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18 Episodes 1981 - 1982
Episode 1
Tue, Dec 1, 198198 mins
At a high-stakes poker game in Sweetwater, Arizona Bret Maverick eliminates the competition, winning $100,000 and the deed to the Red Ox Saloon. Bret's luck soon changes, however, as his winnings are stolen that night from the local bank, and he learns that the saloon he now owns has a quite considerable mortgage that has come due. Getting no help from the newly-elected sheriff, who believes the days of the old west are over, he has no choice but to take off after the bank robbers on his own.
Episode 2
Tue, Dec 1, 1981
Episode 3
Tue, Dec 8, 198160 mins
The railroad wants to buy the ranch that Bret wants to retire to.
Episode 4
Tue, Dec 15, 198149 mins
Tom Guthrie tries to help a young teenage outlaw, William Bonney, aka "Bill the Kid", by sheltering him at the Red Ox. However, when a vengeful U.S. Marshal, Phillip Mondragon, rides into Sweetwater with his posse, Tom appeals to Bret for help. Now the partners have to smuggle Billy out of town and get him to Mexico. Meanwhile, Fred "The Butcher" McShane, a notorious outlaw, rolls into town and Philo figures that Mondragon is after him... and plans to collect the reward.
Episode 5
Tue, Dec 22, 198149 mins
The women's rights group is appalled when Bret wins a Chinese girl in a poker game.
Episode 6
Tue, Jan 5, 198248 mins
Bret wins a stolen horse in a poker game that Teddy Roosevelt was supposed to give the horse as a gift to Geronimo to seal a new treaty and the young Congressman is desperate to recover the animal in time. Meanwhile, Tom tries to swing a business deal with several shady operators to build a new ice house using the Red Ox saloon and Maverick's ranch as collateral.
Episode 7
Tue, Jan 12, 198260 mins
Big business tries to takeover the town of Sweetwater.
Episode 8
Tue, Feb 2, 198260 mins
Be hanged or sell his life story. That's Bret's choice.
Episode 9
Tue, Feb 9, 198249 mins
Hallie is an old girlfriend of Bret's who is being followed by two men who she had swindled and they want her dead.
Episode 10
Tue, Feb 16, 198260 mins
A songwriter wants to finish his ballad about the life of Bret Maverick. He wants to finish the song about how he died.
Episode 11
Tue, Feb 23, 198260 mins
A kangaroo court is set up to try Tom Guthrie for past crimes.
Episode 12
Tue, Mar 2, 198260 mins
A pulp writer hires six gunmen to kill Bret so that he can publish a new book.
Episode 13
Tue, Mar 16, 198249 mins
The townsfolk of Sweetwater want to call out the Army when a stagecoach is attacked by Indians.
Episode 14
Tue, Mar 23, 198249 mins
Bret exposes a magician as a phony.
Episode 15
Tue, Apr 13, 198249 mins
The founder of a religious sect cons the townsfolk out of their land and Bret uses his own talents to get it back.
Episode 16
Tue, Apr 20, 198249 mins
The founder of a religious sect cons the townsfolk out of their land and Bret uses his own talents to get it back.
Episode 17
Tue, Apr 27, 198249 mins
The owners of the Red Ox have outlaws after them due to a shipment of gold.
Episode 18
Tue, May 4, 198249 mins
When his partner Tom Guthrie is trying to get his sheriff's job back and hopes that Bret will keep quiet, Bret is busy with the biggest con of his life. Bret's brother Bart shows up.