Bret Maverick

Season

1981

7.5

Set in Sweetwater, Arizona in the 1880s with solid citizen Bret owning a ranch and part of the Red Ox Saloon. Stable cast with varying stories, often centered on conflict between the ambitious sheriff and everyone else.

Episode List

S1 • E1

The Lazy Ace: Part 1

Bret Maverick wins a saloon in a poker game and decides to end his roving ways and settle down in Sweetwater, Arizona. He takes on as a partner the former sheriff who comes with a shady background.

S1 • E2

The Lazy Ace: Part 2

S1 • E3

Welcome to Sweetwater

The railroad wants to buy the ranch that Bret wants to retire to.

S1 • E4

Anything for a Friend

Tom Guthrie's plan to hide his wounded friend, Billy the Kid, from a vengeful U.S. Marshal at Bret's ranch threaten to spoil the ex-gambler's barn-raising.

S1 • E5

The Yellow Rose

The women's rights group is appalled when Bret wins a Chinese girl in a poker game.

S1 • E6

Horse of Yet Another Color

Young Theodore Roosevelt comes to Sweetwater to find the President's horse, which is a gift to Geronimo as party of a treaty arrangement and has turned up missing.

S1 • E7

Dateline: Sweetwater

Big business tries to takeover the town of Sweetwater.

The Mayflower's Women Historical Society

S1 • E8

The Mayflower's Women Historical Society

Be hanged or sell his life story. That's Bret's choice.

S1 • E9

Hallie

Hallie is an old girlfriend of Bret's who is being followed by two men who she had swindled and they want her dead.

S1 • E10

The Ballad of Bret Maverick

A songwriter wants to finish his ballad about the life of Bret Maverick. He wants to finish the song about how he died.

S1 • E11

A Night at the Red Ox

A kangaroo court is set up to try Tom Guthrie for past crimes.

S1 • E12

The Not So Magnificent Six

A pulp writer hires six gunmen to kill Bret so that he can publish a new book.

S1 • E13

The Vulture Also Rises

The townsfolk of Sweetwater want to call out the Army when a stagecoach is attacked by Indians.

The Eight Swords of Dyrus and Other Illusions of Grandeur

S1 • E14

The Eight Swords of Dyrus and Other Illusions of Grandeur

Bret exposes a magician as a phony.

S1 • E15

Faith, Hope and Clarity: Part 1

The founder of a religious sect cons the townsfolk out of their land and Bret uses his own talents to get it back.

S1 • E16

Faith, Hope and Clarity: Part 2

The founder of a religious sect cons the townsfolk out of their land and Bret uses his own talents to get it back.

S1 • E17

The Rattlesnake Brigade

The owners of the Red Ox have outlaws after them due to a shipment of gold.

S1 • E18

The Hidalgo Thing

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.