Maverick

$40,000 is stolen from the bank of Hallelujah. The robber plants incriminating evidence on Bret and he is arrested, tried, and sentenced to hang. However, the question remains, what happened to the money? The sheriff is very curious.

In Mexico, Bret agrees to accompany a man wanted for murder back to New Orleans, and develops a friendship with him along the way.

Bret has to get Dandy Jim out of an escape-proof jail so Jim can take Bret to the money he stole from Bret.

Bret gets ripped off by a small-town banker, and summons his friend and allies to con the man while he sits out the con, whittling on a hotel porch.

Bret partners up with a man he met on the trail, Waco Williams. Waco, much to Bret's disgust, is too good to be true.

Bret and Bart travel home to find out why their father, Pappy, is marrying a much younger woman.

Bret gets coralled into serving out jail time as a wild-and-woolly Western town's sheriff, and does a surprisingly good job of it - until he ends up imprisoned in his own jail.

Modesty Blaine ropes Bret into a cat-selling scheme to a mining town infested with rats.

Due to a case of mistaken identity, Bret ends up leading a band of famed outlaws

Bret arrives in Bent Forks after being run out of the last town by posse, and gets a job as a spotter. But it's a set-up by a scheming couple so they can get out of town with the money they've stolen.

Arriving at an army fort shortly after an Indian massacre, Bret and two soldiers must find a way to survive the gathering Indian war party until reinforcements arrive. Bret's plan involves turning the Indians' superstitions against them.

Bret isn't so eager to spring into action, after he hears that Bart was murdered.

In an effort to save her brother from the clutches of a scheming Melanie Blake, a wealthy rancher blackmails Bret into playing the role of a wealthy Texan to seduce Melanie into giving up the brother. But the brother has already been cheated out of his share of the ranch, so it is up to Bret with help from brother Bart to regain the asset through a land development ploy.

Johnny Rain, a friend to all and beloved by all, has a problem. He does not particularly like whiskey and it doesn't agree with him, but his girlfriend insists that he should drink. While under the spell of whiskey, Johnny takes to stagecoach holdups. Bret figures out that it is Johnny behind the robberies, but can he figure out where the loot is hidden?

Having been tricked into buying a share of a steamboat instead of the whole boat, Bret and his co-owners sail the boat up the Mississippi to an interested purchaser. Along the way, however, the co-owners start dying one by one.

Bret and Bart are hired by the feuding Carteret and Montgomery families to settle a longtime dispute by a poker competition. The families are unaware of Bret and Bart's relationship, but when they become suspicious the stakes are considerably raised for the brothers.

Bret has won a large herd of livestock, but soon finds out that the livestock is sheep and not cattle. And as the new owner of the sheep, Bret is now the object of the local cattlemen's wrath.

In New Orleans, Bret tries to solve a mystery involving missing jewelry, assumed identities, and the supposedly dead Joe November.

Bret tries to beat a murder rap in Medicine Bow, a town he's never been to before.

Bret rides into town looking for poker game to make some money. He finds one, but it's crooked, and he decides to get revenge, and also save the small mining town from the evil clutches of Phineas King.

After Samantha Crawford cleans him out--twice--Bret suggests they partner up to take down a crooked casino owner.

Bret tries to track down a woman he loaned his coat to - who supposedly died a week earlier.

Bret Maverick goes on a "long hunt" after a dying outlaw's request to clear a man wrongfully accused and convicted of a bank robbery that was committed by the outlaw and three cohorts.

Bret and Bart look to sail on a riverboat's maiden cruise but get caught up in a kidnapping of the boat's owner's daughter. Bret is taken hostage, and Bart must outwit the kidnappers and the police to rescue his brother and the girl.

Bret, and new character Dandy Jim Buckley, join a gold rush to even a score with Cadiz, a crooked gambler who robbed them. Cadiz's brawler Battling Kreuger is taking on all comers, and en route Bret, crashes into a possible challenger, mountain man Noah, complete with a pet skunk.