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Bret Maverick - Season 1
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Title: Bret Maverick

Overview: Bret Maverick is a 1981-82 American Western television series starring James Garner in the role that made him famous in the 1957 series Maverick: a professional poker player traveling alone year after year through the Old West from riverboat to saloon. In this sequel series, Maverick has settled down in Sweetwater, Arizona Territory, where he owns a ranch and is co-owner of the town's saloon. However, Maverick is still always on the lookout for his next big score, and continues to gamble and practice various con games whenever the chance arises. The series was developed by Gordon Dawson, and produced by Garner's company Cherokee Productions in association with Warner Bros. Television.

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Cast

  • Bret Maverick: James Garner
  • Cy Whittaker: Richard Hamilton
  • Mary Lou Springer: Darleen Carr
  • Elijah Crow: Ramon Bieri
  • Tom Guthrie: Ed Bruce
  • Sheriff Mitchel Dowd: John Shearin
  • Rodney Catlow: David Knell
  • Bret Maverick - The Lazy Ace (1) (Season 1 - Episode 1)

    In what may very well be the last of the great poker games in the Old West, Bret wins ownership of the saloon and decides to settle down in the town of Sweetwater in the Arizona Territory. (Part 1 of 2)

    Bret Maverick - The Lazy Ace (2) (Season 1 - Episode 2)

    Former sheriff Tom Guthrie joins Bret as partner in the Red Ox saloon, to the dismay of the townspeople who just booted the old-fashioned lawman out of office.

    Bret Maverick - Welcome to Sweetwater (Season 1 - Episode 3)

    Maverick's reluctance to sell his ranch, the Lazy Ace, is the major stumbling block to bringing the railroad into Sweetwater.

    Bret Maverick - Anything for a Friend (Season 1 - Episode 4)

    A barn-raising celebration at Maverick's ranch helps him conceal Billy the Kid from authorities.

    Bret Maverick - The Yellow Rose (Season 1 - Episode 5)

    Women's suffrage catches fire in Sweetwater and no one feels the heat more than Maverick, who's just won a Chinese girl in a poker game.

    Bret Maverick - Horse of Yet Another Color (Season 1 - Episode 6)

    Teddy Roosevelt comes to town to present an Indian chief with a horse from the president, but Maverick ends up winning the stallion.

    Bret Maverick - Dateline: Sweetwater (Season 1 - Episode 7)

    Eastern financial interests attempt a takeover of Sweetwater businesses.

    Bret Maverick - The Mayflower Women's Historical Society (Season 1 - Episode 8)

    It looks like Maverick is going to be hanged, unless he agrees to sell his life story to an ambitious historian.

    Bret Maverick - Hallie (Season 1 - Episode 9)

    An old flame of Bret's shows up in Sweetwater, pursued by two homicidal brothers she swindled.

    Bret Maverick - The Ballad of Bret Maverick (Season 1 - Episode 10)

    A stranger arrives in town, claiming to be in the process of finishing an epic ballad on the life and death of Bret Maverick.

    Bret Maverick - A Night at the Red Ox (Season 1 - Episode 11)

    Vigilantes take over the Red Ox saloon and put former sheriff Tom Guthrie on trial for crimes he allegedly committed in the past.

    Bret Maverick - The Not So Magnificent Six (Season 1 - Episode 12)

    Six men who each want to gain a reputation as the one who killed the famous Bret Maverick have followed a western pulp writer to Sweetwater.

    Bret Maverick - The Vulture Also Rises (Season 1 - Episode 13)

    When a stagecoach is attacked by Apaches and a woman is killed, the angry townspeople want to call in the cavalry.

    Bret Maverick - The Eight Swords of Dyrus and Other Illusions of Grandeur (Season 1 - Episode 14)

    Bret exposes a crooked magician who is performing at the Red Ox.

    Bret Maverick - Faith, Hope and Clarity (1) (Season 1 - Episode 15)

    A religious charlatan dupes the townpeople so that he can obtain the rights to their land.

    Bret Maverick - Faith, Hope and Clarity (2) (Season 1 - Episode 16)

    Bret masterminds a con to get back the townsfolk's land, which was legally stolen by the clever leader of a religious cult.

    Bret Maverick - The Rattlesnake Brigade (Season 1 - Episode 17)

    Maverick and Guthrie are suckered into agreeing to protect a shipment of gold from a ruthless band of outlaws.

    Bret Maverick - The Hidalgo Thing (Season 1 - Episode 18)

    Tom Guthrie, who is trying to get re-elected as sheriff, tries to get Maverick to keep a low profile, but Bret is working on the biggest con of his life and isn't going to stop now.

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