$40,000 is stolen from the bank of Hallelujah. The robber plants incriminating evidence on Bret and he is arrested, tried, and sentenced to hang. However, the question remains, what happened to the money? The sheriff is very curious.

Bret's venture to aid an endangered beauty, to save her father's property, throws Bret, alone, in the middle of a gang of vicious robbers hunting for their buried take near Lonesome, Colorado. Riding into Lonesome, Bret is warned by the town's road sign, on which Welcome is crossed out and Behave painted in. Lonesome's citizens are consumed with revenge for the bank robbers (especially Richard Reeves, Billy the Kid versus Dracula, Dance with Me Henry) - and greed for the missing loot. Written by David Stevens

Bart and Gentleman Jack's testy partnership snaps when Jack guns down Little Jeb of the Plummer Gang, after Bart and Jack were run out of the previous town for gambling. Bad loser Jeb gave the duplicitous Gentleman 3 steps to get to the saloon door, mister, but his gang is not so generous, forcing Jack and blonde saloon dancer Cindy Lou Brown to flee through Sioux Territory. Jack still had time to get Bart jailed as Jack's alias Sir Stratford Avon, so Bart wants in on the chase too. Written by David Stevens

Maverick and a hunting expedition of headstrong Englishmen are robbed by an outlaw gang and abandoned without food and water in the middle of the desert. Maverick convinces his party, by threat and force of argument, that their only hope of survival is to follow the gang across the desert waste to their hideout and take back their horses and provisions by force. Written by David Bassler

Newcomer Bart Maverick is suspected by sheriff Bald Bill of a robbery/murder. Bart's friend Dandy Jim Buckley helps the imprisoned Bart uncover the actual culprits.

Bankrupt after a run of bad luck at the poker table, Bret agrees to help bring a man wanted for murder back to New Orleans for trial. The catch is, the man has fled to Mexico and has the backing of the local government.

Bart's about to go into the casino business with a shady partner when his twenty thousand contribution is stolen by a beautiful Norweigan dance hall girl. Bart's partner agrees to put up $10,000 to hold their option open for three days and Bart must retrieve his cash from the woman before she disappears into Mexico. Written by Anonymous

Dandy Jim convinces Bret to partner with him to buy horses for cavalry remounts and Bret learns too late it's just another of Jim's swindles. Worse, Jim steals all Bret's money and leaves him tied up in the wilderness. Bret soon tracks Dandy Jim to a Wyoming town with a long memory - when a notorious outlaw broke out of jail eight years earlier, the town fathers determined to build an escape-proof jail. Now Dandy Jim's behind bars for a crime he didn't commit - for a change - and he refuses to tell Bret where he's hid the money he stole from the gambler unless he breaks him out of jail. Time's short because a lynch mob is beginning to form. Written by David Bassler

After getting off a stage and checking into a hotel room, Bart is tricked into slipping out of his room just long enough for the suitcase he is carrying with $2,600 to be stolen. Looking for the men on the stage who knew he was carrying the money, he finds one of them dead and another has left the hotel. But then another, a town judge, returns Bart's suitcase with the money intact. The suitcase Bart left the stage with was the judge's identical looking one which held a valuable document in it that many believe Bart has hidden, and are willing to kill for. Written by rbecker28

Bret is picked clean and stranded in Sunny Acres by the burg's arrogant banker, so he puts together an M Team of con artists to take down and embarrass the handle-barred buzzard in Denver, while Bret sits whittling and rocking in a chair on a shady Sunny Acres porch, poor-mouthing all by-passers that he's just working on a plan. The small-town banker is way out of his league in silver-rich Denver with seductive Sam Crawford, intimidating Big Mike, slicksters Gentleman Jack and Dandy Jim etc. as Maverick's operatives in this classic episode. Written by David Stevens

Bret's confined to a small isle settled by close-mouthed English immigrants who fear he's a spy or government agent. Bret, totally trussed up in a dinghy, floated up to their isolated dock, where a fisher-woman frees him. Bret, gambling on a Mississippi river boat, was KOed, then set adrift in the lifeboat. The isle's Mississippi Queen Ladybird is under duress too. What are the Brits hiding and why was Bret castaway? Written by David Stevens

When his horse is spooked by a wild cat, Bart suffers a broken leg. His benefactor's wife has plans for him and all he wants to do is get away as soon as he is able. But his friend's wife may have something to say about that.

Bart is charged with murdering Bret's nemesis Gentleman Jack, over an entrancing Spanish dancer, one of the only women in a mining boomtown. A saloon owner dominates the town, but his battle to control dancer Elena Grande is failing, as the strong-willed woman has her own well-hidden agenda. Is the missing Gentleman Jack dead, is it a scheme to get back at the Mavericks or what ? Written by David Stevens

Bret attends the annual 4th of July horse race in Hollow Rock, WY. He learns the two top contenders have strong reasons for winning which may involve Bret more than just his desire to make a sure bet.

A strand of pearls appraised at $40,000 leads Bart to loan $10,000 to the owner. When they skip town leaving him with a strand that's worthless, he enlists Bret to help him get his money back - for a fee, of course.

The nominal plot concerns Bret Maverick's attempt to find buried Confederate treasure in Ellwood, Kansas. In reality, the episode is Maverick's parody of Gunsmoke. U.S. Marshal Mort Dooley keeps running Maverick out of town and is outfoxed as Maverick keeps returning. The Marshal, we're told, owns 37.5 percent of the Weeping Willow saloon run by Miss Amy (who owns 25 percent). Other owners include deputy Clyde (17.5 percent) and Doc Stucke (17.5 percent). Dooley faces off against Maverick in a scene shot similar to the opening credits of Gunsmoke. Luckily, Maverick is out of range of the Marshal's bullets. Written by Bill Koenig

Bart and Bret both toss certified $10,000 drafts into a poker game, but are told that the exchange company has just gone under. For 10 % of the drafts, a woman confides to each of the brothers separately, that the Deadwood office of the company doesn't yet know it's closing. But they'll have to race through Indian country to get to Deadwood ahead of a company official on his way to close the office. Written by David Stevens

A rich playboy pays Bret Maverick to switch identities with him, so the playboy can court a wealthy young woman, who'd otherwise reject him.

Bret Maverick is on his way to a high stakes poker game, when an injured friend with a hidden agenda, begs him to visit. After Bret arrives, the friend's beautiful daughter draws Bret into a plot of her own. Both plots revolve around cold-blooded Red Hardigan (a lanky, young Clint Eastwood). Red demands Bret leave Sundown immediately - or rest in Sundown forever. Written by David Stevens

Losing his stake in a bank robbery, Bart agrees to hold two men for $300 on a pretty woman's say-so. When the story proves false, he rides after her only to find she is partnering a cattle drive and they are being murdered one by one.

Bret rides into Bent City with Waco Williams, a man he encountered out on the trail. Waco, while not seeking a fight, won't run away from one, either. As a result, Waco's life is threatened more than once. This causes Bret much anxiety, because he has his own reasons for keeping Waco alive. Written by Bill Koenig

A rich widow woman uses her influence to get Bart into a high stakes poker game in which he wins both stock in a railroad and a colossal headache. Directed by Casablanca star PAUL HENREID.

Bart Maverick, in need of money, signs on as a guide on a wagon train. He knows one woman on the wagon train and she's hiding a secret. Another woman on the wagon train is plotting to kill her husband but she's having second thoughts. When the wagon train arrives at its destination, the biggest threat of all awaits. Written by Bill Koenig

Frankie French has a mysterious and secret benefactor who has paid for her trip to Ten Strike with the promise of more funds. Who is the benefactor, and what does he want from Frankie?

During a stagecoach robbery, Bart realizes that one of the female passengers recognizes the voice of a masked bandit. Hoping to recover his lost funds as well as obtain a reward, Bart stays close to the passenger. But she soon shows herself to be treacherous, not just in matters of money but in matters of love. Written by graymatters

Why does singer Jenny Hill keep moving from town to town for short engagements when she could find a longer term gig if she wanted? And why does Bret keep following her on her journey?

Bret and Bart Maverick (and in later seasons, their English cousin, Beauregarde) are well dressed gamblers who migrate from town to town always looking for a good game. Poker (five-card draw) is their favorite but they've been known to play such odd card games as Three-toed Sloth on occasion. The show would occasionally feature both or all three Mavericks, but usually would rotate the central character from week to week. Written by John Vogel jlvogel@comcast.net