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Maverick Season 2 Episodes
Season 2 Episode Guide
26 Episodes 1958 - 1959
Episode 1
The Day They Hanged Bret Maverick
Sun, Sep 21, 195860 mins
Bret has to stay one step ahead of the law - or at least a crooked sheriff and his coroner partner, who want Bret's help in faking his death and covering stolen money that a robber framed Bret for stealing. The gambler figures he can't trust them any further than he can throw them and has to come up with an escape, clear his name, and find the missing money.
Episode 2
The Lonesome Reunion
Sun, Sep 28, 195860 mins
Bret's venture to aid yet another beauty in need -- in this case to try 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. Some of Lonesome's denizens are consumed with revenge for the bank robbers (especially the character played by Richard Reeves) -- and greed for the missing loot.
Episode 3
Alias Bart Maverick
Sun, Oct 5, 195860 mins
Bart & Gentleman Jack's testy partnership snaps when Jack guns down Little Jeb of the Plummer Gang, after Bart & 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.
Episode 4
The Belcastle Brand
Sun, Oct 12, 195860 mins
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.
Episode 5
High Card Hangs
Sun, Oct 19, 195860 mins
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.
Episode 6
Escape to Tampico
Sun, Oct 26, 195860 mins
In New Orleans, a rich French family hires Bret to go south of the border and find the man who killed the father's son and then fled to Mexico. Bret finds the supposed killer, Steve, who is running a bar. The gambler soon befriends Steve and has second thought about giving away his new friend to the family that hired him.
Episode 7
The Judas Mask
Sun, Nov 2, 195860 mins
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.
Episode 8
The Jail at Junction Flats
Sun, Nov 9, 195860 mins
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.
Episode 9
The Thirty-Ninth Star
Sun, Nov 16, 195860 mins
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.
Episode 10
Shady Deal at Sunny Acres
Sun, Nov 23, 195860 mins
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, led by brother Bart, 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 Samantha Crawford, intimidating "heavy" Big Mike, and slicksters Gentleman Jack and Dandy Jim, among others, as the Maverick brothers' operatives in this classic episode.
Episode 11
Island in the Swamp
Sun, Nov 30, 195860 mins
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?
Episode 12
Prey of the Cat
Sun, Dec 7, 195860 mins
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.
Episode 13
Holiday at Hollow Rock
Sun, Dec 14, 195860 mins
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.
Episode 14
The Spanish Dancer
Sun, Dec 28, 195860 mins
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?
Episode 15
Game of Chance
Sun, Jan 4, 195960 mins
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.
Episode 16
Gun-Shy
Sun, Jan 11, 195960 mins
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.
Episode 17
Two Beggars on Horseback
Sun, Jan 18, 195960 mins
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.
Episode 18
The Rivals
Sun, Jan 25, 195960 mins
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.
Episode 19
Duel at Sundown
Sun, Feb 1, 195949 mins
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.
Episode 20
Yellow River
Sun, Feb 8, 195960 mins
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.
Episode 21
The Saga of Waco Williams
Sun, Feb 15, 195960 mins
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.
Episode 22
Brasada Spur
Sun, Feb 22, 195949 mins
When Bart rejects Belle Morgan's job offer after romancing her, she suckers him into taking shares of a rival train company, Brasada's, stocks as winnings in a poker game. The shares make Bart liable for Brasada's losses, so he sets out to con Belle back and get his money back.
Episode 23
Passage to Fort Doom
Sun, Mar 8, 195960 mins
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.
Episode 24
Two Tickets to Ten Strike
Sun, Mar 15, 195960 mins
Bret arrives in the town of Ten Strike with Frankie French, a dance hall girl who was invited there by an unnamed benefactor. Two men want Bret to leave, and Frankie wonders if it's a coincidence that someone invited her to Ten Strike at the same time that the two men try to get Bret to leave.
Episode 25
Betrayal
Sun, Mar 22, 195960 mins
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.
Episode 26
The Strange Journey of Jenny Hill
Sun, Mar 29, 195960 mins
A curious Bret follows singer Jenny Hill on her cross-country singing engagements, intrigued by her beauty and the fact that she never stays long in one place and refuses to settle down even though it would be financially lucrative for her to do so. Bret eventually acquires the answer to his questions.
