Episodes cast for
"Maverick" (1957)

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Year: 1957 | 1958 | 1959 | 1960 | 1961 | 1962

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Season 1

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Season 1, Episode 1: War of the Silver Kings

22 September 1957
We first glimpse Bret unshaven & dirty, lugging a rifle, trying to register at a classy hotel. Using the $1000 bill pinned inside his jacket, and adding some dollar-size strips cut from a newspaper, Bret cadges a room via a bulging envelope for the guest safe. Changing into his gambler's duds for a poker game including the company town's silver baron Phineas King, Bret (James Garner) wins - and only Bret hints that King is a card cheat. King's casino manager, Big Mike McComb has Bret beaten, but won't have him killed. Big Mike (screenwriter/ex-con Leo Gordon) becomes a memorable recurring character in the series. After King still takes a crack at having Bret iced, Bret runs an ad in King's paper: "King did NOT try to kill me - today. See this space tomorrow !" Directed by one of the best Western specialists, Budd Boetticher.

	James Garner	...	Bret Maverick
	Edmund Lowe	...	Phineas King
	John Litel	...	Joshua Thayer
	Leo Gordon	...	Big Mike McComb
	Carla Merey	...	Edie Stoller
	John Hubbard	...	Richard Bixby
	Robert Griffin	...	Fennelly
	Fred Sherman	...	John Stoller
	Bob Steele	...	Walter Jackson
	Donald Kirke	...	Crane
	Paul Baxley	...	Telegram Boy (uncredited)
	Lane Chandler	...	Lawson (uncredited)
	Harry Harvey	...	Telegrapher (uncredited)
	Tyler McVey	...	Kriedler (uncredited)
	Frank Sully	...	Arthur, Echo Springs Bartender (uncredited)

Season 1, Episode 2: Point Blank

29 September 1957
Kicked out of one town, jailed for running a con in the next, Bret's luck turns when a sultry waitress eases him out of stir to work as a spotter in a casino. A cattle drive's heading to Bent Fork, so the casino's soon jammed with drunken cowpokes raring to cheat at cards and start shooting. Bret's sharp benefactor Molly (Karen Steele, wife of episode director Budd Boetticher) proves an alluring mystery: why's she staying in the hottest, driest town in the West, since she has two quick-tempered suitors already, the straight-arrow sheriff and a bank clerk (Mike Connors, "Mannix") ?

	James Garner	...	Bret Maverick
	Karen Steele	...	Molly Gleason
	Mike Connors	...	Ralph Jordan (as Michael Connors)
	Richard Garland	...	Wes Corwin
	Benny Baker	...	Mike Brill
	Robert Foulk	...	Moose Horton
	John Harmon	...	Nelson
	Peter Brown	...	Chris Semple
	Zon Murray	...	Fletcher
	Mitchell Kowall	...	Fred Callahan (as Mitchell Kowal)
	Tom Brown	...	Poker Player (uncredited)

Season 1, Episode 3: According to Hoyle

6 October 1957
A Southern belle targets Bret and cleans him out at poker. Bret gets staked to switch to a different paddle-wheeler, so she'll follow, and plenty spectators will too. Different riverboat, same result. Samantha Crawford (Diane Brewster) explains that Bret took her father for $50,000 - who embezzled to cover his losses and is now in prison. Samantha's raising money to make restitution, but she's still short, and Bret's broke again. As Pappy said "man's the only animal that can get skinned more than once," so Bret proposes they combine forces. Based on a story by novelist Horace McCoy (They Shoot Horses, Don't They?, Gentleman Jim (1942) ).

	James Garner	...	Bret Maverick
	Diane Brewster	...	Samantha Crawford
	Jay Novello	...	Henry Tree
	Leo Gordon	...	Big Mike McComb
	Esther Dale	...	Ma Braus
	Tol Avery	...	George Cross
	Walter Reed	...	Bledsoe
	Tyler McVey	...	Hayes
	Robert Carson	...	Kittredge
	Ted de Corsia	...	Joe Riggs
	Don Turner	...	Hamhead (uncredited)
	Sailor Vincent	...	Man (uncredited)

Season 1, Episode 4: Ghost Rider

13 October 1957
Bret is robbed by The Kid and trails him to a poker game, but The Kid's just been killed. As the winners rake in The Kid's money, they ask newcomer Bret if The Kid (Edd Byrnes, Kookie on "77 Sunset Strip") was a friend. "No but the money was," Bret sighs. Bret spies an entrancing widow sobbing on a bench, gives her a ride, but she vanishes in the chilly dark, wearing the coat containing the remainder of Bart's money. White Rock's townspeople ridicule Bret's tale, because she died weeks before (June 1872). When the local undertaker takes a gunshot at him, Bret's determined to stay in town to investigate, because the undertaker was the specter's fiancé.

	James Garner	...	Bret Maverick
	Joanna Barnes	...	Mary Shane
	Rhodes Reason	...	Hank Foster
	Willard Sage	...	Bert Nicholson
	Stacy Keach Sr.	...	Sheriff
	Edd Byrnes	...	The Kid
	Dan Sheridan	...	Sideburns
	Charles Tannen	...	Stableman
	John Cliff	...	Deputy
	Richard Collier	...	Barfly (uncredited)
	Tim Graham	...	Hotel Clerk (uncredited)
	Jim Hope	...	Player (uncredited)
	Charlotte Knight	...	Mrs. Clemmer (uncredited)
	Harry Lauter	...	Poker Player in Black Hat (uncredited)

Season 1, Episode 5: The Long Hunt

20 October 1957
Fleeing sore losers, Bret is saved from death by stage robber Lefty Dolan who obligates Bret with a dying wish - free the man wrongly convicted in another heist, instead of Lefty. Lefty lives long enough to clue in Bret to tracking 2 other menacing gang members, Rex and Whitey. When Bret cons his way into prison to talk to the innocent prisoner Jed, Bret's pledged to an even stranger promise - don't tell Jed's wife there's any hope of saving him. Citizen Kane-style cinematography, in the first of many Maverick episodes directed or written by Doug Heyes.

	James Garner	...	Bret Maverick
	Joan Vohs	...	Martha Ferris
	Richard Webb	...	Ben Maxwell
	James Anderson	...	Whitey Blandon
	Richard Crane	...	Jed Ferris
	Tommy Farrell	...	Lefty Dolan
	Richard Reeves	...	Rex Clark
	Harry Harvey	...	Stagecoach Driver (as Harry Harvey Sr.)
	Stanley Andrews	...	Sheriff
	Jack Gargan	...	Second Poker Player (uncredited)
	Jonathan Kidd	...	Third Poker Player (uncredited)
	Troy Melton	...	First Pursuer (uncredited)
	Mark Tapscott	...	First Poker Player (uncredited)
	Will J. White	...	First Holdup Man (uncredited)

Season 1, Episode 6: Stage West

27 October 1957
Bret comes to the assistance of a Eastern woman who came west when she learns of her husband's gold strike. A ruthless family of ranchers have killed her husband, though, and try to convince the young lady that they are her late husband's partners.

	James Garner	...	Bret Maverick
	Erin O'Brien	...	Linda Harris
	Ray Teal	...	Mart Fallon
	Edd Byrnes	...	Wes Fallon (as Ed Byrnes)
	Peter Brown	...	Rip Fallon
	Chubby Johnson	...	Simmons
	Michael Dante	...	Sam Harris
	Jim Bannon	...	Matson
	Howard Negley	...	Sheriff Tibbs
	Fern Barry	...	Ella Taylor
	Robert 'Buddy' Shaw	...	Dave Taylor (as Buddy Shaw)
	Ollie O'Toole	...	McLean

Season 1, Episode 7: Relic of Fort Tejon

3 November 1957
Bret wins a "full-blooded Arabian mount" in a poker game, but soon discovers he's been conned - the Arabian mount turns out to be an overly-affectionate camel. While fleeing the dromedary, Bret stumbled into a small town and runs into an old flame who's engaged to the town's mayor. Bret soon learns that the mayor runs a crooked gambling hall and isn't above shooting card players when they stumble onto his cheating ways.

	James Garner	...	Bret Maverick
	Maxine Cooper	...	Donna Seely
	Fredd Wayne	...	Carl Jimson
	Dan Tobin	...	Howard Harris
	Sheb Wooley	...	Sheriff
	Tyler MacDuff	...	Drake (as Tyler Mac Duff)
	Oliver Blake	...	Brimmer
	Lou Krugman	...	Ferguson
	Kem Dibbs	...	Connors
	Earle Hodgins	...	Johnson (as Earl Hodgins)
	Alan Austin	...	Tommy Norton
	Irving Mitchell	...	Dr. Nelson (uncredited)
	Harry Strang	...	Livery Man (uncredited)
	Rush Williams	...	Deputy Lou (uncredited)

Season 1, Episode 8: Hostage!

10 November 1957
Intros brother Bart (Jack Kelly) teaming with Bret to board a riverboat's maiden voyage, sold out to Creole aristocrats with gambling fever. To crash the private cruise, the Mavericks intro themselves to the ship's French owner, whose lovely daughter Yvette is shanghaied right after the Mavericks are rebuffed. The brothers pursue the kidnappers, hoping to win the jeune fille, an invitation, and a reward. At the New Orleans cabaret where the Mavericks meet Yvette, pop singer Don Durant ("Johnny Ringo") croons "Get Along Home Cindy" to her. Durant was a runner-up for the role of Bart.

	James Garner	...	Bret Maverick
	Jack Kelly	...	Bart Maverick
	Laurie Carroll	...	Yvette Deveraux
	Don Durant	...	Jody Collins
	Stephen Bekassy	...	Henri Deveraux
	Trevor Bardette	...	Inspector Marvin
	Wright King	...	Rick
	Mickey Simpson	...	Jubal
	John Harmon	...	Ziggy
	Jean Del Val	...	Anton Rivage
	Roy Glenn	...	Dock Worker (uncredited)

Season 1, Episode 9: Stampede

17 November 1957
Bret & new character Dandy Jim join a gold rush to even a score with Cadiz, a crooked gambler who cleaned them out. Cadiz's brawler Battling Krueger is taking on all comers, and en route Bret crashes into a possible challenger, eco-warrior/mountain man Noah, complete with a pet skunk.

	James Garner	...	Bret Maverick
	Efrem Zimbalist Jr.	...	Dandy Jim Buckley
	Pamela Duncan	...	Coral Stacey
	Joan Shawlee	...	Madame Pompey
	Chris Alcaide	...	Tony Cadiz
	Mike Lane	...	Noah Perkins
	Pat Comiskey	...	Battling Krueger
	Rand Brooks	...	Jack Blair
	Marshall Bradford	...	Marshal Hunt
	Jim Hayward	...	Miner
	Mark Tapscott	...	Deputy
	Terry Frost	...	Vermillion Sheriff (uncredited)

Season 1, Episode 10: The Jeweled Gun

24 November 1957
Bart doesn't like being employed at all, but accompanying a beautiful, moneyed widow on a stagecoach apparently wasn't ruled out by Pappy. Though they are traveling North from Old Santa Fe through badlands, the coach's heating up. The closer they get to Laramie, the more Bart wants to combine business & pleasure. Are those danger signs he's ignoring from not-so-demure Daisy? Is protecting her making Bart love-blind and vulnerable ? Which is the real danger: varmints he's been hired to protect her against - or her jeweled gun?

	James Garner	...	Bret Maverick
	Roy Barcroft	...	The Cattleman
	Edwin Bruce	...	Young Book Salesman
	Stephen Coit	...	Fence Salesman
	Kathleen Crowley	...	Daisy Harris
	Terence de Marney	...	Snopes
	Dean Fredericks	...	Mitchell
	Al Hopson	...	Carter
	Jack Kelly	...	Bart Maverick
	Miguel Ángel Landa	...	Henrique Felippe
	Tom McKee	...	LeMasa Sheriff
	James Parnell	...	Sheriff
	Ezelle Poule	...	Mrs. Adams
	Doug McClure	...	Hotel Desk Clerk (uncredited)

Season 1, Episode 11: The Wrecker

1 December 1957

	Jack Kelly	...	Bart Maverick
	Barry Brooks
	James Garner	...	Bret Maverick
	Thomas Browne Henry	...	Auctioneer
	Patric Knowles	...	Carthew
	Allen Kramer	...	Jerome Braus
	Maurice Manson	...	Dellairs
	Bartlett Robinson	...	Longhust
	Karl Swenson	...	Captain Nares
	Murvyn Vye	...	Craven

Season 1, Episode 12: The Quick and the Dead

8 December 1957
Maverick is looking for the men who paid him with counterfeit money during a poker game and when he finds them to clear his name with a marshal who is looking for him. His investigation leads him to a town where he takes a job as a dealer in a saloon. Not only does he find information regarding the men but also gets involved with a feud between one of the men and Doc Holliday.

	James Garner	...	Bret Maverick
	Gordon Barnes	...	Marshal
	Sam Buffington	...	Ponca
	Hal Hopper	...	Jim Elkins
	Robert Keys	...	Parker
	Herbert Lytton	...	Gus
	Gerald Mohr	...	Doc Holliday
	Edwin Reimers	...	Announcer (voice)
	John Vivyan	...	Stacey Johnson
	Marie Windsor	...	Cora

Season 1, Episode 13: The Naked Gallows

15 December 1957
Bart's nosing round Bent Spur pursuing his friend's murderer. Bart was so down on his luck, he spent a winter trapping beaver outside town. Bent Spur's overstocked with red herrings, who too easily slip through the fingers of Sheriff Barney F, including the killer, broken out of jail by the evil Brink. The murder victim's brassy lady-friend/casino partner is a quick rebounder, who immediately sidles up to the suspicious Bart.

	Jack Kelly	...	Bart Maverick
	Morris Ankrum	...	Joshua Haines
	Mike Connors	...	Sheriff Barney Fillmore
	Jeanne Cooper	...	Virginia Cory
	Don Dillaway	...	Ben
	Sherry Jackson	...	Annie Haines
	Ed Kemmer	...	Clete Overton (as Edward Kemmer)
	Forrest Lewis	...	Alec Fall
	Bing Russell	...	Tyler Brink
	Fay Spain	...	Ruth Overton

Season 1, Episode 14: Comstock Conspiracy

29 December 1957

	James Garner	...	Bret Maverick
	Arthur Batanides	...	Norman Brock
	Terry Frost	...	Sheriff
	Percy Helton	...	Vinner
	Werner Klemperer	...	Alex Jennings
	Ruta Lee	...	Ellen Bordeen
	Oliver McGowan	...	Jerome Horne
	Boyd 'Red' Morgan	...	Stage Coach Driver (as Red Morgan)
	William H. O'Brien	...	Doctor (as Bill O'Brien)
	Ed Prentiss	...	John Bordeen
	Joy Rogers	...	Woman Passenger
	Glenn Strange	...	Guard

Season 1, Episode 15: The Third Rider

5 January 1958
Stranded, Bart Maverick has to catch a ride with 2 horsemen. When a posse appears they flee. One horseman escapes, while the other is killed by the posse. Bart becomes the chief suspect in a robbery/murder the horsemen are suspected of.

	Jack Kelly	...	Bart Maverick
	William Boyett	...	Collins
	Roberto Contreras	...	Jose
	Michael Dante	...	Turk Mason
	Frank Faylen	...	Red Harrison
	Dick Foran	...	Sheriff Edwards
	Charles Kane	...	Conductor
	Morris Lippert	...	Jimmy Ellis
	Barbara Nichols	...	Blanche
	Felice Richmond	...	Woman Passenger
	Kasey Rogers	...	Dolly
	Dan White	...	Cowpoke

Season 1, Episode 16: Rage for Vengeance

12 January 1958

	S. Newton Anderson	...	Sanderson
	Phil Arnold	...	Second Porter
	William Bailey	...	Doctor
	William 'Billy' Benedict	...	Porter in Denver
	Gage Clarke	...	Bradshaw
	Russ Conway	...	Sheriff
	Luis Delgado	...	Gunman
	William Forrest	...	Laramie Banker
	James Garner	...	Brett Maverick
	Earle Hodgins	...	Townsman
	Jonathan Hole	...	Desk Clerk
	Charlotte Knight	...	Mrs. Effie Walker
	Lewis Martin	...	Andrew Wiggins
	Catherine McLeod	...	Margaret Ross
	John Russell	...	John Grimes
	Rusty Wescoatt	...	Stagecoach Passenger

Season 1, Episode 17: Rope of Cards

19 January 1958

	Tol Avery	...	John Sloane
	Don Beddoe	...	Price
	Frank Cady	...	Hamelin
	Harry Cheshire	...	Judge
	Ken Christy	...	Sheriff
	James Garner	...	Bret Maverick
	Harry Harvey	...	Store Owner
	Donald Kirke	...	First Juror
	Robert Lynn	...	Doctor
	Joan Marshall	...	Lucy Sutter
	Emile Meyer	...	Pike
	Tom Monroe	...	Slim
	George O'Hanlon	...	Caldwell
	William Reynolds	...	Bill Gregg
	Hugh Sanders	...	Blains
	Will Wright	...	Jabe Hallock

Season 1, Episode 18: Diamond in the Rough

26 January 1958

	William Bailey	...	Banker
	Katherine Barrett	...	Mrs. Kingsley
	George Baxter	...	Vincent
	Jacqueline Beer	...	Henriette
	Lela Bliss	...	Mrs. Shelbourne
	Jack Chefe	...	Butler
	Mason Curry	...	Second Teller
	Terence de Marney	...	Murphy
	Stephen Ellsworth	...	Second Millionaire
	William Forrest
	I. Stanford Jolley	...	McClure
	Louis Mercier	...	Beaujean
	Carlyle Mitchell	...	General Marvin
	Scotty Morrow
	Paul Power	...	Pyne
	William Remick	...	First Millionaire
	William Reynolds	...	Reynolds
	Sig Ruman	...	Captain Steeger
	Robert R. Stephenson	...	Sailor
	Lili Valenty
	Otto Waldis	...	Scharf
	Fredd Wayne	...	Van Buren Kingsley
	Patrick Whyte	...	Selby

Season 1, Episode 19: Day of Reckoning

2 February 1958

	James Garner	...	Bret Maverick
	Virginia Gregg	...	Amy Hardie
	Tod Griffin	...	Jack Wade
	Jon Lormer	...	Somers
	James McCallion	...	Charlie
	Troy Melton	...	Harry
	Mort Mills	...	Red Scanlon
	Sammy Ogg	...	Delivery Boy
	Willard Sage	...	George Buckner
	Morgan Shaan	...	Slim
	Russell Thorson	...	Marshall Walt Hardie
	Murvyn Vye	...	Gus Wilson
	Jean Willes	...	Lil
	Gus Wilson	...	Roy Hingle

Season 1, Episode 20: The Savage Hills

9 February 1958