart gets involved with a mysterious woman, Daisy Harris, who wants him to act as her bodyguard, no questions asked.
- DirectorFranklin AdreonStarsJames GarnerJack KellyPatric KnowlesBret Maverick wins the right to join a ring of shipwreck salvagers, but he is soon in debt up to his neck when he engages in a spirited bidding contest, spending $21,000 for a ship whose cargo is apparently only worth half that. Brother Bart soon finds out why their unknown rival was willing to bid so high - in addition to bales of silk and rice, the wreck's hold is full of illegal opium.
- DirectorDouglas HeyesStarsJames GarnerMarie WindsorGerald MohrIn an attempt to clear himself of a robbery charge, Brett must protect a man marked for murder.
- DirectorAbner BibermanStarsJack KellyFay SpainMike ConnorsBart's nosing round Bent Spur pursuing his friend's murderer. Bart was so down on his luck, he spent a winter trapping beaver outside town. 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. The murder victim's brassy lady-friend/casino partner is a quick rebounder, who immediately sidles up to the suspicious Bart.
- DirectorHoward W. KochStarsJames GarnerRuta LeeWerner KlempererBret is forced to kill someone in self-defense when he tries to collect a gambling debt. The next day the dead man turns up alive, and Bret tries to unravel the mystery.
- DirectorFranklin AdreonStarsJack KellyFrank FaylenBarbara NicholsBart Maverick is helping two men, one of who is injured, when a posse appears. One horseman flees and escapes, while the other is killed by the posse. Bart becomes the chief suspect in a robbery/murder the horsemen are suspected of.
- DirectorLeslie H. MartinsonStarsJames GarnerJohn RussellCatherine McLeodBret agrees to serve as the bodyguard for a woman traveling with $200,000 in cash to a small Montana town. En route, he discovers that the money in the suitcase he's guarding is all counterfeit.
- DirectorRichard L. BareStarsJames GarnerWill WrightJoan MarshallBret is selected to serve on the jury of a murder trial and finds himself the only member who refuses to believe that the defendant is guilty.
- DirectorDouglas HeyesStarsJack KellyJacqueline BeerFredd WayneA San Francisco tycoon takes a dislike to Bart and has him beaten, robbed and thrown on board a sailing ship bound for New Orleans. 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. 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.
- DirectorLeslie H. MartinsonStarsJames GarnerJean WillesMort MillsBret is caught between the local cowboys, who threaten to destroy a town, and the businessmen who have to give into the cowboys' demands.
- DirectorDouglas HeyesStarsJack KellyDiane BrewsterPeter WhitneyA beautiful con woman convinces Bart that a fellow hotel guest is really the leader of a counterfeit ring in possession of the plates to print the phony money. After Bart helps steal the plates, he learns that the gangster is really a Secret Service agent and the two men join forces to reclaim the plates before they're put to criminal use.
- DirectorAlan Crosland Jr.StarsJames GarnerJack KellyEfrem Zimbalist Jr.While trapped in a storm, Bret and Bart tell Dandy Jim why they can't go to Texas.
- DirectorGordon DouglasStarsJack KellyGerald MohrJoanna BarnesTravelling across the Arizona desert, the stagecoach conveying Bart Maverick and his companions is attacked by what appear to be Apache Indians. 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. As the broiling heat takes its toll, Bret attempts to discover which one of his fellow wayfarers is protecting a secret worth fighting, and possibly dying, for.
- DirectorRichard L. BareStarsJames GarnerDiane BrewsterSam BuffingtonTo clear their names, Bret and Samantha Crawford go after two gunmen who stole money from a high-stakes poker game they were involved with.
- DirectorDouglas HeyesStarsJack KellyRuta LeeJoan WeldonBart Maverick and Big Mike McComb are invited to a remote Mexican fishing village to help locate and remove buried treasure from under the nose of the authorities. When they arrive, the man who asked for their help has disappeared and in his place they find a marooned saloon singer, a woman claiming to be the missing man's wife and a gang of Mexican bandits who dog their every step.