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Maverick : Season 2
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Air date: 21 Sep '58 - 26 episodesMaverick is an American Western television series with comedic overtones created by Roy Huggins. The show ran from September 22, 1957 to July 8, 1962 on ABC and stars James Garner as Bret Maverick, an adroitly articulate cardsharp. Eight episodes into the first season, he was joined by Jack Kelly as his brother Bart, and from that point on, Garner and Kelly alternated leads from week to week, sometimes teaming up for the occasional two-brother episode. The Mavericks were poker players from Texas who traveled all over the American Old West and on Mississippi riverboats, constantly getting into and out of life-threatening trouble of one sort or another, usually involving money, women, or both. They would typically find themselves weighing a financial windfall against a moral dilemma. More often than not, their consciences trumped their wallets since both Mavericks were intensely ethical. When Garner left the series after the third season due to a legal dispute, Roger Moore was added to the cast...
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List of Episodes (26)
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1. The Day They Hanged Bret Maverick
21 Sep '58Bret attends a hanging under very uncomfortable conditions: he's the intended victim.
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2. The Lonesome Reunion
28 Sep '58Bret falls for the tempting trickery of a pretty woman (Joanna Barnes) — and finds himself helplessly involved in a swindle.
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3. Alias Bart Maverick
05 Oct '58Bart meets a gentleman after his own heart — who skips town with his money, and leaves him to face a murder rap and a man-hungry female (Arlene Howell).
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4. The Belcastle Brand
12 Oct '58In a desert, Bret and a hunting party are ambushed — and left to fight a blazing sun.
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5. High Card Hangs
19 Oct '58Bart Maverick and two of his friends are charged with murder. The town's citizens demand a confession from one of the three men, or else all three men will be prosecuted. Bart falsely confesses to the murder, but help from his friend Dandy Jim Buckley exonerates him from the crime.
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6. Escape to Tampico
26 Oct '58In Mexico, Bret tries to trick an American renegade into returning to the U.S. — where he's wanted for murder.
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7. The Judas Mask
02 Nov '58Bart tails a pretty cancan dancer who stole his money — only to find himself being followed by two very sinister characters.
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8. The Jail at Junction Flats
09 Nov '58Good-hearted Bret lends a pal $200 for an ""honest"" transaction — which lands the pal in jail.
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9. The Thirty-Ninth Star
16 Nov '58A case of mistaken suitcases unfolds into political warfare, leaving Bart the unhappy target of ruthless killers.
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10. Shady Deal at Sunny Acres
23 Nov '58Bret, helpless against a crafty banker (John Dehner) who robbed him, bides his time — while Bart and friends set up an elaborate con game.
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11. Island in the Swamp
30 Nov '58Bret tries to help a pair of star-crossed lovers whose feuding families have taken him prisoner.
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12. Prey of the Cat
07 Dec '58Bart is a helpless victim of his charms. Two scheming women are after him: one wants to murder for his love; the other just wants to murder him.
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13. Holiday at Hollow Rock
14 Dec '58After he's cheated in a crooked card game, Bret tries to even the score by beating his opponent — and the odds — in a horse race.
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14. The Spanish Dancer
28 Dec '58After scuffling with a pal over a dancer, Bart must do some fancy footwork to escape his plight: he's accused of murdering his friend.
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15. Game of Chance
04 Jan '59Bret and Bart are pursuing the same woman. What's the attraction? The $10,000 she copped from them.
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16. Gun-shy
11 Jan '59
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17. Two Beggars on Horseback
18 Jan '59Bret and Bart's devotion to one another is tested when they're offered a deal that can mean $10,000 for one of them — but just one.
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18. The Rivals
25 Jan '59Lydia Linley is a young heiress who yearns for a man like Sydney Carton of A Tale of Two Cities - ""a man of warmth, imagination, courage, and a sense of adventure."" Jack Vandergelt III (Roger Moore) is in love with Lydia but knows she will have nothing to do with him because he is rich. Vandergelt hires Bret Maverick to switch identities with him in hopes that Lydia will love and accept him for who he is before she realizes he is a Vandergelt. The plan goes smoothly until Jack Vandergelt's fat
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19. Duel at Sundown
01 Feb '59Bret Maverick finds himself caught in a deadly love triangle with a lovely woman (Abby Dalton) and a young gunman (Clint Eastwood).
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20. Yellow River
08 Feb '59After losing his money in a bank robbery, Bart invests in a get-rich-quick deal with a beautiful — but not-so-dumb — blonde.
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21. The Saga of Waco Williams
15 Feb '59Bret and his buddy Waco Williams (Wayde Preston) ride straight into trouble in Bent City, where they are suspected of being cattle rustlers.
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22. Brasada Spur
22 Feb '59In a high-stakes poker game, Bart wins stock in a railroad — and finds himself on the track to a colossal headache.
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23. Passage to Fort Doom
08 Mar '59A pair of con artists, Bart and an old girl friend survive a hazardous stagecoach ride and reach Fort Doom — where their troubles begin.
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24. Two Tickets to Ten Strike
15 Mar '59Bret Maverick suspicions are aroused when he is forced to leave Ten Strike, New Mexico. Determined to stand his ground, Maverick stays in Ten Strike long enough to uncover a bizarre plot of murder and blackmail. Two gunmen, Vic Nolan (Adam West) and Eddie Burke (William Gordon), try to scare Maverick out of town.
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25. Betrayal
22 Mar '59Keeping cool during a stage holdup, Bart catches a twinkle of recognition between his lovely traveling companion (Pat Crowley) and one of the outlaws.
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