Maverick: Season 1 - Disc #1
Warner Brothers (1957)
TV Series  /  Action
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IMDB   8.2
1333 mins USA / English
DVD  Region 1
Roger Moore
James Garner
Jack Kelly
Robert Colbert
Robert Colbert Brent Maverick
Kathleen Crowley Marla
James Garner Bret Maverick
Chubby Johnson Andy Gish
Jack Kelly Bart Maverick
Gerald Mohr Doc Holliday
Roger Moore Beauregarde Maverick
Diane Brewster Samantha Crawford
Edwin Reimers Announcer
Tol Avery Cyrus Murdock
Director
Arthur Lubin
Budd Boetticher
Writer Roy Huggins
Douglas Heyes


Maverick is a comedy-western television series created by Roy Huggins that ran from September 22, 1957 to July 8, 1962 on ABC and featured James Garner, Jack Kelly, Roger Moore, and Robert Colbert as the poker-playing traveling Mavericks (Bret, Bart, Beau, & Brent). Moore and Colbert were later additions, though there were never more than two current Mavericks in the series at any given time, and sometimes only one. The series' primary sponsor for the first few seasons was Kaiser Aluminum, and their "quilted" aluminum foil was widely advertised in commercials shown on Maverick.
Episodes
 60 mins    9/22/1957  1.  War of the Silver Kings
Bret Maverick takes down a money-hungry gambler in the town of Echo Springs. He befriends an old drunk, who turns out to be a successful judge. Maverick strikes a deal with the gambler, Phineas King, to merge the ""silver lady"" mine with ""the new hope"" mine.
Director:  Budd Boetticher  Writer:  James O'Hanlon  / C.B. Glasscock 
Guest starring:  Edmund Lowe, John Litel,  Leo Gordon, Carla Merey, John Hubbard, Robert Griffin, Fred Sherman, Bob Steele, Donald Kirke
 60 mins    9/29/1957  2.  Point Blank
Bret meets a delightful and cunning girl (Karen Steele). Within minutes, she makes plans for his future — a permanent plot on boot hill.
Director:  Budd Boetticher  Writer:  Roy Huggins  / Howard Browne 
Guest starring:  Karen Steele, Mike Connors, Richard Garland, Benny Baker, Robert Foulk, John Harmon, Peter Brown, Zon Murray, Mitchell Kowall
 60 mins    10/6/1957  3.  According to Hoyle
Samantha Crawford is a con artist employed by George Cross. Cross once lost $50,000 to Bret Maverick and is determined to get it back. Two riverboat owners staked Maverick $5,000 which he promptly loses to Samantha. Samantha claims Cross is her father and needs the money to get out of jail. Maverick forms a partnership with Samantha and purchases gambling equipment in a scheme to put Joe Riggs, a crooked game room owner, out of business. Samantha and Cross doublecross Maverick by selling the equipment to Riggs.
Director:  Budd Boetticher  Writer:  Horace McCoy  / Russell S. Hughes 
Guest starring:  Diane BrewsterLeo GordonJay NovelloTed De CorsiaEsther DaleTol Avery, Walter Reed, Tyler McVey, Robert Carson
 60 mins    10/13/1957  4.  Ghost Rider
A woman who'd been traveling with Bret suddenly disappears. Looking into things he discovers that she'd been reported dead more than a week ago.
Director:  Leslie H. Martinson  Writer:  Marion Hargrove 
Guest starring:  Dan Sheridan, Willard Sage, Rhodes Reason,  Stacy Keach, Sr., John Cliff,  Joanna Barnes, Jim Hope, Tim Graham, Charlotte Knight, Richard Collier, Edd Byrnes, Charles Tannen
 60 mins    10/20/1957  5.  The Long Hunt
Bret tries to prove the innocence of a man serving a life sentence. But there's someone who wants the prisoner to stay where he is.
Director:  Douglas Heyes  Writer:  DeVallon Scott 
Guest starring:  Richard Reeves, Mark Tapscott, Will J. White, Richard Webb, Joan Vohs, Rory Mallinson, Harry Harvey, Sr., Tommy Farrell,  Richard Crane, James Anderson,  Troy Melton
 60 mins    10/27/1957  6.  Stage West
Fleeing a band of angry Native Americans, Bret takes shelter in a way station where a family of nasty outlaws are planning their bloodiest deal.
Director:  Leslie H. Martinson  Writer:  Louis L'Amour  / George F. Slavin 
Guest starring:  Edd Byrnes, Ray Teal, Buddy Shaw, Erin O'Brien, Howard Negley,  Chubby Johnson, Michael Dante, Peter Brown, Fern Barry, Jim Bannon, Ollie O'Toole
 60 mins    11/3/1957  7.  Relic of Fort Tejon
Bret wins a camel in a card game and ends up using her to bring a crooked gambling den owner to justice.
Director:  Leslie H. Martinson  Writer:  Jerry Davis  / Kenneth Perkins 
Guest starring:  Irving Mitchell, Harry Strang, Alan Austin, Kem Dibbs, Lou Krugman, Oliver Blake, Tyler MacDuff,  Sheb Wooley, Rush Williams, Fredd Wayne, Earle Hodgins, Dan Tobin, Maxine Cooper, Fatima A. Camel
 60 mins    11/10/1957  8.  Hostage
Bret Maverick meets up with brother Bart in New Orleans where they plan to obtain passage on a riverboat where big money poker games are held but end up getting involved in the kidnapping of the riverboat owner's daughter instead.
Director:  Richard L. Bare  Writer:  Gerald Drayson Adams 
Guest starring:  Mickey Simpson,  Wright King, John Harmon, Don Durant,  Jean Del Val, Laurie Carroll,  Stephen BekassyTrevor BardetteRoy Glenn
 60 mins    11/17/1957  9.  Stampede
Bret and Dandy Jim Buckley bet heavily on a boxing match but when their fighter withdraws it's up to Bret himself to step into the squared circle.
Director:  Abner Biberman  Writer:  Gerald Drayson Adams 
Guest starring:  Mark Tapscott,  Joan Shawlee, Michael Lane, Jim Hayward, Pamela Duncan, Pat Comiskey,  Rand Brooks, Marshall Bradford, Chris Alcaide
 60 mins    11/24/1957  10.  The Jeweled Gun
Bart agrees to pose as the husband of a woman who's traveling through the badlands. Big mistake because he soon finds himself the target of a killer.
Director:  Leslie H. Martinson  Writer:  Roy Huggins 
Guest starring:  Edwin Bruce, Ezelle Poule, James Parnell, Tom McKee, Miguel �ngel Landa, Al Hopson, Dean Fredericks, Terence de Marney, Kathleen Crowley, Stephen Colt, Roy Barcroft,  Doug McClure
    Seen it: Yes   60 mins    12/1/1957  11.  The Wrecker
Bart takes to the sea after buying a derelict cargo ship. The wreck is extremely valuable and he wants to know why.
Director:  Franklin Adreon  Writer:  Robert Louis Stevenson  / Russell Hughes 
Guest starring:  Barry Brooks, Murvyn Vye,  Karl SwensonBartlett Robinson, Maurice Manson, Allen Kramer,  Patric Knowles, Thomas Browne Henry
    Seen it: Yes   60 mins    12/8/1957  12.  The Quick and the Dead
The only person who can clear Bret of a robbery charge has been marked for death by the notorious gunfighter/gambler Doc Holliday.
Director:  Douglas Heyes  Writer:  Douglas Heyes 
Guest starring:  Herbert C. Lytton, Hal Hopper,  Marie Windsor, John Vivyan,  Gerald Mohr, Sam Buffington, Gordon Barnes, Robert Keys, Roy Turner
    Seen it: Yes   60 mins    12/15/1957  13.  The Naked Gallows
Bart pokes his nose into an unsolved murder case and ends up facing the business end of a killer's .45.
Director:  Abner Biberman  Writer:  Howard Browne 
Guest starring:  Fay Spain,  Bing Russell, Ed Kemmer, Sherry Jackson, Richard H. Cutting, Jeanne Cooper, Mike Connors, Morris Ankrum, Don Dillaway, Forrest Lewis
    Seen it: Yes   60 mins    12/29/1957  14.  Comstock Conspiracy
Arriving in the mining boom town of Virginia City, Bret gets involved with a mining engineer in his struggle for improved working conditions.
Director:  Howard W. Koch  Writer:  Gene Levitt 
Guest starring:  Bill O'Brien, Red Morgan, Oliver McGowan, Ruta Lee,  Werner KlempererPercy Helton, Terry Frost,  Arthur Batanides, Joy Rogers,  Glenn Strange, Ed Prentiss
    Seen it: Yes   60 mins    1/5/1958  15.  The Third Rider
Bart gets involved with two devious couples in this episode which sees him trying to clear himself of a bank robbery and a murder.
Director:  Franklin Adreon  Writer:  George F. Slavin 
Guest starring:  Charles Kane, Kasey Rogers, Barbara Nichols, Morris Libbert,  Dick Foran, Robert Contreras,  Frank Faylen, Michael Dante, Dan White, Felice Richmond, Dennis McCarthy
    Seen it: Yes   60 mins    1/12/1958  16.  Rage For Vengeance
Bret is happy to escort a lovely widow to the bank with a large sum of cash - until he learns the money is counterfeit.
Director:  Leslie H. Martinson  Writer:  Roy Huggins  / Marion Hargrove 
Guest starring:  Charlotte Knight, Jonathan Hole, Catherine McLeod,  John Russell, William Bailley, Lewis Martin, S. Newton Anderson, Rusty Wescoatt, William Forrest, Russ Conway, Phil Arnold, Earle Hodgins, William Benedict, Gage Clarke, Luis Delgado
    Seen it: Yes   60 mins    1/19/1958  17.  Rope of Cards
It's shades of 12 Angry Men when Bret becomes the lone holdout for a not guilty verdict in a murder trial. He has to use a long shot card trick to convince the other jurors that the defendant might be innocent.
Director:  Richard L. Bare  Writer:  R. Wright Campbell  / Robert Case Ormond 
Guest starring:  Robert Lynn, Joan Marshall,  Emile Meyer, Tom Monroe,  George O'HanlonWilliam Reynolds, Hugh Sanders, Will Wright, Donald Kirke, Harry Harvey, Sr.,  Tol Avery, Don Beddoe,  Frank Cady, Harry Cheshire
    Seen it: Yes   60 mins    1/26/1958  18.  Diamond in the Rough
After being beaten up, robbed, and shanghaied, Bart sets out to expose the man responsible, a respected member of San Francisco society, as a diamond swindler.
Director:  Douglas Heyes  Writer:  Marion Hargrove  / John Thomas James 
Guest starring:  William Forrest, Robert Fairfax, Carlyle Mitchell, Lala Bliss, Katherine Barrett, Paul Power, Louis Mercier, Mason Curry, Jack Chefe, William Remick, Stephen Ellsworth, George Baxter, Robert J. Stevenson, Patrick Whyte, Jacqueline Beer
    Seen it: Yes   60 mins    2/2/1958  19.  Day of Reckoning
Fearless Bret feels it's about time someone did something about the town bully so he asks the townspeople to do something.
Director:  Leslie H. Martinson  Writer:  Carey Wilber 
Guest starring:  Sammy Ogg,  Troy MeltonJean Willes, Murvyn Vye,  Russell Thorson, Willard Sage,  Mort Mills, James McCallion,  Jon Lormer, Todd Griffin,  Virginia Gregg, Morgan Sha'an, John Dennis, Gus Wilson
    Seen it: Yes   60 mins    2/9/1958  20.  The Savage Hills
Against his better judgment, Bart teams up with Samantha Crawford to recover stolen Treasury plates.
Director:  Douglas Heyes  Writer:  Gerald Drayson Adams 
Guest starring:  Stanley Andrews, John Dodsworth, Thurston Hall,  Peter Whitney
    Seen it: Yes   60 mins    2/16/1958  21.  Trail West to Fury
During a hellacious rainstorm the brothers Maverick relate to pal Dandy Jim Buckley about the time in Texas shortly after the Civil War when they searched far and wide for a tall man who could clear them of a murder charge.
Director:  Alan Crosland Jr.  Writer:  Joseph Chadwick  / Gene Levitt 
Guest starring:  Paul Savage, James Hope, Aline Towne, Gene Nelson, Don Kelly, Charles Fredericks, Paul Fiero, Russ Bender, Mike Hagen
    Seen it: Yes   60 mins    2/23/1958  22.  The Burning Sky
In the desert, an Indian ambush leaves Bart and other stagecoach passengers to battle their attackers, each other, and the sun.
Director:  Gordon Douglas  Writer:  Howard Browne  / Russell Hughes 
Guest starring:  Phillip Terry, Syd Saylor,  Gerald Mohr, Douglas Kennedy, Whitney Blake,  Joanna Barnes
    Seen it: Yes   60 mins    3/2/1958  23.  The Seventh Hand
Samantha Crawford arranges for Bret to sit in on a high stakes poker game but he's the fall guy when the game gets robbed.
Director:  Richard L. Bare  Writer:  Howard Browne  / Russell Hughes 
Guest starring:  Joseph V. Perry, Francis DeSales, Bob Steele,  James Philbrook, Myrna Dell, Sam Buffington, Byron Foulger, Charles Quinlan, Damian O'Flynn, Sidney Mason, Jay Jeston
    Seen it: Yes   60 mins    3/9/1958  24.  Plunder of Paradise
There's gold in them thar hills, and Bart Maverick and Big Mike McComb are out to get it. But so are four nasty Mexican banditos.
Director:  Douglas Heyes  Writer:  Douglas Heyes 
Guest starring:  Roberto Contreras, Manuel Lopez, Joan Weldon,  Jay Novello, Jorge Moreno, Ruta Lee, Eugene Iglesias, Nacho Galindo,  Rico Alaniz
    Seen it: Yes   60 mins    3/16/1958  25.  Black Fire
The heirs of millionaire General Eakins are being killed off one by one so why is Bret Maverick so worried? He's posing as one of the heirs and might be the next intended victim.
Director:  Leslie H. Martinson  Writer:  Marion Hargrove  / Howard Browne 
Guest starring:  David McMahon, Will Wright, Dan Sheridan,  Jane DarwellHans Conried, Jimmy Horan, John Vivyan,  Emory ParnellGeorge O'Hanlon, Edith Leslie, Theona Bryant, Charles Bateman, Harry Harvey, Sr.
    Seen it: Yes   60 mins    3/30/1958  26.  Burial Ground of the Gods
Bart Maverick is in search of a thief who stole his money but gets sidetracked into accompanying a young woman searching for her missing husband into forbidden Sioux territory.
Director:  Douglas Heyes  Writer:  Douglas Heyes 
Guest starring:  Raymond Hatton, Nancy Gates, Saudra Edwards, Charles Cooper,  Claude Akins, Robert Lowery
    Seen it: Yes   60 mins    4/13/1958  27.  Seed of Deception
After they arrive in an Arizona town, Bret and Bart are mistaken for Wyatt Earp and Doc Holliday and end up preventing a bank robbery.
Director:  Richard L. Bare  Writer:  Montgomery Pittman 
Guest starring:  Clem Fuller, Guy Wilkerson,  Bing Russell, Terry Rangno, Frances Morris,  Gerald MohrAdele Mara, Herbert Lytton, Joi Lansing, Myron Healey, Ron Hayes,  Frank Ferguson, Chuck Cason
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