Bret Maverick

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  • Premiered: Dec 1981
  • Episodes: 18
  • Followers: 5
  • Ended
  • NBC
  • Tuesday
  • Drama Western

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Season 1
1x1
The Lazy Ace (1)
Episode overview
Air date
Dec 01, 1981
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)
1x2
The Lazy Ace (2)
Episode overview
Air date
Dec 01, 1981
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.
1x3
Welcome to Sweetwater
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Air date
Dec 08, 1981
Maverick's reluctance to sell his ranch, the Lazy Ace, is the major stumbling block to bringing the railroad into Sweetwater.
1x4
Anything for a Friend
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Dec 15, 1981
A barn-raising celebration at Maverick's ranch helps him conceal Billy the Kid from authorities.
1x5
The Yellow Rose
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Dec 22, 1981
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.
1x6
Horse of Yet Another Color
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Jan 05, 1982
Teddy Roosevelt comes to town to present an Indian chief with a horse from the president, but Maverick ends up winning the stallion.
1x7
Dateline: Sweetwater
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Air date
Jan 12, 1982
Eastern financial interests attempt a takeover of Sweetwater businesses.
1x8
The Mayflower Women's Historical Society
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Feb 02, 1982
It looks like Maverick is going to be hanged, unless he agrees to sell his life story to an ambitious historian.
1x9
Hallie
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Feb 09, 1982
An old flame of Bret's shows up in Sweetwater, pursued by two homicidal brothers she swindled.
1x10
The Ballad of Bret Maverick
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Feb 16, 1982
A stranger arrives in town, claiming to be in the process of finishing an epic ballad on the life and death of Bret Maverick.
1x11
A Night at the Red Ox
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Air date
Feb 23, 1982
Vigilantes take over the Red Ox saloon and put former sheriff Tom Guthrie on trial for crimes he allegedly committed in the past.
1x12
The Not So Magnificent Six
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Air date
Mar 02, 1982
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.
1x13
The Vulture Also Rises
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Air date
Mar 16, 1982
When a stagecoach is attacked by Apaches and a woman is killed, the angry townspeople want to call in the cavalry.
1x14
The Eight Swords of Dyrus and Other Illusions of Grandeur
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Air date
Mar 23, 1982
Bret exposes a crooked magician who is performing at the Red Ox.
1x15
Faith, Hope & Clarity (1)
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Air date
Apr 13, 1982
A religious charlatan dupes the townpeople so that he can obtain the rights to their land.
1x16
Faith, Hope & Clarity (2)
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Air date
Apr 20, 1982
Bret masterminds a con to get back the townsfolk's land, which was legally stolen by the clever leader of a religious cult.
1x17
The Rattlesnake Brigade
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Apr 27, 1982
Maverick and Guthrie are suckered into agreeing to protect a shipment of gold from a ruthless band of outlaws.
1x18 Show finale
The Hidalgo Thing
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Air date
May 04, 1982
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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