List of Maverick episodes
First season (1957-1958)

List of Maverick episodes

Section Title: First season (1957-1958)
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Episode Title	Stars and Featured Recurring Characters

Bret	Bart	Dandy Jim Buckley	Samantha Crawford	Big Mike McComb

War of the Silver Kings	Bret	Big Mike

With Edmund Lowe. According to Roy Huggins' Archive of American Television interview, a Warners-owned property called "War of the Copper Kings" was selected by the studio as the basis for this episode's script in order to cheat Huggins out of the series creator residuals.

Point Blank	Bret

With Karen Steele. Huggins wrote this episode as the pilot but Warner Brothers insisted on first airing an episode based on a property they previously owned.

According to Hoyle	Bret	Samantha	Big Mike

Maverick debut of Samantha Crawford, in a high-stakes riverboat poker contest with Maverick. Diane Brewster had also played Crawford the previous year in an episode of Cheyenne called "Dark Rider", and writer/producer Roy Huggins had given the character his mother's maiden name.

Ghost Rider	Bret

With Stacy Keach, Sr., Joanna Barnes, Rhodes Reason, and Edd Byrnes. Maverick offers a strange beauty a ride home in a buckboard then later learns that she had died days before he met her.

The Long Hunt	Bret

In the aftermath of a failed stagecoach robbery, a gunshot criminal tells Maverick with his dying breaths that an innocent man remains in prison for a crime that he didn't commit, leaving the gambler with the responsibility of straightening it out.

Stage West	Bret

Based on a tensely dramatic Louis Lamour story. With Erin O'Brien, Edd Byrnes, and Chubby Johnson.

Relic of Fort Tejon	Bret

Features Maverick and an affectionate camel left over from the United States Camel Corps. The gambler quickly realizes that a saloon's poker game is rigged and finds himself facing down a professional killer.

Hostage	Bret	Bart

Bart's first appearance occurs in this two-brother episode, the eighth in the series. Bret has summoned his brother Bart Maverick to New Orleans help him in a money-making venture: crashing a private cruise where extremely high-stakes gambling will be taking place.

Stampede	Bret	Dandy Jim

Efrem Zimbalist, Jr. portrays Dandy Jim Buckley in the first of five appearances.

The Jeweled Gun	Bret	Bart

The first of Kathleen Crowley's eight different appearances in several roles, a series record by a wide margin for leading ladies.

The Wrecker	Bret	Bart

Based on a Robert Louis Stevenson ocean adventure of the same name. This is the only episode with substantial time accorded to both brothers in which Kelly's role is larger than Garner's.

The Quick and the Dead	Bret

With Gerald Mohr as Doc Holliday and film noir queen Marie Windsor as a saloon owner in this tense drama about an angry gunslinger.

The Naked Gallows	Bart

With Mike Connors as a mustachioed sheriff, Morris Ankrum as a crazed zealot, Sherry Jackson as an underage temptress, and Bing Russell.

The Comstock Conspiracy	Bret

With Ruta Lee and Werner Klemperer. Convoluted mysteries keep compounding, leaving a flummoxed Bret to wonder why this is happening.

The Third Rider	Bart

With 1930s Western star Dick Foran as a lawman thwarted by Bart in this action-packed dramatic episode featuring Barbara Nichols. James Garner, dressed as Bret, makes a 15-second appearance to address the camera directly and introduce the episode, but receives no billing.

Rage for Vengeance	Bret

With Catherine McLeod, Russ Conway as a sheriff, and a villainous John Russell. The only episode in the series in which Bret openly falls in love (with McLeod in her only series appearance) and wants to actually get married.

Rope of Cards	Bret

Bret is reluctantly dragooned into being a juror in a small-town murder case. This courtroom drama features Will Wright as an elderly attorney, Tol Avery as a murderously jealous villain, Joan Marshall as the town schoolteacher, William Reynolds as a man accused of murder, Frank Cady as an even-handed shopkeeper, and Emile Meyer as a truculently stubborn juror.

Diamond in the Rough	Bart

Written by Marion Hargrove from a story by Roy Huggins. Bart gets assaulted and shanghaied.

Day of Reckoning	Bret

A cowboy accuses Bret of cheating during a poker game and a blow to the head from the Marshall accidentally executes the complainant in this complex dramatic episode.

The Savage Hills	Bart	Samantha

Bart takes a turn with Samantha Crawford (Diane Brewster) on a riverboat adventure. An unbilled James Garner, dressed as Bret, introduces the episode.

Trail West to Fury	Bret	Bart	Dandy Jim

A flashback episode about the Maverick brothers returning from the American Civil War, as told to Dandy Jim Buckley (Efrem Zimbalist, Jr.) while the three of them are trapped during a flood.

The Burning Sky	Bart

With a Mexican Gerald Mohr, Joanna Barnes, and Whitney Blake. An unbilled James Garner, dressed as Bret, introduces the episode, in which Bart is one of a group of six ambushed stagecoach passengers.

The Seventh Hand	Bret	Samantha

Against his better judgement, Bret allows Samantha Crawford to sponsor him in a high-stakes poker game—which soon leads to an apparent double-cross and a cross-country chase.

Plunder of Paradise	Bart	Big Mike

Bart and Big Mike hunt for a buried treasure in Mexico, while being relentlessly shadowed by a group of bandits led by Jay Novello.

Black Fire	Bret

Hans Conried plays a friend who recruits Bret to borrow his identity for a family reunion, one that's presided over by a hard-bitten patriarch portrayed by Will Wright.

Burial Ground of the Gods	Bart

After getting robbed at gunpoint of $850, Bart traces thief Paisley Briggs (Claude Akins) to Denver, then to Wyoming. Once there, Bart gets hired to guard the now-penniless Briggs, who has convinced a putative widow that her husband is still alive, and that Briggs is the only person who knows where to find him.

Seed of Deception	Bret	Bart

The Maverick brothers are mistaken for Doc Holliday and Wyatt Earp in this two-brother episode. Huggins' wife Adele Mara plays a saloon dancer, and Bart is still wearing his grey suit.

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Mara plays as a dancer in an episode of Maverick entitled Seed of Deception.

final_sentence: Mara plays as a dancer in an episode of Maverick entitled Seed of Deception.