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Bret Maverick : Season 1
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Air date: 01 Dec '81 - 18 episodesBret Maverick is a 1981-82 American Western television series starring James Garner in the role that made him famous in the 1957 series Maverick: a professional poker player traveling alone year after year through the Old West from riverboat to saloon. In this sequel series, Maverick has settled down in Sweetwater, Arizona Territory, where he owns a ranch and is co-owner of the town's saloon. However, Maverick is still always on the lookout for his next big score, and continues to gamble and practice various con games whenever the chance arises. The series was developed by Gordon Dawson, and produced by Garner's company Cherokee Productions in association with Warner Bros. Television.
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List of Episodes (18)
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1. The Lazy Ace (1)
01 Dec '81In what may very well be the last of the great poker games in the Old West, Bret wins ownership of the saloon and decides to settle down in the town of Sweetwater in the Arizona Territory. (Part 1 of 2)
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2. The Lazy Ace (2)
01 Dec '81Former sheriff Tom Guthrie joins Bret as partner in the Red Ox saloon, to the dismay of the townspeople who just booted the old-fashioned lawman out of office.
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3. Welcome to Sweetwater
08 Dec '81Maverick's reluctance to sell his ranch, the Lazy Ace, is the major stumbling block to bringing the railroad into Sweetwater.
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4. Anything for a Friend
15 Dec '81A barn-raising celebration at Maverick's ranch helps him conceal Billy the Kid from authorities.
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5. The Yellow Rose
22 Dec '81Women's suffrage catches fire in Sweetwater and no one feels the heat more than Maverick, who's just won a Chinese girl in a poker game.
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6. Horse of Yet Another Color
05 Jan '82Teddy Roosevelt comes to town to present an Indian chief with a horse from the president, but Maverick ends up winning the stallion.
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7. Dateline: Sweetwater
12 Jan '82Eastern financial interests attempt a takeover of Sweetwater businesses.
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8. The Mayflower Women's Historical Society
02 Feb '82It looks like Maverick is going to be hanged, unless he agrees to sell his life story to an ambitious historian.
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9. Hallie
09 Feb '82An old flame of Bret's shows up in Sweetwater, pursued by two homicidal brothers she swindled.
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10. The Ballad of Bret Maverick
16 Feb '82A stranger arrives in town, claiming to be in the process of finishing an epic ballad on the life and death of Bret Maverick.
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11. A Night at the Red Ox
23 Feb '82Vigilantes take over the Red Ox saloon and put former sheriff Tom Guthrie on trial for crimes he allegedly committed in the past.
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12. The Not So Magnificent Six
02 Mar '82Six men who each want to gain a reputation as the one who killed the famous Bret Maverick have followed a western pulp writer to Sweetwater.
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13. The Vulture Also Rises
16 Mar '82When a stagecoach is attacked by Apaches and a woman is killed, the angry townspeople want to call in the cavalry.
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14. The Eight Swords of Dyrus and Other Illusions of Grandeur
23 Mar '82Bret exposes a crooked magician who is performing at the Red Ox.
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15. Faith, Hope and Clarity (1)
13 Apr '82A religious charlatan dupes the townpeople so that he can obtain the rights to their land.
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16. Faith, Hope and Clarity (2)
20 Apr '82Bret masterminds a con to get back the townsfolk's land, which was legally stolen by the clever leader of a religious cult.
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17. The Rattlesnake Brigade
27 Apr '82Maverick and Guthrie are suckered into agreeing to protect a shipment of gold from a ruthless band of outlaws.
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18. The Hidalgo Thing
04 May '82Tom Guthrie, who is trying to get re-elected as sheriff, tries to get Maverick to keep a low profile, but Bret is working on the biggest con of his life and isn't going to stop now.
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