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  1. #1 Worst Episode
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    Maverick Season 4 Episode 28 - The Forbidden City
    6.8/10(80 votes)

    #1 - The Forbidden City

    S4:E28

    Brent (Robert Colbert) joins the series in true Maverick style: he gets involved with two beautiful women — and is thrown in jail for gambling.

    Director:Richard C. Sarafian
    Writer:Unknown

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  2. Maverick Season 4 Episode 9 - Thunder from the North
    6.9/10(85 votes)

    #2 - Thunder from the North

    S4:E9

    Two Army shopkeepers, Marsh and Lawson, have been cheating the local Indian tribes by supplying them with faulty or inferior goods. When one of the tribeswomen named Pale Moon threatens to report them to the Army Commission, the shopkeepers decide to start a war with the Indians. They know the Army will not investigate the woman's claim if they are at war. Marsh and Lawson murder Pale Moon's brother and pin the crime on the stranger who won $2,500 from them the night before - Beau Maverick.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  3. Maverick Season 4 Episode 18 - The Cactus Switch
    6.9/10(71 votes)

    #3 - The Cactus Switch

    S4:E18

    Thinking all's well with the world after he cleans up in a card game, Bart offers to help a troubled young woman.

    Director:George Waggner
    Writer:Unknown

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  4. Maverick Season 4 Episode 17 - Family Pride
    7.0/10(80 votes)

    #4 - Family Pride

    S4:E17

    In New Mexico, Beau Maverick is taken for over $4,500 ($4,000 of which belong to his friend Jerry O'Brien) by con artists Warren and Crippen and Warren's granddaughter Rosanne. Beau tries to recover the money and even takes the threesome to court, but they outsmart him every time. Beau is so demoralized by the constant defeats, he believes he has disgraced the Maverick name - until Rosanne tells him that her grandmother was a Maverick.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  5. Maverick Season 5 Episode 7 - Mr. Muldoon's Partner
    7.0/10(79 votes)

    #5 - Mr. Muldoon's Partner

    S5:E7

    After being granted a wish by a "leprechaun," Bart faces a pot of trouble: he must be either jailed, murdered or married.

    Director:Marc Lawrence
    Writer:Unknown

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  6. Maverick Season 3 Episode 16 - The Marquesa
    7.1/10(90 votes)

    #6 - The Marquesa

    S3:E16

    Bart Maverick wins big, when he wins the ""Lucky Lady"" saloon in a card game. When Bart goes to Santa Leora to stake his claim, a beautiful Marquesa refuses to relinquish the property to him. Maverick encounters hurling knives, flurry of bullets and pounding fists when he tries to hold onto his newly acquired saloon.

    Director:Arthur Lubin
    Writer:Unknown

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  7. Maverick Season 3 Episode 23 - Iron Hand
    7.1/10(105 votes)

    #7 - Iron Hand

    S3:E23

    Hired to protect a cattle drive, Bart dutifully chases Indians — while a masterful swindle takes place right under his nose.

    Director:Leslie Goodwins
    Writer:Unknown

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  8. Maverick Season 2 Episode 7 - The Judas Mask
    7.2/10(107 votes)

    #8 - The Judas Mask

    S2:E7

    Bart tails a pretty cancan dancer who stole his money — only to find himself being followed by two very sinister characters.

    Director:Richard L. Bare
    Writer:Gene Levitt

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  9. Maverick Season 2 Episode 26 - The Strange Journey of Jenny Hill
    7.2/10(120 votes)

    #9 - The Strange Journey of Jenny Hill

    S2:E26

    Bret accompanies a beautiful singer (Peggy King) on a search for her missing husband and finds himself falling helplessly in love.

    Director:Douglas Heyes
    Writer:Douglas Heyes

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  10. Maverick Season 4 Episode 23 - Flood's Folly
    7.2/10(73 votes)

    #10 - Flood's Folly

    S4:E23

    Outside Denver, Colorado, Beau and his friend, Judge Scott, find shelter during a blizzard at the home of Martha Flood and her niece Sally. Martha and the judge are plotting to institutionalize Sally in order to take over her inheritance. However, Martha's lover, a professional killer named Chet Whitehead plans to kill Sally, the judge, and Maverick.

    Director:Irving J. Moore
    Writer:Unknown

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  11. Maverick Season 4 Episode 30 - Benefit of the Doubt
    7.2/10(77 votes)

    #11 - Benefit of the Doubt

    S4:E30

    In typical Maverick tradition, cousin Brent gets involved with two beautiful sisters — one of whom is planning to do him in.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  12. Maverick Season 1 Episode 24 - Plunder of Paradise
    7.3/10(118 votes)

    #12 - Plunder of Paradise

    S1:E24

    There's gold in them thar hills, and Bart Maverick and Big Mike McComb are out to get it. But so are four nasty Mexican banditos.

    Director:Douglas Heyes
    Writer:Douglas Heyes

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  13. Maverick Season 3 Episode 12 - Trooper Maverick
    7.3/10(110 votes)

    #13 - Trooper Maverick

    S3:E12

    Bart swings into trouble when he tries to help the cavalry uncover a traitor — and winds up facing a hangman's rope.

    Director:Richard L. Bare
    Writer:Unknown

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  14. Maverick Season 4 Episode 11 - Bolt from the Blue
    7.3/10(99 votes)

    #14 - Bolt from the Blue

    S4:E11

    Beau Maverick befriends a prospector named Ebenezer Bolt. Maverick is unaware that Bolt is the partner of notorious horse thief Benson January. An angry posse mistakes Beau for January and is determined to hang him. A young lawyer manages to halt the proceedings until Maverick can have a trial. Beau's conviction seems imminent when the lawyer locates a notorious ""hanging judge"" and a woman whose sister was engaged to January identifies Maverick as the horse thief.

    Director:Robert Altman
    Writer:Unknown

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  15. Maverick Season 4 Episode 19 - Dutchman's Gold
    7.3/10(75 votes)

    #15 - Dutchman's Gold

    S4:E19

    Beau Maverick wins half-ownership in the Blue Bell Saloon in Arizona. In an attempt to raise funds for the floundering business, Beau and his partner Charlotte become partners with a mysterious gold prospector known only as the Dutchman. Along the trail to Superstition Mountain where the gold is located, Beau, Charlotte, and the Dutchman encounter danger in various forms.

    Director:Robert Douglas
    Writer:Unknown

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  16. Maverick Season 4 Episode 26 - The Deadly Image
    7.3/10(85 votes)

    #16 - The Deadly Image

    S4:E26

    Bart's in jail: he's the unfortunate — and helpless — victim of mistaken identity.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  17. Maverick Season 5 Episode 6 - Poker Face
    7.3/10(67 votes)

    #17 - Poker Face

    S5:E6

    Bart's latest poker adventure has him playing for a full house: the lives of his fellow stagecoach passengers.

    Director:Michael O'Herlihy
    Writer:Unknown

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  18. Maverick Season 5 Episode 8 - Epitaph for a Gambler
    7.3/10(73 votes)

    #18 - Epitaph for a Gambler

    S5:E8

    Bart, waiting to collect on a $10,000 IOU, makes an uncomfortable observation: murder may be the pay-off in a gambler's life.

    Director:Irving J. Moore
    Writer:Unknown

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  19. Maverick Season 5 Episode 12 - The Money Machine
    7.3/10(67 votes)

    #19 - The Money Machine

    S5:E12

    A money-making machine costs Bart a bundle. His cousin (Kathy Bennett) has just bought one with the $10,000 he lent her.

    Director:Lee Sholem
    Writer:Unknown

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  20. Maverick Season 2 Episode 23 - Passage to Fort Doom
    7.4/10(110 votes)

    #20 - Passage to Fort Doom

    S2:E23

    A pair of con artists, Bart and an old girl friend survive a hazardous stagecoach ride and reach Fort Doom — where their troubles begin.

    Director:Paul Henreid
    Writer:Unknown

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  21. Maverick Season 3 Episode 8 - The Lass with the Poisonous Air
    7.4/10(92 votes)

    #21 - The Lass with the Poisonous Air

    S3:E8

    After a rebuff by mysterious Linda Burke (Joanna Moore), Bart is left holding the bag — for murder.

    Director:Richard L. Bare
    Writer:Unknown

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  22. Maverick Season 3 Episode 9 - The Ghost Soldiers
    7.4/10(130 votes)

    #22 - The Ghost Soldiers

    S3:E9

    Bret finds himself one of three men secretly defending a deserted government fort against War Hungry Indians. Maverick succeeds in scaring them off by clever trickery. But a suspicious Indian chief (Paul Clarke) causes him to reconsider.

    Director:Leslie H. Martinson
    Writer:Unknown

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  23. Maverick Season 4 Episode 4 - Arizona Black Maria
    7.4/10(87 votes)

    #23 - Arizona Black Maria

    S4:E4

    In hostile Sioux territory, Bart is caught between a woman prisoner's devastating charms and a pending Indian attack.

    Director:Lew Landers
    Writer:Unknown

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  24. Maverick Season 4 Episode 6 - Mano Nera
    7.4/10(90 votes)

    #24 - Mano Nera

    S4:E6

    Looking for a peaceful and profitable poker game in New Orleans, Bart is plunged into a mysterious murder involving the Black Hand society.

    Director:Reginald Le Borg
    Writer:Unknown

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  25. Maverick Season 4 Episode 7 - A Bullet for the Teacher
    7.4/10(78 votes)

    #25 - A Bullet for the Teacher

    S4:E7

    In St. Joseph, Missouri, Beau Maverick wins halfl-ownership of the Golden Wheel Casino. The business venture is short-lived when his partner, Rand Storm, is shot to death by Flo Baker. Storm was a notorious ladies' man and Flo, a female entertainer, was resisting his advances. Just before he dies, Rand tells his younger brother, Luke, that the shooting was an accident. But Luke has Beau framed for murder so that he can take over the business.

    Director:Coles Trapnell
    Writer:Leo Gordon

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Worst Episodes Summary

"The Forbidden City" is the worst rated episode of "Maverick". It scored 6.8/10 based on 80 votes. Directed by Richard C. Sarafian and written by Unknown, it aired on 3/26/1961. This episode scored 0.1 points lower than the second lowest rated, "Thunder from the North".